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1. The South and Middle American tropics contain the world's largest area of moist savanna. Despite an apparent uniformity in appearance, floristic groupings can be detected and four zones are provisionally outlined with a number of characteristic plants.2. Although currect…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, biogeography, biomass, Brazil, Central America, cerrado, deciduous forests, drainage, Europe, fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, grasslands, land use, Mexico, mosaic, paleoecology, range management, reproduction, savannas, scrub, soil nutrients, South America, species diversity (plants), temperature, topography, neotropical savannas, biogeographical zones, cerrados, plant diversity, palaeoecology, topography, drainage, soil nutrients
BLM/NIFC/RSFWSU will provide a sesion revealing some of the current and past remote sensing involvements within the wildfire area. State of the art electronic sensing methods and devices will be displayed. Several data telemetry options available will also be covered in the…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Brazil, energy, fire control, fire management, fire suppression, humidity, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, radiation, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke management, soils, South America, suppression, telemetry, weather observations, wildfires, wind, weather station, Spanish language
This paper describes the importance of the use of climate information in the decision-making process for fuels treatments. It is argued that historical climate data and climate forecasts are useful tools for fuels treatment scheduling, in addition to the actual treatment…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, distribution, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, flammability, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, climate change, histories, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, mortality, precipitation, site treatments, smoke management, soil moisture, statistical analysis, Texas, thinning, Utah, wildfires, fuels treatments, climate information, climate variability, climate forecasts, accountability in decision-making, climate prediction models, oceanography, PDSI - Palmer Drought Severity Index
Land managers are increasingly implementing strategies that employ the use of fire in prescribed burns to sustain ecosystems and plan to sustain the rate of increase in its use over the next five years. In planning and executing expanded use of fire in wildland treatment, it is…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, catastrophic fires, chemical compounds, combustion, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, gases, health factors, human caused fires, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, lightning caused fires, Native Americans, particulates, shrublands, sloping terrain, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, statistical analysis, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind, smoldering combustion, FIREPLUME, air quality, wildland fires, plume rise, Monte Carlo, dispersion model, Lagrangian, smoke management plans, EPM - Emissions Production Model
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed an initiative for a National Wildfire Prediction Program. The program will provide guidance for fire managers throughout the country, assisting them to efficiently use limited fire-fighting…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Southwest, International
Keywords: catastrophic fires, computer programs, digital data collection, fire control, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, fuel accumulation, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, light, Los Alamos, New Mexico, physics, smoke behavior, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildfire, prediction, firefighting, NWPP - National Wildfire Prediction Program
The workshop began with the workshop facilitator, Neil Sampson, summarizing 17 invited papers presented on the opening day of the conference. These papers provided a state-of-the-science overview of pre-selected topics including Overview (3 papers), GIS and Remote Sensing…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, computer programs, erosion, Europe, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fuel appraisal, fuel models, GIS, grasslands, health factors, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, landscape ecology, overstory, remote sensing, shrublands, site treatments, smoke effects, soils, South America, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, United Kingdom, decision tools, dissemination of information, GLOBAL STUDIES
A method of composing vegetation fuel maps (VF maps) at medium scale is explained along with the purpose of such maps. A vegetation fuel VF map for the Lake Baikal basin has been created as an example of using this method.
