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From the text...'The terms listed below were either taken from existing glossaries or developed specifically for this Guide. Where terms were taken from an existing glossary or document, the source reference is indexed in brackets (e.g. [source number]), with full reference…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, computer programs, ecosystem dynamics, fuel types, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires

From the text...'Smoke management program administration can range from activities conducted at the local burn program level to a multi-state coordinated effort to manage smoke. The EPA Interim Air Quality Policy on Wildland and Prescribed Fires (Interim Policy) (EPA 1998)…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, education, public information, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires

From the Introduction...'A land manager*s decision to use a specific burning technique is influenced by many considerations, only one of which is a goal to reduce smoke emissions. Other important considerations include ensuring public and firefighter safety, maintaining control…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Eastern, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, backing fires, biomass, chaparral, computer programs, coniferous forests, duff, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire size, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasslands, ignition, land management, land use, litter, mopping up, mortality, mosaic, nutrients, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, site treatments, slash, smoke management, Tsuga, water, water quality, wilderness fire management, woody fuels

From the Summary...'Managing smoke in ways that prevent serious impact to sensitive areas from single burns or multiple burns occurring simultaneously requires knowledge of the weather conditions that will affect smoke emissions, trajectories, and dispersion. Not only is it…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, biomass, cover, lakes, moisture, sloping terrain, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, storms, temperature, topography, weather observations, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind

From the Conclusions...'Because smoke from fire can cause negative effects to public health and welfare, air quality protection regulations must be understood and followed by responsible fire managers. Likewise, air quality regulators need an understanding of how and when fire…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, Arizona, CO - carbon monoxide, Colorado, education, fire management, Florida, fuel loading, fuel management, health factors, Idaho, land use, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, national parks, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, ozone, pollution, public information, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management

From the text...'In summary, the enormous wildland/urban interface and dense road network located in a region where up to six million acres of wildlands per year are subject to prescribed fire combine to make problem smoke the foremost land management-related air quality problem…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal plain, cover type, fire frequency, Florida, Georgia, GIS, Piedmont, pine forests, plant growth, precipitation, roads, rural communities, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, topography, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wind

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Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, health factors, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires

Wildland fire is a major disturbance agent that shapes the forest health productivity and ecological diversity of eastern Oregon and Washington. Fire behavior and the effects of fire on flora, fauna, soils, air, and water are in large part driven by the availability of fuels to…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: bibliographies, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, grasslands, ground fires, hardwood forests, health factors, logging, Oregon, partial cutting, pine forests, rangelands, site treatments, soils, succession, thinning, vegetation surveys, Washington, water, wilderness fire management, wildfires

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will implement new regulations for the management of atmospheric particulate matter 2.5 Fm and less in diameter (PM2.5), tropospheric ozone, and regional haze in the next few years. These three air quality issues relate…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, combustion, education, fire management, gases, health factors, human caused fires, ozone, particulates, pollution, public information, remote sensing, site treatments, smoke management, thinning, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind

The 1997 Indonesia forest fires was an environmental disaster of exceptional proportions. Such a disaster caused massive transboundary air pollution and indiscriminate destruction of biodiversity in the world. The immediate consequence of the fires was the production of large…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Asia, biomass, droughts, fire intensity, gases, climate change, health factors, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Malaysia, pollution, precipitation, remote sensing, savannas, seasonal activities, Singapore, smoke effects, smoke management, Southeast Asia, species diversity, storms, Sumatra, tropical forests, wildfires, wind

The role of climate and natural disturbance in the past provides a context for understanding present and future changes in biota. The vegetation history of the Yellowstone region, like that of North America as a whole, is largely one of plant invasions and extinctions in…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Acer spp., biogeography, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, Castanea dentata, charcoal, distribution, disturbance, fire frequency, fire regimes, forest management, fossils, hardwood forests, introduced species, invasive species, Juniperus occidentalis, Juniperus osteosperma, landscape ecology, Larix laricina, Larrea tridentata, paleoecology, Picea abies, Picea engelmannii, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, Pinus monophylla, pioneer species, plant communities, plant diseases, pollen, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, succession, temperature, Tsuga canadensis, wildfires, Yellowstone National Park

New methods for retrieving tropospheric ozone column depth and absorbing aerosol (smoke and dust) from the Earth Probe—Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (EP/TOMS) are used to follow pollution and to determine interannual variability and trends. During intense fires over Indonesia…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, biomass, dust, ENSO, fire intensity, GIS, India, Indonesia, Oceania, ozone, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires

Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, community ecology, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, health factors, land management, land use, Los Alamos, military lands, multiple resource management, National Fire Plan, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, plant communities, Washington, wilderness fire management

