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Predicting fuel consumption by fire stages to reduce smoke from slash fires

[From the Summary] The development and field testing of fuel-consumption algorithms to predict woody-fuel and duff consumption by combustion stage for prescribed fires in western Washington and Oregon is nearing completion. The total woody-fuel consumption nomograph requires one…
Person:
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fuel consumption, algorithms, woody fuel consumption, duff consumption, Oregon, Washington, fuel moisture, flaming consumption, combustion stage

Detection of forest-fire smoke plumes by satellite imagery

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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, pollution, remote sensing, wildfires

Use of fire in land management

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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, fire management, grasslands, human caused fires, land management, recreation, savannas, shrublands, watershed management, wildlife habitat management

Opportunistic feeding by White-tailed Hawks at prescribed burns

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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Asio flammeus, birds, Buteo albicaudatus, Caracara cheriway, Cathartes aura, Circus cyaneus, Elanus caeruleus, Falco sparverius, fire intensity, grasslands, predation, raptors, Texas, wetlands, wildlife food habits, wildlife refuges

Flame retardants and particulate from wood fires

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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire intensity, fire retardants, laboratory fires, particulates, site treatments, slash, smoke management, wood

Wildfire smoke conditions: interior Alaska

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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, Interior Alaska, wildfires

Fungitoxicity of smoke

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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, Calocedrus decurrens, Colletotrichum trifolii, conifers, Erysiphe graminis, Fomes annosus, fungi, Fusarium, Fusarium solani, Hordeum, laboratory fires, plant diseases, plant growth, Pythium, Pythium ultimum, Rhizoctonia solani, roots, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, seedlings, smoke effects, statistical analysis, toxicity, Triticum sativum

Effects of fire on nutrient movement in a South Carolina pine forest

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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: litter, nutrient cycling, particulates, phosphate, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus taeda, precipitation, runoff, soil leaching, soil nutrients, South Carolina, volatilization

Prescribed fire's environmental impact: an assessment

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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel loading, particulates, smoke management, weather observations

The smoke management research and development program at the Southern Forest Fire Laboratory

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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, dead fuels, fuel moisture, headfires, live fuels, particulates, pine forests, smoke management, wildfires

Pollutants emitted by prescribed burning and wildfires in the forest

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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, dead fuels, fuel moisture, headfires, live fuels, particulates, pine forests, pollution, smoke management, wildfires

Quantity and quality of smoke produced by southern fuels in prescribed burning operations

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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, hydrocarbons, Ilex glabra, laboratory fires, Liquidambar styraciflua, particulates, pine forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus taeda, Quercus laevis, Serenoa repens, understory vegetation

Ozone measurements in smoke from forest fires

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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Australia, carbon dioxide, chemistry, decay, eucalyptus, fire intensity, fuel appraisal, fuel types, gases, light, litter, ozone, rural communities, sampling, site treatments, smoke effects, trees

Fire - its impact on the environment

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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, general interest, public information, soils, water quality, wildfires, wildlife

Prescribed fire [Chapter 10]

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Year: 1984
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, firing techniques, site treatments, smoke management

Impact of harvesting on forest environments and resources: a review of the literature and evaluation of research needs

This review summarizes the available literature relevant to British Columbia concerning the influences of harvesting and post-harvest practices upon the forest environment and resources, and points out significant gaps in knowledge where research would be useful. This will aid…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., aesthetics, air quality, bibliographies, British Columbia, Canada, coniferous forests, decay, disturbance, fishes, forest management, hardwood forests, hydrology, logging, microclimate, Picea, pine forests, Pinus contorta, plant growth, recreation, regeneration, roads, runoff, seed germination, seedlings, slash, soil erosion, soil organisms, soils, succession, watershed management, wildlife

Smoke and heat: influence on seedling emergence from the germinable soil seed bank of mesic grassland in South Africa

We examined if germination and seedling emergence of species from the soil seed bank of mesic grassland in South Africa differed in their response to smoke or heat treatments alone or combined. Soil seed bank samples taken from 0 to 5 cm depth of the topsoil were treated with…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat effects, smoke effects, biomass, forbs, grasses, mesic soils, plant growth, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, Asteraceae, Centella asiatica, Poaceae, Themeda triandra, South Africa, Africa, fire management, range management, soil management, smoke management, grasslands, biomass, fire-associated cues, growth indicators, seedling growth, Themeda triandra Forssk

