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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…
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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 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: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, biomass, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, central Florida, chaparral, chemistry, coastal plain, coastal vegetation, combustion, ecosystem dynamics, flammability, Florida, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, grasses, grasslands, hydrogen, Juncus roemerianus, live fuels, CH4 - methane, Quercus, sampling, Serenoa repens, smoke behavior, Spartina bakeri, wetlands, wildlife refuges

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: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Outreach, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, archaeological sites, conservation, education, forest management, lakes, land management, land use, livestock, multiple resource management, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, pollution, public information, recreation, riparian habitats, water, wilderness areas, wildlife

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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

These smoke management guidelines are directed to the experienced prescribed burner who is knowledgeable about fire behavior. The objectives are to manage the production and dispersion of smoke when prescribe burning to prevent any adverse impact on communities, roads, or other…
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: combustion, fire equipment, fire management, fuel arrangement, fuel moisture, fuel types, Georgia, pine forests, roads, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, topography, weather observations, wildfires, wind

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

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

From the text...'Preservation of rare species and communities is a noble conservation goal, but it has two unfortunate drawbacks: it promotes a piecemeal approach to preservation, and it frequently results in species or communities being ignored until they become endangered. The…
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: bibliographies, conservation, cover type conversion, drainage, education, everglades, fire management, Florida, fragmentation, grazing, habitat conversion, hammocks, herbicides, invasive species, Lake Wales Ridge, land management, liability, mowing, multiple resource management, natural areas management, scrub, smoke management, Wales, water, wetlands, wilderness areas

Prescribed Burn 2-57 was the second of four prescribed burns studied in 1957. In this burn we were particularly interested in studying air flow on the lee side of a ridge oriented approximately at right angles to the prevailing wind. Experience has shown that erratic fire…
Person:
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: brush, distribution, fire whirls, grasses, ground cover, range management, rangelands, rate of spread, smoke behavior, smoke effects, topography, weather observations, wind

From the text ... 'This paper describes an investigation of the turbulent forced plumes generated by steady release of mass, momentum and buoyancy from a source situated in an extensive region of uniform or stably stratified fluid. The treatment, which is an extension of earlier…
Person:
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: flame length, physics, smoke management, weather observations

Recreation is of increasing importance in forest environments. Fire has both short-term effects, trail closures, smoke impacts; and long-term effects, residual 'scars,' potential hazards, on forest recreation. The general public is gaining sophistication in understanding forest…
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Outreach, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, erosion, fire intensity, fire management, mortality, pollution, post fire recovery, public information, recreation, runoff, smoke management, Smokey Bear program, statistical analysis, water quality, wildfires

We conclude that HRV did form during an intense Montana wildland fire on a mountain face that was observed by the junior author. This article describes the phenomenon.
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: crown fires, fire case histories, fire control, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire whirls, flame length, fuel models, grass fuels, Montana, Pinus contorta, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, spot fires, topography, US Forest Service, vortices, wildfires, wind

The public outcry about the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park and adjacent natural forests, coupled with concern among natural resource managers, convinced the Secretaries of the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to establish the Fire Management Policy Review Team in…
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel loading, fuel moisture, general interest, land management, lightning caused fires, national parks, prescribed fires (chance ignition), recreation, season of fire, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park

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Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air temperature, burning intervals, disturbance, fire exclusion, fire injuries (plants), fire management, firebreaks, game birds, habits and behavior, hardwoods, humidity, hunting, land use, legumes, mast, mortality, nesting, nesting cover, north Florida, plant growth, seasonal activities, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, soil nutrients, statistical analysis, Tall Timbers Research Station, telemetry, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, wildlife management, wind

Studies of the atmospheric dispersion over complex terrain, with the aid of smoke plumes, enable the direct observation of the marginal density probability of the emitted particles. Experiments near the ground correlate the turbulence easurements at 10 m height and plume…
Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: elevation, Europe, experimental fires, fire management, humidity, smoke behavior, smoke effects, temperature, wind

'Control burning of brush is now a common practice in range improvement in California. Frequently, before burning, some or all of the brush is mashed down with mechanical equipment or killed by chemical sprays. To learn how destructive such fires are to wildlife, a study was…
Person:
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: brush, brush fires, Ceanothus, fire protection, firebreaks, forage, fuel types, grass fires, habits and behavior, heat effects, ignition, incendiary fires, mortality, population density, radiation, range management, soils, species diversity (animals), temperature, trapping, water, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, woody plants

