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From the text...'An inventory or estimate of total statewide (or some other geographically distinct unit) annual emissions of criteria pollutants is a necessary part of understanding the burden on the air resource in an area and taking appropriate control actions. Emission…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, broadcast burning, duff, fire danger rating, fire size, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, heavy fuels, humus, live fuels, national parks, pollution, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, woody fuels

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will implement new regulations for the management of atmospheric particulate matter 2.5 Fm and less in diameter (PM2.5), tropospheric ozone, and regional haze in the next few years. These three air quality issues relate…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, combustion, education, fire management, gases, health factors, human caused fires, ozone, particulates, pollution, public information, remote sensing, site treatments, smoke management, thinning, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind

Fire effects are modeled for a variety of reasons including: to evaluate risk, to develop treatment prescriptions, to compare management options, and to understand ecosystems. Fire effects modeling may be conducted at a range of temporal and spatial scales. First-order fire…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: combustion, crown scorch, duff, erosion, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fuel inventory, fuel models, heat, mortality, soil temperature, succession, vegetation surveys

In 1983 the most severe fire in Victorian mountain forests for over forty years killed extensive areas of highly productive eucalypt forest, requiring a large scale timber salvage and forest rehabilitation program. The scheduling of these programs was dependent upon a rapid and…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: age classes, arthropods, artificial regeneration, ash, Australia, backfires, catastrophic fires, crown fires, crown scorch, decay, droughts, Eucalyptus regnans, fine fuels, fire control, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, fungi, ground fires, hardwood forests, insects, litter, logging, mortality, mosaic, overstory, photography, post fire recovery, rate of spread, regeneration, remote sensing, salvage, spot fires, understory vegetation, Victoria, wildfires, wind

Twelve 60-m2 plots were cut and weighed in a clearing at a cattle ranch near Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Aboveground dry weight biomass averaged 369 metric tons (Mg ha−1) (SD=187). This corresponds to ≈483 Mg ha−1 total biomass. Pre- and post-burn aboveground biomass loading was…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass, burning intervals, deforestation, greenhouse gases, tropical forest, Brazil, rainforest, CO2 - carbon dioxide, Amazon, axis, C - carbon, charcoal, cutting, fire management, diameter classes, forest management, gases, human caused fires, litter, livestock, palms, post-fire recovery, sampling, vines, wood

Fire modeling and information system technology play an important supporting role in fuel and fire management. Modeling is used to examine alternative fuel treatment options, project potential ecosystem changes, and assess risk to life and property. Models are also used to…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel models, wildland fire, fire spread, fuel management, air quality, biomass, catastrophic fires, computer program, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire injuries (plants), evolution, fire management, flame length, fuel loading, fuel types, GIS - geographic information system, mineral soil, ignition, rate of spread, remote sensing, mortality, surface fires, season of fire, thinning, water quality, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

Attitudes and policies concerning wildland fire, fire use, and fire management have changed greatly since early European settlers arrived in North America. Active suppression of wildfires accelerated early in the 20th Century, and areas burned dropped dramatically. In recent…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, fire policy, research needs, fuel management, air quality, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire models, fire regimes, fire suppression, fire weather, fuel loading, GIS - geographic information system, fuel moisture, remote sensing, season of fire, site treatments, smoke management, vegetation surveys, wildfires

Wildland firefighting presents many hazards to fireline workers, including inhalation exposure to smoke (Sharkey 1998; Reinhardt and Ottmar 1997; Sharkey 1997). Many experienced fireline personnel consider this to be only an inconvenience, occasionally causing acute cases of…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, firefighter safety, smoke effects, firefighter health, smoke exposure, CO - carbon monoxide

The impact of the Central American fires on PM2.5 mass concentration and composition in the Tennessee Valley region during portions of May, 1998, has been quantified. Elevated concentrations of smoke aerosol tracers -- fine potassium, (and to a lesser extent, calcium and silicon…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Alabama, biomass, calcium, C - carbon, Central America, dust, Kentucky, Mexico, particulates, photography, K - potassium, remote sensing, smoke effects, smoke management, Tennessee, wildfires, wind, PM2.5 mass, long distance transport, Central American fires, fine particle standards, potassium tracer of biomass combustion