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The US Forest Service, Missoula Technology and Development Center (MTDC) evaluated several commercially available, optical, real-time, particulate monitors to provide forest managers, fire and air quality specialists information for use of these monitors in environments…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, biomass, forest management, forest types, health factors, land management, particulates, rangelands, smoke management, US Forest Service, wildfires
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
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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
Following a survey of forest homeowners in rural Michigan to assess the value of reducing the risk of damage from wildfires at the wildland-urban interface, focus-group discussions were conducted with a subset of survey participants to learn about their perceptions concerning…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, brush, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, Dendroica kirtlandii, education, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, ignition, landscape ecology, Michigan, nongame birds, Pinus banksiana, private lands, public information, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, fire management, fire risk assessment, focus groups, Mack Lake Fire