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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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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire control, Florida, north Florida, wildfires
From the text...'Big gaps still exist in the understanding of fire ecology, especially the seasonal aspects. Fire can have profoundly different effects on soil, plants and animals depending on when it occurs. Oftentimes the most ecological gain comes from burning during the…
Person:
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: backfires, catastrophic fires, cones, coniferous forests, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire adaptations (plants), fire equipment, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, general interest, grasslands, headfires, invasive species, land management, liability, mopping up, Native Americans, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, pine forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, public information, Sequoiadendron giganteum , smoke effects, surface fires, Tall Timbers Research Station, tallgrass prairies, topography, vegetation surveys
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
From the text: 'Driven by fierce Santa Ana winds, 14 major brush fires ravaged L.A.'s suburbs, burning 152,000 acres and hundreds of homes. The disaster pushed firefighters to the limit and compounded the state's ecological and social troubles.'
Person:
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: backfires, blowups, brush, brush fires, catastrophic fires, chaparral, droughts, fire control, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, flammability, fuel accumulation, general interest, grasses, incendiary fires, precipitation, rate of spread, scrub, season of fire, smoke effects, southern California, wildfires, wind
The character of most southern forest ecosystems has been shaped by fire. Indians and early settlers fired the woods for many purposes. After a period of attempted fire exclusion, foresters recognized the necessity of fire by prescription in southern pine cover types. This paper…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, bark, broadcast burning, browse, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, cover, cover type, crown scorch, diameter classes, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, forest management, fuel accumulation, hardwoods, herbaceous vegetation, histories, hydrocarbons, lightning caused fires, loblolly pine, logging, longleaf pine, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, particulates, pine forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plant diseases, plant physiology, pollution, precipitation, season of fire, shortleaf pine, slash pine, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, sprouting, thinning, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, water, water quality, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wood, wildlife habitat, water and air pollution, nutrient cycling