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From the text ... 'In the summer of 1994, Colorado suffered its worst drought in decades. Severe fire weather was certain to come. On July 2, a major storm hit the State with dry lightning strikes, igniting thousands of wildland fires. Suddenly, the fire blew up. Witnesses at…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: blowups, catastrophic fires, Colorado, crown fires, droughts, fire case histories, fire control, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, hardwood forests, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, lightning, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus edulis, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus gambelii, rate of spread, smoke behavior, smoke management, spot fires, topography, vegetation surveys, Washington, wildfires
Austrostipa compressa, a native ephemeral of southwest Western Australia was stimulated to germinate under a range of temperatures, in the presence of light, and exposure to smoke-water. This combination of environmental cues results in winter-maximum germination in immediate…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire intensity, heat effects, smoke effects, wildfires, disturbance, grasses, introduced species, light, population density, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, soil temperature, temperature, Ehrharta, Poaceae, western Australia, Australia, fire management, forest management, soil management, Mediterranean habitats, disturbance, heat shock, light, reserve management, soil seed bank, temperature
1. The South and Middle American tropics contain the world's largest area of moist savanna. Despite an apparent uniformity in appearance, floristic groupings can be detected and four zones are provisionally outlined with a number of characteristic plants.2. Although currect…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, biogeography, biomass, Brazil, Central America, cerrado, deciduous forests, drainage, Europe, fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, grasslands, land use, Mexico, mosaic, paleoecology, range management, reproduction, savannas, scrub, soil nutrients, South America, species diversity (plants), temperature, topography, neotropical savannas, biogeographical zones, cerrados, plant diversity, palaeoecology, topography, drainage, soil nutrients
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Borneo, Indonesia, light, logging, photography, rainforests, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, tropical forests, understory vegetation, wildfires
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, Avena, Avena fatua, char, combustion, disturbance, germination, organic soils, Queensland, seed dormancy, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, water, weeds, Avena fatua, germination, seed dormancy, smoke water, weeds
From the text (p.122) ... 'In recent years, the debate over Indian fire has continued in the context of discussions of the Wilderness Act of 1964. It is basically a dispute over whether or not Indian fires were a 'natural' form of fire management and, if they were not, whether…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: Canada, Ceanothus, chaparral, coniferous forests, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, evolution, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, grasslands, histories, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, land management, lightning, lightning caused fires, mammals, mosaic, Native Americans, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, prairies, presettlement fires, Quercus, range management, rangelands, scrub, season of fire, seed germination, seedlings, succession, understory vegetation, wilderness areas, wildlife, SMOKE SIGNALS
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, heat, heat effects, legumes, seed dormancy, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature, western Australia, heat, seedbank, seed dormancy, seed germination, western Australia
The exotic longhorn beetle Arhopalus tristisis a pest of pines, particularly those damaged by fire, and a major export quarantine issue in New Zealand. Actinograph recordings of caged individuals showed that males and females were most active from dusk to midnight. Olfactometer…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: bark, experimental fires, fire injuries (plants), forest management, habits and behavior, insects, New Zealand, pine forests, Pinus radiata, plant diseases, population density, reproduction, trapping, attractant, Pinus radiata, Arhopalus tristis, trap, Cerambycidae, oviposition, bark, repellent
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Anigozanthos, Australia, fire dependent species, flowering, heat effects, jarrah, post fire recovery, seed dormancy, seed germination, seed production, smoke effects, smoke management, western Australia, Anigozanthos manglesii, populations, geographical cline, inflorescence level, germination, heat, seed development
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Anigozanthos, Australia, germination, Hibbertia, Leucopogon, Leucopogon conostephioides, Mediterranean habitats, native species (plants), seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, soil moisture, soil temperature, soils, Stirlingia, Stylidium, western Australia, burial, germination, Anigozanthos manglesii, Conastylis neocymosa, Stylidium affine, Stylidium crossocephalum, Hibbertia commutata, Leucopogon conostephioides, Conospermum triplinervium, Stirlingia latifolia
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, char, eucalyptus, Eucalyptus baxteri, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, germination, heat, heat effects, heathlands, Mediterranean habitats, national parks, native species (plants), plant communities, population density, sampling, sclerophyll forests, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, Victoria, Wahlenbergia, wood
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asperula, Australia, Centaurium, Crassula, Desmodium, Elymus, Eragrostis, Eucalyptus obliqua , fire management, Geranium, Gnaphalium, grasses, grazing, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, Hypericum, Juncus, native species (plants), New South Wales, perennial plants, Plantago, Poa, population density, sampling, sclerophyll forests, seed dormancy, seed germination, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, Sporobolus, statistical analysis, Trifolium, Trifolium repens, vegetation surveys, Wales
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: ash, Asia, crown scorch, Europe, fire management, flame length, France, Italy, Japan, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, wildfires, wind
