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Fire products are now available from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) including the only current global daily active fire product. This paper describes the algorithm, the products and the associated validation activities. High-resolution ASTER data,…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, active fires, Africa
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, Arizona, biomass, catastrophic fires, Colorado, coniferous forests, crown fires, crowns, disturbance, education, environmental impact analysis, environmental impact statements, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, forest management, fuel breaks, fuel management, fuel types, general interest, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, landscape ecology, logging, low intensity burns, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, New Mexico, old growth forests, Oregon, overstory, partial cutting, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, roads, second growth forests, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, site treatments, size classes, slash, surface fuels, thinning, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, annual plants, catastrophic fires, Ceanothus, Centaurea, Colorado, coniferous forests, Cytisus, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire case histories, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, general interest, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, Idaho, invasive species, light burning, lightning caused fires, litter, logging, Montana, national forests, national parks, native species (animals), native species (plants), natural resource legislation, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus ponderosa, plant communities, precipitation, riparian habitats, runoff, seedlings, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, shrubs, smoke effects, soil nutrients, soils, streams, surface fires, thinning, water, water quality, water repellent soils, weed control, wildfires, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, woody fuels
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: British Columbia, Canada, catastrophic fires, coastal forests, community ecology, coniferous forests, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fine fuels, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel management, fuel moisture, general interest, grazing, Great Plains, histories, landscape ecology, lightning caused fires, livestock, logging, Mexico, national forests, national parks, native species (animals), native species (plants), Nebraska, old growth forests, Oregon, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus engelmannii, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, roads, Sequoia sempervirens, Sequoiadendron giganteum , smoke effects, South Dakota, thinning, Tsuga heterophylla, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text ... 'This article updates the uses of the fire severity index called the Haines Index (HI). We discuss the original intended use of HI, its current operational use, some ways that users have modified it, and different aspects of HI that researchers are examining to…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: convection, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, flame length, fuel moisture, ignition, rate of spread, smoke behavior, temperature, Washington, wildfires, wind
From the text ... 'This article discusses factors that are critical to both firefighters and fire managers in ensuring a safe and productive workforce. First, it discusses such items as the work environment, the firefighter workforce, physical fitness, nutrition, work/rest…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Logistics, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, health factors, heat effects, mortality, nutrition, smoke effects, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text ... 'The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) notified the Forest Service of the findings of its investigation of the Thirtymile Fire on the Okanagan-Wenatchee National Forest in July 2001. OSHA cited the Forest Service for two willful and three…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: catastrophic fires, crown fires, education, fire case histories, fire equipment, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, health factors, smoke effects, US Forest Service, Washington, wilderness areas
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Southern
Keywords: bibliographies, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire case histories, fire management, firefighting personnel, forest management, general interest, Georgia, grasslands, health factors, landscape ecology, light burning, logging, natural resource legislation, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, public information, rangelands, smoke management, Smokey Bear program, thinning, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire equipment, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, general interest, landscape ecology, liability, logging, National Fire Plan, national forests, national parks, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, private lands, public information, roads, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, thinning, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
The native tobacco, Nicotiana attenuata, synchronizes its germination with the immediate post-fire environment with a combination of germination stimulants found in wood smoke and inhibitors from the unburned litter of the dominant vegetation. The inhibitors override the…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Great Basin, International
Keywords: post fire recovery, smoke effects, litter, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, Nicotiana attenuata, tobacco, Germany, Netherlands, Europe, Utah, smoke management, Nicotiana attenuata, secondary dormancy, abscisic acid, gibberellic acid, fluridone, methyl jasmonate, bornane-2, 5-dione
Until the end of July 1977, the fires in the forested and brush-covered land of California had been fewer than expected. The summer fire season was well along, and with less than average acreage burned, protection agencies were encouraged. Then a series of events dramatically…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: chaparral, droughts, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, lightning caused fires, national forests, northern California, smoke effects, southern California, topography, wind
