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During early July 2002, wildfires burned ∼1 × 106 ha of forest in Quebec, Canada. The resultant smoke plume was seen in satellite images blanketing the U.S. east coast. Concurrently, extremely high CO mixing ratios were observed at the Atmospheric Investigation, Regional…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: Quebec, air pollution, CO - carbon monoxide, AIRMAP, aerosol
Old-growth savannas and forests dominated by longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) are of great conservation and research interest. Comprehensive inventories of old-growth communities, however, are lacking for most of longleaf pine's natural range. We searched the literature,…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: age classes, Alabama, amphibians, bibliographies, biogeography, carnivorous plants, cavity nesting birds, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, conservation, conservation easements, Cumberland Plateau, Dasypus novemcinctus, diameter classes, distribution, disturbance, duff, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, Georgia, Gopherus polyphemus, ground cover, ground fires, histories, Imperata cylindrica, introduced species, invasive species, invertebrates, keystone species, land use, landscape ecology, light, Liqustrum sinese, logging, Longleaf Alliance, longleaf pine, Lonicera japonica, Louisiana, Lygodium, military lands, Mississippi, mountains, national forests, native species (plants), natural areas management, nongame birds, North Carolina, old growth forests, partial cutting, Picoides borealis, Piedmont, pine forests, Pinus palustris, plant communities, plantations, presettlement vegetation, private lands, Red Hills, reptiles, sandhills, Sapium sebiferum, savannas, South Carolina, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), stand characteristics, state forests, surface fires, Tall Timbers Research Station, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), vegetation surveys, Virginiana, vulnerable species or communities, Wade Tract, wildfires, wildlife refuges, Wisteria
Heavy smoke from forest fires in the Amazon was observed to reduce cloud droplet size and so delay the onset of precipitation from 1.5 kilometers above cloud base in pristine clouds to more than 5 kilometers in polluted clouds and more than 7 kilometers in pyro-clouds.…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Amazon, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, Brazil, chemical compounds, deforestation, fire management, GIS, particulates, pollution, precipitation, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, South America, storms, wildfires
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, biomass, catastrophic fires, combustion, European settlement, fire case histories, fire control, fire equipment, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, land use, landscape ecology, national forests, national parks, private lands, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Biomass burning constitutes a major contribution to global emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, greenhouse gases and aerosols. Furthermore, biomass burning has an impact on health, transport, the environment and land use. Vegetation fires are certainly not…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, Asia, biomass, Canada, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, Central America, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, fire frequency, fire management, human caused fires, Italy, land use, CH4 - methane, natural areas management, nutrient cycling, Portugal, remote sensing, Russia, season of fire, statistical analysis, United Kingdom, vegetation surveys, wildfires
The Nature Conservancy, World Wide Fund for Nature and IUCN have pledged to work together and with partners to address the causes and ecological and social consequences of altered fire regimes across the world. The partners sponsored an experts workshop in May 2004 where we…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Great Basin, International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, Asia, Australia, biomass, boreal forests, Bromus tectorum, catastrophic fires, conservation, croplands, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire sensitive plants, fire size, fire suppression, forbs, forest types, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel management, Ghana, climate change, grasses, grasslands, grazing, greenhouse gases, habitat conversion, habitat suitability, habitat types, health factors, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, incendiary fires, invasive species, lightning caused fires, livestock, logging, moisture, post fire recovery, rural communities, savannas, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), temperature, thinning, tropical forests, wildfires, altered fire regimes, fire-dependent ecosystems, LANDFIRE, anthropogenic effects, PRIORITY ECOREGIONS
Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) numbers on Fort Jackson began declining in the late 1980s to a low of 7 potential breeding groups and 3 solitary male groups, consisting of approximately 29 individuals in 10 active clusters by 1995. Intensive management practices were…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Mapping
