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This publication provides guidelines for planning and managing smoke from prescribed fires to:
Minimize ambient air quality impairment.
Prevent smoke from being carried to, or accumulating in, areas sensitive to smoke.
Recommend burning guidelines to supplement the regulations …
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords:
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, fine fuels, fire frequency, fire management, fuel loading, gases, particulates, remote sensing, smoke management, biomass burning emissions modeling, remote sensing, fuel consumption
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, boreal forests, Canada, deciduous forests, ecosystem dynamics, evolution, fire regimes, forest management, genetics, Glaucomys volans, climate change, Great Lakes, greenhouse gases, Ontario, Picea engelmannii, Populus balsamifera, Populus tremuloides, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), subalpine forests, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, Tsuga mertensiana, tundra, wetlands, climate change, ecodiversity, forest, ecosystem diversity, species diversity, genetic diversity, ECOSYSTEM HIERARCHY, ECOLOGICAL LAND CLASSIFICATION TERMINOLOGY, ALPINE ECOSYSTEMS, aspen parkland
From the text ... 'Forest rangers and residents are trying to promote the benefits of using more prescribed burns to control wildfires throughout the state.... Every landowner wants to do more controlled burns, but they have tied our hands with regulations.'
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coniferous forests, droughts, fire control, fire injuries (animals), fire management, fire suppression (aerial), forest management, lightning caused fires, north Florida, prescribed fires (escaped), St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, wildfires
Smoke from both prescribed fires and wildfires can, under certain meteorological conditions, become entrapped within shallow layers of air near the ground at night and get carried to unexpected destinations as a combination of weather systems push air through interlocking ridge-…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Alabama, coastal plain, computer programs, drainage, elevation, field experimental fires, fire management, fire size, Florida, Georgia, land management, light, Maryland, North Carolina, particulates, Piedmont, smoke behavior, smoke management, South Carolina, statistical analysis, temperature, Virginia, wildfires, wind
Combustion of woody material produces and releases water, but the effects of this water on the atmospheric circulation created by a wildfire are rarely recognized, let alone understood. This paper presents observational data and basic physical arguments to support the hypothesis…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Arizona, Canada, combustion, convection, evapotranspiration, fire management, flame length, Florida, fuel moisture, heat, Idaho, Michigan, military lands, Minnesota, moisture, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Ontario, smoke management, South Carolina, statistical analysis, temperature, Washington, water, wildfires, wood chemistry
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, combustion, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, fuel appraisal, fuel management, GIS, season of fire, smoke management, 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
The regional nature of several important air pollutants, which include acids, ozone, particulate matter, mercury, and persistent organics (POPs), is widely recognized by researchers and decision makers. Such pollutants are transported regionally over scales from about 100 to a…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Climate
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke effects, air quality, climate change, Hg - mercury, ozone, particulates, pollution, smoke management, ozone, particulates, Hg - mercury, POPs
From the text...'The wildfires of 1998 brought another harsh reminder to the people of Florida of the power of natural hazards to destroy property, threaten safety, and cause untold human hardship. Overall, after the firestorm was finally extinguished, the event had caused one…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Chile, coastal forests, education, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire suppression, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, fuel management, histories, land management, logging, natural resource legislation, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, post fire recovery, public information, scrub, shrublands, smoke management, statistical analysis, tropical forests, US Forest Service, wildfires
From the text...'FOFEM 4.0-A First Order Fire Effects Model-is a computer program developed to meet the needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, fuel moisture, logging, mortality, post fire recovery, smoke management, wildfires
From the text...'In the past month and a half 2,214 wildfires (ninety percent of which were started by lightning) have consumed 497,209 acres in Florida. More than forty-five thousand people were evacuated from areas that lay in the path of these fires. Five hundred million…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, education, fire case histories, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, general interest, lightning, lightning caused fires, precipitation, public information, wildfires
Poster abstract...A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM was designed for application to most areas of the United States. First order fire effects are the immediate or direct results of a…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, cover, cover type, duff, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire management, fuel models, land management, mineral soils, mortality, Oregon, smoke effects, Washington, wildfires, wildlife, woody fuels
From the text...'Conditions contributing to Florida's firestorms are similar to problems plaguing Montana forests. Scenes of devastation underscore the need to better manage forests.'
