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Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, bibliographies, fire management, nutrient cycling, plant communities, wildlife
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, ash, coastal vegetation, education, fire management, grasses, grasslands, grazing, litter, natural areas management, pollution, post fire recovery, prairies, public information, rangeland fires, rangelands, scrub, shrubs, soil nutrients, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), Tympanuchus, weed control, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire intensity, hardwoods, herbicides, insecticides, pesticides, Quercus michauxii
From the Summary and Conclusions (p.148-149) ... 'In conclusion, there are some basic considerations that must be recognized in evaluating the air-quality aspects of prescribed burning. Most obvious is the fact that we actually know very little about the effects of forest fires…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, combustion, fire management, gases, land management, particulates, smoke management, wildfires
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1986
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: Rhus radicans, Rhus toxicodendron, Rhus vernix, smoke effects, wildfires
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Agropyron smithii, Andropogon gerardii, Andropogon scoparius, forage, forbs, grasses, grasslands, Poa pratensis, population density, prairies, range management, season of fire, smoke management, wildlife habitat management
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: boreal forests, Canada, grasslands, Pseudotsuga menziesii, range management, smoke management
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: brush, burning intervals, Colinus virginianus, cover, Fraxinus, game birds, grasslands, Hilaria mutica, Juniperus, Juniperus pinchotii, mammals, Meleagris gallopavo, nongame birds, Odocoileus, Opuntia phaeacantha , prairies, Prosopis glandulosa, range management, shrublands, smoke management, Texas, wildlife habitat management, Zenaidura macroura
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: range management, smoke management
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, burning permits, forest management, fuel accumulation, liability, smoke management, wildfires, wind
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke management
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, particulates, smoke management
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, algae, Cladium jamaicense, cover type, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire size, Florida, fuel types, grasslands, laboratory fires, leaves, marshlands, moisture, organic matter, organic soils, peat fires, peatlands, pine forests, post fire recovery, prairies, precipitation, scrub, season of fire, size classes, south Florida, statistical analysis, Taxodium, vegetation surveys, water, wetlands, wind
From the text (p.8-9) ... 'Fire can be friend or foe depending upon how we use it. Our first inclination is to think of all wildfires as bad and all prescribed fires as good, but this isn't necessarily so. The main difference between the two is often really but one of intent.…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal plain, fire management, fire suppression, hardwood forests, hardwoods, histories, landscape ecology, pine forests, Pinus, succession, US Forest Service, wildfires
From the text ... 'In the southern United States, we have learned to use fire as an effective, inexpensive tool for applying specific management treatments to our forests. Hazard or rough reduction is the principal use of prescribed fire, but seedbed and site preparation,…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, combustion, fire hazard reduction, fuel management, Georgia, headfires, laboratory fires, litter, Pinus taeda, plantations, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife
Under the nuclear winter scenario, large wildland fires are expected to contribute to a general smoke plume and are considered potential analogues for the behavior of gigantic palls. As a means of testing the reasonableness of current estimates of a wildland fire contribution,…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: large fires, Tillamook burn
From the text ... 'One area where great strides can be made is in the climatology of fire weather and its application to fire planning. Recent advances have been made in application of climatology to agriculture, and many of the same principles can be applied to forest fire…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, education, fire control, fire danger rating, firing techniques, forest management, gases, histories, lightning caused fires, pollution, US Forest Service
From the text... 'An up-close-and-personal view of 'Charlotte,' a very hot number whose ashes hold partial proof that you can indeed 'prescribe' fire in wilderness.' Published by American Forests. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: coniferous forests, fire case histories, fuel accumulation, lightning caused fires, Montana, Pinus contorta, prescribed fires (chance ignition), recreation, season of fire, sloping terrain, smoke effects, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text... 'The Simpson Timber Company (Simpson) conducted a slash burn of forest material on seventy-eight acres of its property situated about nine miles west of Olympia, Washington. The burn produced noticeable smoke and particulate fallout in the Olympia area, which…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, burning permits, fire hazard reduction, fire management, liability, logging, natural resource legislation, pollution, reforestation, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, Washington
From the text...'Agricultural and silvicultural burning restrictions, part of the recently adopted Department of Pollution Control open burning rule, become effective October 1, 1971. The section of the rule relating to burning by agriculture and forestry operations reads: 17-5.…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, burning intervals, fire management, Florida, forest management, grasses, health factors, logging, marshes, pine forests, pollution, roads, rural communities, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildlife, wildlife management, wood
That the capacity of global models to predict the future can be well tested by their capacity to reconstruct past events is generally agreed, as is the definition of normal winter as the numerical equivalent of >5x103 degree-days (with the degrees in Fahrenheit). One-…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, Asia, biomass, boreal forests, catastrophic fires, combustion, coniferous forests, crown fires, decay, dendrochronology, droughts, fire case histories, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire management, fire scar analysis, flammability, grasslands, humus, Larix, light, logging, nuclear winter, peat, radiation, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, Soviet Union, taiga, temperature, wildfires
'...With that impressionistic gallop through history as a backdrop, let me touch upon some of the technical material that has come to light as a result of urban fires and the research devoted to their prevention and cure. Perhaps the dominant area of uncertainty and of study…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: coniferous forests, convection, crown fires, fire case histories, fire protection, fire suppression, fire whirls, firebrands, firebreaks, heat, histories, ignition, Illinois, incendiary fires, laboratory fires, light, New York, pine forests, radiation, rate of spread, surface fires, urban habitats, wind
Prescribed burning has become an indispensable tool of forest management in the South. It is a scientific prescription designed to cure ailments of the forest - ailments that include undesirable fuel accumulations, the encroachment of unwanted species, unattractive wildlife…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, burning intervals, competition, cover, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel accumulation, gases, ground cover, land use, light burning, minerals, multiple resource management, nutrient cycling, pine forests, smoke effects, smoke management, soil organic matter, understory vegetation, wildlife
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, elevation, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, firing techniques, forest management, fuel management, fuel moisture, logging, mountains, Oregon, pine forests, rural communities, season of fire, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, topography, Washington, wind
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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, gases, particulates, smoke behavior, smoke management, western Australia