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The people of Washington State care about the quality of our air. In response to that concern, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Department of Ecology (Ecology), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), National Park Service (NPS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), participating…
Person:
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Washington DNR Smoke Management Plan, Washington, smoke management plan, burning permits, smoke intrusion

Wildland fires (WLF) have become more frequent, larger, and severe with greater impacts to society and ecosystems and dramatic increases in firefighting costs. Forests throughout the range of ponderosa pine in Oregon and Washington are jeopardized by the interaction of…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: wildland fire, Oregon, Washington, ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa, resistance, resilience, drought

Smoke from wildland fire presents a serious and growing concern. Mirroring global trends in recent decades, many areas of the US are experiencing increasing wildfire size, severity, and frequency. The health hazard of smoke from wildland fire has been well-documented (see…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: public perceptions, wildfire, managed fire, public tolerance of smoke, literature review, public health, manager perceptions, NWFSC - Northwest Fire Science Consortium

Prescribed fire can result in significant benefits to ecosystems and society. Examples include improved wildlife habitat, enhanced biodiversity, reduced threat of destructive wildfire, and enhanced ecosystem resilience. Prescribed fire can also come with costs, such as reduced…
Person: Hunter
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfire regimes, cumulative effects, fire frequency, fire extent, total area burned, fire severity, resilience, treatment effects, forest carbon

Many Australians are intermittently exposed to landscape fire smoke from wildfires or planned (prescribed) burns. This study aimed to investigate effects of outdoor smoke from planned burns, wildfires and a coal mine fire by assessing biomarkers of inflammation in an exposed and…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, landscape fire, bushfire, Australia, biomarkers, FeNO - fractional exhaled nitric oxide, neutrophils, white cell count, public health, wildfire

Prescribed fire is an important tool for maintaining the resilience of fire-dependent ecosystems. Despite broad recognition of its value, however, prescribed fire application in the western US has not been applied at the necessary levels. Past research has identified a range of…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: policy, collaboration, funding, incentives

Emissions from a stand replacement prescribed burn were sampled using an unmanned aircraft system (UAS, or 'drone') in Fishlake National Forest, Utah, U.S.A. Sixteen flights over three days in June 2019 provided emission factors for a broad range of compounds including carbon…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: Utah, wildfires, measurements, drones, UAS - Unmanned Aircraft System, Fishlake National Forest, air pollution

In order to meet preidentified objectives, prescribed burns are lit under specific conditions to produce desirable results such as favorable plant response, healthy forest and rangeland conditions for grazing and wildlife habitat, silvicultural treatments, indigenous cultural…
Person:
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: NWFSC - Northwest Fire Science Consortium, pile burning, broadcast burning

Reliable predictions of emissions from wildland fires are a key element of smoke management programs. Emission factors (the amount of pollutants produced per amount of fuel consumed) are used in models to estimate the composition of smoke. Over the past two decades, laboratory…
Person:
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, air quality, fuel bed, flaming, smoldering, emission factors, wildfire

Investigate West article about the current state of prescribed fire in Washington.
Person:
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Washington Prescribed Fire Council, fuels treatments, low-intensity fire, mega fires

The Smoke and Roadway Safety Guide provides wildland fire personnel the tools and methods to effectively plan and forecast for roadway smoke impacts and to monitor, respond to, and mitigate smoke on roadways to reduce the risk to the public and fire personnel. This publication:…
Person:
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: NWCG - National Wildfire Coordinating Group, risk management, visibility, roads, roadways, management action points, FMP - Fire Management Plan, EARP - Expanded Assessment for Potential Risk

As the population increases, air quality regulations continue to tighten, and stricter controls are applied to other pollution sources, understanding the impacts of prescribed burning emissions is becoming more critical for the land managers in the southern U.S. Although air…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, air quality monitoring, air quality modeling, BBEP - Biomass Burning Emissions Product, acres burned, burn activity forecasting, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, DDM - decoupled direct method, environmental justice, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, GFED - Global Fire Emissions Database, HYSPLIT - Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory, respiratory effects, satellite detection, social vulnerability, smoke exposure, source attribution, source impact, wildfire, wildland fire

