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An examination of the beneficial use of fire in the southern forest, including history, current use, technique, economic considerations, legal restrictions, and outlook for continued use of prescribed burning in light of mounting pressures to eliminate sources of smoke and other…
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, forest products, fuel management, grazing, hardwood forests, histories, light, logging, Oklahoma, pine forests, Pinus palustris, public information, regeneration, site treatments, slash, wildfires
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, 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, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildland fires, adaptation, mitigation, resilience, information sharing
Emissions of fine particulate matter from prescribed burns are a growing concern for wildland fire managers. Stringent air quality regulations and community discern over the emissions from prescribed fire smoke often severely restrict the ability to implement restorative and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): California
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, air quality, fuel treatments, decision making, Kings Canyon National Park
[Executive Summary] The Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 (FLAME Act) called for the development of a National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy). The Cohesive Strategy was created to serve as guidance to assist…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), WFLC - Wildland Fire Leadership Council, fuels management, CPAW - Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire, community planning, wildfire
An assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the Joint Fire Science Program was conducted to determine whether or not science has been used to inform management and policy decisions and to explore factors that facilitate use of fire science. In a web survey and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire research, science delivery, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program
Part 1: Northern Utah Wood Smoke Survey. Joel Karmazyn, Environmental Scientist, Department of Environmental Quality. The purpose of the survey was to provide detailed information on the wood-burning practices of residents in the seven northern counties that currently fail to…
Person: Karmazyn, Ackerly
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Outreach, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, Utah, wood smoke
Transboundary haze pollution as a result of indiscriminate land clearance by fire has significant health and economic impacts on member states of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN). Meanwhile the impact of the associated carbon emissions, ecological disturbance…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Prevention, Fire Behavior, Regulations and Legislation, Emissions and Smoke, Social Science, Economics, Climate
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, air quality, C - carbon, fire management, forest management, smoke management, land management, air pollution, biodiversity, haze, peat swamp forest, socioeconomics, Southeast Asia, Borneo, conservation, Kalimantan, mortality, drought