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The South Carolina Smoke Management Guidelines provide for minimizing the impact of smoke from vegetative debris burning operations for forestry, agriculture, and wildlife purposes. To do this, the Guidelines define smoke sensitive areas, amounts of vegetative debris that may be…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern
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Previous research has found that exposure to fire-related cues enhances germination of some plant species, and such species may exist in frequent-fire southwestern United States Pinus ponderosa forests. I performed four greenhouse experiments with Penstemon barbatus, a perennial…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: germination, seeds, Penstemon barbatus, Adenostoma fasciculatum, Arizona, char, coniferous forests, fire frequency, fire management, forbs, forest management, Grevillea spp., heat effects, perennial plant, Pinus ponderosa, plant ecology, presettlement fires, Schizachyrium scoparium, season of fire, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, soil temperature, soils, statistical analysis
From the introduction: Let me emphasize that I only claim to speak with authority about the task of restoring fire to the National Forests. Private landowners have their own special problems in using prescribed fire, size of forest tracts, lack of expertise, etc. Before we can…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: eastern forests, fire management, historic fire use, public education, oak forests, prescribed fire program, catastrophic fires, education, fire frequency, fire size, forest management, grasslands, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, Native Americans, public information, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
In a time when fire planners and forest supervisors in many parts of the United States are implementing plans to increase the number and frequency of prescribed burns, the issue of smoke impacts on air quality is becoming increasingly important. Smoke from prescribed fires can…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, eastern deciduous forest, prescribed fire planning, smoke impacts, smoke management, oak forests
In regions with a Mediterranean-type climate wildfires are a frequent occurrence: in such environments fire tolerant/favoured species are frequently encountered. In the Mediterranean basin, many species of fire prone habitats are resprouters while others are known to germinate…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: chaparral, fynbos, Juniperus spp., Mediterranean basin, post-fire germination, kwongan, matorral
Epidemiological studies have shown that high levels of fine particulate matter (PM) are correlated with adverse human health effects. Approximately one-third of PM emissions in Canada originate from forest fires. However, air quality concerns are not typically included in…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, Alberta, economic analysis, forest fires, health effects, particulate matter (PM) emissions, dispersion models, air quality, diseases, fire case histories, fire management, health factors, particulates, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires
Before using a fluid dynamics physically based wildfire model to study wildfire, validation is necessary and model results need to be systematically and objectively analyzed and compared to real fires, which requires suitable data sets. Observational data from the Meteotron…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire plumes, FDS - Fire Dynamics Simulator, Clark coupled model, Meteotron experiment , fire management, fire models, statistical analysis, temperature
Habitat loss, fragmentation, and declining habitat quality have created an extinction debt in boreal forests, which could be partly reversed by deliberately improving the habitat quality in managed areas outside reserves. We studied the effects of green-tree retention and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, Coleoptera, controlled burning, Finland, habitat quality, residual trees, threatened species, tree retention, beetles, Alnus incana, Betula, conservation, decay, fire injuries (plants), fire management, forest management, fragmentation, heat effects, insects, invertebrates, logging, mortality, old-growth forest, Picea abies, Pinus, Pinus sylvestris, population density, Populus tremula, smoke effects, snags, species diversity, trapping
Wildland fires in Canada burn an average of2.8 million hectares of forest annually. In years of extreme forest fire activity total carbon emissions from wildland fires approach levels similar to industrial carbon emissions. Quantifying annual wildland fire carbon emissions is…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fuel consumption, forest carbon, BORFIRE
The effect of high temperatures and smoke on germination was tested on the shrubland Leguminosae species, Adenocarpus lainzii, Cytisus scoparius, Cytisus striatus, Genista berberidea, Genista triacanthos, and Pterospartum tridentatum, which are abundant and widely distributed…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfire, reproductive behavior, thermal shock, Atlantic shrubland, endemisms, Iberian Peninsula
Fluxes of water vapor, heat, and carbon dioxide associated with a prescribed grass fire were documented quantitatively using a 43-m instrumented flux tower within the burn perimeter and a tethered balloon sounding system immediately downwind of the fire. The measurements…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: grass fire, heat, smoke measurements, CO2 flux, water vapor
The Research and Development (R&D) arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service works at the forefront of science to improve the health and use of our Nation's forests and grasslands. Research has been part of the Forest Service mission since the agency's…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Forest Service, research, research accomplishment report