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Abies spp., air temperature, Betula, bogs, combustion, dead fuels, diameter classes, distribution, droughts, duff, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasses, ground fires, heat, humus, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, lakes, Larix occidentalis, leaves, lichens, litter, mosses, mountains, needles, overstory, Picea, Pinus, population density, Populus, rhododendron, rocky habitats, Russia, season of fire, seedlings, shrubs, Siberia, slash, snags, soils, stand characteristics, topography, tundra, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind, prime conductors of burning, vegetation fuel map, current forest fire danger map, dew point, drought index, drought severity class, HETEROGENEITY OF FUEL CONDITIONS, saplings, steppe, VEGETATION PYROLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
The Satellite Services Division (SSD) of NOAA*s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) processes and analyzes data from the nation*s environmental satellites and several other satellites. The Division*s Satellite Analysis Branch (SAB) issues…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, Asia, Brazil, Central America, digital data collection, droughts, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, Florida, Idaho, Indonesia, Japan, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Mexico, ozone, remote sensing, smoke behavior, South America, suppression, INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
In 1988, nearly half a million hectares of forest burned in the Greater Yellowstone Area. Six years later, the burned areas were still visible in the dual-polarization radar images acquired by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar C (SIR-C) at both C- (5.6 cm wavelength) and L-band (24…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, biomass, catastrophic fires, char, community ecology, coniferous forests, cover, crowns, digital data collection, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire management, fire scar analysis, flammability, GIS, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, lightning caused fires, moisture, mosaic, national parks, needles, old growth forests, overstory, Picea engelmannii, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, plant physiology, post fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, regeneration, remote sensing, rocky habitats, statistical analysis, succession, understory vegetation, wildfires, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, Landsat
One of the main problems is the strategic and operative prediction of wildland fire risks in Siberia. It requires the elaboration of a geoinformation expert system to predict emergency situations causing large wildland fires. The process for developing this system consists of…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: backfires, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, duff, Europe, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire intensity, fire management, flame length, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel inventory, fuel management, GIS, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, lakes, landscape ecology, litter, peat, rate of spread, rivers, Russia, season of fire, Siberia, smoke behavior, storms, streams, surface fires, vegetation surveys, vortices, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind, REGIONAL FUEL MAPS, steppe fires
Seasonal tropospheric distributions of ozone, carbon monoxide and aerosols and their relationship with sources over southern Africa are compared for two airborne sampling campaigns during southern hemisphere spring 1992 (SAFARI-92) and autumn 1994 (SAFARI-94). Average trace gas…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, season of fire, smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, ozone, South Africa, Africa, fire management, forest management, smoke management
Timber harvesting residues have typically been burned within coniferous forest areas of the eastern Cascade Mountains of Washington State. Concerns about air pollution and quantities of coarse woody debris have generated interest in alternative residue treatments that will clear…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, air temperature, broadcast burning, Cascades Range, clearcutting, coniferous forests, fire hazard reduction, forest management, logging, low intensity burns, microclimate, mountains, Pinus contorta, plant growth, pollution, Pseudotsuga, Pseudotsuga menziesii, season of fire, seedlings, site treatments, slash, soil temperature, soils, temperature, Washington
Stand-replacing prescribed fires are recommended to regenerate stands of Table Mountain pine (Pinus pungens) in the southern Appalachian Mountains because the species has serotinous cones and its seedlings require abundant sunlight and a thin forest floor. A 350-hectare…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Acer rubrum, Appalachian Mountains, backing fires, Carya, catastrophic fires, cones, coniferous forests, crown fires, Dendroctonus frontalis, duff, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, Georgia, hardwood forests, human caused fires, Kalmia latifolia, lightning caused fires, litter, mesic soils, mineral soils, mountains, Nyssa sylvatica, overstory, Oxydendrum arboreum, Pinus pungens, Pinus rigida, population density, post fire recovery, Quercus prinus, regeneration, roots, Sassafras albidum, seed dispersal, seedlings, serotiny, shrubs, site treatments, smoke management, soil management, stand characteristics, trees, understory vegetation, fire intensity, Pinus pungens, southern Appalachian Mountains, Table Mountain pine
From the text...'On April 27, 1999, approximately 7 acres in the 2360-acre Albany Pine Bush in upstate New York were selected for a prescribed burn...At approximately 2:15 PM, about 80% of the unit had burned. An easterly wind gust caused Line 2's backing/flank fire to turn into…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: backing fires, fire control, fire exclusion, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, flank fires, Gaylussacia baccata, headfires, ignition, New York, overstory, pine barrens, pine, Pinus rigida, Quercus ilicifolia, smoke management, spot fires, wind
From the text...'The number one problem facing wildlife species today is loss of habitat. Subdivisions, industrial development, agriculture, golf courses, shopping centers, etc., continue to take away valuable wildlife habitat that can't be replaced. Wildlife are continually…
Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, Agrostis alba, Andropogon gerardii, backing fires, Cassia, Dactylis glomerata, energy, Festuca, fine fuels, fire exclusion, firebreaks, forage, forbs, fuel management, fuel moisture, grasses, herbicides, humidity, Kentucky, legumes, Lespedeza, lightning caused fires, Medicago sativa, moisture, mowing, native species (plants), nesting, old growth forests, Panicum virgatum, Phleum, roads, savannas, season of fire, smoke management, Sorghastrum nutans, tallgrass prairies, threatened and endangered species (animals), tillage, trees, Trifolium repens, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind
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Person:
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest, International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air quality, Arizona, Australia, biomass, chemistry, decay, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, energy, erosion, fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire sensitive plants, grasslands, grazing, humidity, hunting, ignition, lightning caused fires, litter, mineral soils, minerals, nutrient cycling, overstory, perennial plants, plant communities, pollution, post fire recovery, predation, presettlement vegetation, rangelands, savannas, soils, species diversity (plants), water, wildfires, woody plants
