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From the text...'A new generation of prescribed fire statutes have been developed in the southeastern states beginning with Florida in 1990 (Brenner and Wade 1992). The Florida statute goes to great length to recognize prescribed burning as a useful land management tool. The…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern
Keywords: fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, Georgia, land management, liability, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, pine forests, prairies, range management, rangelands, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text...'I believe that the Forest Service should take the lead in developing low-density stand management guidelines, but it isn’t going to be easy. The anti-management environmental lobby has beaten the agency into a position of inactivity. The Administration…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, Appalachian Mountains, ecosystem dynamics, education, FIA, fire adaptations (plants), fire management, forest management, forest products, forest types, Georgia, grasses, hardwood forests, insects, Kentucky, landscape ecology, loblolly pine, logging, Longleaf Alliance, mast, mosaic, mountains, national forests, Native Americans, North Carolina, Ozarks, pine forests, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plant diseases, population density, prairies, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, private lands, public information, Quercus, savannas, stand characteristics, Tennessee, thinning, topography, trees, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, Virginia, wildfires
Wildfire represents a serious challenge to communities in the rural West. After decades of fire suppression, land managers now perceive a greater role for wildfire in the ecosystem. In the meantime,migration patterns from urban to rural settings have increased the…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, Cascades Range, catastrophic fires, education, fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, hardwood forests, land management, multiple resource management, national forests, pine forests, post fire recovery, public information, recreation, rural communities, season of fire, US Forest Service, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, dead fuels, ecosystem dynamics, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, fuel models, fuel types, GIS, hardwood forests, heavy fuels, land management, landscape ecology, liability, litter, live fuels, Montana, national forests, old growth vegetation, overstory, pine forests, remote sensing, smoke management, thinning, woody plants
Factors influencing the probability of fire occurrence in the south central United States were investigated using a geographic information system (GIS) and a multinomial logit model. Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data at the plot level were merged with census data at the…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Alabama, Arkansas, distribution, education, FIA - Forest Inventory and Analysis, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel types, geography, GIS - geographic information system, hardwood forests, human caused fires, incendiary fires, land use, logging, Mississippi, Oklahoma, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus spp., plantations, population density, prescribed fires (chance ignition), prescribed fires (escaped), private lands, roads, statistical analysis, Tennessee, Texas, topography, urban habitats, wildfires
We present a systematic study of the vertical distribution of gases produced in controlled combustions induced in caribbean pine (Pinus caribaea var hondurensis). Small areas of pine debris were burned and were taken into a comercial gas cromatographer. A simple mathematical…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Caribbean, combustion, distribution, fire management, gases, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Pinus caribaea, statistical analysis
The Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) simulates fuel dynamics and potential fire behaviour over time, in the context of stand development and management. Existing models of fire behavior and fire effects were added to FVS to form this…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: age classes, biomass, Cascades Range, catastrophic fires, chaparral, computer programs, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, crowns, dead fuels, decay, decomposition, diameter classes, distribution, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, flame length, flammability, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, grasses, habitat types, herbaceous vegetation, Idaho, insects, leaves, litter, live fuels, logging, moisture, Montana, mortality, needles, northern California, Oregon, particulates, salvage, scorch, shrubs, size classes, snags, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, succession, surface fires, surface fuels, thinning, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, wind, woody fuels, FVS, FFE, forest fire, stand dynamics, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, BEHAVE, NEXUS, snags, coarse, woody debris, FARSITE, TETONS
Montague Plain Wildlife Management Area (MPWMA) is a 1,512 acre property in western Massachusetts owned and managed by the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. The primary purposes of the site are to protect and preserve an outstanding example of a xeric outwash…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: Acer rubrum, amphibians, barrens, Betula populifolia, community ecology, Danthonia spicata, Desmodium, education, fine fuels, fire control, fire dependent species, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire sensitive plants, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flammability, foliage, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, Gaylussacia baccata, geology, grasslands, hardwood forests, humidity, hydrology, Hypericum perforatum, ignition, insects, Juniperus communis, land use, leaves, litter, Massachusetts, needles, New England, overstory, paleoecology, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus rigida, Pinus strobus, plant communities, Polytrichum, Populus, post fire recovery, precipitation, presettlement fires, Prunus pensylvanica, public information, Quercus ilicifolia, rate of spread, regeneration, roads, Rubus, Schizachyrium scoparium, scrub, seedlings, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, Solidago juncea, Spiraea, succession, surface fuels, Terrapene, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), topography, Vaccinium, vegetation surveys, vulnerable species or communities, watersheds, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife management, wind
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Australia, Cyperaceae, fire dependent species, fire intensity, fire sensitive plants, germination, heat, heat effects, heathlands, Kunzea ambigua, mosaic, New South Wales, plant growth, range management, regeneration, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, shrublands, smoke effects, smoke management
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Year: 1925
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke behavior
The potential for air pollution from industrial sources to reach wilderness areas throughout the Northwestern United States is approximated from monthly mean emissions, along with wind speeds and directions. A simple index is derived to estimate downwind concentration. Maps of…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, mixing height, pollution, Columbia River basin, pollution trajectories, steering wind, industrial emissions
