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The challenges of the 2020 Fire Year have validated the Cohesive Strategy and proven its foundational value for additional success and achievement across boundaries and landscapes in the West. The following pages offer a snapshot of 2020 activities and successes in the Western…
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Year: 2021
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: National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), wildfire, wildland fire
Indonesian fire events generate significant impacts on ecosystems, society, and climate regionally and globally. Following severe burning in 2015, Indonesia prioritized targeted fire prevention to reduce crop destruction, haze, forest degradation, and carbon emissions. We show…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, fire management, wildfires, degraded forests, smallholders, fire activity
Brazil has recently (2014) changed from a zero-fire policy to an Integrated Fire Management (IFM) program with the active use of prescribed burning (PB) in federal Protected Areas (PA) and Indigenous Territories (IT) of the Brazilian savanna (Cerrado). PB is commonly applied in…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire management, fire policy, remote sensing, burned area, scar size, savannas, Brazil, fire size
Throughout the United States, wildland firefighters respond to wildfires, performing arduous work in remote locations. Wildfire incidents can be an ideal environment for the transmission of infectious diseases, particularly for wildland firefighters who congregate in work and…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfires, PM - particulate matter, occupational exposure, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, firefighters, firefighter health
Wildland firefighters are repeatedly exposed to elevated levels of wildland fire smoke (WFS) while protecting lives and properties from wildland fires. Studies reporting personal exposure concentrations of air pollutants in WFS during fire suppression or prescribed burn…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: PM2.5, PM - particulate matter, CO - carbon monoxide, black carbon, trace metals, firefighters, Ohio, firefighter health
Large forest fires have repeatedly affected Europe, in particular the Mediterranean countries. It is now crucial to continue the effort to feed the several layers of prediction models and understand how wildfire spreads in order to develop modern preventative and mitigation…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Portugal, remote sensing, Sentinel-5P, TROPOMI - TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument, EWE - extreme wildfire event, CO - carbon monoxide, CH4 - methane
Particle mass and number of smoke aerosol exposures of firefighters were studied during prescribed fire events. In addition, organic and elemental carbon, functional content and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons were determined by spectrometric and chromatographic methods.…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: NMR spectroscopy, functional composition, GC-MS, BaP - benzo(a)pyrene, wildfire smoke, particle number, firefighters, firefighter health, Alabama
The importance of fire for the regeneration of the forests has never been so topical as in our days, when increasing use is made of controlled burning in the interests of forestry. In 1955 about 40,000 hectares of forest land, belonging to the Forest Service and the companies,…
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Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, Muddus National Park, Sweden, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, ash, Betula pubescens, Betula verrucosa, cover, Calluna vulgaris, charcoal, Ceratodon purpureus, Cladina spp., Deschampsia flexuosa, Empetrum hermaphroditum, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, forest management, hardwood forest, heathlands, humus, leaves, lichens, litter, Luzula spp., Marchantia polymorpha, mycorrhiza, national parks, pH, Picea abies, pine forests, Pinus sylvestris, pioneer species, Pleurozium schreberi, Polytrichum juniperinum, Polytrichum piliferum, Populus tremula, post-fire recovery, reforestation, regeneration, Rubus idaeus, seed dispersal, seedlings, smoke effects, soil temperature, soils, Stereocaulon spp., temperature, thinning, trees, Vaccinium myrtillus, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, vegetation surveys, wildfires