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A mesoscale data assimilation and prediction model has been applied over the Greater Sydney region to an air pollution episode resulting from fire hazard reduction burns during the period 12 to 14 April, 1997. The main objective of the study was, firstly, to model the inter-…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, chemistry, computer programs, fire hazard reduction, fire management, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, New South Wales, particulates, pollution, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wind, smoke transport, mesoscale modeling, data assimilation
Land managers are increasingly implementing strategies that employ the use of fire in prescribed burns to sustain ecosystems and plan to sustain the rate of increase in its use over the next five years. In planning and executing expanded use of fire in wildland treatment, it is…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, catastrophic fires, chemical compounds, combustion, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, gases, health factors, human caused fires, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, lightning caused fires, Native Americans, particulates, shrublands, sloping terrain, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, statistical analysis, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind, smoldering combustion, FIREPLUME, air quality, wildland fires, plume rise, Monte Carlo, dispersion model, Lagrangian, smoke management plans, EPM - Emissions Production Model
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed an initiative for a National Wildfire Prediction Program. The program will provide guidance for fire managers throughout the country, assisting them to efficiently use limited fire-fighting…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Southwest, International
Keywords: catastrophic fires, computer programs, digital data collection, fire control, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, fuel accumulation, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, light, Los Alamos, New Mexico, physics, smoke behavior, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildfire, prediction, firefighting, NWPP - National Wildfire Prediction Program
Within a 2-week period in 1998, wildland fires swept across 500,000 acres of Florida*s lands. Over 1,700 fires ignited, leaving behind an enormous path of destruction on federal, state, and private lands. As the smoke continues to clear, many issues arise regarding the…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida, bark, brush, catastrophic fires, Ctenium aromaticum, Dendroctonus, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire danger rating, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, Florida, fragmentation, fuel appraisal, fuel management, GIS, grasses, habits and behavior, insects, introduced species, Ixia, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, landscape ecology, mortality, national forests, overstory, pine forests, Pinus, plant diseases, post fire recovery, private lands, remote sensing, state parks, suppression, threatened and endangered species (plants), vulnerable species or communities, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
The US Forest Service, Missoula Technology and Development Center (MTDC) evaluated several commercially available, optical, real-time, particulate monitors to provide forest managers, fire and air quality specialists information for use of these monitors in environments…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, biomass, forest management, forest types, health factors, land management, particulates, rangelands, smoke management, US Forest Service, wildfires
The Megram Fire burned over 125,000 acres on two National Forests in northern California (Six Rivers and Shasta-Trinity) during the summer of 1999. Within a period of 73 days this fire burned through parts of a wilderness area, a Late Successional Reserve, a Roadless Area, a…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: catastrophic fires, community ecology, environmental impact analysis, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, forest types, fuel appraisal, fuel breaks, fuel management, grasses, landscape ecology, mortality, multiple resource management, national forests, Native Americans, northern California, overstory, plantations, rivers, roads, shrubs, smoke effects, stand characteristics, trees, watersheds, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
From Web Document, Executive Summary... ' Premise This strategy is based on the premise that sustainable resources are predicated on healthy, resilient ecosystems. In fire-adapted ecosystems, some measure of fire use - at appropriate intensity, frequency, and time of year -…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, arthropods, catastrophic fires, coastal forests, Colorado, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, diseases, disturbance, droughts, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, fishes, flammability, floods, Florida, forest management, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, grasslands, health factors, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, light burning, logging, Montana, multiple resource management, national forests, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, rangelands, recreation, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, species diversity, stand characteristics, streamflow, Texas, threatened and endangered species, topography, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, Utah, Washington, water quality, watersheds, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, Wyoming
