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From the text:'Among Forest Service activities, prescribed burning, slash disposal and forest fires present the greatest potential for polluting the air. But at this time we do not know what kind of pollution it is, how dangerous it is, how much of it there is, if it is a…
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Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, burning permits, education, fire control, forest management, hardwood forests, natural resource legislation, Oregon, pine forests, pollution, public information, range management, rangelands, rural communities, slash, smoke management, US Forest Service, Washington, wildfires
This study was established to determine: (1) the effect of a prescribed burn during the spring and summer seasons on wildlife habitat with particular emphasis on bobwhite quail food plants, and (2) the relation between various site and stand factors of the loblolly pine…
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Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, Bonasa umbellus, burning intervals, Castor canadensis, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, Desmodium, Didelphis marsupialis, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, forage, Georgia, ground cover, herbaceous vegetation, land management, legumes, Lespedeza, litter, loblolly pine, Lynx rufus, meteagri gallopavo, North Carolina, Odocoileus virginianus, Phytophthora cinnamomi, Piedmont, pine forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus taeda, plant diseases, plant growth, pollution, Procyon, Sciurus carolinensis, seed production, small mammals, soils, South Carolina, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, succession, surface fires, Sylvilagus floridanus , Urocyon cinereoargenteus, Ursus americanus, Virginia, Vulpes vulpes, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants
Resolving environmental impacts caused by the wildland–urban interface (WUI) expansion such as wildlife habitat fragmentation, or increased fire risk entails an accurate delineating of WUI boundary and its dynamics prediction. This study identified WUIs throughout the 11 states…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, Alabama, Arkansas, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire suppression, Florida, fragmentation, Kentucky, Georgia, land management, landscape ecology, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, population density, remote sensing, rural communities, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, South Carolina, statistical analysis, Tennessee, urban habitats, vegetation surveys, Virginia, water quality, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
Some model experiments predict a large-scale substitution of Amazon forest by savannah-like vegetation by the end of the twenty-first century. Expanding global demands for biofuels and grains, positive feedbacks in the Amazon forest fire regime and drought may drive a faster…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Amazon, Brazil, C - carbon, deforestation, droughts, ENSO, fire control, fire regimes, forest fragmentation, forest management, climate change, land use, logging, mortality, South America, temperature, tropical forests, wildfires, deforestation, biofuel, feedbacks, globalization, global warming