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: age classes, Andropogon, Aristida stricta, artificial cavities, burning intervals, cavity nesting birds, cavity trees, coastal plain, conservation, distribution, droughts, Dryocopus pileatus, Elaphe obsoleta, fire regimes, forage, forest management, genetics, GIS, Glaucomys, Glaucomys volans, hardwoods, herbicides, Melanerpes, Melanerpes carolinus, military lands, nesting, nongame birds, old growth forests, overstory, parasites, Picoides borealis, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, population density, population ecology, predators, Quercus laevis, reproduction, reptiles, sandhills, Schizachyrium spp., site treatments, small mammals, smoke management, South Carolina, statistical analysis, thinning, translocation, Vaccinium arboreum, wildlife habitat management, artificial cavities, dispersal, Dryocopus pileatus, Fort Jackson, Glaucomys volans, herbicide, Melanerpes carolinus, Picoides borealis, pileated woodpecker, PADD restrictor, PVC inserts, red-bellied woodpecker, red-cockaded woodpecker, sandhills, southern flying squirrel, translocation
Red-cockaded woodpecker populations declined precipitously following European Settlement and expansion and cutting of the original pine forests across the southeastern United States. By 1990 most residual populations lacked demographic viability, existed in degraded habitat, and…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern, International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arkansas, artificial cavities, biogeography, cavity nesting birds, cavity trees, coastal plain, cutting, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Elaphe obsoleta, European settlement, fire dependent species, fire regimes, fragmentation, Glaucomys volans, habitat suitability, habitat types, land use, landscape ecology, litigation, logging, Louisiana, military lands, national forests, natural resource legislation, nongame birds, Oklahoma, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus echinata, population density, population ecology, predation, private lands, reptiles, Schizachyrium spp., site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), translocation, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges, woody plants, Interior Highlands, Picoides borealis, red-cockaded woodpecker, status, West Gulf Coastal Plain
During the 1970s and 1980s, the Francis Marion National Forest (FMNF) supported the second largest and only documented naturally increasing population of red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis). Prior to Hurricane Hugo hitting the FMNF in September 1989, the red-cockaded…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Economics, Hazard and Risk, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, age classes, artificial cavities, birds, burning intervals, cavity nesting birds, cavity trees, coastal plain, competition, distribution, disturbance, droughts, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, ground cover, habitat conversion, habitat suitability, habits and behavior, hardwoods, herbaceous vegetation, ignition, mortality, national forests, nesting, nongame birds, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, pocosins, population ecology, reproduction, salvage, season of fire, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, statistical analysis, storms, thinning, threatened and endangered species (animals), trees, US Forest Service, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, wind, artificial cavities, decline, Francis Marion National Forest, Hurricane Hugo, long term recovery, Picoides borealis, recovery, red-cockaded woodpecker
Eglin Air Force Base (Eglin) supports 309 active clusters, making it the fourth largest red-cockaded woodpecker population. During a 7-year period from 1994 to 2001, Eglin's red-cockaded woodpecker population increased 42%, making Eglin the fastest-growing large population of…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, barrier islands, biogeography, burning intervals, cavity nesting birds, cavity trees, chemistry, clearcutting, community ecology, conservation, deforestation, diameter classes, distribution, droughts, duff, ecosystem dynamics, education, Etheostoma okaloosae, fine fuels, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fishes, flatwoods, Florida, forage, forbs, forest management, forest products, fuel loading, ground cover, habitat conversion, habitat suitability, hardwoods, herbaceous vegetation, herbicides, histories, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, insects, land management, lightning caused fires, logging, longleaf pine, military lands, national forests, natural areas management, nongame birds, old growth forests, overstory, photography, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, population density, population ecology, private lands, Quercus, Quercus laevis, reforestation, regeneration, riparian habitats, roads, roots, sandhills, season of fire, seedlings, soil nutrients, soils, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, suppression, threatened and endangered species (animals), translocation, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, wetlands, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, xeric soils, adaptive management, ecosystem management, Eglin Air Force Base, military, population trend, red-cockaded woodpecker
From Cone's Folly to Brosnan Forest and beyond: protecting red-cockaded woodpeckers on private lands
Policies to conserve endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) on private lands have evolved substantially over the last decade. To succeed, such policies must be responsive to the economic and regulatory realities faced by landowners. Landowner objectives vary…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest, Southern