From the text...'In most cases, the role of the public information officer, the Wildfire Mitigation Specialist, is to make the first contact with homeowner associations and individuals describing the positive benefits of the wildfire mitigation program. How to make neighborhoods…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: backfires, catastrophic fires, droughts, education, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, Firewise, Florida, fuel accumulation, fuel management, general interest, headfires, logging, mowing, natural resource legislation, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, post fire recovery, private lands, public information, season of fire, smoke management, state forests, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text...'Welcome to Chapter 1 of the Wildland Fire Education Handbook. This handbook originally accompanied the Wildland Fire Education Toolkit which consisted of print materials, videos, CD-Rom, and roadside sign. The tookit, in its entirety, may be borrowed from your…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida stricta, catastrophic fires, central Florida, conservation, education, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire control, fire dependent species, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, flatwoods, Florida, general interest, grasses, north Florida, pine forests, Pinus, prairies, public information, reproduction, rural communities, sandhills, scrub, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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, Logistics, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: adaptation, agriculture, air quality, backfires, biomass, blowups, broadcast burning, brush, catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, croplands, crown fires, crowns, dead fuels, decay, decomposition, droughts, erosion, experimental fires, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire protection, fire retardants, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, grasses, grazing, heavy fuels, histories, human caused fires, hunting, Idaho, ignition, incendiary fires, insects, invasive species, land use, leaves, lightning caused fires, live fuels, livestock, logging, minerals, mining, Montana, mortality, national forests, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, needles, New Mexico, overstory, particulates, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, prescribed fires (escaped), private lands, public information, range management, salvage, season of fire, sedimentation, seed dispersal, site treatments, size classes, slash, sloping terrain, Smokey Bear program, soils, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, thinning, trees, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, water quality, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wind, Wisconsin, woody fuels, Yellowstone National Park, appropriations, Cerro Grande Fire, disaster relief funding, FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency, forest and rangeland health, fuel ladder, glassificatrion, insurance, roles and responsibilities, stewardship, slurry, slurry bombers
Following a survey of forest homeowners in rural Michigan to assess the value of reducing the risk of damage from wildfires at the wildland-urban interface, focus-group discussions were conducted with a subset of survey participants to learn about their perceptions concerning…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, brush, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, Dendroica kirtlandii, education, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, ignition, landscape ecology, Michigan, nongame birds, Pinus banksiana, private lands, public information, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, fire management, fire risk assessment, focus groups, Mack Lake Fire
Smoke exposure measurements among firefighters during prescribed burns in the Pacific Northwest between 1991 and 1994 showed that a small but significant percentage of workers experienced exposure to carbon monoxide and respiratory irritants that exceeded occupational exposure…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Pacific Northwest, pollution, smoke exposure, firefighters, health effects
Smoke exposure measurements among firefighters at wildfires in the Western United States between 1992 and 1995 showed that altogether most exposures were not significant, between 3 and 5 percent of the shift-average exposures exceeded occupational exposure limits for carbon…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, western United States, smoke exposure, firefighters, occupational health, pollutants, industrial hygiene
Abstract from introduction: 'Over the next 50-100 years, the predicted doubling of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is expected to increase summer temperatures up to 4-6 degrees C at higher latitudes (Boer et al. 1992: Maxwell 1992: Ferguson 1995). In a 2 x CO2…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire frequency, fire severity, climate change, global warming, precipitation, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, ignition, lightning caused fires, wildfires
Smoke exposure measurements among firefighters during prescribed burns in the Pacific Northwest between 1991 and 1994 showed that a small but significant percentage of workers experienced exposure to carbon monoxide and respiratory irritant that exceeded occupational exposure…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, duff, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, fuel loading, fuel moisture, gases, health factors, mopping up, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, toxicity, wind, smoke hazards, firefighters, health effects, pollutants
Smoke exposure measurements among firefighters at wildfires in the Western United States between 1992 and 1995 showed that although most exposures were not significant, between 3 and 5 percent of the shift-average exposures exceeded occupational exposure limits for carbon…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, fire case histories, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, firing techniques, health factors, mopping up, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wind, smoke exposure, firefighters, occupational health, pollutants, industrial hypiene, smoke hazards
Occurrence of catastrophic wildfires in the last few decades in different parts of the world has raised awareness of devastating local and regional effects and the potential impact across international borders. A steady increase of wildfire risk has been detected in temperate…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Outreach, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Amazon, biomass, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, Central America, combustion, cover, cover type, disturbance, droughts, fire danger rating, fire management, fragmentation, health factors, land management, land use, logging, Mexico, pollution, public information, South America, temperate forests, tropical forests, vulnerable species or communities, wildfires