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An inventory of particulate matter and air toxic emissions from prescribed fires in the USA for 1989
This report documents a prescribed fire emissions inventory developed using consistent methodology for each of the 50 states of the USA for calendar year 1989. Emissions of particulate matter, selected toxic compounds, and a few other carbon-containing compounds are estimated.…
Person:
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emissions inventory, particulate matter, fuel complexes, toxic compounds, emission factors
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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
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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
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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
We present evidence that fire suppression may have contributed to the fungal decline of torreya (Torreya taxifolia). During the 1950's torreya suffered a catastrophic die-back. The torreya die-back was probably caused by needle pathogens induced through environmental stress.…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conifers, fire frequency, fire suppression, fungi, light, microorganisms, needles, plant diseases, plant growth, seed germination, smoke effects, succession, Tall Timbers Research Station, threatened and endangered species (plants), topography, Torreya taxifolia, toxicity, wildfires
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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
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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
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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
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Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: range management, smoke management
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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
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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
From the text...'Big gaps still exist in the understanding of fire ecology, especially the seasonal aspects. Fire can have profoundly different effects on soil, plants and animals depending on when it occurs. Oftentimes the most ecological gain comes from burning during the…
Person:
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: backfires, catastrophic fires, cones, coniferous forests, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire adaptations (plants), fire equipment, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, general interest, grasslands, headfires, invasive species, land management, liability, mopping up, Native Americans, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, pine forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, public information, Sequoiadendron giganteum , smoke effects, surface fires, Tall Timbers Research Station, tallgrass prairies, topography, vegetation surveys
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Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, biomass, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, duff, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, land use, natural areas management, nutrients, particulates, smoke effects, smoke management
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, flowering, fynbos, roots, smoke effects, South Africa
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
The Minimum Acceptable Visibility (MAV) table was originally provided by the California Highway Patrol in response to an inquiry relative to acceptable highway visibility reduction caused by smoke. The table was included in chapter two of the 1991 edition of the National Park…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire smoke, roads, road corridor, road, smoke effects, smoke-induced fog, superfog, smoke
Lightning causes one third of the 9000 wildfires that occur in Canada. Annually, these lightning-caused fires account for 90% of the area burned and cost Canadians at least 150 million dollars in suppression costs and values destroyed. Unlike the fires caused by human negligence…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Weather, Economics
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., Acer, Betula, boreal forests, Canada, computer programs, duff, fine fuels, fire control, fire management, fire suppression, firebrands, flammability, fuel loading, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, hardwood forests, humidity, ignition, lightning, lightning caused fires, lightning effects, litter, moisture, physics, Picea, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, pine, Pinus strobus, Populus tremuloides, precipitation, rate of spread, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, storms, temperature, wildfires, wind, woody fuels
We develop a simple analytical model to estimate the thickness of a smoke layer formed by a plume of a large area fire and to account for crosswinds. We take advantage of the dominant flow features in the upper part of the rising plume and in the smoke layer far from the plume…
Person:
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, decay, dust, humidity, nuclear winter, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, temperature, wind
From the text... 'A brief report by four scientists of The Nature Conservancy in Florida [about a method for propagating wiregrass included the following steps] ... Collect seeds from central Florida sites five to eight months after summer burn. Place seeds on moist filter paper…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: Apalachicola Bluffs, Aristida stricta, central Florida, conifers, European settlement, evergreens, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), Florida, flowering, Gopherus polyphemus, land management, lightning caused fires, north Florida, Pinus palustris, plant diseases, population ecology, regeneration, reproduction, sandhills, season of fire, seed production, seeds, smoke effects, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), threatened and endangered species (plants), Torreya, Torreya taxifolia
The character of most forest ecosystems in the southern U.S. has been shaped by fire. Indians and early settlers burned the woods for many purposes. After a period of trying to exclude fire, foresters recognized its value as an ecological force and its necessity as a management…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, backfires, broadcast burning, carbon dioxide, Colinus virginianus, diseases, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, European settlement, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, firebreaks, firing techniques, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, grazing, hardwoods, histories, lightning caused fires, logging, low intensity burns, moisture, Native Americans, Odocoileus virginianus, overstory, particulates, pine forests, pine, Pinus elliottii densa, Pinus palustris, Pinus rigida, Pinus serotina, pollution, regeneration, season of fire, seedlings, site treatments, smoke effects, stand characteristics, temperature, topography, understory vegetation, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, wood
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 new Mississippi statute on prescribed burning activities is welcome by the forestry community. The act recognizes prescribed burning as an important property right and land management tool that greatly benefits society, the environment and the economy of the…
Person:
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: burning permits, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, land management, liability, Mississippi, natural resource legislation, pine forests, private lands, regeneration, site treatments
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
Equations for predicting duff and large woody fuel (7.6+ cm) consumption are summarized. Dependent variables are duff depth reduction, percentage duff depth reduction, percentage mineral soil, large fuel diameter reduction, and percentage large fuel reduction. Opportunities to…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies grandis, Artemisia tridentata, coniferous forests, conifers, duff, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel management, fuel models, grasses, mineral soils, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus monticola, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, wildfires, woody fuels
We studied cross-seasonal changes in pulmonary function and respiratory symptoms in 52 wildland firefighters in Northern California. The mean cross-seasonal change in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEVI) was-1.2% (95% confidence interval [CI] -O.5, -2.0%) with a…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, backfires, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, dust, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fuel types, gases, national forests, northern California, particulates, smoke effects, smoke management, topography, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires