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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, Corymbia, Digitaria, eucalyptus, fire management, forbs, forest management, grasses, heat, Heteropogon, Indigofera, introduced species, native species (plants), population density, Queensland, savannas, season of fire, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, soil management, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, Themeda triandra, tropical forests, fire regime, savanna, seed dormancy, soil seed bank
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: aborigines, agriculture, air quality, Australia, backfires, Canada, chaparral, chemical compounds, coniferous forests, distribution, fire adaptations (plants), fire management, fire suppression, forage, forest management, forest products, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, human caused fires, hunting, land management, land use, lightning caused fires, mammals, National Fire Plan, national parks, Native Americans, Northern Territory of Australia, Pinus ponderosa, plant growth, presettlement fires, regeneration, seed dormancy, seed germination, smoke effects, sprouting, US Forest Service, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Betula papyrifera, boreal forests, buds, Canada, carbon dioxide, Choristoneura fumiferana, coniferous forests, dendrochronology, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, evergreens, fire danger rating, fire intensity, foliage, forest management, histories, insects, Larix laricina, Malacosoma, Manitoba, needles, phenology, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, plant diseases, plant growth, Populus balsamifera, Populus tremuloides, prairies, precipitation, Pristiphora erichsonii, size classes, soil moisture, statistical analysis, temperature, vegetation surveys, wildfires, xeric soils
We explore the effects of climate change on future stand yields and future area burned, and integrate these to determine future Soil Expectation Values (SEV) for white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) in central Saskatchewan. The results suggest that under most future…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, carbon dioxide, fertilization, statistical analysis, Picea glauca, white spruce, Saskatchewan, Canada, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, coniferous forests, climate change impacts, stand yield effects, forest ecosystem models, Co2 Fertilization, stomatal control, PnET, fire cycles, soil expectation values, optimal economic rotation, adaptation
The following list of research topics was generated by agencies within AWFCG during 2005. The topics were ranked originally by the AWFCG Fire Research and Development Committee (FRDAC) and finally by the AWFCG members. Ranking was as follows: 3= high, 2 = medium, 1= low (or H…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords:
From the text ... 'The ponderosa pine-grassland is characterized by the occurrence and distribution of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa. It is widely spread covering some 36 million acres from the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia to Durango, Mexico, and from Nebraska to the…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, aesthetics, air quality, Andropogon scoparius, Arizona, British Columbia, Calamagrostis rubescens, Canada, Chamaebatia foliolosa, coniferous forests, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, Elymus, European settlement, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire scar analysis, fire suppression, flammability, forage, forest management, forest types, fuel management, gases, grasses, grasslands, grazing, habitat types, herbaceous vegetation, landscape ecology, livestock, Mexico, Montana, montane forests, Muhlenbergia, multiple resource management, national parks, Native Americans, Nebraska, needles, openings, pine, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, public information, Purshia tridentata, recreation, regeneration, reproduction, South Dakota, succession, surface fires, understory vegetation, water, wildlife
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Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, backfires, crown fires, fire case histories, fire control, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, firebreaks, flank fires, forage, forest edges, ground fires, headfires, humus, invasive species, land management, landscape ecology, mineral soils, mortality, multiple resource management, pine forests, Pinus taeda, rate of spread, runoff, seedlings, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, soil management, spot fires, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, water, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Traveling the borderland between modern Montana and the endless expanse of what's now known as southern Alberta. Still smoking all around, the explorer notes: 'grass having been lately burnt,' 'grass nearly all burnt,' 'grass yet burning.' For days, his journals are filled with…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northern Rockies, International
Keywords: Alberta, Canada, community ecology, digital data collection, ecosystem dynamics, education, European settlement, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, general interest, grasses, grasslands, histories, hunting, landscape ecology, light, lightning, Montana, mortality, mountains, Native Americans, presettlement fires, public information, succession, suppression, wildfires, wildlife, wood, woody fuels, fire culture, MYTHOLOGY, TRIBAL FORESTERS, VIRTUAL FORESTS
From the text ... 'Restoration treatments can be ecologically as well as socially and economically beneficial. ... The fire regime at Girard was largely due to frequent burning by American Indians. ...Seeley Lake shows the importance of questioning the 'naturalness' of a given…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: age classes, catastrophic fires, Cervus elaphus, community ecology, competition, coniferous forests, conifers, crown fires, diameter classes, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, forage, forest fragmentation, forest management, insects, lakes, land management, Larix occidentalis, logging, mammals, Montana, national forests, Native Americans, nongame birds, old growth forests, overstory, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, population density, Pseudotsuga menziesii, raptors, rate of spread, recreation, regeneration, smoke effects, stand characteristics, succession, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies balsamea, adaptation, age classes, arachnids, arthropods, boreal forests, Calathus ingratus, Canada, Carabidae, Cladium, clearcutting, Coleoptera, community ecology, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, forest management, grasslands, ground cover, habitat suitability, habitat types, habits and behavior, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, histories, insects, invertebrates, Kalmia angustifolia , landscape ecology, Larix laricina, Ledum groenlandicum, lichen moss fuels, lichens, logging, mortality, mosses, Picea mariana, population density, population ecology, Quebec, regeneration, reproduction, soils, statistical analysis, temperature, trapping, understory vegetation, Vaccinium, wildfires, xeric soils, boreal forest, community response, disturbance, forest fire, ground beetles, logging, fire-prone landscapes, PTEROSTICHUS BREVICORNIS
From the text ... 'The August 2004 issue of the Canadian Journal of forest Research (volume 34[8]) is devoted to a special topic: 'The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in Canada's Northwest Territories: Advancing the Science of Fire Behaviour.' Running from…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, charcoal, crown fires, experimental fires, fire management, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel types, histories, Northwest Territories, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, regeneration, sedimentation, Tall Timbers Research Station, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife
From the text ... 'In Federal land management, ecological restoration has emerged in recent years as an alternative to the intensive management for commercial resource extraction widely practiced following World War II and the passive management -- 'letting Nature heal herself…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: Abies spp., Arizona, community ecology, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fuel appraisal, histories, Juniperus, land management, Larix occidentalis, national forests, Native Americans, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus edulis, Pinus ponderosa, plant communities, Populus, private lands, Sequoiadendron giganteum , smoke behavior, state forests, threatened and endangered species (plants), Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Forest-fire policy of U.S. federal agencies has evolved from the use of small patrols in newly created National Parks to diverse policy initiatives and institutional arrangements that affect millions of hectares of forests. Even with large expenditures and substantial…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire hazard, fire suppression, fuel management, forest policy, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, conservation, dead fuels, duff, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental assessment, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire size, forest management, fuel types, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, litter, National Fire Plan, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, Pinus contorta, lodgepole pine, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, public information, shrubs, smoke management, surface fires, thinning, threatened and endangered species, US Forest Service, vulnerable species or communities, wilderness fire management, woody fuels, wildfires, wildlife refuges
C4 photosynthesis had a mid-Tertiary origin that was tied to declining atmospheric CO2, but C4-dominated grasslands did not appear until late Tertiary. According to the 'CO2-threshold' model, these C4 grasslands owe their origin to a further late Miocene decline in CO2 that gave…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: grasslands, photosynthesis, savannas, woodland, miocene, paleosols, biomass, CO2 - carbon dioxide, charcoal, deserts, distribution, disturbance, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fuel loading, fuel moisture, light, lightning caused fires, mesic soils, paleoecology, plant communities, population density, precipitation, range management, temperature, xeric soils, wildfires
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the NASA Earth Observing System Terra and Aqua satellites provides global fire observations of unprecedented quality. This paper presents spatial and temporal distributions of active fires from 2001 and 2002, the…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: diurnal cycle, land cover, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, time series, satellite remote sensing, annual cycle, global fire activity, North America, South America, Africa, agriculture, Asia, Australia, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, evergreens, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, forest management, gases, climate change, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, natural areas management, population density, remote sensing, season of fire, savannas, shrublands, temperature, urban habitats, vegetation surveys, wetlands, wildfires
Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has always been large in scale. The depth and breadth of the research conducted here, however, may surprise even many who are engaged in it. Our research programs have a wide geographical and temporal scope, an…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Forest Service, research, research accomplishment report
Large-scale, recurrent fires in Indonesia in recent decades have caused widespread deforestation and transformation of peatlands, and have contributed to substantial smoke haze and greenhouse-gas pollution. In some areas, local community use of fire for livelihood needs could be…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fishing, livelihoods, peatlands, turtles, agriculture, community ecology, deforestation, drought, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire size, fish, fuel loading, GIS - geographic information system, grasslands, grasslike plants, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, hydrology, natural areas management, overstory, plant growth, population density, post-fire recovery, rate of spread, regeneration, remote sensing, scrub, shrublands, soils, vegetation surveys
Extensive bibliographic list of references on Alaska wildfire from the Geophysical Institute.
