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Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, Northwest
Keywords: lightning caused fires, remote sensing

Microscopic charcoal fragments preserved in lake and swamp sediments with pollen and other microfossils provide evidence for past burning regimes. Some problems with the interpretation of charcoal records are similar to those of pollen analysis, but other factors must be taken…
Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Fire History, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, Australia, charcoal, fire regimes, histories, lakes, paleoclimatology, pollen, sampling, swamps, water

The frequency of forest fires during the past 600 yr was studied on 281 sample plots within boreal forest ecosystems in a river valley in northern Sweden. Fire scars in living and dead trees were used for dating past fires. Before fire suppression started in the 19th century the…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Aconitum septentrionale, age classes, agriculture, bark, Betula pubescens, Betula verrucosa, boreal forests, Calluna vulgaris, charcoal, Cladonia, clearcutting, community ecology, coniferous forests, crown fires, dendrochronology, dominance (ecology), ecosystem dynamics, Europe, evolution, fire control, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire scar analysis, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fungi, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, land use, landscape ecology, lichens, lightning caused fires, mortality, mosaic, national forests, overstory, Picea abies, pine forests, pioneer species, plant diseases, plant growth, plant physiology, pollen, Populus, post fire recovery, precipitation, seedlings, shrublands, shrubs, soil nutrients, soils, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, succession, Sweden, topography, Vaccinium myrtillus, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, vegetation surveys, wildfires, windthrows

The purpose of this report is to make an environmental evaluation of prescribed burning and its alternatives, and relate to the economic considerations in the southern Region of the U.S. Forest Service.
Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, amphibians, Andropogon, Appalachian Mountains, Aristida stricta, arthropods, Cercyonis pegala, Danuas plexippus, earthworms, education, erosion, experimental areas, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, fishes, forest management, game birds, Graphium marcellus, grasslands, habitat types, hardwood forests, herbicides, histories, Hyla andersonii, insects, invertebrates, land use, Lepidoptera, mammals, multiple resource management, Mus musculus, national forests, nongame birds, Peromyscus polionotus, pine forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus rigida, Pinus strobus, Pinus taeda, Pinus virginiana, public information, Quercus, reptiles, savannas, Sigmodon hispidus, site treatments, small mammals, smoke management, soil organic matter, Tall Timbers Research Station, threatened and endangered species (animals), Urocyon cinereoargenteus, water quality, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management

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Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, gases, New York, old fields, particulates, smoke management, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, fuel management, Mediterranean habitats, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildfires

The information presented is directed to environmental scientists and land managers concerned with the quantity of, and methods for reducing, criteria pollutants produced from open burning of forest residues. This report documents the first in a series of paired-unit…
Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, pollution, smoke management

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Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, carbon dioxide, chemistry, fire hazard reduction, fuel accumulation, fuel types, gases, hydrocarbons, light, ozone, pollution, sampling, season of fire, statistical analysis, swamps, western Australia, wildfires, wind

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Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, bibliographies, British Columbia, browse, Canada, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, forest management, grazing, land management, litter, logging, plant growth, Populus tremuloides, regeneration, runoff, seedlings, site treatments, slash, soils, streamflow, water quality, wildlife habitat management

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Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Canada, chaparral, fire management, fire whirls, firebrands, firebreaks, firing techniques, fuel moisture, fuel types, grass fuels, marshes, pine forests, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, shrub fuels, slash, smoke management, topography

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Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: bibliographies, fire management, pine forests, smoke management

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Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Georgia, national parks, Okefenokee Swamp, particulates, pine forests, Pinus palustris, smoke management, swamps, wildlife, wildlife refuges

A speculative, phenomenological model is formulated for the time-varying intensity and spread rate of a free-burning fire under the influence of nonsteady wind. The model is linearized by approximations and explicit solutions derived for the amplitude response of spread rate and…
Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel management, fuel models, rate of spread, spot fires, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind

Plume trajectory measurements were made at a power station on the South African Highveld under mainly near-neutral stability conditions. The maximum distance of observation ranged from 1050 to 6750 m. The fit of the models of Briggs (1969, 1970) and of Moore (1973, 1974) to the…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, heat effects, particulates, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, South Africa, wind

From the text...'The purpose of this guide is to assist in the operational monitoring and evaluation of prescribed fires. A common approach to monitoring and evaluation will enable prescribed fire managers and resource specialists in different organizations and areas to share…
Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass, distribution, flame length, fuel appraisal, fuel moisture, ground cover, hydrology, live fuels, population density, rate of spread, smoke behavior, soils, species diversity (plants), topography, vegetation surveys, water, wildlife, wildlife habitat management

Until the end of July 1977, the fires in the forested and brush-covered land of California had been fewer than expected. The summer fire season was well along, and with less than average acreage burned, protection agencies were encouraged. Then a series of events dramatically…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: chaparral, droughts, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, lightning caused fires, national forests, northern California, smoke effects, southern California, topography, wind

From the summary ... 'The basic routes leading to product formation in fires are identified and involve the thermal and thermal oxidative decomposition of the polymeric material. These products are released into the relatively mobile atmosphere of the fire where further…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical elements, combustion, decomposition, experimental fires, laboratory fires, pollution

From the text: 'In my opinion, professional foresters should be working much harder to get the facts across on prescribed burning because if we don't I feel forest management could suffer from restrictive rules or laws, both at the State and Federal level. There are still some…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conservation, education, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, hardwoods, invasive species, liability, pine forests, public information, smoke management, Smokey Bear program

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Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: chaparral, fire equipment, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire protection, fuel appraisal, fuel management, fuel models, fuel types, logging, site treatments, smoke management

From the text: 'Basically this paper covers the information contained in the first part of Chapter 6. 'How to Manage Smoke' of the SOUTHERN FORESTRY SMOKE MANAGEMENT GUIDEBOOK. The chapter presents a logic sequence that guides the user through a series of decisions designed to…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, cover, fire protection, forest management, fuel types, grasses, Ilex glabra, litter, logging, needles, overstory, pine forests, Pinus, pollution, Serenoa repens, smoke management, wind

From the text: 'An introduction to the information needed and the procedure that should be followed to properly manage smoke from the prescription burning of forest fuel is presented. The information has been excerpted from Chapter VI of the Southern Forestry Smoke Management…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire protection, particulates, pine forests, pollution, smoke management

Increasing concern over air pollution in general in the United States has increased the impetus for effective management of smoke originating from prescription fires. This paper describes a new Guidebook that gives interim suggestions for smoke management under conditions…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal plain, fire protection, forbs, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasses, headfires, Ilex glabra, litter, needles, overstory, particulates, Piedmont, pine forests, Pinus, pollution, rate of spread, Serenoa repens, smoke management, understory vegetation, weather observations

From the text: ' Without question, the majority of the state forestry organizations have assumed a prominent role in the control of air pollution from forestry burning. On the whole, the states are facing up to the problem realistically with planned programs that demonstrate to…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, education, fire protection, forest management, human caused fires, land management, natural resource legislation, pollution, public information, smoke management, Virginia, weather observations

From the text: 'The Federal Clean Air Act states '...that the prevention and control of air pollution at its source is the primary responsibility of states and local governments..,' In order to fulfill this responsiility the various states and a number of local governments have…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, burning permits, fire protection, forest management, forest products, Georgia, health factors, land use, multiple resource management, natural resource legislation, pollution, rural communities, smoke management, urban habitats

From Summary and Conclusions: '1. There are several different types of forest fires, each with distinct sets of emission characteristics. Emission factors for combustion products vary widely with fire behavior and fuel conditions. Whenever possible they should be expressed as…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Southern, Southwest, International
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, backing fires, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, fire management, fire protection, forest management, fuel management, gases, headfires, hydrocarbons, logging, CH4 - methane, New Mexico, organic matter, particulates, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus taeda, residence time, smoke management, water, wildfires