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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
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
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: aerial ignition, arthropods, backfires, catastrophic fires, community ecology, cones, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel accumulation, grasslands, human caused fires, insects, land management, landscape ecology, Montana, national forests, Pinus contorta, plant communities, post fire recovery, precipitation, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, recreation, reproduction, rural communities, senescence, serotiny, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: ash, catastrophic fires, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firebrands, fuel accumulation, fuel types, human caused fires, land management, Leopold, Aldo, multiple resource management, national parks, natural resource legislation, old growth forests, pine forests, Pinus contorta, post fire recovery, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, wilderness areas, wildfires, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, archaeological sites, birds, catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, eucalyptus, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, grasslands, Gymnogyps californianus, hardwood forests, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, national parks, Native Americans, pine forests, Pinus attenuata, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus radiata, Pinus torreyana, Quercus, scrub, season of fire, Sequoia sempervirens, Sequoiadendron giganteum , soils, water quality, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, computer programs, land management, particulates, smoke management
From the text ... 'Prescribed burning is an effective tool but, because of potential hazards, should be conducted only by well-trained, experienced personnel. Each burn is affected by a unique set of stand, fuel and weather conditions and, therefore, requires careful planning.…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, fire management, firing techniques, forest management, forest types, Georgia, pine forests, plant diseases, season of fire, smoke management
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, education, environmental impact statements, fire management, forest management, logging, multiple resource management, national forests, Oregon, pollution, public information, slash, smoke management, Washington
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, birds, bottomland hardwoods, coastal plain, environmental impact statements, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, hardwoods, mammals, particulates, Piedmont, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, season of fire, sedimentation, site treatments, small mammals, soil erosion, soil nutrients, soils, tallgrass prairies, water quality, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Wildfire emissions are challenging to measure and model, but simple and realistic estimates can benefit multiple disciplines. We evaluate the potential of MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) data to address this objective. A total of 11,004 fire pixels detected…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, British Columbia, Canada, fire danger rating, fire management, fire size, GIS - geographic information system, remote sensing, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, area burned, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, aerosol emissions
High-frequency thermocouple measurements were made during an experimental grass fire conducted during ideal weather with overcast and windy conditions. Analysis of the thermodynamic structure of the fire plume showed that a maximum plume temperature of 295.2°C was measured…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, combustion, crown fires, experimental fires, fire management, flame length, grasses, grasslands, heat, rate of spread, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, Texas, wildfires, wind, grass fire, thermocouples, fire plumes
Prescribed fires can be used as a forest management tool to reduce the severity of wildfires. Thus, over prolonged and repeated periods, firefighters are exposed to toxic air contaminants. This work consisted in collecting and analyzing smoke released by typical Mediterranean…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: chemical compounds, Corsica, Europe, fire intensity, fire management, firefighting personnel, forest management, France, fuel loading, health factors, hydrocarbons, pine forests, sampling, smoke effects, smoke management, toxicity, wildfires, wind, air quality, BTEXs, firefighter exposure, forest fire smoke, SVOC - semi-volatile organic compounds, VOC - volatile organic compounds, Mediterranean, firefighter health
From the text ... 'Today, land managers use controlled or 'prescribed' burning to improve wildlife habitat and reduce the risk of dangerous fires. Wildfire, on the other hand, can threaten life and property of both people and wildlife especially when it occurs with little notice…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, forest management, humidity, lightning caused fires, smoke management, soil moisture, wildfires, wildlife, wind
Smoke generated by burning of plant materials has widely been recognized as a germination cue for some species from both fire prone and fire-free ecosystems. It is an important factor for the understanding of vegetation dynamics and could have potential use for ecological…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, Borreria, Burkina Faso, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, fire regimes, forbs, germination, grasses, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, native species (plants), seed dispersal, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature, vegetation surveys, forbs, native grasses, fire-related cues, propagation by seeds, West Africa
