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From the text ... 'This issue of Fire Management Today highlights the expanding science of smoke issues and air quality. From the discussion of Web-based tools that predict how much smoke might come from that fire and where it might go, to the growing array of monitoring…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, fire management, fuel management, smoke management, wildfires
Except in remote areas, most prescribed fires will have some effect on members of the public. It is therefore important for land managers to work with the public before, during, and after a prescribed burn. To do this effectively, managers need to have an accurate idea of what…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: education, fire control, fire management, National Fire Plan, Native Americans, public information, smoke management, urban habitats
In a time when fire planners and forest supervisors in many parts of the United States are implementing plans to increase the number and frequency of prescribed burns, the issue of smoke impacts on air quality is becoming increasingly important. Smoke from prescribed fires can…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, eastern deciduous forest, prescribed fire planning, smoke impacts, smoke management, oak forests
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, Colorado, coniferous forests, crown fires, diameter classes, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel types, hydrocarbons, invasive species, logging, Michigan, national forests, particulates, population density, post fire recovery, recreation, regeneration, rural communities, soil erosion, thinning, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), water quality, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, forest fuels, nonmarket values, small-diameter logs, cost, benefit analysis, forest fires, LADDER FIRES