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From the text...'In the Forest Service, we developed the Missoula, MT, junior smokejumper program to educate children about fire ecology, fire management, and smokejumping in an exciting and interactive learning environment.'
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Outreach
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: firefighting personnel, wildfires, Montana, education, public information, fire management, smoke management

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Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: crowns, dead fuels, education, fire suppression, forest management, fuel management, general interest, Georgia, land management, litter, overstory, public information, smoke management, surface fires, understory vegetation

Presentation discussing challenges in communication during smoke events. Dr. Garbe discussed the importance of local response, and experience, as well as keeping flexible messaging and keeping the message "new" across fire seasons.
Person: Garbe
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, public information, public perception, health effects, public health, biomass burning

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) is using high intensity fire to perpetuate fresh-water marsh on Sanibel Island. Shrubs are invading the marsh because of the decreased hydroperiod. A policy of fire conclusion was followed until 1971 when a destructive wildfire…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Aquatic, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Casuarina equisetifolia, catastrophic fires, competition, conservation, disturbance, droughts, education, fine fuels, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, firebreaks, Florida, fuel accumulation, introduced species, invasive species, litter, marshes, nutrient cycling, plant communities, public information, shrubs, smoke management, species diversity (animals), wildfires