From the text ... 'In protected areas, where wilderness values are paramount, public land agencies have adopted the policy of using wildfires to benefit natural resources, allowing naturally ignited fires to burn unless they present additional threats, such as fire rick to…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fuel management, land management, national parks, particulates, smoke effects, smoke management, vegetation surveys, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Colinus virginianus (Northern Bobwhite) respond favorably to frequent disturbances in most physiographic regions of their population distribution. These disturbances maintain the vegetative composition and structure needed for survival and reproduction. Prescribed fire is an…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Andropogon, Aristida, birds, Colinus, Colinus virginianus, distribution, disturbance, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, flame length, Florida, forest management, fuel moisture, game birds, headfires, humidity, Ilex glabra, mortality, pine forests, Pinus palustris, population density, private lands, reproduction, Schizachyrium spp., Serenoa repens, Taxodium distichum, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildlife habitat management
The European coastal heathlands are important habitats for international conservation. Today, these low-intensity farming systems are threatened by the cessation of traditional management regimes, such as grazing and prescribed burning. In natural systems, the effects of fire on…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: adaptation, Calluna, Calluna vulgaris, conservation, Europe, fire management, forest management, germination, grazing, heathlands, histories, human caused fires, keystone species, Norway, paleoecology, plant communities, population density, post fire recovery, seed dormancy, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, succession, anthropogenic disturbance, germination cues, palaeoecology, plant-derived smoke, secondary succession
Daysmoke is a local smoke transport model and has been used to provide smoke plume rise information. It includes a large number of parameters describing the dynamic and stochastic processes of particle upward movement, fallout, fluctuation, and burn emissions. This study…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, smoke behavior, wildfires, aerial ignition, air quality, mosaic, national forests, pollution, North Carolina, Tennessee, fire management, fuel management, smoke management, plume rise, DAYSMOKE, sensitivety analysis
From the text ... 'It may be that a new dialogue is needed between those who advocate education and social sciences investigations on fire and those who advocate air quality and health science concerned with fire smoke.'
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, education, fire management, forest management, fuel management, health factors, pollution, public information, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, wildfires
Successful prairie restoration will depend in part on convincing private landowners with agricultural and recreational use goals to implement appropriate rangeland management practices, such as prescribed burning and cattle grazing, to control invasive species and encroachment…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: agriculture, conservation, cropland fires, eastern redcedar, ecosystem dynamics, fire damage (property), fire management, forage, fragmentation, grasslands, grazing, herbicides, invasive species, Iowa, Juniperus, Juniperus virginiana, land management, liability, livestock, Missouri, prescribed fires (escaped), private lands, range management, soil erosion, species diversity (plants), tallgrass prairies, trees, watersheds, wildlife habitat management, woody plants, adaptive ecosystem management, biodiversity, grazing management, Juniperus virginiana, landowner attitudes, prairie restoration
Mechankcal treatments such as roller-chopping, mowing, chain-sawing, and logging, and herbicide application, are increasingly used to manage fire-maintained Florida ecosystems. Goals include achieving or restoring desired vegetation structure and composition, providing habitat…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aphelocoma coerulescens, cavity nesting birds, cutting, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, flatwoods, Florida, Florida Scrub-Jay, forest management, fuel loading, hardwoods, herbicides, logging, mosaic, mowing, FFS - Fire and Fire Surrogate Study, national forests, nongame birds, Ocala National Forest, Picoides borealis, pine, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, prairies, prescribed fires (escaped), range management, red-cockaded woodpecker, reptiles, resprouting, sandhills, scrub, season of fire, site treatments, slash pine, species diversity, state parks, threatened and endangered species (animals), vegetation surveys, ecological restoration, mowing, roller-chopping, logging, Florida scrub, Sandhill, flatwoods, dry prairie, pine rockland
From the text ... 'The Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) is a new Web-based system designed to integrate science and technology in support of risk-informed decisionmaking for wildland fires. ... WFDSS replaces three past wildland fire decision analysis and…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, computer programs, fire management, GIS, particulates, smoke management, wildfires, wind
The economic costs of adverse health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke should be given serious consideration in determining the optimal wildfire management policy. Unfortunately, the literature in this research area is thin. In an effort to better understand the…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, diseases, fire management, health factors, mortality, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, epidemiology studies, forest fires, health damage, non-market valuation, PM - particulate matter, literature review, non-market value, health risk, epidemiology
To secure the long-term use of prescribed fire as a land management tool. The Nature Conservancy's Lake Wales Ridge Program has developed the Critical Smoke Dispersal Area (CSDA) GIS data layer for conservation sites associated with the Lake Wales Ridge in central Florida, USA.…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, conservation, GIS, Lake Wales Ridge, Florida, fire management, land use planning, smoke management, Florida, GIS, Lake Wales Ridge, land-use planning, smoke management
From the text ... 'As we move forward and as we put more prescribed fire across the nation, there are going to be things like smoke incidents, there will be accidents, there will be loss of structures. And, yes, there will even be loss of life. The future of prescribed fire…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, education, health factors, public information, fire management, land management, smoke management