From the text ... 'Some things we don't ever want to see again: a crew going down toward a control road and encountering such a black wall of flame and smoke across the trail that they had to turn around and go back to a very inappropriate place where they had to take a stand.…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Planning, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: Arizona, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, hardwood forests, national forests, pine forests, Washington, wildfires
From the text ... 'On the Dude Fire Staff Ride tomorrow, we will retrace the steps of people who were under pressure. Some of those people handled pressure well. Some didn't. For a richer understanding of the Dude Fire, we should focus on what happens when people are overcome by…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: Arizona, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, hardwood forests, pine forests, rate of spread, smoke effects, Washington, wildfires
Biomass combustion is an important primary source of particles with adsorbed biomarker compounds in the global atmosphere. The introduction of natural product organic compounds into smoke occurs primarily by direct volatilization/steam stripping and by thermal alteration based…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, cellulose, chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, coniferous forests, conifers, hardwood forests, heat effects, hydrocarbons, Larix, lignin, organic matter, particulates, peat, Picea, pine forests, Pinus, pollution, potash, K - potassium, Pseudotsuga, recreation related fires, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, statistical analysis, temperature, Tsuga mertensiana, volatilization, wildfires, woody plants
From the text...'It was my observation then that local residents demonstrated little interest in fuel hazard reduction near their homes unless a fire had ocurred recently and nearby. Sadly, as a member of the Berkely Fire Safety Commission from 1992 to 2001, I found that the…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel appraisal, smoke effects, wildfires
A study was performed at two air tanker/retardant bases to determine the mixmaster's exposure to dust derived from mixing dry fire retardant compounds. Personal sampling for both inhalable and respirable dust was conducted while the mixmaster mixed fire retardant compounds to…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: aerosols, chemical compounds, dust, fire management, fire retardants, fire suppression, hydrogen, Idaho, Montana, particulates, sampling, wildfires
A likely causal chain is established here that connects humidity in the stratosphere, relative humidity near the tropical tropopause, ice crystal size in towering cumulus clouds, and aerosols associated with tropical biomass burning. The connections are revealed in satellite-…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, biomass, gases, humidity, moisture, ozone, particulates, temperature, water
From the summary ... 'The basic routes leading to product formation in fires are identified and involve the thermal and thermal oxidative decomposition of the polymeric material. These products are released into the relatively mobile atmosphere of the fire where further…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical elements, combustion, decomposition, experimental fires, laboratory fires, pollution
From the text: 'In my opinion, professional foresters should be working much harder to get the facts across on prescribed burning because if we don't I feel forest management could suffer from restrictive rules or laws, both at the State and Federal level. There are still some…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conservation, education, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, hardwoods, invasive species, liability, pine forests, public information, smoke management, Smokey Bear program
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: chaparral, fire equipment, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire protection, fuel appraisal, fuel management, fuel models, fuel types, logging, site treatments, smoke management
From Summary and Conclusions: '1. There are several different types of forest fires, each with distinct sets of emission characteristics. Emission factors for combustion products vary widely with fire behavior and fuel conditions. Whenever possible they should be expressed as…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Southern, Southwest, International
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, backing fires, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, fire management, fire protection, forest management, fuel management, gases, headfires, hydrocarbons, logging, CH4 - methane, New Mexico, organic matter, particulates, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus taeda, residence time, smoke management, water, wildfires
From the text: 'After working in both air quality management and fuel management for the past two years, I am convinced that the two programs are compatible. We, as fire managers, should look upon air quality objectives and standards in the same light that we work with water…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, 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, fire protection, fuel management, health factors, light, multiple resource management, national parks, natural resource legislation, pollution, smoke management, water, water quality, wilderness areas
'The control aspects of fire management from the hand raked fireline to the maintained firebreak can produce form, line, color & texture contrasts. Just as these contrasts can produce undesirable results, they can be used productively. It should be obvious by now that…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, fire control, fire management, fire protection, firebreaks, land management, landscape ecology, smoke effects
From the text: 'To summarize we must put more emphasis on prescribed burning; must insure accountability; step up training in techniques and smoke management; make sure there's fire management direction in land use plans and look for new techniques and procedures.'
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, fire protection, land use, smoke management
From the text: 'And, finally, I foresee a balanced fire management program. We do not want to lose our perspective. Aggressive fire control has not lost its importance. Fire readiness is a must. We will continue to have numerous fires in the foreseeable future. We must prevent…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: education, fire control, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, land management, land use, public information, smoke management