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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, Beadel, H.L., boreal forests, browse, catastrophic fires, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, community ecology, competition, coniferous forests, conifers, crown fires, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, European settlement, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, flammability, Florida, forbs, fuel accumulation, fuel types, game birds, grazing, ground cover, habitat types, hardwoods, herbivory, humidity, Komarek, E.V., Sr., land management, Leopold, Aldo, lightning caused fires, Meleagris gallopavo, mosaic, multiple resource management, nitrogen fixation, North Carolina, nutrient cycling, Odocoileus virginianus, organic matter, particulates, pesticides, pine forests, pine, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus rigida, plant communities, plant nutrients, pocosins, pollution, post fire recovery, prehistoric fires, prescribed fires (chance ignition), presettlement fires, recreation, regeneration, reproduction, savannas, scrub, shrublands, shrubs, site treatments, soil erosion, South Carolina, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), Stoddard, H.L., swamps, Tall Timbers Research Station, threatened and endangered species (plants), wetlands, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife management, wildlife openings, xeric soils, Yellowstone National Park
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, fire management, forest management, national forests, national parks, post fire recovery, public information, regeneration, wildfires, Yellowstone National Park
From introduction: The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires of 1988 were, in the words of National Park Service (NPS) publications, the most significant ecological event in the history of the national parks (NPS 1988). Their political consequences may be as far-reaching as their…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, community ecology, conservation, dendrochronology, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, European settlement, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, grasslands, human caused fires, Idaho, land management, Leopold, Aldo, lightning caused fires, mammals, Montana, mortality, mosaic, mountains, national forests, national parks, Native Americans, natural areas management, old growth forests, plant communities, post fire recovery, predation, prehistoric fires, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, season of fire, small mammals, smoke effects, soil erosion, species diversity (animals), state forests, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife management, wildlife refuges, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: backing fires, crown fires, droughts, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire suppression, fire whirls, firebrands, flame length, fuel models, gases, ignition, Michigan, Pinus banksiana, plantations, season of fire, vortices, wildfires, wind
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, arthropods, ash, birds, Botswana, charcoal, chemistry, community ecology, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire injuries (plants), fire regimes, flammability, fuel moisture, ground cover, habitat conversion, habitat types, hydrology, insects, mammals, mortality, mosaic, peat, peat fires, peatlands, perennial plants, plant communities, plant growth, plant nutrients, post fire recovery, precipitation, reproduction, rivers, seasonal activities, soil nutrients, soil permeability, soils, streamflow, surface fires, swamps, topography, water, wetlands, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food plants
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: aerial ignition, arthropods, backfires, catastrophic fires, community ecology, cones, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel accumulation, grasslands, human caused fires, insects, land management, landscape ecology, Montana, national forests, Pinus contorta, plant communities, post fire recovery, precipitation, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, recreation, reproduction, rural communities, senescence, serotiny, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: ash, catastrophic fires, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firebrands, fuel accumulation, fuel types, human caused fires, land management, Leopold, Aldo, multiple resource management, national parks, natural resource legislation, old growth forests, pine forests, Pinus contorta, post fire recovery, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, wilderness areas, wildfires, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, archaeological sites, birds, catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, eucalyptus, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, grasslands, Gymnogyps californianus, hardwood forests, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, national parks, Native Americans, pine forests, Pinus attenuata, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus radiata, Pinus torreyana, Quercus, scrub, season of fire, Sequoia sempervirens, Sequoiadendron giganteum , soils, water quality, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, arthropods, ash, backfires, burning intervals, catastrophic fires, Cervus canadensis, community ecology, computer programs, cones, crown fires, Dendroctonus ponderosae, Dendroica kirtlandii, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, fertilizers, fire control, fire equipment, fire frequency, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, firebreaks, fishes, flammability, flowering, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel types, grasses, grasslands, grazing, ground fires, human caused fires, Idaho, insects, light burning, lightning caused fires, livestock, low intensity burns, Michigan, moisture, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, nongame birds, Odocoileus hemionus, pine forests, pine, Pinus contorta, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, predators, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, recreation, regeneration, roots, season of fire, Sequoiadendron giganteum , Sialia currucoides, small mammals, smoke behavior, smoke effects, Smokey Bear program, soils, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), surface fires, threatened and endangered species (animals), trees, water, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, wildlife openings, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: catastrophic fires, fire danger rating, fire size, fuel moisture, Idaho, Montana, rate of spread, smoke behavior, topography, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: droughts, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire suppression, ignition, liability, logging, Montana, national forests, national parks, smoke effects, wilderness areas, wildfires, wind
From the text: 'The most pressing problem facing prescribed burners today is smoke which reduces visibility on nearby highways. Included is a summary of smoke-related accidente, attributed to prescribed fires, in the South. And...there are undoubtedly more of which I am not…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Alabama, fire injuries (humans), Florida, Georgia, liability, North Carolina, plantations, smoke management, South Carolina, US Forest Service