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, education, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, Montana, public information, smoke effects, wildfires
From the text...'If you are not using a Public Information Officer on your prescribed burn projects, you should consider doing so. A PIO will provide a valuable service. As you scramble to get the needed resources, equipment and weather data, they can concentrate on informing…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, education, fire management, pH, public information
Smoke from forest fires in southern Mexico was advected into the U.S. southern plains from April to June 1998. Cloud-to-ground lightning (CG) flash data from the National Lightning Detection Network matched against satellite-mapped aerosol plumes imply that thunderstorms forming…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, droughts, fire danger rating, fire management, lightning, lightning effects, Mexico, smoke effects, smoke management, storms, Texas
For the first 35 years of the Florida State Park System, fire was vigorously suppressed on state park lands. During that time, hardwoods encroached into pinelands and grasslands, and fuel loads reached dangerously high levels. During 1970, Tall Timbers Research Station Director…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida, cover type conversion, education, evolution, fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, grasslands, habitat conversion, hardwoods, human caused fires, hydrology, invasive species, Komarek, E.V., Sr., land management, landscape ecology, liability, lightning, natural resource legislation, north Florida, pine forests, pine, Pinus palustris, plant communities, public information, range management, Sapium sebiferum, season of fire, smoke management, south Florida, state forests, state parks, Sus scrofa, Tall Timbers Research Station, wetlands, wildfires
This paper describes fire characteristics and the immediate effects of a prescribed, high-intensity burn on a 12.2 hectare portion of a stand of Ocala sand pine scrub. The fire team on the Seminole District, Ocala National Forest used the BEHAVE fire model to predict the…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Andropogon, backfires, catastrophic fires, Cladonia, crown fires, crowns, evergreens, fire intensity, fire management, firebreaks, Florida, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Galactia, headfires, humidity, lichens, light, litter, Lyonia ferruginea, mineral soils, moisture, national forests, needles, Ocala National Forest, overstory, Pinus clausa, Quercus chapmanii, Quercus geminata, Quercus laevis, Quercus myrtifolia, Rhynchospora megalocarpa, Sabal etonia, scrub, Serenoa repens, smoke management, snags, temperature, trees, understory vegetation, wind
The noble and heroic 'paradigm' in wildland fire protection is the firefighter who protects forest and other wildlands from attack by fire. The driptorch-lugging prescribed burner carries few of the heroic trappings of suppression personnel. In this paper, we describe the…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, Chapman, H.H., coniferous forests, droughts, education, evolution, fire case histories, fire protection, fire suppression, Florida, histories, national forests, Oregon, public information, smoke effects, Stoddard, H.L., trapping, wilderness fire management, wildlife refuges
Florida's natural communities evolved under the influence of frequent, low-intensity lightning fires. Many communities require such fires for continued existence. Fire managers must contend with the increasing pressure of a burgeoning population. The state's population increases…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: central Florida, education, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, Florida, land management, lightning, low intensity burns, north Florida, public information, smoke effects, smoke management, south Florida, wildfires
From the Introduction...'The wildlands of Dade County, including pine rocklands, and coastal and freshwater marshes, are an endangered resource; only 4 percent of the original extent of pine rocklands remain outside Everglades National Park. Metro Dade County Departments of…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, burning permits, conservation, education, everglades, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, Florida, forest management, fuel management, land management, liability, marshes, marshlands, multiple resource management, national parks, natural resource legislation, pine forests, public information, recreation, rocky habitats, smoke management, south Florida, state parks, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), urban habitats, vulnerable species or communities, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife
Prescribed fire is an indispensable tool used by the Florida Chapter of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in stewardship of its preserves. The inherent complexity associated with utilizing fire effectively, however, poses numerous challenges. To help understand and learn from fire's…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: computer programs, education, fire frequency, fire management, Florida, GIS, histories, ignition, post fire recovery, scrub, smoke management, south Florida, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), topography
From the Abstract...'Over the last eight years Miami-Dade County DERM has been trying to organize and increase the use of prescribed fire. Two years ago, at the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Initiative, talk focused around pine rockland endangered species. After much…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, education, fire management, firebreaks, Florida, herbicides, liability, natural areas management, pine forests, private lands, public information, rocky habitats, smoke management, south Florida, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: education, fire frequency, fire management, Florida, public information, season of fire, smoke management, south Florida, threatened and endangered species
The use of prescribed fire in the wildland/urban interface is one of the greater challenges facing land managers today. Ecological goals must be balanced with political and societal constraints, such as laws and regulations and public perceptions regarding fire. Successful (or…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California, Eastern, Southern
Keywords: education, fire management, New York, public information, smoke management, south Florida