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Of particular concern to fire and air-quality management communities throughout the U.S. are the behavior and air-quality impacts of low-intensity prescribed fires for fuels management. For example, smoke from prescribed fires, which often occur in wildland-urban interface (WUI…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, New Jersey
Even if you don’t live in an area prone to wildfires, your health may be threatened by smoke from fires raging in other parts of the country. New NRDC analysis shows that about two-thirds of the United States—nearly 212 million people—lived in counties affected by smoke…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, climate change, health impacts, PM2.5, community response
The DEASCO3 project will produce analytical results and a dynamic and accessible technical tool which enables Federal Land Managers (FLM) to participate more fully in ozone air quality planning efforts. We will turn complex technical analyses of a series of well-chosen historic…
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Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, ozone
This webinar, by Roger Ottmar and Susan Prichard on December 12, 2013, presents the fuel consumption data collected from 18 prescribed fires in southern pine forest and sand pine scrub fuelbed types in the Southeastern United States, and from 11 mixed hardwoods and pitch pine…
Person: Ottmar, Prichard
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Planning
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: fuel consumption
Presentation by Matt Zine, Conservation Biologist with Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Recorded at the 2013 Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Regional Fire Conference in Dubuque, Iowa.
Person: Zine
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: invasive plants, Wisconsin, fire suppression effects
Roger Ottmar has a long and distinguished career studying forest fuel consumption and emissions. He presented this talk at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This 30 minute module (RX410 Unit 8B) covers smoke production,…
Person: Ottmar
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel loading, photo series, emission estimates, emission factor, fuel consumption, pollutants, dispersion models, fuel bed