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The past decade has seen an increasing interest in forest management based on historical or natural disturbance dynamics. The rationale is that management that favours landscape compositions and stand structures similar to those found historically should also maintain…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: age classes, Canada, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, distribution, disturbance, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, logging, old growth forests, Quebec, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, wildfires
From the text (p.2) ... 'Prescribed burning is an essential management tool in southern pine forests, particularly where bobwhite are the focal species....'(p.3) '...Hoever, over the last half of this century, the use of prescribed fire has declined throughout the region as…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aimophila aestivalis, Alabama, burning permits, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire management, Florida, forbs, forest management, game birds, Georgia, Gopherus polyphemus, grasses, grasslands, ignition, invasive species, liability, litigation, Louisiana, Mississippi, needles, nongame birds, Picoides borealis, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, population density, private lands, reptiles, roads, season of fire, Sitta pusilla, smoke management, South Carolina, Tall Timbers Research Station, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), Virginia, wildlife habitat management, wood
From the text ... 'Once fires are established on the western portion of the Klamath National Forest, the pattern becomes a long-term commitment of resources, overhead teams, and expenditures.... When it comes to what to do with the Wooley Fire, there is no shortage of issues and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: fire case histories, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, health factors, ignition, national forests, northern California, public information, rate of spread, smoke effects, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildfires, wildlife habitat management
From the text ... 'A coordinated, interagency effort is required to ensure that fire use programs are implemented in a professional and competent manner.... Fire management is as much a philosophy and attitude toward the land as it is an action program.'
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, land management, public information, smoke management, wildfires
From the text ... 'Early prescribed natural fire efforts were tacitly supported, limited in extent, and carried out under close scrutiny.... Wildland fire use has moved beyond the confines of remote, inaccessible areas. It is expanding across an increasing variety of land use…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, invasive species, land use, national parks, post fire recovery, prescribed fires (chance ignition), private lands, public information, smoke management, wildfires
From the text ... 'One of the challenges for all smoke dispersion and impact models is to characterize the accuracy of their prediction of smoke trajectories, concentration of pollutants, and duration of impacts.... Understanding the needs and requirements of the model users is…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, Georgia, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, wildfires
From the text (p.28) ... 'Landowners have been using fire as a land management tool for centuries. It's a great tool that produces multiple benefits, such as site preparation for reforestation, hardwood control in pine stands, wildfire hazard reduction, improved wildlife habitat…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Alabama, burning permits, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel loading, land management, litter, private lands, reforestation, salvage, smoke management, threatened and endangered species, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
The South is the birthplace of statutes and ordinances that both advocate and protect the cultural heritage of woods burning, which has been practiced in this region uninterrupted for more than 10,000 years. We present a brief overview of fire use in the South and discuss why…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: community ecology, coniferous forests, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire adaptations (plants), fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, Georgia, hardwood forests, land management, liability, natural resource legislation, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, smoke management, Smokey Bear program, Tall Timbers Research Station, wildfires, wood
Over the last century, fire exclusion in the forests of the Sierra Nevada has allowed surface fuels to accumulate and has led to increased tree density. Stand composition has also been altered as shade tolerant tree species crowd out shade intolerant species. To restore forest…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Abies concolor, air quality, bark, Calocedrus decurrens, char, coniferous forests, Cornus nuttallii, Dendroctonus ponderosae, Dendroctonus valens, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, insects, Ips, moisture, mortality, Nevada, old growth forests, phenology, pine, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, population density, Quercus kelloggii, Scolytus ventralis, scorch, season of fire, Sierra Nevada, size classes, statistical analysis, surface fuels, trees, Abies spp., Pinus, Dendroctonus, Scolytus, bark beetle
Previous research has found that exposure to fire-related cues enhances germination of some plant species, and such species may exist in frequent-fire southwestern United States Pinus ponderosa forests. I performed four greenhouse experiments with Penstemon barbatus, a perennial…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: germination, seeds, Penstemon barbatus, Adenostoma fasciculatum, Arizona, char, coniferous forests, fire frequency, fire management, forbs, forest management, Grevillea spp., heat effects, perennial plant, Pinus ponderosa, plant ecology, presettlement fires, Schizachyrium scoparium, season of fire, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, soil temperature, soils, statistical analysis
