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Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, smoke management, weather observations
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Person:
Year: 1979
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, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, energy, gases, hydrocarbons, organic matter, particulates, S - sulfur, volatilization, wood
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
'In improving a system, one has to design the improvements, experiment and redesign, implement the new system, and evaluate it. I am going to discuss the concepts and constraints we encounter in designing improvements to our systems of appraising fire impact on resource values.'
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, coniferous forests, fire equipment, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest products, grazing, hardwood forests, logging, mortality, nutrient cycling, pollution, rangelands, recreation, season of fire, smoke effects, watershed management, wildfires, 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 particulate plume from the power plant of Great Canadian Oil Sands, Ltd. was observed using a mobile laser radar (LIDAR). Thirteen Eulerian average cross sections were obtained from which the horizontal and vertical dispersion coefficients, plume rise and plume bearing were…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Alberta, Canada, chemistry, distribution, Ontario, particulates, pollution, weather observations, wind
'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
'On the first poster board of the series is seen a media montage ranging from covers of hearing records...to those for legislation and regulation...to environmental and resource management issues (including a typically misleading newspaper headline)...to scientific literature...…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, cover, natural resource legislation, smoke management, US Forest Service
From the text... 'This initial release of these Guidelines reflects the efforts of the Fire Management Task Force and subsequent review by park, regional and WASO staff. It represents the framework of the Service fire management program. The WASO Office of Fire Management,…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, education, fire control, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, health factors, human caused fires, national parks, natural resource legislation, public information, site treatments, smoke management, vegetation surveys, wilderness fire management, wildfires, fire management plans, INTERAGENCY COORDINATION, physical fitness, presuppression
Describes a theoretical model for calculating thermochemical properties of the gaseous fuel that burns in the free flame at the edge of a spreading fire in fine forest fuels. Predicted properties are the heat of combustion, stoichiometric air/fuel mass ratio, mass-averaged…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: char, flame, fuel moisture content, heat of combustion, volatiles, burning characteristics, stoichiometry, combustion properties
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
The objective of this report is to summarize the current state-of-knowledge of the effects of forest burning on the air resource, and to define research questions of high priority for the management of smoke from prescribed and wild fires. Our purpose was to provide background…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke impacts, smoke management, wildfires
Particulate matter and aromatic hydrocarbon emissions from the controlled combustion of alpha pinene
Combustion of a forest fuel complex produces a diverse mixture of oxygenated and unsaturated hydrocarbon compounds mixed with aerosols. This study examines the production rates for a number of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) precursor compounds produced from the controlled…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, cellulose, combustion, combustion chambers, flame length, gases, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, particulates, resins, Washington
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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