Keywords: cavity nesting birds, clearcutting, Colinus virginianus, conservation, Dendroctonus frontalis, fire dependent species, fire suppression, Florida, forage, forest management, game birds, Georgia, habitat conservation plan, habitat conversion, habitat suitability, habits and behavior, hardwoods, hunting, insects, land management, land use, logging, Louisiana, Mississippi, natural resource legislation, nesting, nongame birds, North Carolina, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus, private lands, Red Hills, reforestation, regeneration, safe harbor, sandhills, smoke management, South Carolina, Strix occidentalis, Tall Timbers Research Station, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), translocation, Virginia, wildlife habitat management, red-cockaded woodpecker, private lands, incentives, endangered species
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, burning permits, catastrophic fires, crown fires, education, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, health factors, landscape ecology, liability, logging, population density, post fire recovery, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, recreation, riparian habitats, sedimentation, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, soil erosion, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), stand characteristics, statistical analysis, streamflow, thinning, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, fire suppression, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, grasses, health factors, Healthy Forests Initiative, human caused fires, legumes, mosaic, National Fire Plan, particulates, private lands, public information, range management, smoke management, succession, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Colorado, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire size, fire suppression, floods, forest management, forest products, health factors, liability, logging, multiple resource management, national forests, Pinus ponderosa, post fire recovery, recreation related fires, season of fire, sedimentation, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, soil erosion, soils, statistical analysis, storms, US Forest Service, water quality, water repellent soils, watersheds, wildfires
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: burning intervals, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, forest products, fragmentation, fuel loading, fuel management, Healthy Forests Initiative, human caused fires, land use, landscape ecology, liability, prescribed fires (escaped), private lands, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, US Forest Service, vegetation surveys, wildfires
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, broadcast burning, coniferous forests, fire control, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forage, forest management, forest products, grazing, livestock, logging, Native Americans, Pinus ponderosa, population density, prescribed fires (escaped), private lands, recreation, regeneration, site treatments, smoke management, thinning, Washington, wildfires
Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, has a landscape fire management target to maintain or restore 50% of the long-term average fire cycle. Because the park experiences frequent lightning fires it has adopted a strategy to use both management-ignited prescribed burns and…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, British Columbia, Canada, droughts, fire case histories, fire control, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel loading, fuel moisture, landscape ecology, lightning, lightning caused fires, mountains, national parks, Picea engelmannii, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, prescribed fires (chance ignition), rate of spread, roads, season of fire, sloping terrain, smoke management, subalpine forests, wilderness fire management, British Columbia, fire management, fire restoration, Kootenay National Park, lightning fire, national parks
From the text ... 'Knowing the current status of the historical fire regimes is critical for land management planning. ...Over the past century, forested area with low-severity fire potential has declined by more than 80 percent. ...During the presettlement era, stands in the…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, age classes, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, fire case histories, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire scar analysis, forest management, land management, Montana, montane forests, mortality, mosaic, Native Americans, Oregon, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, post fire recovery, presettlement fires, Pseudotsuga menziesii, statistical analysis, subalpine forests, surface fires, Thuja plicata, trees, Tsuga heterophylla, understory vegetation, Utah, vegetation surveys, Washington, wildfires, Wyoming
From the text ... 'It is not so much that our suppression policy was flawed as it is that our fire use policy is too constricted. ...Fire protection in the WUI is not just about protecting houses--it's about protecting quality of life. ...We might argue that the extended-attack…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Australia, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, crown fires, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, National Fire Plan, natural resource legislation, old growth forests, overstory, pine forests, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, rate of spread, smoke management, spot fires, stand characteristics, suppression, thinning, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, understory vegetation, vulnerable species or communities, Washington, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Prescribed fire is a key management ingredient in maintaining the balance of components in the longleaf pine grassland system. Burning by prescription and unitizing multiple landowner objectives allows resource managers to successfully accomplish burns. At Ichauway, the Joseph W…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, burning intervals, cover, education, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, Georgia, grasslands, ground cover, habitat conversion, hardwoods, Jones Ecological Research Center, land use, Longleaf Alliance, longleaf pine, multiple resource management, pine forests, Pinus palustris, private lands, regeneration, season of fire, smoke management, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), understory vegetation, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management