Changes in forest structure were examined 10-15 months after an unprecedented understorey wildfire burnt previously undisturbed primary forest in central Brazilian Amazonia, following the severe 1997-1998 El Niño dry season. On the basis of 20 0.25 ha plots (10 m x 250 m) in…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: aboveground biomass, carbon emissions, fire disturbance, global warming, surface fires, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, Amazonia
An Autonomous Fire Detector (AFD) is a miniature electronic package combining position location capability [using the Global Positioning System (GPS)], communications (packet or voice-synthesized radio), and fire detection capability (thermal, gas, smoke detector) into an…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: remote sensing, fire detection, fire monitoring, field systems, local fire detection, AFD - Autonomous Fire Detector , CO - carbon monoxide, computer program, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, fire weather, firefighting personnel, GPS - global positioning system, wildfires, wind
The feasibility and fundamentals of forest fire detection by smoke sensing with single-wavelength lidar are discussed with reference to results of 532-nm lidar measurements of smoke plumes from experimental forest fires in Portugal within the scope of the Gestosa 2001 project.…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, Portugal, Gestosa, fire management, fire suppression, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires
Fire regimes were reconstructed from fire-scarred trees on five large forested study sites (135-810 ha) on the North and South Rims at Grand Canyon National Park. Adequacy of sampling was tested with cumulative sample curves, effectiveness of fire recording on individual trees,…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Gambel oak, ponderosa pine, Grand Canyon National Park, mixed conifer, Kaibab Plateau, Coconino Plateau, modern calibration, Abies concolor, Arizona, biogeography, burning intervals, climatology, coniferous forests, dendrochronology, distribution, drought, elevation, European settlement, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire scar analysis, fire size, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, hardwoods, landscape ecology, national forests, national parks, Native Americans, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, population density, Populus tremuloides, Douglas-fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus gambelii, Robinia, sampling, season of fire, smoke management, statistical analysis, surface fires, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Changes in ecological concepts and a new focus on biodiversity as a central objective have led to changes in fire policies in South African savanna parks. Prescribed burning using fixed fire intervals is being replaced by systems that promote more variable fire regimes and…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire management planning, fire policy, savannas, South Africa, Kruger National Park, Africa, arid regions, Australia, burning intervals, CO2 - carbon dioxide, community ecology, conservation, cover, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fuel loading, grasses, grazing, landscape ecology, lightning, mesic soils, mosaic, national parks, overstory, population density, post-fire recovery, species diversity, succession, woody plants
Savannas form a large fraction of the total tropical vegetation and are extremely fire prone. We measured radiative, energy and carbon exchanges over unburned and burned (both before and after low and moderate intensity fires) open forest savanna at Howard Springs, Darwin,…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire intensity, albedo, Australia, Northern Territory of Australia, surface energy exchanges, Howard Springs, eddy covariance, biomass, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, char, crown fires, crown scorch, ecosystem dynamics, Eucalyptus miniata, evapotranspiration, Eucalyptus tetrodonta, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, flame length, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasses, grasslands, heat, moisture, nutrient cycling, overstory, post-fire recovery, savannas, scorch, tropical forest, understory vegetation, wildfires, woody fuels
Considerable research has been undertaken over the past two decades to apply remote sensing to the study of fire regimes across the savannas of northern Australia. This work has focused on two spatial scales of imagery resolution: coarse-resolution NOAA-AVHRR imagery for savanna…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire regimes, remote sensing, Landsat, NOAA-AVHRR, Australia, aborigines, air quality, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, mosaic, Northern Territory of Australia, precipitation, prehistoric fires, Queensland, savannas, season of fire, statistical analysis, wildfires
Effects of biomass burning and lightning on atmospheric chemistry over Australia and South-east Asia
In situ aircraft measurements of trace gases and aerosols were made in the boundary layer (BL) and free troposphere (FT) over Indonesia and Australia during the Biomass Burning and Lightning Experiment (BIBLE)-A and B conducted in August-October 1998 and 1999. Concentrations of…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: lightning, Indonesia, Australia, biomass burning, atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, air quality, biomass, chemistry, climatology, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fire management, gases, hydrocarbons, N - nitrogen, ozone, seasonal activities, statistical analysis, surface fires, wildfires
We examined how adsorption and desorption of gases from inlets and a cell could affect the accuracy of closed-cell FTIR measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4), nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), methanol (CH3OH), acetic acid (CH3COOH),…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ammonia, acetic acid, methanol, trace gas sampling
We measured stable and reactive trace gases with an airborne Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (AFTIR) on the University of Washington Convair-580 research aircraft in August/September 2000 during the SAFARI 2000 dry season campaign in Southern Africa. The measurements…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, AFTIR - airborne Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, biomass burning, OVOC - oxygenated volatile organic compounds, savanna fires, cloud chemistry, photochemistry
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: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: Forest Service, NFP - National Fire Plan, research, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Airborne measurements made on initial smoke from 10 savanna fires in southern Africa provide quantitative data on emissions of 50 gaseous and particulate species, including carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, methane, ammonia, dimethyl sulfide,…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, trace gas emissions, biomass burning, particle emissions
Retrieved tropospheric carbon monoxide (CO) column densities are presented for more than 9000 spectra obtained by the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWis) Scanning High-Resolution Interferometer Sounder (SHIS) during a flight on the NASA ER-2 on 7 September 2000 as part of the…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, tropospheric CO
Airborne measurements of particles and gases from a 1000-ha savanna fire in South Africa are presented. These measurements represent the most extensive data set reported on the aging of biomass smoke. The measurements include total concentrations of particles (CN), particle…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: gases, particles, biomass burning, airborne measurements, savanna fires, South Africa