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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: education, fire case histories, fire management, Komarek, E.V., Sr., Los Alamos, Mexico, national forests, national parks, New Mexico, public information, smoke management, Tall Timbers Research Station
Fire is a natural phenomenon in Madrean Province ecosystems. Suppression of natural fire has altered ecosystem processes, however. Recognition of these alterations has led to the adoption of let-burn policies by many management agencies, but a let-burn policy has become less…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: aesthetics, Arizona, catastrophic fires, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, fuel loading, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, hydrology, liability, lightning caused fires, Madrean habitats, national forests, national parks, plant growth, population density, prescribed fires (chance ignition), private lands, public information, seed production, smoke effects, thinning, water quality, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, natural fire, public safety, public lands, UNINFORMED PUBLIC
From the text (p.117) ... 'In awe and supplication Mescalero Apache dancers honor flames on their New Mexico reservation. 'Fire is sacred to us,' says one Apache leader. 'It provides warmth, food, protection.' Most Americans, however, fear fire beyond the hearth and for decades…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: boreal forests, catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, crown fires, duff, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, Georgia, grasslands, lightning caused fires, Mexico, military lands, New Mexico, nongame birds, Picoides borealis, Pinus contorta, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus taeda, population density, post fire recovery, rate of spread, seed germination, Sequoia, smoke effects, Stoddard, H.L., surface fires, tallgrass prairies, understory vegetation, wetlands, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
Ozone generation is computed in a one-dimensional photochemistry code following convective redistribution of tropical urban effluent into the free troposphere. Simulations are run at several stages of pollutant dilution by surrounding surface air. A threshold boundary layer NOx…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Amazon, Brazil, convection, forest management, hydrocarbons, ozone, rate of spread, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke management, South America, storms, tropical forests, wildfires, wind
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Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Adenostoma fasciculatum, Africa, Australia, bark, bibliographies, boreal forests, Casuarina, Ceanothus, chaparral, chemistry, coniferous forests, distribution, Emmenanthe penduliflora, fire dependent species, fire regimes, fynbos, grasses, Hakea, heathlands, Leucadendron, Mediterranean habitats, Pinus attenuata, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, plant growth, population ecology, post fire recovery, Protea, reproduction, roots, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, Sequoia sempervirens, serotiny, shrublands, small mammals, smoke effects, South Africa, sprouting, tropical forests, vulnerable species or communities, Widdringtonia
The accuracy with which park managers can predict the behavior, spread, and effects of individual fires will be increasingly critical to decisions on when and where to burn. Models to predict fuel accumulation and consumption, fire spread, smoke production, and the effects of…
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Year: 1996
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, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, coniferous forests, dendrochronology, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, lightning caused fires, national parks, Nevada, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, reproduction, Sequoiadendron giganteum , Sierra Nevada, succession
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Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, Argentina, Asia, bibliographies, biogeochemical cycles, biogeography, biomass, Brazil, Canada, crown fires, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, grasslands, India, Indonesia, Mediterranean habitats, Nepal, Philippines, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, plantations, savannas, sedimentation, tropical forests, Vietnam, wildfires
From the text...'This conceptual guide, Land Management Considerations in Fire-Adapted Ecosystems, provides baseline information for addressing fire management considerations in the Information/Assessment Phase of land management planning. The fire-related considerations are: 1…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: catastrophic fires, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire adaptations, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, land management, landscape ecology, national forests, pine forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus monticola, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus strobus, public information, smoke management, succession, surface fires, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text...'When managing longleaf pine ecosystems it is not a question of whether or not to use fire, but rather what frequency, season and intensity is needed to achieve specific objectives. Longleaf ecosystems evolved under a chronic fire regime and thus the continual…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida stricta, burning intervals, crown scorch, fire management, fungi, headfires, longleaf pine, mopping up, natural resource legislation, overstory, Pinus palustris, plant diseases, plant growth, public information, roads, sandhills, season of fire, smoke management, threatened and endangered species (plants), wetlands
Fires can mobilize radionuclides from contaminated biomass through suspension of gases and particles in the atmosphere or solubilization and enrichment of the ash. Field and laboratory burns were conducted to determine the fate of I, Cs and C1 in biomass fires. Straw, wood, peat…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, ash, biomass, Canada, chemical elements, chlorine, coniferous forests, cropland fires, fire management, fuel loading, fuel types, gases, laboratory fires, land management, peat, peat fires, pesticides, Pinus banksiana, Populus tremuloides, temperature, wildfires, wood, wood chemistry
Drought indexes are not designed to measure fuel moistures, rather they indicate environmental conditions that affect fuel profiles. Management should consider that the mid-to upper-600 range is the limit of acceptability for igniting prescribed fires of any type unless specific…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: droughts, duff, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel moisture, litter, moisture, pine forests, precipitation, season of fire, smoke management, soil organic matter, soils, understory vegetation
From the Overwiew...'VSMOKE is primarily a tool for analyzing the effects of a single prescribed fire. Using an emissions source geometrically configured to match that presented to the atmosphere by a prescribed fire, the program estimates smoke concentrations and crossplume…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal plain, computer programs, croplands, fire management, Florida, humidity, liability, particulates, roads, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, weather observations, wildfires, wind
From the Introduction...'Fire management's integration into land management planning is critical to the successful management of nearly all wildland ecosystems, including westside forests, which lie west of the Cascade crest in Oregon and the northern coastal ranges in…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, ecosystem dynamics, environmental impact statements, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, histories, land management, multiple resource management, Oregon, smoke management, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), succession, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, watershed management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management
