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From the text...'Fireline explosives are linear explosives that enable crews to construct fireline under certain conditions much faster and with less environmental impact than conventional methods...'
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Montana, explosives, partial cutting, thinning, fire management, forest management, soil management, smoke management
Firefighters responding to wildland fires where surface litter and vegetation contain radiological contamination will receive a radiological dose by inhaling resuspended radioactive material in the smoke. This may increase their lifetime risk of contracting certain types of…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire injuries (humans), fire suppression, firefighting personnel, smoke effects, surface fuels, wildfires, air quality, diseases, duff, health factors, litter, radiation, woody plants, South Carolina, fire management, smoke management, atmospheric dispersion, radioactive dose, radioecology, firefighters
Forests sequester carbon from the atmosphere, helping mitigate climate change. In fire-prone forests, burn events result in direct and indirect emissions of carbon. High fire-induced tree mortality can cause a transition from a carbon sink to source, but thinning and prescribed…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: carbon balance, thinning
In this study, we quantified the production of fine particulate matter during smoldering combustion of organic peat soils common to boreal forested and non-forested ecosystems of the Great Lakes region, Northeast USA, Alaska, and Canada. Additionally, we investigated spectral…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fuel moisture, Michigan, peat fires, black carbon, boreal, peat
The purpose of this factsheet is to define wildland fuels and review some of the approaches used to assess fuel loads in Great Basin ecosystems. Assessing wildland fuel loading is important for quantifying potential fire hazards, for monitoring the effectiveness of fuel…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: fuel loads, fuel treatments, soil heating, fuel consumption, sagebrush steppe
Prescribed burning is a forest management practice that is widely used in Australia to reduce the risk of damaging wildfires. Prescribed burning can affect both carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling in the forest and thereby influence the soil-atmosphere exchange of major…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, low intensity burns, Australia, Queensland, air quality, C - carbon, greenhouse gases, CH4 - methane, N - nitrogen, fire management, forest management
Alaska, the great northern frontier of America, is being reshaped by climate change. While rising temperatures are altering its character and landscape, they are also bringing the ravages of wildfires. In the past 60 years, Alaska has warmed more than twice as fast as the rest…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: climate change, C - carbon, area burned, fire season length
In this paper, we analyze the current and future status of forests in Ukraine and Belarus that were contaminated after the nuclear disaster in 1986. Using several models, together with remote-sensing data and observations, we studied how climate change in these forests may…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire regimes, litter, carbon stock, Chernobyl, climate change, fire risk, Ukraine, Belarus, Cesium-137, redistribution, biomass burning, crown fires, fire intensity, wildfires, C - carbon, cover, distribution, drought, radiation, mortality, remote sensing, snags, fire management, forest management