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This guide provides direction for planning and managing smoke from prescribed fires to achieve air quality requirements through improved smoke management practices. The Guide applies to all prescribed fires, those started by managers or by nature throughout the Manti-La Sal…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, backfires, burning permits, coniferous forests, firing techniques, fuel types, health factors, liability, national forests, national parks, plant communities, public information, rangeland fires, rangelands, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, thinning, Utah, watershed management, wilderness areas, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, Yellowstone National Park
From the text...'The purpose of this document is to provide technical information on prescribed burning. It does so in two ways. One, it provides background information useful in determining reasonably available control measures (RACM) and best available control measures (BACM)…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, burning permits, Colorado, combustion, education, fire hazard reduction, firing techniques, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, Georgia, Montana, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, Oregon, particulates, public information, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, US Forest Service, Washington, wind
Fire behavior on a 2 ha fire, inferred from physical evidence observed one week after the fire, was compared with fire behavior estimates obtained using the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction system and fuel measurements in Imperata cylindrica (Alang-alang) made in the same area.…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire behavior prediction systems, Indonesia, resprouting, Imperata cylindrica, fuel bed, alang-alang, Acacia mangium, bark, coniferous forests, crown scorch, dead fuels, Eupatorium, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire models, fire suppression, flame length, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, humidity, Imperata cylindrica, Java, live fuels, mortality, plantations, rate of spread, scorch, site classes, soot, statistical analysis, wind
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: forest health, eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, air quality regulations, prescribed burning restrictions
Major wildfires have affected millions of acres of forest lands in the continental United States during recent years. Many believe the increase in wildfire activity may be the result of fuel accumulations caused by 80 years of fire suppression, combined with drought and trees…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: wildfire, Cascades Range, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, air quality, Shady Beach Fire, Willamette National Forest, logging slash, broadcast burning, fire severity, clearcuts, woody fuel loading, duff loading, Blue Mountains, Siskiyou National Forest, Silver Fire, Ochoco National Forest, Malheur National Forest, Umatilla National Forest, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, PM2.5
Over the past decade, concern over potential global warming has focused attention on the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and there is an active debate concerning the desirability of reducing emissions. At the heart of this debate is the future path of both…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: carbon emissions, climate change