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The Manual includes information on the organization's standard operating procedures, requirements, and guidelines regarding fire management. It also outlines the necessary steps for developing and maintaining a succesful fire management program. The Manual is a dynamic document…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, conservation, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, health factors, liability, manuals, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires
Recent studies have shown that emissions of mercury (Hg), a hazardous air pollutant, from fires can be significant. However, to date, these emissions have not been well-quantified for the entire United States. Daily emissions of Hg from fires in the lower 48 states of the United…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, boreal forests, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, grasslands, Hg - mercury, smoke management, statistical analysis, toxicity, wildfires
The post-harvest burning of agricultural fields is commonly used to dispose of crop residue and provide other desired services such as pest control. Despite careful regulation of burning, smoke plumes from field burning in the Pacific Northwest commonly degrade air quality,…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, broadcast burning, cropland fires, croplands, fire management, fuel moisture, fuel types, hydrocarbons, Idaho, pest control, range management, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke management, Washington, wind, CALPUFF, PM2.5, biomass burning, air quality model, ClearSky
Vegetation fires emit a number of air pollutants, thus impacting air quality at local, regional and global scales. One such pollutant is the particulate matter (PM) that is known to trigger adverse health effects. In this study, the CALPUFF/CALMET/MM5 modeling system is employed…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, Colorado, cropland fires, fire management, fire size, firing techniques, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Mexico, particulates, pollution, range management, rate of spread, remote sensing, wind, agricultural fire, PM - particulate matter, plume dispersion, CALPUFF, CALMET, MM5
Much of the public's attitude toward wildland fire as an important part of natural processes has been misguided, sometimes through programs perpetuating fear and misunderstanding of the vital role of fire in wildlands. Results presented here were part of a larger study that…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel management, land management, public information, rangelands, recreation, sampling, smoke management, Tennessee, thinning, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife
Fire is one of the key disturbances affecting trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forest ecosystems within western Canadian wildlands, including Elk Island National Park in central Alberta, Canada. Although prescribed fire is a tool available to modify aspen forests, a…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Alberta, Canada, combustion, coniferous forests, disturbance, droughts, duff, ecosystem dynamics, experimental fires, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel moisture, ground fires, ignition, moisture, national parks, plant communities, plant growth, Populus, Populus tremuloides, rate of spread, sampling, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, FWI - Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System, ground fire, subsurface fire
The present paper reviews a long-term fire experiment in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, established in 1954 to support fire management. The paper's goals are: (1) to assess learning, with a focus on relevance for fire management; (2) to examine how findings influenced…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, ecosystem dynamics, experimental areas, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, forest management, herbaceous vegetation, insects, mammals, mortality, mosaic, mycorrhiza, national parks, N - nitrogen, physiology, precipitation, range management, savannas, season of fire, small mammals, soil nutrients, soils, South Africa, vegetation surveys, woody plants, elephants, fire season, Kruger National Park
Fire is a frequent perturbation in Mediterranean-type ecosystems, altering soil organic matter turnover. In a Mediterranean shrubland subjected to experimental fire, soil CO2 emissions were measured over an annual cycle in burned and unburned sites using static chambers. Some…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Arbutus unedo, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, experimental areas, fire management, Italy, Mediterranean habitats, Myrtus communis, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, organic matter, pH, Phillyrea, Pistacia lentiscus, post-fire recovery, Quercus ilex, range management, shrublands, soil management, soil moisture, soil organic matter, soil temperature, statistical analysis, temperature, water, water uptake, experimental fire, metabolic quotient, priming effect, soil organic matter mineralization, soil water content, Mediterranean shrublands
In this study, smoke data were collected from two plots located on the Francis Marion National Forest in South Carolina during prescribed burns on 12 February 2003. One of the plots had been subjected to mechanical chipping, the other was not. This study is part of a larger…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire hazard reduction, fire management, firefighting personnel, forest management, health factors, national forests, sampling, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, statistical analysis, wildfires, forest fire, firefighter, PM2.5, CO - carbon monoxide, air quality, mechanical chipping
From the text ... 'Grass fires, although not as intense as forest fires, present a major threat to life and property during periods of drought in the Great Plains of the United States. Recently, major wildland grass fires in Texas burned nearly 1.6 million acres and destroyed…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Andropogon gerardii, carbon dioxide, crown fires, fire damage (property), fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire size, fuel management, fuel moisture, grass fires, grasses, grasslands, Great Plains, livestock, moisture, mortality, prairies, radiation, rate of spread, Schizachyrium scoparium, soil temperature, temperature, Texas, Tridens, wildfires, wind
From the text (p.10) ... 'Two significant changes have been made in the summer burning regulations issued by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) that may affect many landowners across the state.Four counties have been added to the list of counties included…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Alabama, burning permits, fire hazard reduction, fire management, litter, particulates, season of fire
From the text ... 'The use of prescribed fire as a land management tool has deep and ancient roots in south Carolina's heritage, but conducting prescribed burns is becoming increasingly challenging because of a variety of factors, according to the chairman of the South Carolina…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, birds, carnivorous plants, cavity nesting birds, Colinus virginianus, coniferous forests, Dionaea, education, fire dependent species, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, game birds, Gopherus polyphemus, grasslands, hardwood forests, hunting, land management, longleaf pine, Picoides borealis, Pinus palustris, post fire recovery, public information, range management, roots, Sarracenia, season of fire, Smokey Bear program, South Carolina, Turkey, wild turkey, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