'...With the aid of modern laboratory techniques it is possible to detect not only the end products of combustion proccsses but also many substances that appear transiently in the course of burning. As a result fire has come to be understood chemically as an intricate network of…
Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, carbon dioxide, chemistry, combustion, fuel management, fuel types, gases, heat, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, pollution, soot, temperature

From the text... 'Peat continues to be a common source of fuel for man. Fossil remains in coal suggest that grassy rather than woody vegetation is typical of coal-forming sites, and such an association would also favor the fine lamination characteristic of fusain. If fire were…
Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: adaptation, Africa, agriculture, air quality, Asia, char, charcoal, chemistry, coastal vegetation, combustion, community ecology, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, decomposition, droughts, duff, ecosystem dynamics, everglades, ferns, fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire retardants, fire size, fire suppression, flammability, Florida, forbs, Georgia, glaciers, grasses, habitat types, heat, heat effects, histories, human caused fires, hunting, insects, Komarek, E.V., Sr., lakes, landscape ecology, lightning, lightning caused fires, litter, livestock, marshes, Native Americans, North Carolina, nutrients, Okefenokee Swamp, organic matter, peat, pest control, pesticides, Pinaceae, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, plant communities, pocosins, prehistoric fires, rainforests, seeds, serotiny, shrubs, slash, soot, species diversity (plants), swamps, trees, water, wind, pyrolysis, ORGANISMS, COAL MINE FIRES, ASTRONAUT OBSERVATIONS

From the text... 'The outcome of the Southern Forestry Education Campaign was much less devisive. To begin with, its subject was not the internal distribution of agency funds but the promotion of fire protection as a concept. Nor was it concerned with the question of transient…
Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, 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: Adirondack Mountains, Africa, agriculture, backfires, Belgian Congo, broadcast burning, Canada, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, conservation, distribution, education, erosion, Europe, fire case histories, fire equipment, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire size, firefighting personnel, Florida, France, fuel management, Georgia, Germany, Greece, histories, human caused fires, hunting, Idaho, ignition, Illinois, incendiary fires, insects, Kentucky, lightning caused fires, livestock, logging, Maine, Maryland, Mediterranean habitats, Michigan, military lands, Mississippi, national forests, Native Americans, Nebraska, New England, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Ozarks, Pennsylvania, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, presettlement fires, private lands, public information, rangeland fires, recreation related fires, resins, Russia, Scandinavia, slash, Smokey Bear program, soils, Turkey, US Forest Service, water, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wood, AFA - American Forestry Association, COAL MINE FIRES, CCC - Civilian Conservation Corporation, CODE NAPOLEON, CFFP - Cooperate Forest Fire Prevention Program, CORDILLERA, DESCON (Designated Control Burn System), DIXIE CRUSADERS, EXCOMMUNICATION, fire codes, JOB HUNTING FIRES, KEEP GREEN PROGRAM, MARK TWAIN, MARTIAL LAW, MOONSHINERS, National Fire Prevention Day, NEW DEAL, NWCG - National Wildfire Coordinating Group, PROJECT SKYFIRE, propaganda, RURAL ELECTRIFICATION, SCFFP - Southern Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Program, SIMON EL ORO, SMOKE JUMPER, Tillamook Fire, WARTIME, WFCA - Western Forestry and Conservation Association

From the text... 'But with the advent of fire protection in the South, game birds decreased much as pasturage had and as grouse populations had in Britain. The vegetative ensemble that sustained maximum populations gave way to roughage and woods. By 1923 hunting plantations in…
Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, Alabama, Appalachian Mountains, Aristida, Arkansas, backfires, birds, broadcast burning, brush, burning intervals, Chamaecrista, Chapman, H.H., coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, conservation, copper, cutting, decay, droughts, education, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, game birds, Georgia, Gossypium, grasses, habitat suitability, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, histories, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, insects, Kentucky, Komarek, E.V., Sr., land management, land use, livestock, logging, Louisiana, mammals, Meleagris gallopavo, Michigan, military lands, Mississippi, mosaic, mountains, national forests, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, needles, North Carolina, Okefenokee Swamp, Osceola National Forest, Piedmont, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, plantations, pocosins, prairies, precipitation, private lands, public information, range management, recreation, Red Hills, reproduction, reptiles, Saccharum, savannas, Serenoa repens, site treatments, slash, soils, South Carolina, Stoddard, H.L., suppression, swamps, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tennessee, Texas, trees, turpentine, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, West Virginia, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife management, wildlife refuges, windthrows, wood, annual burning, BLOWDOWNS, CIVIL WAR, CCC - Civilian Conservation Corporation, DESCON (Designated Control Burn Systems), National Guard, NEW DEAL, pitch, silviculture, tar, TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority, Weeks Act