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From the text ... 'Smoke from wild and prescribed fire has been an increasing concern in public health and safety over the last few decades. The Georgia Forestry Commission (GFC) encourages safe use of fire on firest lands in Georgia and provides a number of smoke management…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel types, Georgia, smoke management, understory vegetation, wildfires, wind
Germination of freshly collected seeds of three sympatric herbaceous species native to fire-prone environments in south-western Australia was significantly improved through the application of novel combinations of dry heat, gibberellic acid, smoke water and dry afterripening.…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: age classes, Australia, fire management, fire sensitive plants, germination, heat, humidity, moisture, Poaceae, seed dormancy, seed germination, seed moisture, seeds, smoke management, soil moisture, Stylidium, water, western Australia, afterripening, dormancy, germination, moisture content, seeds
Biomass burning is significant to emission estimates because: (1) it can be a major contributor of particulate matter and other pollutants; (2) it is one of the most poorly documented of all sources; (3) it can adversely affect human health; and (4) it has been identified as a…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, biomass, biomass burning, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, forest management, fuel loading, GIS, national parks, Oregon, ozone, particulates, pollution, private lands, radiation, range management, rangelands, remote sensing, smoke management, wildfires, biomass burning, remote sensing, area burned, Environmental Protection Agency, climate change, Arizona and Oregon
Smoke from fire is a local, regional and often international issue that is growing in complexity as competition for airshed resources increases. BlueSky is a smoke modeling framework designed to help address this problem by enabling simulations of the cumulative smoke impacts…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky, British Columbia, Canada, Cascades Range, competition, cropland fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fuel loading, fuel management, Idaho, land management, Montana, Oregon, remote sensing, smoke management, Washington, wildfires, BlueSky Modeling Framework, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team
This paper presents an operational approach to predicting fire growth for wildland fires in Canada. The approach addresses data assimilation to provide predictions in a timely and efficient manner. Fuels and elevation grids, forecast weather, and active fire locations are…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Alberta, Canada, cover, elevation, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire growth, fire management, fire size, forest management, fuel management, fuel types, ignition, national parks, Northwest Territories, remote sensing, Saskatchewan, temperature, wildfires, wind, wood, fire detection, fire-growth modelling, Wood Buffalo National Park
Recent IPCC projections suggest that Africa will be subject to particularly severe changes in atmospheric conditions. How the vegetation of Africa and particularly the grassland-savanna-forest complex will respond to these changes has rarely been investigated. Most studies on…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, biomass, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, deserts, distribution, disturbance, fertilization, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel moisture, grasslands, phenology, physiology, rainforests, range management, roots, savannas, statistical analysis, suppression, temperature, vegetation surveys, adaptive vegetation modelling, aDGVM - Adaptive Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, Africa, climate change, demographic model, DGVM - Dynamic Global Vegetation Model, process-based model, savanna, vegetation distribution
The Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system has been used by the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and Bureaus of the Department of the Interior since 2006 to evaluate wildfire potential across all administrative units in the continental US, and to…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, forest management, forest products, fuel accumulation, fuel management, Healthy Forests Restoration Act, landscape ecology, national forests, season of fire, surface fires, vegetation surveys, wildfires, decision support, landscape analysis, fire danger, fuels management, forest restoration
Historical range of variation (HRV) has been used as a conceptual tool to determine appropriate management actions to sustain or restore diversity of ecological systems. This concept has come into question for both biological and social considerations, and the southeastern…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: cavity nesting birds, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, disturbance, fine fuels, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, forest fragmentation, forest management, fragmentation, fuel management, game birds, Georgia, grasslands, histories, human caused fires, Jones Ecological Research Center, land use, logging, low intensity burns, Native Americans, nongame birds, Picoides borealis, pine, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, savannas, soil management, species diversity (plants), threatened and endangered species (animals), understory vegetation, wetlands, disturbances, fire regimes, historical, future range of variability, legacies, rareness, social acceptability, species richness
This article reviews major impacts of climate change on agriculture and forestry. © INRA, EDP Sciences, 2009.
