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Much of the recent work in reducing wildland fire danger has occurred in the western and southeastern United States. However, high-risk areas do exist at the wildland-urban interface areas in the Northeast and very little work has been done to understand the fire management…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, firebreaks, National Fire Plan, wildfires, air quality, cutting, public information, thinning, Massachusetts, New England, fire management, forest management, pine barrens, homeowner perceptions-wildland fire risk, fire hazard reduction strategies
The purpose of the Arkansas Smoke Management Program (SMP) is to assure adherence to air quality standards and to manage smoke from prescribed fire to keep the smoke’s impact on people and the environment within acceptable limits. In 1997, the Environmental Protection Agency (…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern
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The character of most forest ecosystems in the southern U.S. has been shaped by fire. Indians and early settlers burned the woods for many purposes. After a period of trying to exclude fire, foresters recognized its value as an ecological force and its necessity as a management…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, backfires, broadcast burning, carbon dioxide, Colinus virginianus, diseases, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, European settlement, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, firebreaks, firing techniques, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, grazing, hardwoods, histories, lightning caused fires, logging, low intensity burns, moisture, Native Americans, Odocoileus virginianus, overstory, particulates, pine forests, pine, Pinus elliottii densa, Pinus palustris, Pinus rigida, Pinus serotina, pollution, regeneration, season of fire, seedlings, site treatments, smoke effects, stand characteristics, temperature, topography, understory vegetation, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, wood
[From the text] In the southeastern United States, the native biota of many natural ecosystems are adapted to periodic burning. It is generally believed that in Florida at the time of European intervention, these ecosystems were sustained as fire climax communities by relatively…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, climax vegetation, fire management, Florida, land management, land use, land use planning, natural resource legislation, particulates, plant communities, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, state parks
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: forest management, smoke management
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: crowns, dead fuels, education, fire suppression, forest management, fuel management, general interest, Georgia, land management, litter, overstory, public information, smoke management, surface fires, understory vegetation
[From the text] In the southeastern United States, the native biota of many natural ecosystems are adapted to periodic burning. It is generally believed that in Florida at the time of European intervention, these ecosystems were sustained as fire climax communities by relatively…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: forest management, land use plan, smoke management, Florida, smoke rights, easements
The International Association of Wildland Fire sponsored the second Fire Behavior and Fuels conference in Destin, Florida. The conference theme was 'Fire Environment--Innovations, Management, and Policy.' Over 450 attendees participated in presentations on the latest innovations…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, policy, science, wildland fire management, IAWF - International Association of Wildland Fire
Fires emit significant amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere. These emissions, however, are highly variable in both space and time. Additionally, CO2 emissions estimates from fires are very uncertain. The combination of high spatial and temporal variability and substantial…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: carbon flux, carbon dioxide emissions, fire emissions, NPP - net primary production
Despite its destructive capabilities, fire plays a vital role in the ecology of wildland habitats. Legal implications associated with the use or control of fire as a management practice include potential liability for damages caused by escaped fires and creation of smoke hazards…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Hazard and Risk, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coastal plain, conservation, education, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, Florida, forest management, Georgia, Piedmont, plant communities, succession, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), wilderness fire management, wildlife habitat management
In their classic article Allen and Gould (Allen, G.M., and E.M. Gould. 1986. Complexity, wickedness, and public forests. J. For. 84(4):20 -24) stated that the most daunting problems associated with public forest management had a ''wicked'' element: ''Wicked problems share…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, climate change, Idaho, land management, liability, Montana, mosaic, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, private lands, Pseudotsuga menziesii, smoke management, thinning, Washington, wicked problems, thinning
From the text (pp.6-7) ... 'Another [reason periodic low-intensity fires have ceased to provide forest and land maintenance] is the culture of fire suppression in America deliberately created in the early 20th century to promote a shift to intensive forestry and away from…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Hazard and Risk, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: age classes, air quality, artificial regeneration, backing fires, burning intervals, burning permits, C - carbon, competition, cover, crown scorch, duff, education, FEIS, fine fuels, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, hardwood forests, herbaceous vegetation, herbicides, ignition, land use, liability, light, litter, livestock, logging, mineral soils, mortality, N - nitrogen, north Florida, nutrient cycling, pine forests, pine, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus taeda, plant growth, population density, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, site treatments, slash, soil leaching, stand characteristics, suppression, Tall Timbers Research Station, thinning, trees, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, woody fuels