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From the text ... 'The key consideration for the IC: always make the connection between observed and forecasted weather and observed and forecasted fire behavior.... When IC''s believe the observed instability conditions may significantly increase fire behavior, they should…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, smoke behavior, temperature, Washington, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wind
From the text ... 'Unstable air masses increase chances of big fires. Relative humidity seems to play a smaller role than thought before. Atmospheric stability forecasts, projecting stability for 36 to 48 hours, can warn fire control personnel when to expect erratic fire…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: Alabama, Arkansas, blowups, catastrophic fires, convection, fire control, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, Georgia, humidity, Louisiana, Mississippi, smoke behavior, Tennessee, Washington, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: blowups, convection, fire control, fire management, fire whirls, firefighting personnel, smoke behavior, storms, Washington, wildfires, wind
BLM/NIFC/RSFWSU will provide a sesion revealing some of the current and past remote sensing involvements within the wildfire area. State of the art electronic sensing methods and devices will be displayed. Several data telemetry options available will also be covered in the…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Brazil, energy, fire control, fire management, fire suppression, humidity, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, radiation, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke management, soils, South America, suppression, telemetry, weather observations, wildfires, wind, weather station, Spanish language
A comprehensive investigation of Canadian boreal forest fires was conducted using NOAA-AVHRR imagery. Algorithms were developed to (1) detect active forest fires, (2) map burned areas on daily and annual basis, and (3) estimate fire emissions based on burned area and Canadian…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Alberta, boreal forests, Canada, carbon dioxide, cover, croplands, crown fires, digital data collection, droughts, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasslands, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Northwest Territories, Ontario, radiation, remote sensing, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, surface fires, wetlands, boreal forest, burned area, DIGITAL FUEL TYPE, FIRE PIXEL, FIRE DETENTION ALGORITHM, FLOWCHARTS, fuel consumption
Smoke may present the most intractable barrier of all to implementing more enlightened fire management. The benefits of a prescribed fire program can only be realized if the public and regulatory agencies agree that the air quality impacts are acceptable. Currently, land…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, computer programs, duff, fire management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, moisture, North Carolina, organic soils, ozone, particulates, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, wind
Needs for analytical tools, the roles existing tools play, the processes they represent, and how they might interact are elements of key findings generated during a workshop held in Seattle February 17-18, 1999. The workshop was attended by 26 Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP)…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: catastrophic fires, computer programs, digital data collection, diseases, disturbance, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fuel accumulation, fuel inventory, fuel management, fuel models, grasses, Idaho, ignition, insects, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, mosaic, multiple resource management, overstory, rate of spread, shrubs, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, snags, soils, surface fuels, understory vegetation, wildlife habitat management
Land managers are increasingly implementing strategies that employ the use of fire in prescribed burns to sustain ecosystems and plan to sustain the rate of increase in its use over the next five years. In planning and executing expanded use of fire in wildland treatment, it is…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, catastrophic fires, chemical compounds, combustion, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, gases, health factors, human caused fires, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, lightning caused fires, Native Americans, particulates, shrublands, sloping terrain, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, statistical analysis, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind, smoldering combustion, FIREPLUME, air quality, wildland fires, plume rise, Monte Carlo, dispersion model, Lagrangian, smoke management plans, EPM - Emissions Production Model
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed an initiative for a National Wildfire Prediction Program. The program will provide guidance for fire managers throughout the country, assisting them to efficiently use limited fire-fighting…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Southwest, International
Keywords: catastrophic fires, computer programs, digital data collection, fire control, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, fuel accumulation, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, light, Los Alamos, New Mexico, physics, smoke behavior, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildfire, prediction, firefighting, NWPP - National Wildfire Prediction Program
A method of composing vegetation fuel maps (VF maps) at medium scale is explained along with the purpose of such maps. A vegetation fuel VF map for the Lake Baikal basin has been created as an example of using this method.