The results of chemical analyses of precipitation samples collected in Singapore between August 1997 and July 1998 are presented. Major inorganic and organic ions were determined in 169 rain samples collected using an automated wet-only sampler. The daily sample pH values ranged…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, biomass, chemical compounds, chemistry, gases, particulates, pH, precipitation, sampling, season of fire, Singapore, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, cover type conversion, deforestation, deserts, distribution, Europe, forest types, habitat conversion, habitat types, land use, landscape ecology, Mediterranean habitats, Portugal, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, Spain, statistical analysis, tropical forests
From the text...'We must change how we perceive safety. We can no longer think of safety only as 'an attitude' or 'common sense.' We must change our values and beliefs to reflect safe firefighting behaviors as intrinsic to a profession--our profession. We must define a new…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Colorado, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, health factors, smoke effects, wilderness areas, wildfires, Wyoming
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies amabilis, Abies concolor, Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, Abies magnifica, air quality, arthropods, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, conifers, cover type, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, forbs, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, grasses, grasslands, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, histories, hydrology, Idaho, insects, Juniperus, landscape ecology, Larix occidentalis, Montana, montane forests, mountains, national forests, Nevada, northern California, Oregon, overstory, Picea engelmannii, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus edulis, Pinus flexilis, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus monticola, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, Populus, prairies, Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, Quercus garryana, range management, relict vegetation, remote sensing, rivers, Salix, shrublands, sloping terrain, smoke management, succession, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, Utah, Washington, watershed management, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming
The litter of many plant species is known to inhibit germination, and this phenomenon is commonly interpreted as allelopathic inhibition of one species by another. However, an alternative interpretation is that seeds may be using environmental signals to inform the timing of…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: allelopathy, Artemisia tridentata, deserts, distribution, germination, grasslands, litter, Nicotiana attenuata, post fire recovery, rangelands, regeneration, Salvia, seed dormancy, seed germination, seed production, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, soil management, soils, succession, Utah, water, wind, wood
From the text ... 'A coalition of state and federal groups said Monday they hoped to warm Floridians to the practice of burning off the dry vegetation that wildfires feed upon. The North Florida Prescribed Fire Council unveiled a series of public service announcements that shows…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: central Florida, education, fire case histories, fire management, Florida, general interest, north Florida, public information, roads, smoke effects, smoke management, Tall Timbers Research Station, wildfires
From the text...'Major policy initiatives and implementation of new management strategies are currently underway in both air resource and fire management. Land managers are rapidly expanding the use of fire to manage ecosystems, while air resource managers are accelerating…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel models, GIS, public information, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text...'The world's tropical forests are disappearing, but it is not easy to understand the complexities of how this is happening. The initial critical disturbance that triggers forest depletion is often obscured by the subsequent, more destructive events....Fire, an…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Amazon, Borneo, cover type conversion, deforestation, disturbance, droughts, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, forest fragmentation, forest management, habitat conversion, Imperata cylindrica, invasive species, logging, overstory, remote sensing, savannas, smoke effects, South America, succession, tropical forests, tropical regions, understory vegetation, wildfires
From the text...'The number one problem facing wildlife species today is loss of habitat. Subdivisions, industrial development, agriculture, golf courses, shopping centers, etc., continue to take away valuable wildlife habitat that can't be replaced. Wildlife are continually…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, Agrostis alba, Andropogon gerardii, backing fires, Cassia, Dactylis glomerata, energy, Festuca, fine fuels, fire exclusion, firebreaks, forage, forbs, fuel management, fuel moisture, grasses, herbicides, humidity, Kentucky, legumes, Lespedeza, lightning caused fires, Medicago sativa, moisture, mowing, native species (plants), nesting, old growth forests, Panicum virgatum, Phleum, roads, savannas, season of fire, smoke management, Sorghastrum nutans, tallgrass prairies, threatened and endangered species (animals), tillage, trees, Trifolium repens, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind
From the text...'...the fire professionals who have access to the Internet and more specifically to the Firenet (firenet@www.anu.edu.au) and to specialized sites dedicated to forest fires such as the Global Fire Monitoring Center (http://www.uni-freiburg.de/fireglobe), have the…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: Alberta, Australia, Brazil, Canada, catastrophic fires, Central America, education, Europe, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, Greece, Honduras, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, pollution, South America, Tropical Oceania, wildfires
From the text...'In addition to tremendous costs associated with suppression, wildfires have a dramatic impact on the health of our forests. California forests have become dangerous tinderboxes, filled with decaying, overstocked trees and chaparral. In its March 1996 statewide…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: age classes, air quality, burning permits, catastrophic fires, chaparral, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel management, grasslands, liability, national forests, particulates, private lands, range management, trees, watershed management, wildfires
From the text ... 'On Monday, firefighters were still trying to contain 700 to 800 acres of wildfires there that were caused when two prescribed burns--designed partly to prevent forest fires--from a few weeks ago rekindled in dry and windy conditions.'
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Apalachicola National Forest, droughts, fire case histories, fire management, fire suppression, general interest, national forests, north Florida, precipitation, roads, spot fires, wildfires