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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, fire management, forest management, national forests, national parks, post fire recovery, public information, regeneration, wildfires, Yellowstone National Park
From introduction: The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires of 1988 were, in the words of National Park Service (NPS) publications, the most significant ecological event in the history of the national parks (NPS 1988). Their political consequences may be as far-reaching as their…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, community ecology, conservation, dendrochronology, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, European settlement, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, grasslands, human caused fires, Idaho, land management, Leopold, Aldo, lightning caused fires, mammals, Montana, mortality, mosaic, mountains, national forests, national parks, Native Americans, natural areas management, old growth forests, plant communities, post fire recovery, predation, prehistoric fires, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, season of fire, small mammals, smoke effects, soil erosion, species diversity (animals), state forests, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife management, wildlife refuges, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: aerial ignition, arthropods, backfires, catastrophic fires, community ecology, cones, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel accumulation, grasslands, human caused fires, insects, land management, landscape ecology, Montana, national forests, Pinus contorta, plant communities, post fire recovery, precipitation, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, recreation, reproduction, rural communities, senescence, serotiny, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: ash, catastrophic fires, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firebrands, fuel accumulation, fuel types, human caused fires, land management, Leopold, Aldo, multiple resource management, national parks, natural resource legislation, old growth forests, pine forests, Pinus contorta, post fire recovery, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, wilderness areas, wildfires, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, arthropods, ash, backfires, burning intervals, catastrophic fires, Cervus canadensis, community ecology, computer programs, cones, crown fires, Dendroctonus ponderosae, Dendroica kirtlandii, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, fertilizers, fire control, fire equipment, fire frequency, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, firebreaks, fishes, flammability, flowering, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel types, grasses, grasslands, grazing, ground fires, human caused fires, Idaho, insects, light burning, lightning caused fires, livestock, low intensity burns, Michigan, moisture, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, nongame birds, Odocoileus hemionus, pine forests, pine, Pinus contorta, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, predators, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, recreation, regeneration, roots, season of fire, Sequoiadendron giganteum , Sialia currucoides, small mammals, smoke behavior, smoke effects, Smokey Bear program, soils, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), surface fires, threatened and endangered species (animals), trees, water, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, wildlife openings, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, computer programs, land management, particulates, smoke management
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Alces alces, Bison bison, catastrophic fires, Cervus canadensis, cover, Felis concolor, forage, general interest, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, mammals, mortality, national parks, nongame birds, Odocoileus, Ovis canadensis, Pandion halioetus, Picoides arcticus, predation, raptors, small mammals, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), Ursus americanus, Ursus arctos, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: catastrophic fires, fire danger rating, fire size, fuel moisture, Idaho, Montana, rate of spread, smoke behavior, topography, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: combustion
A major cooperative research effort between the Northern Region and the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station is devoted to the use and effects of prescribed fire. Prescribed fires in logging slash have been scheduled during the entire available burning season. A…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, biomass, distribution, elevation, fire intensity, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, logging, moisture, mountains, pollution, season of fire, seasonal activities, slash, sloping terrain, smoke behavior, temperature, topography, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wind
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, fire management, fire suppression, fuel types, gases, particulates, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, wood, wood chemistry
In the United States, prescribed burning of wildlands is practiced on over 2 million hectares of land each year. Based on our survey conducted in 1989, approximately 70, 20, and 10% of this burning occurs in the Southeast, Pacific Northwest, and Rocky Mountain regions,…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, chemical elements, dead fuels, duff, ecosystem dynamics, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, litter, live fuels, particulates, Pinus elliottii, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke managementtoxicity, wildlife habitat management
From the text: 'Prescribed burning is one of the most effective management techniques available to forest managers in the South. With more intensive management of the Southern forest, its use continues to grow each year. However, because of the increasing population, expansion…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Weather, Economics
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: agriculture, Alabama, Arkansas, burning permits, croplands, fire injuries (humans), fire management, Florida, forest management, Georgia, health factors, liability, logging, Louisiana, North Carolina, pine forests, roads, site treatments, slash, smoke management, South Carolina, wind