During 2005, the USDA Forest Service celebrated its Centennial, recognizing 100 years of successfully caring for the land and serving people. The Rocky Mountain Research Station has been, and continues to be, an integral part of the Forest Service mission, dating back to the…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: Forest Service, research, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Participants in a series of focus groups discussed how their tolerance for smoke varied by the source of the smoke and found their opinions changing as they talked with other participants. Even those opposed to smoke from agricultural burning eventually found smoke from…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: defensible space, education, social acceptance, wildfire management, focus groups, fuels treatments
Fluxes of turbulent momentum, heat, moisture, as well as carbon dioxide associated with a prescribed Gulf Coast prairie fire, were documented quantitatively using a 42-m instrumented flux tower within the burn perimeter and a tethered balloon sounding system immediately downwind…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: prairie fires, fire plumes, water vapor
An iterative method for determining slope in noisy lidar data is considered based on the use of a corrected ('shaped') inverted function and an assumed behavior of the unknown function of interest (an 'image function'). The method is utilized for extracting extinction-…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, extinction coefficient, elastic scanning lidar
The morphology of particles emitted by wildland fires contributes to their physical and chemical properties but is rarely determined. As part of a study at the USFS Fire Sciences Laboratory (FSL) investigating properties of particulate matter emitted by fires, we studied the…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: particle size, biomass burning, particle morphology, particle microstructure
Over the last several decades, the overall air quality goal in the United States has been to protect public health and clear skies by reducing emissions. At the same time, however, the risk of catastrophic fire has been rising in forests around the country as overly dense trees…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky Modeling Framework, smoke concentration, smoke effects, smoke management, smoke estimation tools, smoke forecasting
Fires contribute substantial emissions of trace gases and particles to the atmosphere. These emissions can impact air quality and even climate. We have developed a modeling framework to estimate the emissions from fires in North and parts of Central America (10-71 degrees N and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, emissions, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, North America, PM - particulate matter, Mexico, agriculture, agricultural fires, CO - carbon monoxide, South America, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, cover, croplands, duff, fire management, fuel loading, gases, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, overstory, particulates, precipitation, remote sensing, shrubs, smoke management, statistical analysis, wetlands, wildfires
Resilience against fire disturbance of Mediterranean vegetation has been frequently described. However, fire regimes change due to abandonment of local land use practices and climatic change. Thus, it is useful to know the importance of fire-specific and unspecific mechanisms…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: disturbance, regeneration, succession, fire adaptations, germination, Spain, seeder, Cistaceae, ash, char, coniferous forests, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, fire management, firebreak, forest management, heat, land use, logging, mountains, Mediterranean habitats, Pinus halepensis, post-fire recovery, seed germination, Quercus coccifera , seeds, site treatments, smoke effects, sprouting, Stipa tenacissima, wood
Elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) often stimulates the growth of fine roots, yet there are few reports of responses of intact root systems to long-term CO2 exposure. We investigated the effects of elevated CO2 on fine root growth using open top chambers in a scrub oak…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: CO2 - carbon dioxide, fine roots, Florida, root length density, minirhizotrons, root closure
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications team has completed a set of online tutorials, instructor’s guides and student workbooks to help land managers use the Natural Fuels Photo Series, Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS), Consume 3.0, and Fire Emissions…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Natural Fuels Photo Series, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, CONSUME, FEPS - Fire Emissions Production Simulator, land management
BlueSkyRAINS is a smoke modeling system that allows users to view smoke forecasts from fire. These smoke predictions have a large number of potential uses, from informing go/no-go decisions on prescribed fires to wildland fire use/wildfire categorization decisions to information…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: BlueSkyRAINS, smoke management
On Monday, 19 July, and Tuesday, 20 July 2004, the air over Houston, Texas, appeared abnormally hazy. Transport model results and data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS), the Measurement of Ozone by Airbus In-…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, Southern, International
Keywords: ozone, air pollution, Texas, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, wildfire, Canada
Extensive wildfires burned in northern North America during summer 2004, releasing large amounts of trace gases and aerosols into the atmosphere. Emissions from these wildfires frequently impacted the PICO-NARE station, a mountaintop site situated 6-15 days downwind from the…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: boreal forest, black carbon, boreal fire, ozone, North Atlantic, O3 - ozone, nitrogen oxides