Some key messages from this webinar: New operational 3D models such as QUIC-Fire, may change how land managers plan for and manage prescribed fire, but they require unique input data about fuels. Representing fuels in 3D adds detail on fuel structure and distribution. This info…
Person: Loudermilk
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coupled atmosphere-fire model, coupled fire-atmosphere model, QUIC-Fire, fire spread, TLS - Terrestrial Laser Scanning, fuel structure, fuel characteristics, fluid flow, LiDAR - Light Detection and Ranging, fuel loading, leaf litter, 3D fuels

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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coastal forests, coastal plain, evapotranspiration, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, habitat conversion, hydrology, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, plantations, pollution, runoff, season of fire, site treatments, smoke management, soil nutrients, streamflow, swamps, water, water quality, watershed management

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Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, biomass, Brazil, carbon dioxide, chemistry, elevation, gases, grasslands, humidity, ozone, pollution, precipitation, savannas, scrub, seasonal activities, smoke behavior, smoke effects, South America, statistical analysis, temperature

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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, fire management, grasslands, human caused fires, land management, recreation, savannas, shrublands, watershed management, wildlife habitat management

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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, Beadel, H.L., boreal forests, browse, catastrophic fires, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, community ecology, competition, coniferous forests, conifers, crown fires, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, European settlement, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, flammability, Florida, forbs, fuel accumulation, fuel types, game birds, grazing, ground cover, habitat types, hardwoods, herbivory, humidity, Komarek, E.V., Sr., land management, Leopold, Aldo, lightning caused fires, Meleagris gallopavo, mosaic, multiple resource management, nitrogen fixation, North Carolina, nutrient cycling, Odocoileus virginianus, organic matter, particulates, pesticides, pine forests, pine, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus rigida, plant communities, plant nutrients, pocosins, pollution, post fire recovery, prehistoric fires, prescribed fires (chance ignition), presettlement fires, recreation, regeneration, reproduction, savannas, scrub, shrublands, shrubs, site treatments, soil erosion, South Carolina, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), Stoddard, H.L., swamps, Tall Timbers Research Station, threatened and endangered species (plants), wetlands, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife management, wildlife openings, xeric soils, Yellowstone National Park

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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Oregon, site treatments, slash, smoke management

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Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, firebreaks, Illinois, manuals, Melilotus albus, prairies, season of fire, seed germination, weed control

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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: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, smoke management

From introduction: The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires of 1988 were, in the words of National Park Service (NPS) publications, the most significant ecological event in the history of the national parks (NPS 1988). Their political consequences may be as far-reaching as their…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, community ecology, conservation, dendrochronology, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, European settlement, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, grasslands, human caused fires, Idaho, land management, Leopold, Aldo, lightning caused fires, mammals, Montana, mortality, mosaic, mountains, national forests, national parks, Native Americans, natural areas management, old growth forests, plant communities, post fire recovery, predation, prehistoric fires, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, season of fire, small mammals, smoke effects, soil erosion, species diversity (animals), state forests, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife management, wildlife refuges, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

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…
Person:
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

A 1.3 hectare field containing hawthorn and alder was burned in April 1973. Post-burn analysis of 20 hawthorns and 20 alders determined the fire susceptibility of these species. Of those sampled, 80 percent of the trees less than 3 centimeters in basal diameter were killed. The…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Economics
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: age classes, air quality, Alnus rugosa, burning intervals, cover, Crataegus, diameter classes, disturbance, escape cover, fire injuries (plants), firebreaks, fuel moisture, game birds, grasses, grazing, herbicides, invasive species, land management, mortality, New York, old fields, plant growth, post fire recovery, Scirpus, season of fire, seasonal activities, small mammals, smoke effects, Solidago, sprouting, trees, wetlands, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, woody plants

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Person:
Year: 1913
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, agriculture, Appalachian Mountains, balds, Blue Ridge Mountains, Castanea dentata, catastrophic fires, community ecology, cones, crowns, decay, ecosystem dynamics, European settlement, forage, forest management, forestation, fuel accumulation, fuel types, grasses, Great Smoky Mountains, hardwood forests, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, land management, Liriodendron, livestock, logging, moisture, mortality, mountains, multiple resource management, Native Americans, needles, North Carolina, old fields, openings, phenology, pine, Pinus echinata, Pinus virginiana, Quercus montana, season of fire, seasonal activities, water quality, wildfires