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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel management, smoke management
From the text ... 'The ponderosa pine-grassland is characterized by the occurrence and distribution of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa. It is widely spread covering some 36 million acres from the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia to Durango, Mexico, and from Nebraska to the…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, aesthetics, air quality, Andropogon scoparius, Arizona, British Columbia, Calamagrostis rubescens, Canada, Chamaebatia foliolosa, coniferous forests, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, Elymus, European settlement, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire scar analysis, fire suppression, flammability, forage, forest management, forest types, fuel management, gases, grasses, grasslands, grazing, habitat types, herbaceous vegetation, landscape ecology, livestock, Mexico, Montana, montane forests, Muhlenbergia, multiple resource management, national parks, Native Americans, Nebraska, needles, openings, pine, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, public information, Purshia tridentata, recreation, regeneration, reproduction, South Dakota, succession, surface fires, understory vegetation, water, wildlife
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Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, cutting, fire management, fuel accumulation, fuel arrangement, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, logging, particulates, site treatments, smoke management, statistical analysis
'The Canadian Forest Fire Research Institute recently developed a functionally foolproof rate-of-fire spread timer; it costs about $10 to make.'
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire management, fuel accumulation, Ontario, rate of spread
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: burning intervals, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire regimes, fungi, germination, grasses, microorganisms, needles, pine, Pinus radiata, plant communities, post fire recovery, seedlings, smoke behavior, smoke effects, wildfires
Sections 111 and 112 of the Clean Air Act relative to the control of particulates are evaluated. Section 111 provides the promulgation of standards for hazardous pollutants which reflect the best systems of emission reduction. Section 112 defines national emission standards for…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, particulates, Clean Air Act, PM - particulate matter
The advancement of technology relating to particulate emission is pointed out as a significant aspect of this nation's air pollution control efforts. Important factors include the ability of particulates: to cause poor visibility, to constitute a health hazard, to act as…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Clean Air Act, air pollutants, public health, particulate emissions, fine particulates
The increasing use of prescribed fire in forest management and the continuing burning of agricultural crop residues creates problems in air pollution. More information is needed on yields of pollutant gases and particulates and how these emissions might be altered by varying…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, agriculture, air quality, backfires, broadcast burning, croplands, decay, field experimental fires, fire hazard reduction, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, headfires, hydrocarbons, ignition, laboratory fires, moisture, particulates, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, sampling, Sequoiadendron giganteum , temperature
Spontaneous combustion is thought to be a cause of many of the fires which occur in areas such as peat bogs or dry snags. The theories of spontaneous heating are presented, along with a discussion of possible ignition mechanisms in both wood-chip and hay fires. The physical…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: bacteria, bibliographies, bogs, Canada, chemistry, combustion, decay, flammability, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, heat, humidity, ignition, peat fires, snags, soils, statistical analysis, temperature, woody fuels
In an effort to gain a better understanding of the mechanics involved in the formation of vortices in buoyancy driven flows, an analysis on the stability of the laminar free convection, due to a line source of heat with ambient shear, was performed by numerical solution of a…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: combustion, convection, distribution, disturbance, elevation, fire management, fire whirls, heat, smoke management, statistical analysis, vortices
Comprises 80 references to papers and publications related specifically to fire management of wilderness areas in the USA. An index is given to 11 general subject categories.
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: bibliography, fire management, fuels management, fire operations, fire management plan, fire regimes, forest management, national forests, national parks, public information, smoke management, wilderness fire management
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Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, CO - carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, N - nitrogen, particulates, pollution, smoke management, water