Measurement of particulate emissions from forest residues in open burning experiments

'A program of burning experiments was carried out to assess the air pollutant emmissions potential of forest residues in the Pacific Norhtwest. Only the fine fuel component of slash fuelbeds was considered. Ponderosa pine slash, Douglas-fir slash with needles, and Douglas-fir…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, air temperature, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, combustion, coniferous forests, field experimental fires, fine fuels, fire intensity, fire management, fire retardants, flammability, fuel appraisal, fuel arrangement, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, humidity, hydrocarbons, ignition, laboratory fires, live fuels, logging, needles, old growth forests, particulates, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, second growth forests, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, understory vegetation, Washington, wildfires, wind

Seed germination cues and the importance of the soil seed bank across an environmental gradient in the Serengeti

Soil seed banks are an important source of new individuals for many plant populations and contribute to future genetic variability. In general, the size and persistence of soil seed banks is predicted to be greater where growth occurs in unpredictable pulses, where opportunities…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, heat effects, smoke effects, wildfires, disturbance, grasses, national parks, precipitation, seed dormancy, seed germination, statistical analysis, Tanzania, Africa, fire management, forest management, savannas

Impact of the 2009 Attica wild fires on the air quality in urban Athens

At the end of August 2009, wild fires ravaged the north-eastern fringes of Athens destroying invaluable forest wealth of the Greek capital. In this work, the impact of these fires on the air quality of Athens and surface radiation levels is examined. Satellite imagery, smoke…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire case histories, fire frequency, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, pollution, radiation, remote sensing, Greece, Europe, fire management, smoke management, pollution, biomass burning, aerosol, photochemistry, radiation

Emission factors for PCDD/PCDF and dl-PCB from open burning of biomass

The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants includes in its aims the minimisation of unintentional releases of polychlorinated dibenzo-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/PCDF) and dioxin like PCB (dl-PCB) to the environment. Development and implementation of policies…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, cropland fires, wildfires, air quality, ash, pollution, toxicity, fire management, forest management, smoke management, croplands, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDF - polychlorinated dibenzofurans, persistent organic pollutants, sugarcane burning, forest fires, biomass burning

Forest fires and resuspension of radionuclides into the atmosphere

Problem statement: Forest fires are especially frequent around the Mediterranean Sea basin in the summer period and might be able to release naturally-occurring and man-made radionuclides from plant biomass and inject them into the atmosphere. The impact of this radioactivity on…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: radionuclides, polonium, Mediterranean, radioactivity, forest fires, atmospheric deposition, PM - particulate matter, cigarettes

Fire-related traits in Mediterranean Basin plants

Fire is a frequent and severe disturbance that affects plants on large scales, especially in Mediterranean-type ecosystems (MTE). Plants have evolved traits that confer resilience to fire and other disturbances, ensuring their persistence in fire-prone systems, but MTE floras…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire adaptations (plants), fire regimes, fire resistant plants, flammability, wildfires, disturbance, resprouting, serotiny, seed dormancy, seed germination, Middle East, fire management, forest management, Mediterranean habitats, plant adaptive traits, flammability, germination, lignotuber, resprouting, serotiny

Risk of respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalisation with exposure to bushfire particulates: new evidence from Darwin, Australia

The risk of hospitalisation from bushfire exposure events in Darwin, Australia, is examined. Several local studies have found evidence for the effects of exposure to bushfire particulates on respiratory and cardiovascular hospital admissions. They have characterised the risk of…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, health factors, particulates, pollution, Northern Territory of Australia, Australia, fire management, forest management, particulates, bush fires, cardiovascular and respiratory hospital admissions, health risk

Organic speciation of aerosols from wildfires in central Portugal during summer 2009

The aim of this study was the detailed organic speciation of fine (PM2.5) and coarse (PM2.5-10) particles and gaseous carbonyl compounds from plumes emitted by wildfires during the summer of 2009 in Portugal. Complementary characterisation of the smoke particulate inorganic…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire case histories, fire frequency, smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, gases, particulates, Portugal, Europe, fire management, forest management, smoke management, wildfires, trace gases, particulate matter, emission factors, organic speciation