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, croplands, Denmark, droughts, Europe, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, forest management, fuel loading, fuel types, human caused fires, phenology, plant growth, precipitation, season of fire, soils, temperature, water, wildfires, climate change, agriculture, forestry, growing season, crop yield, frost damage, phenology, flowering, crop cycle, temperature, SOWING DATE, grapevine, maize, wheat, water demand, irrigation, drought, carbon cycle, fire danger
The objective of this study was to evaluate how competition would affect the physiology, and thus productivity of American beautyberry (Callicarpa americana L.), wax myrtle [Morella cerifera (L.) Small] and inkberry [Ilex glabra (L.) A. Gray] when intercropped in a longleaf pine…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, biomass, Callicarpa, Callicarpa americana, competition, diameter classes, fire dependent species, Florida, forest management, gases, Ilex glabra, light, longleaf pine, moisture, Morella cerifera, mortality, native species (plants), photosynthesis, physiology, pine, Pinus palustris, population density, roots, shrubs, soil management, soil moisture, statistical analysis, intercropping, longleaf pine, ornamentals, woody florals, competition, physiology
Fire, natural or of anthropologic origin, is a recurrent phenomenon in South African mesic grassland. The species composition of these grasslands is sensitive to fire, particularly fire frequency. However, the mechanisms involved in influencing species composition are not fully…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, Aristida, chemical compounds, fire frequency, fire management, fire sensitive plants, germination, grasses, grasslands, human caused fires, Hyparrhenia, Hyparrhenia hirta, Panicum, Panicum maximum, Poaceae, post fire recovery, range management, regeneration, roots, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, South Africa, temperature, Themeda, Themeda triandra, Tristachya, vegetation surveys, wildfires, butenolide, germination, grassland species, seedling vigor, smoke-water, temperature
From the text ... 'Long before humans arrived in America, forests relied on fire. Many forest ecosystems evolved with fire and continue to rely on it to reduce dense underbrush, restore nutrients to the soil, and provide important wildlife habitat. In recent decades, people…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: cavity nesting birds, Colinus virginianus, conservation, cover, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forage, forest management, forest types, fuel accumulation, game birds, Gopherus polyphemus, ground cover, hardwoods, herbaceous vegetation, insects, Meleagris gallopavo, mosaic, nesting, nutrients, Picoides borealis, pine, plant growth, population density, public information, regeneration, reptiles, savannas, season of fire, smoke management, succession, suppression, thinning, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wildlife habitat management
Renewable energy sources are expected to represent a growing proportion of the primary energy sources for the production of electricity. Environmental and social reasons support this tendency. European and Spanish energy plans assign a role of primary importance to biomass in…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, biomass, carbon dioxide, energy, Europe, fire frequency, fire management, flammability, forest management, fuel models, fuel types, population density, scrub, shrublands, Spain, wildfires, external effects, CO2 emissions, employment, energy dependence, forest fires, Spain
Prescribed burning has been used by the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation (DPR) since 1974 to reduce hazardous fuel loads, to restore/maintain specific habitats, and to preserve rare species populations within state parks, recreation areas, and natural areas.…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coastal plain, education, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, Georgia, liability, mountains, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, Piedmont, pine hardwood forests, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, recreation, savannas, South Carolina, state parks, Virginia, wildfires, fire-dependent communities, interagency burn team, state parks and natural areas
Relative to the western United States, where fire and fuel management programs have received greater emphasis, few community-based studies have focused on the Great Lakes region. The present paper describes public opinion research from counties surrounding National Forests in…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: age classes, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel management, Great Lakes, insects, lakes, Michigan, Minnesota, national forests, population density, public information, recreation, site treatments, thinning, US Forest Service, water quality, windthrows, Wisconsin, citizen-agency interactions, fuels reduction, public confidence, social acceptance
We evaluate the fine-grain age patch model of fire regimes in southern California shrublands. Proponents contend that the historical condition was characterized by frequent small to moderate size, slow-moving smoldering fires, and that this regime has been disrupted by fire…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: age classes, BEHAVE, chaparral, distribution, droughts, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firebrands, flammability, Foehn winds, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, ignition, mosaic, range management, scrub, shrublands, southern California, suppression, wildfires, wind, 19th century, Baja California, chaparral, fine-grain age patch mosaic, high-intensity fires, megafires, sage scrub, Santa Ana winds