From the introduction: Let me emphasize that I only claim to speak with authority about the task of restoring fire to the National Forests. Private landowners have their own special problems in using prescribed fire, size of forest tracts, lack of expertise, etc. Before we can…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: eastern forests, fire management, historic fire use, public education, oak forests, prescribed fire program, catastrophic fires, education, fire frequency, fire size, forest management, grasslands, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, Native Americans, public information, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
In a time when fire planners and forest supervisors in many parts of the United States are implementing plans to increase the number and frequency of prescribed burns, the issue of smoke impacts on air quality is becoming increasingly important. Smoke from prescribed fires can…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, eastern deciduous forest, prescribed fire planning, smoke impacts, smoke management, oak forests
During 2005, the USDA Forest Service celebrated its Centennial, recognizing 100 years of successfully caring for the land and serving people. The Rocky Mountain Research Station has been, and continues to be, an integral part of the Forest Service mission, dating back to the…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: Forest Service, research, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Over the last several decades, the overall air quality goal in the United States has been to protect public health and clear skies by reducing emissions. At the same time, however, the risk of catastrophic fire has been rising in forests around the country as overly dense trees…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky Modeling Framework, smoke concentration, smoke effects, smoke management, smoke estimation tools, smoke forecasting
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire weather
Fire in the boreal forest renews forest stands and changes the ecosystem properties. The successional stage of the vegetation determines the radiative budget, energy balance partitioning, evapotranspiration and carbon dioxide flux. Here, we synthesize energy balance measurements…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, eddy-covariance method, forest fire, albedo, brown ratio, climate change, energy balance, evapotranspiration, radiation
Accurate forecasting of regional weather is an important aspect of modern fire and smoke management. Fire weather impacts prescribed burn decisions, allocation of firefighting resources, and fire-fighters safety. Regional weather forecasts are currently produced by 3-D numerical…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, FORFLUX, MM5 - Mesoscale Model generation 5
The primary objective of the fuel consumption project is: Improve existing models to better predict fuel consumption during the smoldering phase of wildland fires; develop new fuel consumption models for shrubland hardwood, and boreal forest fuel types; implement modified and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: duff consumption, fuel moisture, piled fuels, prescribed burning, woody fuel consumption, Consume 3.0
Consume is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption, emissions, and heat release from the burning of logged units, piled slash, and natural…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: duff consumption, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, fuel moisture, piled fuels, prescribed burning, woody fuel consumption, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, CONSUME
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team has completed Consume version 3.0 (http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/products/consume.html). This system is the principle science delivery product for the Joint Fire Science Program-funded project entitled: 'Modification and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: duff consumption, fuel moisture, piled fuels, woody fuel consumption, Consume 3.0, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team
Many factors increase susceptibility of forests to wildfire in California. Among them are increases in human population, changes in land use, increased fire starts, fire suppression, and frequent droughts. These factors have been exacerbating forest susceptibility to wildfires…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Planning
Region(s): California
Keywords: air pollution
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Planning
Region(s): California
Keywords: air pollution
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Planning
Region(s): California
Keywords: air pollution
We report measurements and analysis of a boreal forest fire, integrating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon deposition on snow and sea ice, and postfire changes in surface albedo. The net effect of all agents was to increase radiative forcing during the…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerosols, boreal forests, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire management, fire regimes, forest management, gases, climate change, greenhouse gases, ozone, Picea mariana, post fire recovery, precipitation, radiation, statistical analysis, wildfires
To assess the contribution of biomass burning to the emissions of atmospheric trace species in China, we estimated various biomass-burning activities using statistical data, survey data, expert estimates and a satellite data set. Fuel wood and crop residue burned as fuel and in…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Asia, biomass, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, China, croplands, fire management, grasslands, wildfires, wood, woody fuels, biofuel, forest fires, fate of crop residue, field burning