From the summary ... ' In summary, the results of these large scale fire tests, conducted under marginal burning conditions, were negative; but, paradoxically, I find this very heartening, for we can now be much more confident in our predictions of fire behavior to be expected…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, chemistry, eucalyptus, fire intensity, fire whirls, flammability, fuel loading, ignition, litter, needles, nuclear winter, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, rate of spread, surface fires, temperature, topography, tropical forests, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the Executive Summary (p.iv) ... 'A coordinated program of research on the 1988 fires should be intiated immediately. The essential ingredients for such a program include an ecosystem approach to provide conceptual integration and operational coordination of many individual…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, amphibians, arthropods, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, community ecology, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, grasslands, hydrology, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, Lepidoptera, logging, Montana, national forests, national parks, nongame birds, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus contorta, plant communities, public information, range management, recreation, remote sensing, reptiles, runoff, small mammals, soil nutrients, soils, species diversity (plants), streams, succession, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, vulnerable species or communities, water, water quality, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, cones, coniferous forests, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire injuries (animals), fire regimes, fuel moisture, human caused fires, Idaho, lightning caused fires, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, nongame birds, old growth forests, old growth vegetation, openings, Pandion halioetus, pine forests, Pinus palustris, post fire recovery, predation, public information, raptors, seeds, serotiny, small mammals, smoke behavior, smoke effects, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), waterfowl, wildfires, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air quality, Australia, bibliographies, biomass, boreal forests, Canada, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, deforestation, distribution, Europe, fire regimes, fuel loading, fuel types, gases, climate change, habitat types, land use, remote sensing, savannas, slash and burn, statistical analysis, tropical forests, understory vegetation, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, fire management, firing techniques, grasslands, manuals, Minnesota, Montana, mopping up, North Dakota, smoke management, South Dakota, tallgrass prairies, Wisconsin, Wyoming
A combined theoretical and experimental study has been performed of the behaviour of firebrands in a turbulent, swirling natural convection plume. For the theoretical treatment, firebrands were idealized as spheres of constant density, the burning rate a constant for each type…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: firebrand, plume, laboratory experiments
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, prescribed fire planning, slash burning, air resource management
Description not entered.
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, prescribed fire planning, slash burning, air resource management
The expanding use of prescribed fire to achieve North American land management objectives has led, in recent years, to the increased use of helicopter-ignition, large-scale controlled burns. These mass-ignition convection burns often generate extremely intense and erratic fire…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Logistics, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, biomass, Canada, chemistry, convection, distribution, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire whirls, land management, Ontario, sampling, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management
From the Summary: 'I have discussed the reaction and behavior of animals to fire, smoke and the resulting burnt ground along four general lines: (1) Avoidance response to fire and smoke; (2) Animals attracted to fire and smoke; (3) Animals relationships to blackened areas caused…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildlife, Acrididae, adaptation, Africa, amphibians, arachnids, arthropods, Coleoptera, Crotalus adamanteus, Diptera, Dissosteira, field experimental fires, habits and behavior, human caused fires, Hyla, Hyla crucifera, insects, lightning, lightning caused fires, Melanoplus spp., Lepus, Lycosa rabida, Microsania, nongame birds, Odocoileus virginianus, post-fire recovery, radiation, reptiles, Sigmodon hispidus, Rhodesia, small mammals, South Africa, Sylvilagus floridanus , wildlife food habits, Sylvilagus palustris
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Planning
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: ash, bibliographies, chemistry, community ecology, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fishes, floods, fuel moisture, grasslands, habitat types, hydrology, lakes, landscape ecology, litter, logging, mortality, mosaic, multiple resource management, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, organic matter, overstory, post fire recovery, recreation, regeneration, riparian habitats, runoff, scrub, sedimentation, smoke effects, statistical analysis, streamflow, streams, succession, topography, water quality, watersheds, wildfires, wildlife, woody plants, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Cistus spp., cones, Cupressus sempervirens, dominance (ecology), droughts, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, evergreens, fire adaptations (plants), fire regimes, fire resistant plants, flammability, flowering, forestation, grazing, Greece, hardwoods, legumes, light, litter, mammals, Mediterranean habitats, moisture, mortality, needles, N - nitrogen, pine forests, Pinus brutia, Pinus halepensis, Pinus nigra, pioneer species, plant growth, plant physiology, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, Quercion ilicis, rangelands, regeneration, reproduction, resprouting, sampling, Sarcopoterium spinosum, sclerophyll forests, seasonal activities, seed dispersal, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, serotiny, shrubs, soil moisture, statistical analysis, succession, wildfires, wind