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Abies concolor, Abies grandis, age classes, air quality, artificial regeneration, Blue Mountains, Christoneura occidentalis, coniferous forests, diameter classes, duff, fire exclusion, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel types, Idaho, land management, Larix occidentalis, litter, Montana, mortality, national forests, Oregon, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, post fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, range management, rate of spread, reforestation, regeneration, season of fire, site treatments, smoke management, soils, understory vegetation, Washington, wildlife
Hazards created by smoke from a prescribed fire are very real. Every year, many people are killed or injured as a result of accidents precipitated by smoke on highways. Recognizing the problem, state and local governments are seeking more laws to control when and where fire can…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Alabama, fire management, forest management, fuel types, grasses, Ilex glabra, pine forests, Pinus, Sabal palmetto, Serenoa repens, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wind
From the Executive Summary (p.iv) ... 'A coordinated program of research on the 1988 fires should be intiated immediately. The essential ingredients for such a program include an ecosystem approach to provide conceptual integration and operational coordination of many individual…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, amphibians, arthropods, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, community ecology, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, grasslands, hydrology, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, Lepidoptera, logging, Montana, national forests, national parks, nongame birds, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus contorta, plant communities, public information, range management, recreation, remote sensing, reptiles, runoff, small mammals, soil nutrients, soils, species diversity (plants), streams, succession, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, vulnerable species or communities, water, water quality, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, cones, coniferous forests, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire injuries (animals), fire regimes, fuel moisture, human caused fires, Idaho, lightning caused fires, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, nongame birds, old growth forests, old growth vegetation, openings, Pandion halioetus, pine forests, Pinus palustris, post fire recovery, predation, public information, raptors, seeds, serotiny, small mammals, smoke behavior, smoke effects, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), waterfowl, wildfires, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: droughts, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire suppression, fuel moisture, heavy fuels, mopping up, precipitation, season of fire, seasonal activities, smoke effects, soil moisture, statistical analysis, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, Ceanothus, chaparral, education, field experimental fires, fire intensity, fire size, gases, ignition, post fire recovery, public information, regeneration, site treatments, smoke effects, soils, southern California, state forests, wildfires, wind
The objective of this prescribed burning guide is to help resource managers plan and execute prescribed burns in Southern forests by: explaining the reasons for prescribed burning, emphasizing the environmental effects, explaining the importance of weather in prescribed burning…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: prescribed fire planning, smoke management, firing techniques, aerial ignition, aesthetics, air quality, arthropods, backing fire, competition, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire weather, flank fires, Florida, forage, fuel moisture, hardwoods, headfires, heat effects, humidity, insects, livestock, manuals, pine forests, plant diseases, plant growth, precipitation, runoff, season of fire, site treatments, soil nutrients, temperature, wildlife habitat management, wind
History of Fire in the Southern Appalachians Ecological and meteorological evidence suggests that lightning-caused fires were a major environmental force shaping the vegetation of the Southeastern United States for millions of years before Indians arrived in America. Lightning…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Appalachian Mountains, European settlement, fire management, mountains, Native Americans, pine forests, presettlement vegetation, regeneration, soils, threatened and endangered species, water, wildlife, wildlife management, fire hazard reduction
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Acer saccharum, agriculture, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, biogeography, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, coastal plain, community ecology, computer programs, conservation, croplands, deforestation, distribution, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, energy, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fire intensity, fire regimes, forestation, fossils, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, climate change, habitat conversion, heat, histories, land management, multiple resource management, natural areas management, paleoclimatology, phenology, physiology, plant communities, population ecology, public information, radiation, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), storms, temperature, threatened and endangered species (animals), wetlands, wilderness areas, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges
The expanding use of prescribed fire to achieve North American land management objectives has led, in recent years, to the increased use of helicopter-ignition, large-scale controlled burns. These mass-ignition convection burns often generate extremely intense and erratic fire…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Logistics, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, biomass, Canada, chemistry, convection, distribution, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire whirls, land management, Ontario, sampling, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management
Low-level helicopter flights were used to collect samples of smoke from burning chaparral in southern California and over a boreal forest fire in norther Ontario, Canada. The smoke plume samples were analyzed for carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H2), methane…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, International
Keywords: boreal forest, southern California, Canada, chaparral, combustion, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, flaming combustion, N2O - nitrous oxide, smoldering combustion, trace gas emissions, CH4 - methane, northern Ontario, H2 - hydrogen
Emissions from prescribed fires in several different fuel types in the Pacific Northwest are characterized. Data on the particles are reported as functions of fire behavior and fuel types. Profiles of trace elements, carbon elements, and carbon for each fuel type and combustion…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, combustion, fire intensity, fuel types, particulates, season of fire, smoke management
Following a repetitive pattern, biomass burning affects the intertropical belt on a continental scale during the dry season1. The importance of these anthropogenic activities with regard to carbonaceous-component emissions into the global atmosphere is now well recognized2-4. It…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, chemistry, fire intensity, fire size, fuel types, habitat types, human caused fires, Ivory Coast, organic matter, particulates, pollution, post fire recovery, savannas, season of fire, seasonal activities, statistical analysis, tropical forests