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Year: 1913
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, agriculture, Appalachian Mountains, balds, Blue Ridge Mountains, Castanea dentata, catastrophic fires, community ecology, cones, crowns, decay, ecosystem dynamics, European settlement, forage, forest management, forestation, fuel accumulation, fuel types, grasses, Great Smoky Mountains, hardwood forests, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, land management, Liriodendron, livestock, logging, moisture, mortality, mountains, multiple resource management, Native Americans, needles, North Carolina, old fields, openings, phenology, pine, Pinus echinata, Pinus virginiana, Quercus montana, season of fire, seasonal activities, water quality, wildfires
Potential temperature analysis supplies needed information that is not obtainable by other methods of graphical analysis. Terrain surface maps and large-scale cross sections are constructed by using data from weather stations, raobs, and aircraft soundings. Interpretation of the…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: elevation, mountainous terrain, mountains, Oregon, pest control, smoke behavior, temperature, topography, weather observations, wind
The benefits from fire use - including hazard reduction, silvicultural manipulation, pathogen control, and nutrient recycling - might be forfeited by public reaction to smoke, whether harmful or not. Generally, the public desires alternatives to burning, but might accept fire if…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire intensity, retardants, laboratory experiments, particulate emissions, diammonium phosphate, ammonium sulfate
From the text...”Extinguishing forest fires must be done urgently, in most cases, using whatever tools at hand, with little time to employ mechanical methods. Making matters worse, location of the fire cannot be foreseen, nor such factors as wind direction and velocity. Passive…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: backfires, combustion, convection, fire management, fire suppression, fire whirls, flame length, flammability, forest management, gases, overstory, O - oxygen, rate of spread, temperature, volatilization, wind