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Abies spp., air temperature, Betula, bogs, combustion, dead fuels, diameter classes, distribution, droughts, duff, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasses, ground fires, heat, humus, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, lakes, Larix occidentalis, leaves, lichens, litter, mosses, mountains, needles, overstory, Picea, Pinus, population density, Populus, rhododendron, rocky habitats, Russia, season of fire, seedlings, shrubs, Siberia, slash, snags, soils, stand characteristics, topography, tundra, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind, prime conductors of burning, vegetation fuel map, current forest fire danger map, dew point, drought index, drought severity class, HETEROGENEITY OF FUEL CONDITIONS, saplings, steppe, VEGETATION PYROLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Prescribed fire was tested as a potential tool for site preparation and for reducing fire hazard after clearcut logging in dark coniferous forests in Siberia. Experimental burns were conducted on 8 sites to evaluate the practicality of fire use and effects of prescribed fires on…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, artificial regeneration, Asia, BEHAVE, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, coniferous forests, disturbance, experimental areas, experimental fires, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, hydrocarbons, logging, low intensity burns, CH4 - methane, Pinus sylvestris, post fire recovery, rate of spread, regeneration, Russia, sampling, Siberia, slash, surface fires, wind, woody fuels
The Fire Monitoring, Mapping and Modelling System (Fire M3) is an initiative of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) and the Canadian Forest Service (CFS), both agencies of Natural Resources Canada. The goals of Fire M3 are to use low-resolution satellite imagery to…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, computer programs, distribution, fire control, fire danger rating, fire size, GIS - geographic information system, habitat types, Ontario, Quebec, remote sensing, Saskatchewan, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, boreal forest, fire monitoring, hotspots
Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, has a landscape fire management target to maintain or restore 50% of the long-term average fire cycle. Because the park experiences frequent lightning fires it has adopted a strategy to use both management-ignited prescribed burns and…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, British Columbia, Canada, droughts, fire case histories, fire control, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel loading, fuel moisture, landscape ecology, lightning, lightning caused fires, mountains, national parks, Picea engelmannii, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, prescribed fires (chance ignition), rate of spread, roads, season of fire, sloping terrain, smoke management, subalpine forests, wilderness fire management, British Columbia, fire management, fire restoration, Kootenay National Park, lightning fire, national parks
One of the most prominent issues in forest management today is fire. While a large body of information is available on fire and forest management, this information is not always in a form that is easy to locate and easy to use. The Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science (ESFS)…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: computer programs, education, fire management, forest management, fuel management, health factors, land management, Longleaf Alliance, longleaf pine, public information, smoke management, US Forest Service, water, wildfires
From the text ... ''It will be a long time before those woods, more relentless than the waters, give up their dead.' -- C.E.Robinson, 1872 ...The drought was mild compared to the times leading up to other historically great fires in the Midwest. ...Surface fires scorched tree…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, 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: Acer, air quality, air temperature, Arizona, bark, Betula, blowups, bogs, Canada, catastrophic fires, Colorado, combustion, coniferous forests, convection, crown fires, crown scorch, crowns, Cupressaceae, dead fuels, deciduous forests, droughts, duff, education, energy, evergreens, Fagus grandifolia, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire growth, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire sensitive plants, fire whirls, firebrands, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, flammability, forage, forest fragmentation, forest products, Fraxinus, fuel appraisal, fuel management, gases, heat, human caused fires, humidity, ignition, Illinois, leaves, lightning caused fires, logging, Maine, Michigan, mineral soils, Minnesota, mortality, mosaic, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New England, old growth forests, Ontario, overstory, Picea, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, precipitation, presettlement fires, public information, Quercus, radiation, rate of spread, rivers, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, snags, soils, spontaneous combustion, spot fires, stand characteristics, storms, surface fires, surface fuels, temperature, topography, Ulmus, understory vegetation, vortices, Washington, water, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, Wisconsin, wood, woody fuels
From the text ... 'Wildfires posed more of a health hazard than prescribed fires, especially for those with respiratory problems. ...Neither prescribed fires or wildfires exceeded the 24-hour standard of 150 micrograms per cubic meter.'