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: age classes, biomass, Canada, charcoal, computer programs, dendrochronology, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire scar analysis, fire size, climate change, heat, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, mosaic, remote sensing, sedimentation, vegetation surveys, wildfires
The Environmental Protection Agency has reported fine particles, 2.5 microns or smaller in size (
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, forest types, health factors, national forests, smoke management, South Carolina, wildfires, wind
Forest fuel loads are unnaturally high in the Sierra Nevada. The US Forest Service is currently preparing a prescribed fire program to reduce fuels in the region. Modeling, both short-term and long-term, direct and cumulative impacts to rural communities meets Federal mandates…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, axis, distribution, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, forest types, fuel loading, national forests, Nevada, rural communities, Sierra Nevada, smoke effects, smoke management, topography, US Forest Service
From Web Document, Executive Summary... ' Premise This strategy is based on the premise that sustainable resources are predicated on healthy, resilient ecosystems. In fire-adapted ecosystems, some measure of fire use - at appropriate intensity, frequency, and time of year -…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, arthropods, catastrophic fires, coastal forests, Colorado, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, diseases, disturbance, droughts, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, fishes, flammability, floods, Florida, forest management, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, grasslands, health factors, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, light burning, logging, Montana, multiple resource management, national forests, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, rangelands, recreation, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, species diversity, stand characteristics, streamflow, Texas, threatened and endangered species, topography, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, Utah, Washington, water quality, watersheds, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, Wyoming
From the Executive Summary... 'Purpose: National forests of the dry, interior portion of the western United States that are managed by the Department of Agriculture*s Forest Service have undergone significant changes over the last century and a half, becoming much denser, with…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, arthropods, catastrophic fires, coastal forests, Colorado, coniferous forests, crown fires, diseases, disturbance, droughts, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, fishes, flammability, floods, forest management, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, health factors, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, light burning, logging, Montana, multiple resource management, national forests, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, rangelands, recreation, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, species diversity, stand characteristics, streamflow, Texas, topography, trees, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, Utah, Washington, water, water quality, watersheds, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, Wyoming
From the text ... 'Removing American Indians from the land effectively ended wildland burning practices that had lasted for millennia. ...The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management together administer several hundred million acres of grassland and other grazing land where…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, 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: aesthetics, air quality, artificial regeneration, clearcutting, cover type conversion, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, floods, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, grasslands, grazing, health factors, hydrology, land management, liability, lightning caused fires, logging, low intensity burns, mosaic, national forests, Native Americans, old growth forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, plant growth, prairies, presettlement vegetation, savannas, season of fire, shrublands, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, soil nutrients, succession, thinning, US Forest Service, vegetation surveys, Washington, wilderness fire management, wildlife habitat management
Atmospheric composition, local climate and sapling gas exchange were monitored to assess the short-term effects of smoke-haze from the 1997 Indonesian forest fires. Atmospheric concentrations of particulate matter, SO2, CO, CH4 and CO2, and relative humidity were elevated, and…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, carbon dioxide, deforestation, fire case histories, fire management, forest management, humidity, Indonesia, native species (plants), particulates, photosynthesis, pollution, radiation, seedlings, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, S - sulfur, temperature, tropical forests, wildfires, aerosols, Borneo, particulate matter, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, tree species, tropical deforestation
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: adaptation, agriculture, air quality, backfires, biomass, blowups, broadcast burning, brush, catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, croplands, crown fires, crowns, dead fuels, decay, decomposition, droughts, erosion, experimental fires, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire protection, fire retardants, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, grasses, grazing, heavy fuels, histories, human caused fires, hunting, Idaho, ignition, incendiary fires, insects, invasive species, land use, leaves, lightning caused fires, live fuels, livestock, logging, minerals, mining, Montana, mortality, national forests, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, needles, New Mexico, overstory, particulates, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, prescribed fires (escaped), private lands, public information, range management, salvage, season of fire, sedimentation, seed dispersal, site treatments, size classes, slash, sloping terrain, Smokey Bear program, soils, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, thinning, trees, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, water quality, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wind, Wisconsin, woody fuels, Yellowstone National Park, appropriations, Cerro Grande Fire, disaster relief funding, FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency, forest and rangeland health, fuel ladder, glassificatrion, insurance, roles and responsibilities, stewardship, slurry, slurry bombers
This paper discusses the overall effects fire has on the carbon budget of boreal forests Studies on using the boreal forest as a means to sequester carbon have not adequately accounted for these effects, Among other approaches, it has been suggested that suppression of fire in…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, carbon accumulation, carbon budget, carbon sequestration, carbon storage, climate change, biogenic emissions