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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, Arizona, biomass, catastrophic fires, Colorado, coniferous forests, crown fires, crowns, disturbance, education, environmental impact analysis, environmental impact statements, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, forest management, fuel breaks, fuel management, fuel types, general interest, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, landscape ecology, logging, low intensity burns, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, New Mexico, old growth forests, Oregon, overstory, partial cutting, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, roads, second growth forests, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, site treatments, size classes, slash, surface fuels, thinning, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
From the text ... 'This article discusses factors that are critical to both firefighters and fire managers in ensuring a safe and productive workforce. First, it discusses such items as the work environment, the firefighter workforce, physical fitness, nutrition, work/rest…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Logistics, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, health factors, heat effects, mortality, nutrition, smoke effects, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text ... 'The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) notified the Forest Service of the findings of its investigation of the Thirtymile Fire on the Okanagan-Wenatchee National Forest in July 2001. OSHA cited the Forest Service for two willful and three…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: catastrophic fires, crown fires, education, fire case histories, fire equipment, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, health factors, smoke effects, US Forest Service, Washington, wilderness areas
Our understanding of the effect of smoke on seed germination is limited and based mainly on studies of botanical plant species. The study reported here provides evidence that a traditional approach to maize (Zea mays L.) storage used by some subsistence farmers in South Africa…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, fynbos, germination, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, South Africa, Zea, Zea mays
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Southern
Keywords: bibliographies, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire case histories, fire management, firefighting personnel, forest management, general interest, Georgia, grasslands, health factors, landscape ecology, light burning, logging, natural resource legislation, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, public information, rangelands, smoke management, Smokey Bear program, thinning, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Surface CO and ozone data were obtained in 1998 at Happo (36.7°N, 137.8°E, altitude 1840 m) in Japan. Backward trajectory analysis was applied to get the origin of the air mass to the measuring site. The air mass is basically coming from the west over the Asian continent except…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, wildfires, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, ozone, pollution, remote sensing, Japan, Russia, Siberia, Asia, fire management, biomass burning, backward trajectory, long-range transport, east Asia
This paper describes the Oklahoma Fire Danger Model, an operational fire danger rating system for the state of Oklahoma (USA) developed through joint efforts of Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma, and the Fire Sciences Laboratory of the USDA Forest Service in…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: adaptation, fire danger rating, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, land management, live fuels, moisture, Montana, Oklahoma, pine hardwood forests, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke management, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Outdoor fires, such as wildfires and prescribed burns, can emit substantial amounts of particulate matter and other pollutants into the atmosphere. In Texas, an inventory of forest, grassland and agricultural burning activities revealed that fires consumed vegetation on 1.6 and…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, duff, fire management, fire size, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, fuel management, grasslands, litter, logging, particulates, pine forests, pollution, range management, rangelands, slash, smoke management, statistical analysis, Texas, wildfires, wildland fuels
Other than land clearing for urban development (Wear and others 1998) no disturbance is more common in southern forests than fire. The pervasive role of fire predates human activity in the South (Komarek 1964, 1974)), and humans magnified that role. Repeating patterns of fire…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: agriculture, Aimophila aestivalis, backing fires, broadcast burning, Carya, Chamaecyparis thyoides, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, European settlement, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, flank fires, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, ground fires, hardwood forests, headfires, histories, insects, litter, logging, Meleagris gallopavo, Native Americans, Picoides borealis, Piedmont, pine forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus pungens, Pinus rigida, Pinus serotina, Pinus taeda, Pinus virginiana, plant communities, plant diseases, presettlement fires, Quercus, rate of spread, serotiny, site treatments, smoke management, soil moisture, succession, surface fires, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, vulnerable species or communities, wildlife habitat management
Biomass combustion is an important primary source of particles with adsorbed biomarker compounds in the global atmosphere. The introduction of natural product organic compounds into smoke occurs primarily by direct volatilization/steam stripping and by thermal alteration based…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, cellulose, chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, coniferous forests, conifers, hardwood forests, heat effects, hydrocarbons, Larix, lignin, organic matter, particulates, peat, Picea, pine forests, Pinus, pollution, potash, K - potassium, Pseudotsuga, recreation related fires, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, statistical analysis, temperature, Tsuga mertensiana, volatilization, wildfires, woody plants
The Hayman Fire is discussed. USDA Forest Service employee Merrill Kauffman is interviewed. 'NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Transcript: Online Focus' Transcript is coverage of Colorado wildfires, July 1 & 2, 2002. See PBS website, for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer TV program,…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Colorado, conservation, crown fires, education, fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, hardwood forests, liability, natural resource legislation, pine forests, public information, rate of spread, smoke management, Smokey Bear program, thinning, US Forest Service, web page, wildfires
From the Introduction ... "A 1985 survey by the Soil Conservation Service indicated that eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) and ashe juniper (I. ashei) had invaded almost 1.5 million acres in Oklahoma by 1950 and 3.5 million acres by 1985 (Snook 1985). The invasion of…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern, Southwest
