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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfire, wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy)

Conventional wisdom within American federal fire management agencies suggests that external influence such as community or political pressure for aggressive suppression are key factors circumscribing the ability to execute less aggressive fire management strategies. Thus, a…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire size, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, smoke effects, wildfires, education, insects, mortality, public information, Wyoming, fire management, forest management, land management, fire management, political pressure, community pressure, wildlife costs, fire suppression, wildfire policy

From the text...'Comparing an accouont of the 1997 fires...with the events of 2015 gives one an eerie sense of history repeating itself. Will anything be different in the aftermath this time? We believe it is naive to expect Indonesia to solve the forest-fire problem on its own…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire size, wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, Borneo, Sumatra, air quality, agriculture, clearcutting, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, mammals, precipitation, fire management, forest management, peatlands, Southeast Asia, haze, peat

Forest and land fires in Riau province of Sumatera increase along with the rapid deforestation, land clearing, and are induced by dry climate. Forest and land fires, which occur routinely every year, cause trans-boundary air pollution up to Singapore. Economic losses were felt…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Sumatra, haze, air pollution, aerosols

Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildland fires, adaptation, mitigation, resilience, information sharing

This study estimated the economic costs associated with morbidity from the wildfires that occurred in 2007 in southern California. We used the excess number of hospital admissions and emergency department visits to quantify the morbidity effects and used medical costs to…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: cost of illness, air quality, forest fire, respiratory illness, social cost, public health

Emissions of fine particulate matter from prescribed burns are a growing concern for wildland fire managers. Stringent air quality regulations and community discern over the emissions from prescribed fire smoke often severely restrict the ability to implement restorative and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): California
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, air quality, fuel treatments, decision making, Kings Canyon National Park

[Executive Summary] The Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 (FLAME Act) called for the development of a National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy). The Cohesive Strategy was created to serve as guidance to assist…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), WFLC - Wildland Fire Leadership Council, fuels management, CPAW - Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire, community planning, wildfire

Wildfires are heating up once again in the American West. In 2015, wildfires burned more than 10 million acres in the United States at a cost of $2.1 billion in federal expenditures. As the fires burned, the U.S. Forest Service announced that, for the first time, more than half…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: budget, wildfire management, wildfire policy

An assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the Joint Fire Science Program was conducted to determine whether or not science has been used to inform management and policy decisions and to explore factors that facilitate use of fire science. In a web survey and…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire research, science delivery, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program

Greg Jones presented a webinar on using biomass for bioenergy. The greenhouse gas and particulate matter emissions from delivering and burning forest treatment residue biomass in a boiler for thermal energy are compared with onsite disposal by pile-burning and using various…
Person: Jones
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: carbon emissions, greenhouse gases, logging residue, bioenergy, biomass energy

Transboundary haze pollution as a result of indiscriminate land clearance by fire has significant health and economic impacts on member states of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN). Meanwhile the impact of the associated carbon emissions, ecological disturbance…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Prevention, Fire Behavior, Regulations and Legislation, Emissions and Smoke, Social Science, Economics, Climate
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, air quality, C - carbon, fire management, forest management, smoke management, land management, air pollution, biodiversity, haze, peat swamp forest, socioeconomics, Southeast Asia, Borneo, conservation, Kalimantan, mortality, drought