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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel loading, Georgia, New England, pine forests, smoke management, Vaccinium, Vermont, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, Alabama, burning intervals, coastal plain, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire growth, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, Florida, fuel appraisal, fuel management, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, national forests, North Carolina, Piedmont, rate of spread, season of fire, smoke management, South Carolina, Texas, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: broadcast burning, duff, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, heat effects, humidity, litter, moisture, mopping up, multiple resource management, precipitation, smoke behavior, smoke effects, soil temperature, statistical analysis, temperature, weather observations, woody plants
(1)The behaviour of the August 1936 Galatea fire in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains was reconstructed with respect to the rate of spread, frontal-fire intensity and fuel consumption, and illustrates that tree mortality, seed dispersal distance into the burn and…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, Alberta, Canada, conifers, crown fires, duff, elevation, fine fuels, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel moisture, fuel types, habitat types, ignition, lightning caused fires, litter, moisture, montane forests, mortality, mountainous terrain, mountains, national parks, organic matter, overstory, Picea, Picea engelmannii, pine, Pinus contorta, plant growth, post fire recovery, radiation, rate of spread, regeneration, reproduction, sampling, seed dispersal, seed germination, site treatments, smoke behavior, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, subalpine forests, topography, trees, water, wildfires, wind
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Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel types, Ilex glabra, particulates, pine forests, Serenoa repens, smoke management, wind
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Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: burning permits, fire intensity, fire management, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, liability, litter, live fuels, logging, pine forests, plant growth, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildlife management, wind
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Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, Australia, European settlement, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, habitat conversion, hunting, presettlement fires, smoke effects, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, algae, Cladium jamaicense, cover type, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire size, Florida, fuel types, grasslands, laboratory fires, leaves, marshlands, moisture, organic matter, organic soils, peat fires, peatlands, pine forests, post fire recovery, prairies, precipitation, scrub, season of fire, size classes, south Florida, statistical analysis, Taxodium, vegetation surveys, water, wetlands, wind
From the text ... 'In the southern United States, we have learned to use fire as an effective, inexpensive tool for applying specific management treatments to our forests. Hazard or rough reduction is the principal use of prescribed fire, but seedbed and site preparation,…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, combustion, fire hazard reduction, fuel management, Georgia, headfires, laboratory fires, litter, Pinus taeda, plantations, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife
Prescribed burning has become an indispensable tool of forest management in the South. It is a scientific prescription designed to cure ailments of the forest - ailments that include undesirable fuel accumulations, the encroachment of unwanted species, unattractive wildlife…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, burning intervals, competition, cover, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel accumulation, gases, ground cover, land use, light burning, minerals, multiple resource management, nutrient cycling, pine forests, smoke effects, smoke management, soil organic matter, understory vegetation, wildlife
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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, elevation, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, firing techniques, forest management, fuel management, fuel moisture, logging, mountains, Oregon, pine forests, rural communities, season of fire, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, topography, Washington, wind
Wetlands dominated by flora of the Gramineae and Cyperaceae, such as fens and sedge meadows, have been shown to be fire dependent or fire related in their natural history as well as their community composition and structure. Prescribed burning is therefore a useful and often…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: Alnus rugosa, Betula sandbergii, bogs, burning intervals, Calamagrostis canadensis, Carex stricta, community ecology, conservation, Cornus stolonifera, Cyperaceae, education, fire dependent species, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Gramineae, grasslike plants, ground cover, histories, humidity, ignition, introduced species, invasive species, land management, Larix laricina, moisture, mortality, natural areas management, openings, overstory, plant communities, public information, resprouting, Salix, season of fire, shrubs, species diversity (plants), succession, temperature, water, wetlands, wildlife refuges, wind, Wisconsin, woody plants
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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, bark, catastrophic fires, charcoal, climax vegetation, cones, coniferous forests, decay, disturbance, energy, field experimental fires, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, gases, ignition, Larix occidentalis, litter, logging, Montana, mosaic, multiple resource management, organic matter, particulates, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, reproduction, sampling, serotiny, smoke behavior, smoke management, succession, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Prescribed burning produces particulate and gaseous air pollutants in relatively small amounts over the course of an entire year. However, on any given day, the pollutants resulting from prescribed burning may constitute a major fraction of the local or regional air pollution…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, backfires, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, environmental impact analysis, fire management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates, pollution, rate of spread, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wind
In preparing for this symposium, discussion inevitably turned to the many facets of wildfire in the subarctic which should be considered - material, philosophical, economic. Is fire detrimental to the environment? 'Are the practices which you employ in controlling wildfires (…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, ecology, natural resources, wildlife, smoke effects, rehabilitation, revegetation, taiga, Yukon, air quality, burning permits, Calamagrostis, community ecology, ecosystem dynamics, fire control, Eriophorum vaginatum, fire management, fire management planning, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flowering, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, land use, litter, Native Americans, particulates, plant communities, plant growth, pollution, roots, seedlings, soil moisture, tundra, waterfowl, wildlife habitat management, wildfires, woody plants
From the text... 'The 'Soiling Potential' technique for evaluating fossil fuel combustion plumes in quantitative units is explained by examples and test results. The technique may serve as a valuable tool in emission inventory programs since it is a reproducible method for…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, ash, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, chemistry, combustion, fuel management, gases, Ohio, particulates, pollution, smoke behavior, statistical analysis
Greater needle packing (number of needles per unit stem length) among shoots of Picea engelmanii(Parry ex. Engelm.), Abies lasiocarpa ([Hook] Nutt.), and Pinus contorta (Engelm.) collected at sun-exposed locations resulted in leaf temperatures (T1) that were well above air…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies spp., Abies lasiocarpa, air temperature, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, conifers, forest management, leaves, needles, photosynthesis, Picea, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, plant growth, temperature, Wyoming
[Annotation copied from Lynham et al. 2002(https://www.frames.gov/rcs/18000/18093.html)] Jack pine (Pinus banksiana) is an economically important Canadian tree species and its autecology is inextricably linked to fire. It would disappear as a natural component of the boreal…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, fire intensity, jack pine, Pinus banksiana, regeneration, ecosystem dynamics, eastern Canada, Canada, carbon dioxide, decay, diameter classes, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, experimental fire, fire dependent species, fire frequency, litter, magnesium, mineral soil, mortality, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, Ontario, organic matter, overstory, pine forests, Pinus, plant growth, post-fire recovery, K - potassium, precipitation, seedlings, site treatments, soils, statistical analysis, understory vegetation, wildfires
Fire links the biosphere and the atmosphere. The linkage is, as yet, poorly quantified. Evidence suggests that a few percent of total C fixed by photosynthesis is oxidized by burning. Biomass burning seems to be globally significant in terms of associated: • Releases of trace…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Asia, bibliographies, biogeochemical cycles, biogeography, Brazil, C - carbon, char, charcoal, chemistry, community ecology, decay, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, evolution, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire size, forest types, fossils, fuel types, gases, geography, habitat types, heat, heat effects, human caused fires, landscape ecology, Mexico, microclimate, minerals, paleoecology, paleontology, post fire recovery, prehistoric fires, remote sensing, reproduction, sedimentation, smoke effects, South America, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, telemetry, tropical forests, water, wildfires