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Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, fuel loading, fuel types, grasslands, land management, land use, multiple resource management, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, population density, public information, rural communities, smoke management, state forests, US Forest Service, urban habitats, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, woody fuels

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Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Acer saccharinum, Betula papyrifera, biogeochemical cycles, biogeography, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, cover type conversion, distribution, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO, fire adaptations (plants), fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, forest management, fuel moisture, hardwood forests, ignition, insects, land management, land use, landscape ecology, nutrient cycling, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus resinosa, plant diseases, Populus grandidentata, Populus tremuloides, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus alba, Thuja occidentalis, Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, wildfires

Predicted daily fluxes from an ecosystem model for water, carbon dioxide, and methane were compared with 1994 and 1996 Boreal Ecosystem Atmosphere Study (BOREAS) field measurements at sites dominated by old black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) (OBS) and boreal fen vegetation…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, ecosystem modeling, black spruce, BOREAS - Boreal Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study, Manitoba, methane flux, CO2 flux, NPP - net primary production, boreal fen vegetation

Attitudes and policies concerning wildland fire, fire use, and fire management have changed greatly since early European settlers arrived in North America. Active suppression of wildfires accelerated early in the 20th Century, and areas burned dropped dramatically. In recent…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, fire policy, research needs, fuel management, air quality, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire models, fire regimes, fire suppression, fire weather, fuel loading, GIS - geographic information system, fuel moisture, remote sensing, season of fire, site treatments, smoke management, vegetation surveys, wildfires

This appendix describes the models and related methodologies used in the analyses presented in this Final EIS including the following: Rare Event Risk Assessment Process (RERAP), FlamMap, Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM), First-order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), and Air Quality…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: FETM - Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, fuel treatments, BWCAW - Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, environmental impact statements, blowdown

The Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP), as the successor to the Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission (GCVTC), is charged with implementing the GCVTC Recommendations as well as addressing broader air quality issues, such as the Regional Haze Rule. The Regional Haze…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, anthropogenic fire, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, natural fire, policy, smoke impacts, visibility, Regional Haze Rule, FEJF - Fire Emissions Joint Forum, WRAP - Western Regional Air Partnership

Forestry, conservation, wildfire risk reduction, and agricultural uses of planned or prescribed fires as a tool for meeting the needs of wildland managers are increasingly in collision at the air pollution control and climate change cross-roads. The inevitable conflict resulting…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air pollution, clouds, Canada, Ontario, aerosols, air quality, biomass, catastrophic fires, climatology, conservation, fire case histories, fire management, fire weather, firing techniques, land management, particulates, pollution, precipitation, size classes, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wilderness fire management, wildfires

Direct emissions of carbon from Canadian forest fires were estimated for all Canada and for each ecozone for the period 1959-1999. The estimates were based on a database of large fires for the country and calculations of fuel consumption for each fire using the Canadian Forest…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, Canada, fuel consumption, carbon emissions, carbon sink, taiga, air quality, arthropods, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, climatology, coniferous forests, crown fires, deciduous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fire danger rating, fire injuries (animals), fire management, fire size, fire suppression, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, gases, insects, particulates, pine forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, post-fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas-fir, season of fire, statistical analysis, succession, wildfires

Between June and November 2000, fourteen focus groups were held in four selected sites to elicit and document the range of perspectives, concepts and lexicon for discussing fire management and fuel treatment. Scales for fuel treatment acceptance factors such as fire knowledge,…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Southern
Keywords: public opinion, aesthetics, air quality, catastrophic fires, climatology, conservation, coniferous forests, cutting, deforestation, drought, education, fire case histories, fire control, fire equipment, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firebreak, flammability, firefighting personnel, Florida, forest management, fuel management, grasses, grazing, herbicide, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, Lake States, lightning caused fires, livestock, logging, Michigan, moisture, national forests, national parks, nutrients, pine forests, plantations, post-fire recovery, precipitation, private lands, public information, recreation, regulations, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, Sierra Nevada, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, species diversity, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species, understory vegetation, wind, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

Although the burning of agricultural residues is not considered a net source of carbon dioxide because the carbon released to the atmosphere is reabsorbed during the next growing season, this burning is a source of net emissions of many trace gases including CH4, CO2, N2O, and…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: agricultural burning, savannas

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Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildland fire, emission reduction, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke management

The success of a fire use program is in large part dependent on a solid foundation set in clear and concise planning. The planning process results in specific goals and measurable objectives for fire application, provides a means of setting priorities, and establishes a…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire use, air quality, backing fire, burning permits, education, fire equipment, fire management, firebreak, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel management, headfires, ignition, land use, mopping up, liability, multiple resource management, public information, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management