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From the text...'Several important facets of any wilderness fire management program must be understood by everyone. First, there are risks involved--primarily the risk of fires escaping. We may not always be able to contain them within the mangement unit. Also, wilderness fire…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, elevation, fire adaptations, fire exclusion, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, Idaho, national forests, needles, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, plant communities, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, savannas, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, shrublands, shrubs, spot fires, subalpine forests, vegetation surveys, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

While the mortality impacts of urban air pollution have been well addressed in the literature, very little is known about the mortality impacts and associated social cost from wildfire-smoke exposure (Kochi et al., 2010; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2004). In an attempt…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): California
Keywords: 2003 Southern California fires, air pollution, mortality impact, social cost, value of statistical life

The Prescribed Fire Strategy represents a consensus among representatives of federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, and the private sector. It focuses on achieving the goals of the Range-wide Conservation Plan for Longleaf Pine, which…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: landowners

Post-fire effects assessments are crucial to evaluate the impact of fire on ecosystems. They are helpful in planning post-fire rehabilitation and useful for reducing uncertainties in current wildfire emission estimates. We have used MODIS/ASTER (MASTER) airborne simulator data…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California
Keywords: dNBR - differenced (or delta) Normalized Burn Ratio, burn severity, charcoal, fire severity, char, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, C - carbon, MESMA - Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis, Canyon Fire

Listen to the experiences and lessons learned from veteran fire management officers regarding prescribed fire and fire use.
Person: McCoy, Elenz, Vergari, Floyd, Dykehouse, Soper, Fay
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: burn plans, contingency plan, escaped fire, escaped prescribed fires, fire use, public information, situational awareness, objectives, lessons learned

Veteran burn bosses share their stories and firsthand insights.
Person: Norman, Buckley, Larsen, Jacobs, McFarland
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: air quality, public opinion, burn boss, burn plans, decision making, escaped fire, flash fuels, risk analysis, wind shift, wind effects, lessons learned

[From the text] Fire has been an integral part of America's wildlands for millions of years. The only environments not experiencing fire as a significant ecological factor were those that remained very cold, very wet, or very dry, and even in these regions, extreme variation in…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations, fire exclusion, fire management, fire management planning, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel types, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, national parks, chance ignition prescribed fires, recreation