From the Executive Summary ... 'Over 2,000 wildfires burned 500,000 acres of Florida real estate, most of it between May and mid July, 1998. Although virtually every county was impacted, the fires were concentrated in the northeast quadrant defined by boundaries extending north…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Aphelocoma coerulescens, catastrophic fires, Deeringothamnus rugelii, droughts, education, fire damage (property), Florida, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fungi, Georgia, GIS, habitat suitability, health factors, herbicides, human caused fires, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Leptographium, lightning, lightning caused fires, mortality, national forests, overstory, partial cutting, pine forests, plant diseases, plantations, public information, storms, suppression, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), wildfires, wildlife refuges, BEHAVE, PREDICTORS OF EXTREME FIRE BEHAVIOR, HOME PROTECTION STRATEGIES, anthropogenic factors
From the text (p.5) ... 'On the many sites on the DeSoto National Forest with significant timber damage, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) will not resume controlled burning programs, already inadequate, particularly with respect to the paucity of growing season burning, until the…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire injuries (plants), forest management, fungi, Gopherus polyphemus, growing season burn, insects, military lands, Mississippi, national forests, Pinus palustris, reptiles, salvage, smoke management, storms, trees, US Forest Service, wildlife habitat management, wood, RELOCATION
From the text (p.332) ... 'Within the landscape, detailed mapping of sensitive species and remnant fragments is being used to define appropriate silvicultural and burning techniques. For remnant forest fragments with residual savanna species, silvicultural efforts include (1)…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida beyrichiana, burning intervals, coastal plain, community ecology, forbs, fuel moisture, GIS, Gopherus polyphemus, grasses, habitat types, hardwoods, herbicides, land use, landscape ecology, longleaf pine, native species (plants), old fields, overstory, Pinus palustris, plant communities, population ecology, savannas, shrubs, smoke management, South Carolina, thinning, REINTRODUCTIONS OF NATIVE SPECIES
From the text ... 'Longleaf pine trees and wiregrass, which thrive with burning, have been planted in the 150-foot wide medians since 2003. Prescribed fires, forest experts say, help maintain scenic vistas and healthy pine forests. The prescribed burn is the first on a highway…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Aristida beyrichiana, artificial regeneration, education, fire management, Florida, forest management, general interest, grasses, grasslands, herbicides, hunting, landscape ecology, longleaf pine, mowing, north Florida, pine forests, Pinus palustris, plantations, pollution, public information, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, trees, wildfires, wildlife, FL DOT - Florida Department of Transportation, HIGHWAY MEDIANS
From the text (p.32) ... 'When prescribed fire is part of the ecological management plan, most native plants bloom earlier and longer, produce more seed, and generally thrive. The reasons are easy to see. the dead plant material is reduced to mineral-rich ask, which provides…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: ash, backfires, ecosystem dynamics, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, flank fires, forest management, grasslands, headfires, invasive species, leaves, lightning caused fires, litter, native species (plants), nutrients, post fire recovery, range management, regeneration, seed production, smoke management, wildfires, Wisconsin
Fire is one of the key disturbances affecting aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forest ecosystems within western Canadian wildlands, including Elk Island National Park. Prescribed fire use is a tool available to modify aspen forests, yet clearly understanding its potential…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Alberta, boreal forests, Canada, disturbance, droughts, duff, experimental fires, fire management, forest management, fuel moisture, ground cover, ground fires, hardwood forests, ignition, moisture, national parks, plant communities, Populus, Populus tremuloides, precipitation, soil moisture, statistical analysis, fuels management, ground fire ignition potential, aspen, Populus tremuloides, DMC - CFFDRS Duff Moisture Code, drought code, FWI - Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System
Aim Globally, most landscape burning occurs in the tropical savanna biome, where fire is a characteristic of the annual dry season. In northern Australia there is uncertainty about how the frequency and timing of dry season fires have changed in the transition from Aboriginal to…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, Australia, biomass, broadcast burning, disturbance, fire frequency, fire management, land management, Northern Territory of Australia, particulates, pollution, presettlement fires, savannas, season of fire, tropical regions, Aboriginal fire management, air pollution, airport visibility, Australian summer monsoon, biomass burning, deep moist convection, historical ecology, Tropical Savanna
There is some evidence that the initiation of warm rain is suppressed in clouds over regions with vegetation fires. Thus, the ice phase becomes important as another possibility to initiate precipitation. Numerical simulations were performed to investigate heterogeneous drop…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, biomass burning, broadcast burning, Europe, fire management, Germany, moisture, particulates, precipitation, soil management, statistical analysis, biomass burning, heterogeneous drop freezing, ice nuclei, mixed-phase cloud
Federal fuels managers are increasingly using prescribed fire to decrease hazardous fuels and risks to resources in wildland and urban settings. Two factors have become apparent throughout the last several years: prescribed burning costs are rising, and costs exhibit substantial…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: broadcast burning, computer programs, coniferous forests, elevation, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, grasslands, Great Plains, land management, Oregon, season of fire, sloping terrain, statistical analysis, thinning, topography, Washington, wildfires, cost structure
From the text ... 'For most of the 20th century, land managers across the U.S. maintained a policy of total fire suppression on the nation's forest lands. No fire was a good fire, they reasoned, and managers set about extinguishing fires wherever they occurred.Land managers now…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: Arkansas, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, grasses, ground cover, native species (plants), suppression, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
From the text ... 'Motorists on Thomasville Road in northern Leon county Wednesday afternoon were greeted by smoke and flames.The State Division of Forestry burned the forested medians south of County road 12 as part of the annual Prescribed Fire Awareness Week.Prescribed fire…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida stricta, conservation easements, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, north Florida, pine forests, Pinus palustris, Red Hills, roads, Tall Timbers Research Station, wildfires, wildlife
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 ... '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