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Apalachicola National Forest, environmental impact analysis, fire control, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, Florida, fuel loading, hardwoods, health factors, national forests, natural resource legislation, Ocala National Forest, particulates, pine forests, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, US Forest Service, Washington, wildfires, wind
From the text ... 'During my 24 years as a wildland firefighter, knowing that I had protected someone's home or community has always made my chest swell. ...The ying and yang of firefighting is partly this: By suppressing fire for so many decades, we have let fuels build up to…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ash, CO - carbon monoxide, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fire whirls, firefighting personnel, flame length, fuel accumulation, fuel management, heat effects, Idaho, lightning caused fires, Montana, mortality, national parks, old growth forests, precipitation, resprouting, season of fire, spot fires, temperature, trees, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
From the text ... 'The Sioux and Cheyenne traditionally set fire to the prairie as they moved their summer camps in pursuit of game. ...The Great Sioux War provides a sharp contrast in how two different cultures with diverse values and objectives utilized fire. ...Many fires set…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: backfires, Black Hills, disturbance, droughts, ecotones, fire management, forage, fuel types, heat effects, histories, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, land use, lightning caused fires, Montana, Native Americans, prairies, precipitation, rangelands, smoke effects, South Dakota, storms, topography, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, Wyoming
From the text (pp. 2-3)...'General Guidelines: Rule 1. For those in the process of learning to burn or with limited experience, use the 60:40 Rule. The 60:40 rule states that you burn with an air temperature of less than 60°F, a relative humidity greater than 40%, and a wind…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, burning intervals, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, firebreaks, forbs, fuel moisture, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, humidity, ignition, invasive species, Juniperus virginiana, native species (plants), Oklahoma, perennial plants, pine hardwood forests, plant communities, prairies, rate of spread, riparian habitats, season of fire, shrublands, smoke management, spot fires, temperature, weed control, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, wind, woody fuels
A summary report by Alaska Fire Service personnel on the record season of 2004 in Alaska, including statistics, smoke impacts, and research conducted during the fire season. Poster presentation at Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes Conference, Spokane, WA Nov. 17-19, 2004.
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: 2004 fire season, fire severity, AFS - Alaska Fire Service, climate change
Within a 2-week period in 1998, wildland fires swept across 500,000 acres of Florida*s lands. Over 1,700 fires ignited, leaving behind an enormous path of destruction on federal, state, and private lands. As the smoke continues to clear, many issues arise regarding the…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida, bark, brush, catastrophic fires, Ctenium aromaticum, Dendroctonus, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire danger rating, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, Florida, fragmentation, fuel appraisal, fuel management, GIS, grasses, habits and behavior, insects, introduced species, Ixia, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, landscape ecology, mortality, national forests, overstory, pine forests, Pinus, plant diseases, post fire recovery, private lands, remote sensing, state parks, suppression, threatened and endangered species (plants), vulnerable species or communities, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the Summary: The ultimate objective of the Division of Forestry*s new GIS-Based Fire Management systems is to provide quality service to the public and to minimize the harmful effects of smoke from open-burning, as well as minimize the loss of human life and property as a…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: burning permits, computer networks, computer programs, droughts, duff, fire danger rating, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, GIS - geographic information system, GPS - global positioning system, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, multiple resource management, precipitation, rate of spread, remote sensing, rural communities, smoke behavior, smoke management, suppression, urban habitats, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires, burn, wildland fire
A description of a proposed multi-component smoke forecasting system is presented. This system is an extension of that currently used for smoke management in Victoria (Australia) by Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) in collaboration with the Australian Bureau of…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, computer programs, fire management, pollution, smoke behavior, smoke management, topography, Victoria, weather observations
A new experimental smoke and dispersion forecast program was developed and implemented for the summer 2000 fire season in Idaho and Montana. This program was based on the prescribed fire Smoke Management Program (SMP) currently operating through the Montana/Idaho State Airshed…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: air quality, fire management, health factors, Idaho, Montana, multiple resource management, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke management, vulnerable species or communities, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text...'In most cases, the role of the public information officer, the Wildfire Mitigation Specialist, is to make the first contact with homeowner associations and individuals describing the positive benefits of the wildfire mitigation program. How to make neighborhoods…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: backfires, catastrophic fires, droughts, education, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, Firewise, Florida, fuel accumulation, fuel management, general interest, headfires, logging, mowing, natural resource legislation, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, post fire recovery, private lands, public information, season of fire, smoke management, state forests, wilderness fire management, wildfires