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In the Spring of 2016, the Washington State Legislature passed House Bill 2928, the Forest Resiliency Burning Pilot project. This Pilot will examine the role of prescribed burning in creating healthier, more resilient forests. Prescribed burning, or controlled burning, is a time…
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Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Washington, fuel reduction, smoke forecasting, forest resilience, low intensity burns, Washington DNR Smoke Management Plan, multi-day burns, air quality, burn plans
Presenting state-of-science information and discussion of broadly defined air pollution and forest fire issues. Among others, the following topics will be discussed: effects of forest fires on air quality in the remote and urban-wildland interface forests; effects of forest…
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Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, air pollution, symposium
The frequency of wildfires in forests of the Western United States has increased over the past 50 years and is expected to further increase in the face of warming climates. With an expanding wildland-urban interface (WUI), fire managers increasingly are facing challenges with…
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Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fire frequency, information sharing, NWFSC - Northwest Fire Science Consortium
This conference was held in conjunction with the Fifth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, November 16-20, 2003 in Orlando, Florida. Land management agencies and organizations and private landholders are increasingly faced with the complex issues of wildland fire, such as…
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Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, wildland fire, conferences