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Soil was exposed to red phosphorous/butyl rubber (RP/BR) aerosols at various relative humidities in a recirculating environmental wind tunnel. Soil microbial and enzymatic activities were measured immediately after exposure and periodically thereafter for 56 days. The…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: 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: agriculture, chemistry, cropland fires, heat effects, humidity, microorganisms, nutrient cycling, pH, pollution, post fire recovery, smoke effects, soil organisms, soils, statistical analysis, toxicity, wildfires, wind
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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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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, clearcutting, fire management, forest management, herbicides, histories, logging, multiple resource management, Oregon, site treatments, slash, smoke management
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Appalachian Mountains, balds, environmental impact statements, fire hazard reduction, fire management, hardwood forests, herbicides, mountains, multiple resource management, national forests, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, site treatments, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Apalachicola Bluffs, Calamintha dentata, Carex baltzellii, Croomia pauciflora, Florida, fungi, habitat conversion, Magnolia ashei, mast, Matelea, north Florida, pine, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, plant diseases, plant growth, reproduction, sandhills, seedlings, species diversity (plants), Taxus floridana, threatened and endangered species (plants), Torreya taxifolia, vegetation surveys
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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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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
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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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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, central Florida, Florida, pine forests
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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
A newly developed method, which involves the use of satellite measurements of energy released by fires, was used to estimate smoke emissions in the United States (US) Southern Great Plains (SGP). This SGP region was chosen because extensive agricultural and planned burning…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, croplands, energy, fire frequency, fire management, grasslands, Great Plains, particulates, radiation, range management, remote sensing, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, FRE - Fire Radiative Energy, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
On February 28, 2007, a severe smoke event caused by prescribed forest fires occurred in Atlanta, GA. Later smoke events in the southeastern metropolitan areas of the United States caused by the Georgia-Florida wild forest fires further magnified the significance of forest fire…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, Georgia, ozone, particulates, Picoides borealis, pollution, smoke management, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildfires, wildlife habitat management
From the text ... 'The Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division conducts prescribed burns on state lands as well as some privately owned lands. The process is an important technique used by wildlife and forestry managers to stimulate the growth of…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire equipment, fire management, fire size, flame length, forbs, forest management, Georgia, grasses, logging, pine forests, Pinus palustris, private lands, shrubs, threatened and endangered species, trees, wildfires, wildlife
From the text ... 'Burning is seasonal, especially as it relates to quail management. You can't burn too late or you get into the brood rearing season for bobwhites. Burning too early and you might hurt population remnants from the winter season. Pairs form at the end of…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Colinus virginianus, fire control, fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel accumulation, game birds, humidity, legumes, liability, North Carolina, pine forests, season of fire, wildlife habitat management, wind
From the text ... 'Fire in the habitst is probably the best cure for what ails your habitat. It is a process that was removed from habitat management decades ago and it is necessary to help you restore native bobwhites as part of your recovery plan.'
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Alabama, Colinus virginianus, fire dependent species, fire management, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, game birds, land management, pine forests, post fire recovery, smoke management, South Carolina, Tall Timbers Research Station, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), wildlife habitat management, wind
The impact of smoke from forest burning on air quality is a threat to the use of prescribed fire to manage woodlands in the eastern United States. Population shifts from urban centers to the wildland/urban interface have increased human exposures to smoke. Tighter national…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, land management, oak, particulates, Piedmont, pine hardwood forests, pine, Pinus, Quercus, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, wind
Of Georgia's 37 million acres, 24.8 million acres are forestland. On an average, 1.2 million acres are prescribed burned each year. Georgia faces two main challenges with their prescribed fire program, air quality and urban sprawl. These two will make it more difficult to obtain…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky, education, fire management, fire protection, Florida, forest management, fuel management, Georgia, public information, smoke management, Tall Timbers Research Station
Air quality concerns are on the increase for a growing population of 9 million Georgians. Metropolitan Atlanta is the epicenter of Georgia's air issues but urbanization along the fall line of the Georgia Piedmont region is affecting air quality for metropolitan statistical areas…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire management, Florida, forest management, Georgia, histories, ozone, particulates, Piedmont, pollution, Polyborus plancus, public information, rural communities, smoke management, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tennessee, Washington
Characterization of the true extent of the effects of smoke from prescribed fires and wildland fires on ambient air quality is incomplete due to the deficiency of air quality monitoring sites in rural areas. Also, particulate standards are based on 24-hour and annual averages,…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire management, fire size, Florida, Georgia, smoke effects, smoke management, Tall Timbers Research Station, wildfires
Prescribed burning is a large aerosol source in the southeastern United States. Its air quality impact is investigated using 3-D model simulations and analysis of ground and satellite observations. Fire emissions for 2002 are calculated based on a recently developed VISTAS…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Alabama, biomass burning, CO - carbon monoxide, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, Florida, forest management, Georgia, ozone, pollution, season of fire, South Carolina, telemetry, wildlife habitat management
In this study, we used fire count datasets derived from Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) satellite to characterize spatial patterns in fire occurrences across highly diverse geographical, vegetation and topographic gradients in the Indian region. For characterizing the…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, air quality, Asia, biomass burning, cropland fires, deciduous forests, ecosystem dynamics, elevation, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, ignition, India, montane forests, particulates, precipitation, rate of spread, remote sensing, savannas, slash, slash and burn, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires, fires, spatial patterns, point pattern analysis, vegetation fires, India
Biomass burning is an important primary source of particles containing biomarker compounds, which are introduced into smoke primarily by direct volatilization/steam stripping and by thermal alteration based on combustion conditions. This study presents comprehensive organic…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, biomass, biomass burning, cellulose, chemical compounds, combustion, coniferous forests, fire management, forest management, hydrocarbons, leaves, lignin, litter, Oregon, organic matter, particulates, pine hardwood forests, Pinus ponderosa, Quercus, resins, savannas, smoke management, vegetation surveys, volatilization, wildfires, wood
Background: Air pollution in Darwin, Northern Australia, is dominated by smoke from seasonal fires in the surrounding savanna that burn during the dry season from April to November. Our aim was to study the association between particulate matter less than or equal to 10 microns…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, Australia, diseases, fire hazard reduction, fire management, health factors, Northern Territory of Australia, particulates, pollution, savannas, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, vegetation surveys, wildfires
From the text (p.19) ... 'There natural periodic fires help keep the turkey population in a good condition well before over-hunting and fire suppression caused its fall. Turkeys respond very quickly, sometimes overnight, to areas that have been burned. I hope you can use burning…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: backfires, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, game birds, habits and behavior, hunting, Meleagris gallopavo, post fire recovery, smoke management, suppression, thinning, Turkey, wildlife habitat management, wildlife management