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Historical range of variation (HRV) has been used as a conceptual tool to determine appropriate management actions to sustain or restore diversity of ecological systems. This concept has come into question for both biological and social considerations, and the southeastern…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: cavity nesting birds, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, disturbance, fine fuels, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, forest fragmentation, forest management, fragmentation, fuel management, game birds, Georgia, grasslands, histories, human caused fires, Jones Ecological Research Center, land use, logging, low intensity burns, Native Americans, nongame birds, Picoides borealis, pine, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, savannas, soil management, species diversity (plants), threatened and endangered species (animals), understory vegetation, wetlands, disturbances, fire regimes, historical, future range of variability, legacies, rareness, social acceptability, species richness
Relative to the western United States, where fire and fuel management programs have received greater emphasis, few community-based studies have focused on the Great Lakes region. The present paper describes public opinion research from counties surrounding National Forests in…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: age classes, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel management, Great Lakes, insects, lakes, Michigan, Minnesota, national forests, population density, public information, recreation, site treatments, thinning, US Forest Service, water quality, windthrows, Wisconsin, citizen-agency interactions, fuels reduction, public confidence, social acceptance
We evaluate the fine-grain age patch model of fire regimes in southern California shrublands. Proponents contend that the historical condition was characterized by frequent small to moderate size, slow-moving smoldering fires, and that this regime has been disrupted by fire…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: age classes, BEHAVE, chaparral, distribution, droughts, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firebrands, flammability, Foehn winds, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, ignition, mosaic, range management, scrub, shrublands, southern California, suppression, wildfires, wind, 19th century, Baja California, chaparral, fine-grain age patch mosaic, high-intensity fires, megafires, sage scrub, Santa Ana winds
Maintaining appropriate fire return intervals for fully functioning ecosystems can be difficult for a variety of reasons. Laws and regulations can place limitations on both the timing and extent of prescribed burning. In this webinar, Dr. Wonkka will present an overview of the…
Person: Wonkka
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: right to burn, landowner perceptions, liability, negligence, fire management, air quality
As the application of citizen science expands to address increasingly complex social problems (e.g., community health), there is opportunity to consider higher-order engagement beyond that of individual members of a community. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: public involvement, system change, wildfires, organization, citizen science, Smoke Sense, data collection, community groups
As COVID-19 cases and wildland fire activity increase across the country, wildland fire personnel are looking for ways to quickly identify cases and prevent the spread of the disease on the fireline. The Southwest Fire Consortium will be hosting a webinar sharing information…
Person: Navarro, Piacentino, Viktora, Coil
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: COVID-19, public health, firefighter safety, coronavirus, guidance, disease control, air quality, smoke exposure, health screening, LLC - Lessons Learned Center
The Fire Continuum Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Fire Ecology and the International Association of Wildland Fire, was designed to cover both the biophysical and human dimensions aspects of fire along the fire continuum. This proceedings includes many of topics…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfires, bushfires, wildland fire
Ever since colonial times, the rural inhabitants of Guinea-Bissau have been blamed for lighting uncontrolled fires all over the country. Based on in-depth ethnographic research in two regions, a country-level rapid rural appraisal, and analysis of satellite active fire data,…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: Guinea-Bissau, governance, fire, land use change, remote sensing, fire regions, biocultural, political ecology
The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Air and Energy National Research Program is working to assess the impact and improve our understanding of air pollution morbidity and mortality in vulnerable populations, including individuals with cardiovascular disease. Exposure to…
Person: Cascio, Rappold, Ward-Caviness
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air pollution, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, public health, wildfires, Clean Air Act, air quality, respiratory health, health effects, cardiovascular effects, socio-economics, cardiac arrest, heart failure
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The natural cycle of large‐scale wildfires is accelerating, increasingly exposing both rural and populous urban areas to wildfire emissions. While respiratory health effects associated with wildfire smoke are well established, cardiovascular effects have been less…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): California
Keywords: cardiac arrest, public health, respiratory health, cardiovascular effects, smoke density, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, wildfires, smoke exposure
We are investigating policies that affect land managers' ability to conduct prescribed fire on US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in the 11 Western states. Our goals are to identify policy constraints, facilitative strategies, and actionable…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: collaboration, federal lands, fire management, forest management, air quality, policy, policy implementation, collaborative governance
Recently and historically the majority of wildland fire science funding and research have focused on addressing questions associated with managing and responding to uncontrolled wildfires. Across the world there exists a strong demand for new science that can address basic and…
Person: Varner
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: TTRS - Tall Timbers Research Station, spread rate, escaped prescribed fires, spotting, firefighter safety, fire operations, fire science
Central to public health risk communication is understanding the perspectives and shared values among individuals who need the information. Using the responses from a Smoke Sense citizen science project, we examined perspectives on the issue of wildfire smoke as a health risk in…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfires, Smoke Sense, citizen science, risk communication, mobile applications, health risk, air quality, community engagement, human health
Landowners and managers, municipalities, the logging and livestock industries, and conservation professionals all increasingly recognize that setting prescribed fires may reduce the devastating effects of wildfire, control invasive brush and weeds, improve livestock range and…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, 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: human dimension, public relations, smoke management, mop up
The NWCG Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed Fire contains information on prescribed fire smoke management techniques, air quality regulations, smoke monitoring, modeling, communication, public perception of prescribed fire and smoke, climate change, practical meteorological…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, 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, National
Keywords: smoke management, smoke management program, smoke management plan, smoke management tools, BSMP - Basic Smoke Management Practices, Basic Smoke Management Practices, emissions mitigation, prescribed burn
Wildland fire is a global phenomenon, and a result of interactions between climate-weather, fuels and people. Our climate is changing rapidly primarily through the release of greenhouse gases that may have profound and possibly unexpected impacts on global fire activity. The…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Australia, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, disturbance, Europe, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, forest management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, greenhouse gases, lightning, remote sensing, season of fire, South America, wildfires, area burned, C - carbon, fire activity, forest fire, intensity, management, review, season, severity