From the text ... 'Wildfires have had a high impact on Botswana's environment, destroying both forest and rangeland resources. ...Prescribed burning is practiced in State forest reserves, national parks, and game reserves to reduce highly flammable fine fuels on the forest floor…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, arid regions, Baikiaea, Botswana, conservation, crown fires, deserts, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, fine fuels, fire control, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire frequency, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire management, fire size, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, flammability, fuel loading, grasses, ground fires, heat, human caused fires, humidity, hunting, landscape ecology, leaves, litter, logging, mortality, national parks, precipitation, public information, riparian habitats, runoff, savannas, season of fire, smoke effects, soil erosion, soil nutrients, state forests, surface fires, temperature, topography, Washington, water, wildfires, wind
From the text ... ''It will be a long time before those woods, more relentless than the waters, give up their dead.' -- C.E.Robinson, 1872 ...The drought was mild compared to the times leading up to other historically great fires in the Midwest. ...Surface fires scorched tree…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Acer, air quality, air temperature, Arizona, bark, Betula, blowups, bogs, Canada, catastrophic fires, Colorado, combustion, coniferous forests, convection, crown fires, crown scorch, crowns, Cupressaceae, dead fuels, deciduous forests, droughts, duff, education, energy, evergreens, Fagus grandifolia, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire growth, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire sensitive plants, fire whirls, firebrands, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, flammability, forage, forest fragmentation, forest products, Fraxinus, fuel appraisal, fuel management, gases, heat, human caused fires, humidity, ignition, Illinois, leaves, lightning caused fires, logging, Maine, Michigan, mineral soils, Minnesota, mortality, mosaic, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New England, old growth forests, Ontario, overstory, Picea, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, precipitation, presettlement fires, public information, Quercus, radiation, rate of spread, rivers, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, snags, soils, spontaneous combustion, spot fires, stand characteristics, storms, surface fires, surface fuels, temperature, topography, Ulmus, understory vegetation, vortices, Washington, water, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, Wisconsin, wood, woody fuels
From the text (pp. 2-3)...'General Guidelines: Rule 1. For those in the process of learning to burn or with limited experience, use the 60:40 Rule. The 60:40 rule states that you burn with an air temperature of less than 60°F, a relative humidity greater than 40%, and a wind…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, burning intervals, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, firebreaks, forbs, fuel moisture, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, humidity, ignition, invasive species, Juniperus virginiana, native species (plants), Oklahoma, perennial plants, pine hardwood forests, plant communities, prairies, rate of spread, riparian habitats, season of fire, shrublands, smoke management, spot fires, temperature, weed control, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, wind, woody fuels
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, backing fires, Centaurea maculosa, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, environmental impact analysis, erosion, fire equipment, fire retardants, fire suppression, firebreaks, fishes, hydrocarbons, introduced species, invasive species, land use, Lolium multiflorum, marshes, mopping up, multiple resource management, national parks, native species (plants), pollution, post fire recovery, recreation, roads, sedimentation, site treatments, smoke effects, soils, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), water quality, weed control, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Many external effects of land use change are based on modifications of lateral flows of soil, water, air, fire or organisms. Lateral flows can be intercepted by filters and thus the severity and spatial range of external effects of land use change is under the influence of…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, disturbance, floods, greenhouse gases, humidity, nutrients, pesticides, soils, species diversity (plants), weeds, wind, fire management, land use, soil management, watershed management, watersheds, biodiversity, filters, lateral flows, scale effects, watershed functions