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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Adenostoma, air quality, amphibians, biogeography, Ceanothus, chaparral, coastal vegetation, community ecology, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, grasslands, mammals, Mediterranean habitats, nongame birds, post fire recovery, reptiles, sclerophyll vegetation, small mammals, southern California, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), succession, wading birds, wildfires
This guide provides direction for planning and managing smoke from prescribed fires to achieve air quality requirements through improved smoke management practices. The Guide applies to all prescribed fires, those started by managers or by nature throughout the Manti-La Sal…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, backfires, burning permits, coniferous forests, firing techniques, fuel types, health factors, liability, national forests, national parks, plant communities, public information, rangeland fires, rangelands, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, thinning, Utah, watershed management, wilderness areas, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, Yellowstone National Park
From the text...'The purpose of this document is to provide technical information on prescribed burning. It does so in two ways. One, it provides background information useful in determining reasonably available control measures (RACM) and best available control measures (BACM)…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, burning permits, Colorado, combustion, education, fire hazard reduction, firing techniques, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, Georgia, Montana, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, Oregon, particulates, public information, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, US Forest Service, Washington, wind
From the text...'The wildfires of 1998 brought another harsh reminder to the people of Florida of the power of natural hazards to destroy property, threaten safety, and cause untold human hardship. Overall, after the firestorm was finally extinguished, the event had caused one…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Chile, coastal forests, education, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire suppression, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, fuel management, histories, land management, logging, natural resource legislation, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, post fire recovery, public information, scrub, shrublands, smoke management, statistical analysis, tropical forests, US Forest Service, wildfires
From the text...'In the past month and a half 2,214 wildfires (ninety percent of which were started by lightning) have consumed 497,209 acres in Florida. More than forty-five thousand people were evacuated from areas that lay in the path of these fires. Five hundred million…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, education, fire case histories, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, general interest, lightning, lightning caused fires, precipitation, public information, wildfires
From the text...'Prescribed Burning Act of 1990 ... A blue-ribbon committee translated these prescribed burning concerns into proposed legislation that was introduced into the 1990 legislative session. Representative Frances L. "Chance” Irvine and Senator Karen Thurman led the…
Person:
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Safety
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, burning intervals, competition, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, education, European settlement, fire dependent species, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire management, fire protection, fire size, Florida, France, fuel management, grazing, herbaceous vegetation, land management, landscape ecology, liability, livestock, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, nutrient cycling, pollution, prehistoric fires, public information, range management, reforestation, smoke management, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), state forests, state parks, statistical analysis, Stoddard, H.L., Tall Timbers Research Station, wilderness areas, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wildlife management
I am going to talk about the agency I work for and our workload here in Southern Arizona. We are working with private ranchers on non federal land, to get fire back on those ecosystems, and mesh it with grazing management. One of the biggest problems confronting us is to use…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Arizona, livestock, private lands, fire reintroduction, ranching, agriculture, air quality, conservation, deserts, drought, ecosystem dynamics, fine fuels, fire management, fire size, grasses, grasslands, grazing, plant communities, range management, smoke management, soil conservation