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Person:
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): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer networks, fire suppression, smoke management, weather observations

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Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire danger rating, fire suppression, land management, national forests, smoke management, state forests, weather observations

The Mid-Continent Division of Georgia-Pacific Corporation uses prescribed fire extensively as a cultural tool in loblolly-shortleaf pine management in the Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi region. Fire is used for fuel reduction, site preparation or brush control in areas that…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern, International
Keywords: Arkansas, brush, brush fires, coastal plain, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, forest management, loblolly pine, longleaf pine, Louisiana, Mississippi, mopping up, pine, pine forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, reproduction, scorch, season of fire, second growth forests, shortleaf pine, smoke management

State-of-the-art applications of weather, fire danger rating, and fire behavior in smoke management and prescribed burning by southern fire managers are addressed. Validations of fire predictive systems versus observed fire conditions are stressed as a prime need in the south.
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, air temperature, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel models, humidity, North Carolina, overstory, scorch, smoke management, wind, smoke management, fire danger rating

Methods for transmitting weather data and uses of the data by foresters are becoming more automated. Recent work at Macon confirms the importance of atomospheric [atmospheric] stability as a determinant of forest fire behavior. Smoke management systems currently being developed…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire management, forest management, Georgia, humidity, remote sensing, roads, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildfires, wind

The state forestry agencies in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas experience the same problems in training, program delivery and smoke management. Enforcement and coordination with federal, state and private landowners becomes increasingly important as smoke management comes under…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, burning permits, fire management, liability, Louisiana, Mississippi, private lands, smoke management, Texas

Consulting foresters are described as a growing force representing the best potential for expanded use of prescribed fire on private nonindustrial forestlands. Recognition by consultants and others of the true costs of prescribed burning is advocated as well as State policies to…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: burning permits, education, fire equipment, fire management, forest management, Georgia, herbicides, liability, smoke management

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): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Colorado, crown fires, distribution, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire whirls, flame length, Florida, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, GIS, grasses, heat, heavy fuels, humidity, litter, overstory, photography, rate of spread, statistical analysis, surface fires, topography, understory vegetation, wildfires, wind

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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

This study shows the results of concentration measurements of large particles (D>0.3 um), CCN and Aitken nuclei (CN) in two different sites of the Ivory Coast-Lamto and Abidjan-during the middle of the dry season. A comparison is established over a period of 24 h; it clearly…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, coastal forests, Ivory Coast, particulates, savannas, tropical forests, urban habitats, West Africa, wildfires

In 1983 the most severe fire in Victorian mountain forests for over forty years killed extensive areas of highly productive eucalypt forest, requiring a large scale timber salvage and forest rehabilitation program. The scheduling of these programs was dependent upon a rapid and…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: age classes, arthropods, artificial regeneration, ash, Australia, backfires, catastrophic fires, crown fires, crown scorch, decay, droughts, Eucalyptus regnans, fine fuels, fire control, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, fungi, ground fires, hardwood forests, insects, litter, logging, mortality, mosaic, overstory, photography, post fire recovery, rate of spread, regeneration, remote sensing, salvage, spot fires, understory vegetation, Victoria, wildfires, wind

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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass, Canada, droughts, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Indonesia, land use, litter, Malaysia, pollution, remote sensing, smoke effects, spot fires, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires, fire management, tropical forest management, vegetation fires, forest fires, land fires, hotspots, fire detection

Prescribed burning is a vital tool in the management of industrial pine plantations. New techniques and tools such as the use of helicopters in aerial ignition have facilitated the use of fire in younger stands, while permitting more acreage to be treated in a given time period…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, age classes, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, firing techniques, forest management, ignition, pine forests, plantations, smoke management, South Carolina, understory vegetation, wildfires

Prescribed burning has been used as a tool throughout history. Native Americans used fire to maintain clearings and encourage the growth of plants for later harvest. Farmers have used fire to revitalize pasture, aid in crop harvest, and maintain fencerows and ditch banks. Forest…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: habitat management, prescribed fire burn plan, prescribed fire planning, smoke management

Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has always been large in scale. The depth and breadth of the research conducted here, however, may surprise even many who are engaged in it. Our research programs have a wide geographical and temporal scope, an…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Forest Service, research, research accomplishment report

A collection of 18 papers that describe current problems and trends in prescribed fire and smoke management, and the results of discussion groups that present recommendations for continuing research and applications.
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: smoke management, conference proceedings, combustion processes

This document summarizes a study to evaluate the feasibility of using the Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM) to assist in implementing four Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP) policies on fire, described below. This report provides the Fire Emissions Joint Forum (FEJF) with…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FETM - Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, FFE-FVS - Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator, SIMPPLLE - SIMulating Vegetative Patterns and Processes at Landscape scaLEs, VDDT - Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool, landscape model

Extensive bibliographic list of references on Alaska wildfire from the Geophysical Institute.
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: bibliography

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: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: drift smoke, smoke behavior, visibility, drainage winds, nocturnal smoke, smoke entrapment

A total area of 26,669 km2 (6.59 million acres) burned from forest fires in Alaska during the summer of 2004, setting a new record in the 50-year database. The unusually warm and dry weather was a predominant factor for the wildfire season in which it was the warmest on record…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: air quality, fire weather, particulates, 2004 fire season, climatology, drought, forest fires

The California and Nevada Smoke and Air Committee (CANSAC) was established to respond to specific needs of federal and state agency fire, smoke and air quality decision-makers in the region. Within the structure, the Desert Research Institute (DRI) Program for Climate, Ecosystem…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: forecast, CANSAC - California and Nevada Smoke and Air Committee

The Eastern Area Modeling Consortium (EAMC), established by the U.S. National Fire Plan (NFP) in 2001, is a multi-agency coalition of researchers, fire managers, air-quality managers, and natural resource managers at the Federal, State, and local levels whose mission is to…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, fire management, fire models, fuel management, fuel moisture, GIS - geographic information system, hardwood forest, National Fire Plan, particulates, pine barrens, pine forests, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, smoke behavior, wildfires