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, bottomland hardwoods, catastrophic fires, conservation, croplands, decomposition, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forage, fuel accumulation, grasslands, grazing, Great Plains, habitat conversion, hardwood forests, herbicides, introduced species, invasive species, Juniperus, Juniperus ashei, Juniperus monosperma, Juniperus pinchotii, Juniperus scopulorum, Juniperus virginiana, land use, livestock, native species (plants), Oklahoma, orchids, plant communities, population ecology, Populus deltoides, Quercus marilandica, Quercus stellata, range management, rangelands, riparian habitats, rivers, site treatments, soil conservation, species diversity (plants), tallgrass prairies, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), understory vegetation, urban habitats, Vireo atricapillus, Virginiana, water quality, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
From the Conclusion...'Fire is only one issue in the wildland-urban interface, but it attracts attention. The challenges associated with managing wildland fire in the interface - interagency communication, growth management, fire-dependent ecological systems, Federal-State-local…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Acer, air quality, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, Georgia, grazing, hardwood forests, herbicides, histories, incendiary fires, land use, landscape ecology, liability, lightning caused fires, Mississippi, mowing, pine forests, Pinus palustris, post fire recovery, public information, Quercus, roads, rural communities, smoke behavior, Texas, thinning, urban habitats, wilderness fire management
The Rocky Mountain Research Station is one of six regional units that make up the USDA Forest Service Research and Development organization-the most extensive natural resources research organization in the world. We maintain 12 field laboratories throughout a 14-state territory…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: research, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
The Northwest Regional Modeling Center (NWRMC) demonstration project was undertaken to determine the feasibility of using the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system to investigate regional haze in the Pacific Northwest. The project was also aimed at establishing…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, regional haze, aerosol transport, aerosol formation, MCAQ - Multi-Scale Air Quality modeling system
A report to NWCG based on a review of existing social science literature, an analysis of social science needs, and a needs assessment based on input from 11 workshops held around the country. The report offers a research agenda that describes what research is needed, why it is…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, wildland fire, NWCG - National Wildfire Coordinating Group
PROJECT OBJECTIVES As requested under Tasks 8 and 9, user-friendly modeling systems designed for local use will be provided for modeling smoke from wildland fires. These tools will provide a means for conducting tradeoff analyses, with a focus on emissions production, of…
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Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FARSITE - Fire Area Simulator, BEHAVE
Forest fuels reduction has the best chance of success if managers understand the factors that influence public acceptance of fuel management. This article reports an analysis of focus group interviews with wildland-urban interface residents at sites selected to provide variation…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: environmental management, forest management, forest, public relations, fuel management, air quality, catastrophic fires, education, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, hardwood forest, land use, pine forests, escaped prescribed fires, public information, smoke effects
Aerosol optical properties derived from Sun photometry were investigated in terms of climatological trends at two Sun photometer sites significantly affected by western Canadian boreal forest fire smoke and in terms of a 2-week series of smoke events observed at stations near…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire, sun photometry
Boreal forests contain large amounts of stored soil carbon and are susceptible to periodic disturbance by wildfire. This study evaluates the relationship between post-fire changes in soil temperature, moisture, and CO2 exchange in paired burned and control stands of three…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, soils, atmosphere, CH4 - methane, CO2 - carbon dioxide, efflux, Interior Alaska, moisture, post-fire dynamics, respiration, sensitivity, soil carbon, temperature, thaw, black spruce, C - carbon, decay, ecosystem dynamics, hydrology, landscape ecology, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Populus tremuloides, post-fire recovery, runoff, soil moisture, soil temperature, wildfires
The Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science (ESFS) synthesizes volumes of scientific knowledge about fire science in the southern United States. ESFS delivers grounded information to field practitioners and the general public with viewer-navigated text, photos, graphics, plus a…
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Year: 2002
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: bibliography, ESFS - Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science
A recent analysis indicates that Canadian forest fires have released an average of 27 Mt (1012 g) of carbon annually over the past four decades (Amiro et al. 2001a). These emissions are caused by direct combustion. About an equal additional amount of carbon may also be lost…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: biodiversity, Canada, fire, fire suppression, boreal, carbon emissions, climate change, Kyoto Protocol
Forest Service research has developed a set of tools to estimate fuel consumption and resulting emissions from wildland fire. These two models, CONSUME (Ottmar et al., 1993) and EPM (Emissions Production Model, McKenzie et al., 2002 and Sandberg and Peterson, 1984) have formed…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: BlueSky Modeling Framework, CONSUME, emission estimates, EPM - Emissions Production Model, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke models, smoke estimation tools, MM5 - Mesoscale Model generation 5, smoke forecasting, CSEM - Community Smoke Emissions Model
The purpose of this study is to address socio-economic impacts of smoke produced by fuel reduction and restoration projects in the Flagstaff wildland-urban interface. The use of prescribed fire in the wildland-urban interface will produce smoke. The presence of smoke in the air…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: fire management
Fire and timber harvest are the two major disturbances that alter forest ecosystems in interior Alaska. Both types of disturbance provide habitats that attract wood borers and bark beetles the first year after the disturbance, but populations then decrease to levels below those…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: timber harvest, Picea glauca, silvicultural practices, white spruce, wood borers, bark beetles, Alnus, Arctostaphylos rubra, bark, Betula papyrifera, boreal forests, Buprestidae, Calamagrostis canadensis, Cerambycidae, clearcutting, Coleoptera, disturbance, Dendroctonus, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, experimental areas, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, forest management, grasses, hardwood forest, insects, insecticides, invertebrates, Ips spp., Larix spp., Linnaea borealis, logging, overstory, Picea, partial cutting, plant diseases, Populus balsamifera, Populus tremuloides, fire recovery, Rosa acicularis, Salix, Scolytidae, scorch, shelterwood, shrubs, smoke effects, statistical analysis, trapping, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, vegetation surveys, Viburnum edule, wood