From the text...'Elimination of the historic pattern of frequent low-intensity fires in ponderosa pine and pine-mixed conifer forests has resulted in major ecological disruptions. Prior to 1900, open stands of large, long-lived, fire-resistant ponderosa pine were typical. These…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: adaptation, coniferous forests, cover, cutting, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fuel management, low intensity burns, Montana, national forests, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, rural communities, smoke management, trees, wildfires
From the text...'Given the concerns presented over the relative lack of progress being made in restoring fire to anything close to presettlement frequencies, it is only natural to ask what can we expect in the future. Although it is impossible to read the crystal ball, it is…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, competition, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire danger rating, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, ignition, landscape ecology, multiple resource management, national parks, pine forests, presettlement fires, public information, season of fire, Sequoia, smoke behavior, smoke management, watershed management, wilderness fire management
From the Introduction...'Fire is the single most important ecological disturbance process throughout the interior Pacific Northwest (Mutch and others 1993; Agee 1994). It is also a natural process that helps maintain a diverse ecological landscape. Fire suppression and timber…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, coniferous forests, dead fuels, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, fire frequency, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, GIS, health factors, histories, Idaho, land management, land use, Larix lyallii, logging, Montana, natural resource legislation, Nevada, Oregon, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, public information, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, succession, Utah, Washington, watershed management, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the Current Solutions...'Some breakthroughs in providing more latitude for expanding prescribed fire programs are apparent. For example, the state of Florida has enacted innovative legislation that provides liability protection for prescribed burning. In Oregon, a…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Southwest, International
Keywords: air quality, Blue Mountains, cutting, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, Florida, forest management, land management, landscape ecology, liability, logging, mountains, multiple resource management, national forests, natural resource legislation, New Mexico, Oregon, partial cutting, salvage, thinning, trees, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife
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Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: Abies spp., Acer saccharinum, agriculture, air quality, Artemisia, Betula alleghaniensis, boreal forests, Canada, Carpinus, Carya, Castanea dentata, charcoal, Corylus, crown fires, deciduous forests, ecosystem dynamics, Fagus grandifolia, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire frequency, fire regimes, fire scar analysis, fossils, Fraxinus, Fraxinus americana, ignition, lakes, leaves, Minnesota, moisture, New York, Ontario, Ostrya, paleobotany, paleoecology, particulates, Picea, pine hardwood forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, Plantago, pollen, Populus, Quercus, Quercus alba, Quercus rubra, Quercus velutina, Rumex, sedimentation, senescence, site treatments, statistical analysis, Tilia americana, Tsuga, Tsuga canadensis, Ulmus, xeric soils, charcoal analysis, climate change, eastern deciduous forest, forest dynamics, pollen analysis, western New York state, VARVE THICKNESS, MIXED HARDWOODS, ARBOREAL POLLEN
The mesoscale meteorological model MEMO was applied to a real fire situation, which occurred in the central area of Portugal, with a very complex topography. In order to numerically provide boundary values at a higher temporal and spatial resolution, a one-way nesting technique…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: forest fire, Portugal, wind simulations, mesoscale model, complex terrain, air quality, air temperature, biogeography, climatology, Foehn winds, forest management, gases, humidity, Mediterranean habitats, nesting, rate of spread, sampling, statistical analysis, topography, wildfires, wind
This conference provided a forum in which resource specialists, managers, researchers, and other interested people could share their collective experiences, opinions, and informational needs on 1) the effects of fire on the resources, and 2) fire management in the Madrean…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southwest, International
Keywords: fire management, Madrean Province, research needs, air quality, community ecology, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire intensity, fire management planning, flame length, fire regimes, forest management, GIS - geographic information system, grazing, livestock, Madrean habitats, post-fire recovery, Mexico, rate of spread, wetlands, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
This paper's title - "Can we restore the fire process? What awaits us if we don't?" - represents an ecologist's view of the world. I submit that this view is unrealistic. The first clause uses the term "restore" which implies reestablishing the fire process of the past. The…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire regimes, air quality, biomass, clearcutting, combustion, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fertilizers, fire adaptations, fire frequency, fire management planning, land use, multiple resource management, N - nitrogen, regeneration, temperature, wildfires
Stand replacement prescribed burning has been applied in Alaska on several occasions. Based on that experience, perspectives can be provided, issues can be discussed, and keys to success can be identified that are applicable to stand replacement prescribed burning activities in…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire regimes, stand replacement, Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Alnus spp., Betula spp., boreal forest, catastrophic fires, education, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, land management, lichen moss fuels, overstory, particulates, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Populus tremuloides, private lands, public information, Salix spp., smoke management, taiga, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife refuges
Public support is important to all restoration efforts on public lands. Some types of restoration activities are easier for the public to support than others. Restoring wetlands, habitat restoration for salmon or burrowing owls, and vegetative rehabilitation are generally…
Person:
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: fire regimes, fire restoration, Montana, public lands, Bitterroot National Forest, public support, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, grasslands, hardwood forest, health factors, pine forests, public information, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, smoke effects, woody fuels
Forest management planning models are highly developed and used extensively, but few explicitly consider the effects of fire and other uncertain losses which can be significant. Previous studies recommended contradictory responses to potential fire loss. We developed forest-…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, optimization, harvest schedule, timber supply modeling, uncertain forest losses, Ontario, air quality, boreal forest, climatology, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, forest management, logging, plant growth
Fire is the single most important ecological disturbance process throughout the interior Pacific Northwest (Mutch and others 1993; Agee 1994). It is also a natural process that helps maintain a diverse ecological landscape. Fire suppression and timber harvesting have drastically…
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fire regimes, forest ecosystems, forest restoration, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Pacific Northwest, smoke considerations