Central Chile differs from other areas with Mediterranean-type climate by the scarcity of natural wildfires. The Chilean matorral is highly invaded by alien plant species from other Mediterranean zones of the world, where natural, recurrent wildfires have been one of their…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Chile, experimental fires, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, grasslands, human caused fires, invasive species, litter, low intensity burns, Mediterranean habitats, microclimate, native species (plants), overstory, plant growth, population density, post fire recovery, range management, regeneration, sampling, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, shrublands, shrubs, soils, South America, surface fires, trees, wildfires, exotic plants, fuel heterogeneity, heat, Mediterranean shrublands
From the text ... 'While most of today's longleaf forests are found on public lands, having grown back from forests cut in the early 20th century, private landowners are taking a new look at the longleaf pine's drought-resistant qualities. A quiet longleaf revival is beginning…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: age classes, Aristida stricta, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, flowering, forest management, gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, grasses, ground cover, hardwood forests, hardwoods, insects, invasive species, keystone species, logging, longleaf pine, mortality, Native Americans, native species (plants), needles, north Florida, old growth forests, pine forests, pine, Pinus palustris, private lands, rate of spread, recreation, reptiles, sandhills, season of fire, seed production, seedlings, smoke effects, streams, understory vegetation, watershed management, watersheds, wildlife habitat management
The revision of FOFEM, a national fire effects model, is described. FOFEM 5.0 will incorporate the predictions of fuel consumption, tree mortality and smoke production along with the addition of soil heating and an updated user interface. The revised version of FOFEM will model…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, computer programs, cover, cover type, crown fires, fire injuries (plants), fire management, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel management, heat, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, mortality, overstory, soils, surface fires, understory vegetation, BURNUP
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…
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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
A comprehensive investigation of Canadian boreal forest fires was conducted using NOAA-AVHRR imagery. Algorithms were developed to (1) detect active forest fires, (2) map burned areas on daily and annual basis, and (3) estimate fire emissions based on burned area and Canadian…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Alberta, boreal forests, Canada, carbon dioxide, cover, croplands, crown fires, digital data collection, droughts, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasslands, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Northwest Territories, Ontario, radiation, remote sensing, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, surface fires, wetlands, boreal forest, burned area, DIGITAL FUEL TYPE, FIRE PIXEL, FIRE DETENTION ALGORITHM, FLOWCHARTS, fuel consumption
Current space-borne sensor systems can be used to generate products of fire susceptibility using time-series of vegetation state, the occurrence and rough location of active fires using middle and thermal infrared sensors and smoke and area burned using visible, near and middle…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: digital data collection, Europe, fire management, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel arrangement, Germany, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, national parks, photography, radiation, remote sensing, temperature, hot events on earth, forest fires, fire recognition from space, detection algorithms, BIRD - Bi-spectral Infra-Red Detection, fire detection, INTELLIGENT INFRARED SEASOR PROTOTYPE FOCUS, mid infrared, MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer), SWIR - Short Wave Infra-Red
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…
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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
Smoke may present the most intractable barrier of all to implementing more enlightened fire management. The benefits of a prescribed fire program can only be realized if the public and regulatory agencies agree that the air quality impacts are acceptable. Currently, land…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, computer programs, duff, fire management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, moisture, North Carolina, organic soils, ozone, particulates, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, wind
Needs for analytical tools, the roles existing tools play, the processes they represent, and how they might interact are elements of key findings generated during a workshop held in Seattle February 17-18, 1999. The workshop was attended by 26 Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP)…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: catastrophic fires, computer programs, digital data collection, diseases, disturbance, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fuel accumulation, fuel inventory, fuel management, fuel models, grasses, Idaho, ignition, insects, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, mosaic, multiple resource management, overstory, rate of spread, shrubs, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, snags, soils, surface fuels, understory vegetation, wildlife habitat management