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Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, firebreaks, Illinois, manuals, Melilotus albus, prairies, season of fire, seed germination, weed control
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, smoke management
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Appalachian Mountains, bibliographies, Calamagrostis cainii, community ecology, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, fungi, genetics, Great Smoky Mountains, introduced species, land management, multiple resource management, national parks, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, plant communities, plant growth, pollution, recreation, species diversity (plants), succession, Sus scrofa, Tennessee, threatened and endangered species (plants), vegetation surveys, vulnerable species or communities, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, Florida, fuel moisture, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, organic soils, particulates, peat fires, pollution, Quebec, soil temperature, soils, south Florida
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, Georgia, humidity, particulates, smoke management, wildfires, wind
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: cover, smoke management
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke management
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, everglades, Florida, particulates, south Florida, wetlands, wildfires
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, gases, particulates, pollution, wood
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Florida, public information, smoke management
Seeds of three species of dwarf mistletoe, Arceuthobium americanum Nutt. Ex Engelm., A. cyanocarpum Coulter & Nelson, and A. vaginatum subsp. cryptopodum (Engelm.) Hawksw. & Wiens, were exposed to smoke from burning forest fuels. Premeasured amounts of coniferous needles…
Person:
Year: 1987
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: air quality, Arceuthobium, coniferous forests, conifers, duff, fuel moisture, heat effects, needles, parasitic plants, plant growth, seed germination, smoke effects, statistical analysis, temperature, woody fuels
The subtitle ... 'The American dream of a home in the woods is going up in smoke for more and more people. Here's how to keep it from happening to you.' Published by American Forests. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire damage (property), fire size, fire suppression, mortality, wildfires, wood
From the text ... 'Before we can begin working on a problem, we all need to understand its nature and scope. Fire is a problem that is usually easy to grasp, but wildfire has tended to occur in remote, less popluated areas, away from personal experience and the probing eye of…
Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, combustion, duff, education, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire equipment, fire management, fire protection, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flame length, Florida, health factors, litter, logging, New Jersey, particulates, precipitation, smoke effects, urban habitats, wildfires
Emissions from prescribed fire vary geographically. In the Northeast, for example, prescribed fires are rare. In other sections, e.g., the southern Coastal Plain, meteorological conditions, terrain, and light fuel loads minimize atmospheric concentrations of emissions. The…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, burning permits, coastal plain, community ecology, disturbance, dust, education, fire adaptations, fire dependent species, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, heavy fuels, light, mountainous terrain, natural resource legislation, particulates, pollution, public information, smoke management, soot, volcanoes, wildfires
Generalizations of the 'opacity method' of analyzing visible smoke-plume diffusion are presented. The horizontal dispersion length, sigma-y, is derived from the outline of a plume having an arbitrary vertical concentration distribution. The vertical dispersion length, sigma-z,…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, distribution, photography, pollution, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, Tennessee, weather observations, wind
Long-term effects of air pollutants in Finland have been studied by analyzing needle litter of pine (Pinus silvestris L.) and spruce (Picea abies L. Karst) in 13 stands from the years 1958 to 1982. A considerable annual increase in elemental concentrations was observed in the…
Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, Asteraceae, Canada, chemical elements, coniferous forests, Finland, litter, needles, nutrients, Picea, Picea abies, Pinus sylvestris, pollution, K - potassium, sampling, Scandinavia, site treatments, soil nutrients
The present-day northern Rocky Mountain vegetation is the product of a long history of geologic and climatic events that have interacted with the species populations composing the regional flora. General concepts relating to the organization, classification, and dynamic nature…
Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Mapping, Fire History
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, agriculture, Agropyron spicatum, air quality, Artemisia tridentata, biogeography, bogs, British Columbia, Canada, Colorado, community ecology, coniferous forests, cover, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, Festuca idahoensis, fire adaptations (plants), fire regimes, fire suppression, geology, glaciers, grasslands, grazing, histories, Idaho, introduced species, invasive species, Larix occidentalis, logging, marshes, mining, Montana, montane forests, mosses, mountains, national forests, national parks, old growth forests, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus flexilis, Pinus monticola, Pinus ponderosa, plant communities, Populus tremuloides, prairies, riparian habitats, shrublands, subalpine forests, swamps, Thuja plicata, topography, Tsuga heterophylla, tundra, Utah, vegetation surveys, water, water quality, wetlands, wind, Wyoming
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire intensity, fuel types, Ilex glabra, north Florida, particulates, pine forests, Serenoa repens, smoke management, south Georgia
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Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, ash, chemistry, particulates
Particulate-matter emission factors and Byram's fire-intensity values were computed for experimental backfires in pine-litter and palmetto-gallberry fuels in the Southeast. The combined data for both fuel types were in reasonable agreement with the theoretical prediction that…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire intensity, PM - particulate matter, emission factors, emission factor models, backfire, fuel moisture, fuel types, Ilex glabra, particulates, Serenoa repens, smoke management
This paper reports relationships between emission factor (EFp) and fire intensity for burns in the palmetto-gallberry fuel type where fireline intensities ranged up to 1,750 kw m^-1 . A model that is presented has application in determining the optimal prescription for…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: carbon balance, fire intensity, emission factor, fuel type, PM - particulate matter, palmetto-gallberry fuel complex
Open sources are those stationary sources of air pollution too great in extent to be controlled through enclosure or ducting. Open sources of atmospheric particles include: wind erosion, tilling, and prescribed burning of agricultural cropland; surface mining and wind erosion of…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air pollution, atmospheric particles, particulate emissions, open source emissions
Twelve forest fuels that varied widely in nitrogen content were burned in a thermogravimetric system, and nitrogen oxide production was analyzed by chemiluminescence. The effects of fuel nitrogen concentration, available oxygen, flow rate, and heating rate on nitrogen oxide…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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: NO2 - nitrogen dioxide, NO - nitrogen oxide, air pollutants, thermogravimetry, evolved gas analysis
This paper presents a vision of the future rooted in consideration of the past 20 years in the smoke and air resource management field. This future is characterized by rapid technological development of computers for computation, communications, and remote sensing capabilities…
Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: GIS - geographic information system, smoke management
This compendium of fire information for selected south Florida vegetative communities will help resource managers and policymakers to better predict the consequences of their fire management decisions. Included is a brief history of fire in south Florida, along with some…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire management, Florida, water level, wildfire, Avicennia germinans, bottomland hardwood, Casuarina, Cladium jamaicense, coastal vegetation, Conocarpus erectus, fire adaptations, flatwoods, hardwood hammocks, Laguncularia racemosa, marshland, Melaleuca quinquenervia, natural resource legislation, Pinus elliottii, Rhizophora mangle, Schinus terebinthifolius, swamps, storms, Taxodium, wetlands, wildlife habitat management