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Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: combustion, European settlement, fire management, Florida, forbs, grasses, grasslands, hardwoods, human caused fires, lightning, Native Americans, pine forests, regeneration, shrubs, smoke management, wildlife habitat management

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Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, firing techniques, Florida, smoke management

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Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates

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Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke behavior, smoke management, wind

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Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, recreation, soil erosion, water quality

Major requirements for the effective use of presecribed fire are discussed together with a review of advantages and limitations. About 1.2 million ha are annually treated with prescribed fire in the South for site preparation, wildlife habitat improvement, reduction of wildfire…
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, forest management, particulates, site treatments, smoke management, wildlife, wildlife habitat management

The history of the Clean Air Act is reviewed from 1955 to 1980. The 1980 Visibility Regulation is cited as the first federal clean air policy which specifically addresses prescribed burning. Thirty-six states containing National Parks and Wilderness areas are now required to…
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, histories, land management, logging, national parks, smoke management, wilderness areas, wildlife

From the introduction letter ... 'This publication deals with fire, a significant force in the forest environment. Depending upon land management objectives for a specific area, plus a host of environmental variables, fire will sometimes be an enemy, at times a friend, and…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire resistant plants, forest management, hunting, ignition, land management, land use, lightning caused fires, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, recreation, regeneration, succession, understory vegetation, wildfires

It is shown that similarity solutions in strong buoyant plumes (plant or axisymmetric) exist if a local characteristic turbulent diffusion coefficient varies inversely proportional to the square of the local gas density in the plume. The similarity formulation implies that the…
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: axis, flame length, gases, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature

From the text...'with good smoke control, field burning can even help the environment by reducing the need for pesticides.'
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, fire management, firing techniques, grasses, grasslands, Oregon, pesticides, plant diseases, seed production, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature, weeds

The control of wildfires in forested areas may not always be a desirable objective since certain benefits can result that are important enough to warrant prescribed burning in some cases. Included in these benefits is the control of harmful insects and plant diseases and of…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Southern, International
Keywords: Alberta, arthropods, Canada, Coleoptera, coniferous forests, Dendroctonus, Diptera, diseases, ecosystem dynamics, Florida, forest management, habits and behavior, heat, heat effects, humus, insects, Melanophila, Odonata, Pantala flavescens, Picea, pine forests, plant diseases, smoke effects, species diversity, temperature, trees, wildfires, wood

The development of the smoke cloud from a summer wildfire in a forest area was studied on a radar screen. In conjunction with photographs taken at the same time, it has been possible to follow the variations in height of both the top and bottom of the smoke column as it was…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, chemistry, droughts, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire management, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, hardwood forests, national parks, photography, pine forests, rate of spread, smoke behavior, smoke management, spot fires, telemetry, topography, Victoria, wildfires, wind

Results of the 1971inventory of fire use in Georgia indicate that 589,633 acres were burned for agricultural purposes and 527,557 acres were presribed burned for forestry purposes. About 95 percent of this burning was done in the southern half of the State. It was estimated that…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, coastal plain, computer programs, fire control, fire hazard reduction, flatwoods, Georgia, particulates, Piedmont, sandhills, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

From the text ... 'Early and reliable detection of forest fires is the keystone of efficient fire control. It means the discovery of fires while they are small and results in lower suppression costs and damages. Private, State, and Federal fire-protection agencies throughout the…
Person:
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Logistics, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire control, fire equipment, fire management, fire protection, light, roads, smoke behavior, wildfires

The dispersion of the plume from a sulphide smelter at Mount Isa, Australia, has been determined at distances of up to 1000km from the source. Simultaneous measurements by an airborne correlation spectrometer, flame photometer and aitken counter have allowed accurate…
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, Queensland, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, wind

Measurements of cloud condensation nuclei were made from small samples of stratospheric air taken from a U-2 aircraft at altitudes ranging from 13 to 19 kilometers. The measured concentrations of nuclei both in and outside the plume from the May and June 1980 eruptions of Mount…
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Montana, sampling, volcanoes, Washington

During the last 17 days of April 1971, smoke from wildfires in the Florida Everglades drifted over the east coast of southern Florida. Smoke restricted visibilities 67.9% of the time at Palm Beach International Airport, and aircraft operations were 11.9% less than for an…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, everglades, fire case histories, fire management, fire size, Florida, particulates, pollution, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, south Florida, temperature, urban habitats, wildfires, wind

An examination of the beneficial use of fire in the southern forest, including history, current use, technique, economic considerations, legal restrictions, and outlook for continued use of prescribed burning in light of mounting pressures to eliminate sources of smoke and other…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, forest products, fuel management, grazing, hardwood forests, histories, light, logging, Oklahoma, pine forests, Pinus palustris, public information, regeneration, site treatments, slash, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, gases, human caused fires, ignition, light, photography, radiation, rate of spread, sampling, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature

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Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, combustion, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire protection, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, gases, Georgia, grasses, human caused fires, invasive species, land management, legumes, lightning caused fires, multiple resource management, particulates, pine forests, plant diseases, public information, shrubs, site treatments, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management

Potential temperature analysis supplies needed information that is not obtainable by other methods of graphical analysis. Terrain surface maps and large-scale cross sections are constructed by using data from weather stations, raobs, and aircraft soundings. Interpretation of the…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: elevation, mountainous terrain, mountains, Oregon, pest control, smoke behavior, temperature, topography, weather observations, wind

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Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Economics
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: burning intervals, chaparral, fire management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasses, Mediterranean habitats, national parks, season of fire, smoke management, wilderness fire management, xeric soils

The combustion products (smoke) from forest wildfires or prescribed burns are often considered on a par with any other emission that might affect air quality. But enough is known about smoke from woody fuels to indicate that its importance is limited almost entirely to…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, air pollutants, wood smoke, CO - carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, particulates, SO2 - sulfur dioxide

The benefits from fire use - including hazard reduction, silvicultural manipulation, pathogen control, and nutrient recycling - might be forfeited by public reaction to smoke, whether harmful or not. Generally, the public desires alternatives to burning, but might accept fire if…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire intensity, retardants, laboratory experiments, particulate emissions, diammonium phosphate, ammonium sulfate

Experimental, free-burning wood fires larger than 5 ha were similar in convection column volume after the initial buoyant, ring-vortex rose from the ground. The fire generated strong vorticity patterns which propagated upward into the convection column. The rotation suppressed…
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: convection column, large fires, wind shear, combustion gases