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: bibliography
Monitoring and predicting ozone concentrations are a matter of special concern because ozone is one of the most important plant-damaging air pollutants in the world. High ozone concentrations have been shown to be harmful to plants not only within urban areas but also in remote…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ozone, air quality, air temperature, climatology, fire management, histories, humidity, national forests, national parks, pollution, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wind
I have reviewed, but briefly, the extremely abundant literature on coal formation with reference to the occurrence, development, and characteristics of fossil charcoal, 'fusain.' The findings in petrology, the science of coal formation and development, show that fusain, a fossil…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ash, charcoal, combustion, ecology, ferns, fire regimes, Florida, fossils, lightning, mosses, Nyssa sylvatica, paleoecology, particulates, pine, prehistoric fires, spontaneous combustion, Taxodium distichum, wildfires, woody plants
The geographic focus of the 'Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration' project (known as the Fuels Synthesis Project) is on the dry forests of the Western United States. Project goals include developing accessible analyses, protocols, and tools; writing peer-reviewed…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: dry forests, fuels management, fuels reduction
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Eastern, Southern, International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, Canada, C - carbon, chemical compounds, chemistry, distribution, fire case histories, fire management, forest management, GIS, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Ontario, particulates, Pennsylvania, pollution, Quebec, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, wildfires, receptor models, potential source contribution function, PM2.5, long-range transport, forest fire, biomass burning, PSCF (Potential Source Contribution Function) ANALYSIS, smoke plume, TEOM - Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance, PHILADELPHIA
The accuracy of wildfire air pollutant emission estimates was assessed by comparing observations of carbon monoxide (CO) and particulate matter (PM) concentrations in wildfire plumes to predictions of CO and PM concentrations, based on emission estimates and air quality models.…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, coniferous forests, eastern Texas, fire case histories, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, fuel management, light, ozone, particulates, population density, smoke effects, smoke management, Texas, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildfires, wildfire inventory, wildfire emissions, emissions inventory, emissions modeling, TexAQS, photochemical modeling, CAMx, plume rise, plumes
In Sept. 2003, a prescribed burn on the Uinta National Forest escaped, costing nearly $3 million to extinguish while choking Utah cities with smoke for a week. When the incident drew harsh criticism from local officials and news media, fire managers worried that prescribed…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: social acceptance, Uinta National Forest, disturbance, education, fire case histories, property damage, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, logging, national forests, natural areas management, escaped prescribed fires, public information, sampling, statistical analysis, thinning, Utah, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildland fuels
A record of prehistoric and historic burning of carbonaceous materials may be found in the elemental carbon contents of the sedimentary columns. The widespread dissemination of such carbon as microcrystalline graphite is indicated by its presence in atmospheric dusts collected…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: C - carbon, marine sediments, aerosols, ash, charcoal, combustion, coniferous forests, dust, energy, fossils, fuel types, gases, geology, glaciers, hardwood forest, manganese, Mediterranean habitats, minerals, particulates, savannas, sedimentation, soils, soot, temperature, tropical forest, tundra, wildfires, wind, wood chemistry