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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Southern
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, arthropods, bark, catastrophic fires, climax vegetation, community ecology, conservation, crown fires, decay, dominance (ecology), ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire control, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, grasses, grasslands, hardwoods, human caused fires, Idaho, ignition, insects, land management, light, lightning caused fires, litter, logging, low intensity burns, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, old growth forests, organic matter, Picea, pine forests, pine, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, pioneer species, plant communities, plant diseases, plant growth, post fire recovery, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, regeneration, second growth forests, Sequoiadendron giganteum , species diversity (plants), succession, surface fires, understory vegetation, wilderness areas, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: prescribed fires (chance ignition), smoke management, wilderness fire management
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Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerial ignition, bibliographies, diseases, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, grazing, plant growth, post fire recovery, regeneration, smoke management, soils, water quality, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Aerial drip torch devices have potential for dramatically increasing acreage burned annually. Aerial burning requires different and broader concepts than hand burrning, more advance planning, more attention to detail, and at least a basic understanding of helicopter operations.
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerial ignition, firing techniques, ignition, smoke management, preparation, coordination
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Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Planning
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: fire case histories, national parks, prescribed fires (chance ignition), smoke management, wilderness fire management
From the text...'The new Mississippi statute on prescribed burning activities is welcome by the forestry community. The act recognizes prescribed burning as an important property right and land management tool that greatly benefits society, the environment and the economy of the…
Person:
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: burning permits, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, land management, liability, Mississippi, natural resource legislation, pine forests, private lands, regeneration, site treatments
An average of 350 fire weather special Forecast Requests are prepared each year by the fire weather forecasters in the National Weather Service Forecast Office (WSFO) in Denver. Up to 650 of these spot forecasts may be prepared during a severe fire season. Spot forecasts are…
Person:
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Colorado, fire danger rating, fire management, fuel moisture, humidity, ignition, precipitation, smoke management, temperature, wildfires, wind
Mechanized full-tree logging is the preferred harvesting system in Northeastern Ontario. These operations typically involve roadside delimbing, producing large quantities of slash at roadsides and landings. Slash pile burning involves gathering the slash into concentrated areas…
Person:
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: artificial regeneration, biomass, Canada, combustion, duff, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire suppression, firing techniques, flammability, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel arrangement, fuel management, fuel moisture, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, hunting, ignition, lightning caused fires, logging, Ontario, rate of spread, recreation, regeneration, season of fire, seeds, shrubs, site treatments, slash, smoke management, wildfires, wind
Natural area managers are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of prescribed fire management. Many individuals are interested in ways to advance their knowledge of how to plan and execute prescibed burns. The Nature Conservancy conducted a servey to identify training…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern
Keywords: air quality, education, fire control, fire management, smoke management
A simplified model for predicting total biomass consumption and particulate emission yield for slash burning in western Washington and western Oregon is developed by combining results from earlier studies by the Forest Fire and Atmospheric Sciences Research team. The model…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass consumption, emission reduction, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, prescribed fire planning, air pollutants
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Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emission reduction, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, air pollutants, meteorological scheduling
The looming possibility of global warming raises legitimate concerns for the future of the forest resource in Canada. While evidence of a global warming trend is not conclusive at this time, governments would be wise to anticipate, and begin planning for, such an eventuality.…
Person:
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, climate change, global warming, air temperature, Alberta, arthropods, biogeography, biomass, boreal forests, British Columbia, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, climatology, disturbance, drought, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, gases, grasslands, hydrocarbons, insects, landscape ecology, lightning, logging, Manitoba, CH4 - methane, microclimate, Ontario, O3 - ozone, physics, plant diseases, precipitation, Quebec, recreation, Saskatchewan, season of fire, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil temperature, temperate forests, tundra, wildfires, wind
Provides information on fire management policy, programs, and issues in parks, wildernesses, and other natural areas. In more than 100 papers, poster papers, and workshop summaries, both researchers and managers explore basic wilderness management philosophies, explain current…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, ignitions, policy, revegetation, wilderness fire, Native American burning, natural fire, lightning ignition, human ignition, air quality, high intensity fires