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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
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
The research and development (R&D) arm of the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with approximately 550 researchers in a range of biological, physical, and social science fields, seeks to better understand and describe the complex mechanisms at work in…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Forest Service, research, research accomplishment report
The Rocky Mountain Research Station has a long and celebrated legacy of conducting relevant natural resources research throughout the Interior West and beyond. Land managers and planners regularly rely upon our science to help make wise resource decisions. Our niche among…
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Year: 2007
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
The International Association of Wildland Fire sponsored the second Fire Behavior and Fuels conference in Destin, Florida. The conference theme was 'Fire Environment--Innovations, Management, and Policy.' Over 450 attendees participated in presentations on the latest innovations…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, policy, science, wildland fire management, IAWF - International Association of Wildland Fire
Predictions of smoke impacts on communities and ecosystems are currently being made by the BlueSky smoke forecast system; providing real-time predictions of surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fire, wildfire, and agricultural burn activities. Currently operational in…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky Modeling Framework, smoke impacts, smoke modeling
Fire scientists in the United States began exploring the relationships of fire-danger and hazard with weather, fuel moisture, and ignition probabilities as early as 1916. Many of the relationships identified then persist today in the form of our National Fire-Danger-Rating…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: NFDRS - National Fire Danger Rating System, vegetation, United States, satellite-derived maps, Priest River Experiment Station, weather maps, climatology, coniferous forests, dead fuels, drought, duff, evolution, experimental areas, fire control, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire management planning, fuel moisture, GIS - geographic information system, Idaho, ignition, moisture, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, precipitation, rate of spread, sloping terrain, smoke effects, statistical analysis, succession, wind, woody fuels, wildfires
When prescribed burning is conducted at the wildland-urban interface (WUI), the smoke that is produced can sometimes inconvenience people, but it can also cause more serious health and safety problems. The public is unlikely to continue to tolerate the use of prescribed fire,…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire management, smoke management, smoke screening
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) provides a web interface to a twice-daily, 40-year database of wind speed, mixing height and ventilation index for the United States at a spatial resolution of approximately 5km (Ferguson et al. 2003). This provides smoke…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: VCIS - Ventilation Climate Information System, wind speed, air quality
We present an overview of the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS), a tool that enables land managers, regulators, and scientists to create and catalogue fuelbeds and to classify those fuelbeds for their capacity to support fire and consume fuels. The fuelbed…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: crown fires, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, flaming combustion, residual combustion, smoldering combustion, fuelbeds, surface fire behavior, air quality, Artemisia spp., C - carbon, coniferous forests, duff, fire hazard, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel management, fuel types, Juniperus occidentalis, land management, lichens, litter, mosses, national forests, overstory, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, shrubs, surface fires, wildfires, woody plants
BlueSky, a National Fire Plan product, provides real-time predictions of surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fire, wildfire, and agricultural burn activities to aid land managers in burn/no-burn decisions. Currently operational in the Pacific Northwest, BlueSky is a…
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Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, PM - particulate matter, smoke concentration, BlueSky Modeling Framework
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) was completed with Joint Fire Science Program support in 2000 under a 1998-2000 project called, Assessing Values of Air Quality and Visibility at Risk from Wildiand Fires. It is a twice-daily, 30- year database of surface wind,…
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Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, risk assessment, VCIS - Ventilation Climate Information System, mixing height, surface wind, visibility, ventilation
Many areas of the boreal forest of Alaska contain deep layers of moss, duff, and peat, resulting in a large pool of biomass that potentially can burn and smolder for long periods of time creating hazardous smoke episodes for local residents and communities and causing…
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Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, duff consumption, duff moisture, black spruce, Consume 3.0, feathermoss, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, forest floor consumption, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, smoke characterization, white spruce
The organic layer (litter and duff) in forest, shrub, and grasslands can represent the bulk of the fuels consumed during wildland fires in southern ecosystems; it is imperative that organic layer depth measurements can be converted to mass as managers often measure the depth of…
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Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: bulk density, consumption, duff moisture, loblolly pine, longleaf pine, organic layer, Pinus palustris, slash pine, DMM600 - Duff Moisture Meter 600, hardwoods, Pinus taeda, Pinus elliottii, Pinus echinata, shortleaf pine
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (PNW) completed a total of eight 3-day regional fuels workshops and six ½-day 'mini-workshops' that demonstrated the use of the Natural Fuels Photo Series, Digital Photo Series, Fuel Characteristic Classification System, and…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, Natural Fuels Photo Series, training, Consume 3.0, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, workshops, Digital Photo Series
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (PNW Research Station) and the Fire Chemistry Project (RM Research Station) have completed the data collection and modeling for fuel consumption and smoke emissions during wildland fires in boreal forested types in Alaska.…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, duff consumption, duff moisture, black spruce, Consume 3.0, feathermoss, forest floor consumption, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, white spruce