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Research needed to guide fire management direction

From the text ' Under specific circumstances it has been shown that prescribed burning can be used: (1) to reduce fuel accumulation from logging and slashing and the hazard of accidental fire; (2) to prepare seedbeds and reduce competition for tree regeneration; (3) to improve…
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Great Basin, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, competition, diseases, education, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire management, firing techniques, fishes, forage, fuel accumulation, grazing, livestock, logging, Montana, multiple resource management, public information, recreation, regeneration, slash, smoke management, soils, succession, wildfires, wildlife

The $31 million smoke problem

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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Economics
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, grasses, light burning, Oregon, smoke effects, smoke management, surface fires, topography, wind

Research looks at air quality and forest burning

The present state of knowledge an current research efforts on forest burning and air quality are discussed. Possible air pollution control measures are presented, including meteorological smoke management and fire behavior management. Slash disposal methods other than burning…
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, field experimental fires, forest products, fuel moisture, gases, hydrocarbons, logging, mountains, natural resource legislation, Oregon, particulates, pollution, precipitation, rate of spread, site treatments, slash, smoke management, spot fires, topography, Washington, wind, woody plants