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The failure to implement historic fire regimes on Oklahoma landscapes is threatening ecological integrity, human health, and public safety. To understand public attitudes and perceptions toward fire and the associated encroachment of eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana), we…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire damage (property), agriculture, aesthetics, education, forage, herbicides, mowing, public information, site treatments, soil erosion, wildlife, Juniperus virginiana, eastern redcedar, Oklahoma, fire management, attitudes, eastern redcedar, Juniperus virginiana, Oklahoma, perceptions, respondent, survey

From the text ... 'But we have a lot of other things going on right now that are adding to our momentum. We have certification for fire practitioners that's improving our on-the-ground execution of fire. We have government support in the form of burn authorization programs that…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, public information, Florida, Georgia, fire management, forest management

Measurements of the solar ultraviolet radiation in the wavelength region 295-385 nm were carried out at the Athens basin in summer 2007 and 2008 to study the influence of the air pollution, aerosols and forest fires on the UV doses reaching the ground. For comparison reasons, a…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, ozone, radiation, Greece, Europe, fire management, urban habitats, solar ultraviolet radiation, air pollution, aerosols, forest fires, total ozone

[From text] The second EastFIRE Conference, held at George Mason University, June 5-8, 2007, brought together researchers, land managers, and technicians to share information on remote sensing applications to wildland fires in the eastern states. Based on the session chair’s…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Planning
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: wildfires, remote sensing

This paper uses multi-sensor remote sensing data to study the type and spatio-temporal variability of aerosols emitted from forest fires. The study is based on the Okefenokee Swamp fire that ravaged parts of Georgia and Florida between May and June of 2007. Moderate Resolution…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire case histories, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, remote sensing, Florida, Georgia, fire management, forest management, smoke management, forest fires, aerosols

Since 2004, the National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis (NCLFA) has deployed broadband radio equipment coupled with strategic monitoring technologies to support management of wildland fires in remote areas of the western United States. Wireless broadband radios and…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Intelligence, Outreach, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: fire case histories, wildfires, education, public information, remote sensing, Montana, Washington, fire management, communication, fire management, public outreach and education, remote cameras, surveillance, wireless technologies

A pair of three-day workshops were held in 2008 and 2009, designed for fire managers responsible for communicating and negotiating with state and local air quality regulators. The workshops were organized by the NWCG Smoke Committee, coordinated by the University of Idaho, and…
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Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, 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 regulations, smoke management, collaboration

The purpose of this letter is to acknowledge receipt of Georgia's March 27, 2009, letter which contained Georgia's state-certified Smoke Management Plan (SMP) and associated Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Environmental…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords:

In the United States, prescribed burning of wildlands is practiced on over 2 million hectares of land each year. Based on our survey conducted in 1989, approximately 70, 20, and 10% of this burning occurs in the Southeast, Pacific Northwest, and Rocky Mountain regions,…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, chemical elements, dead fuels, duff, ecosystem dynamics, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, litter, live fuels, particulates, Pinus elliottii, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke managementtoxicity, wildlife habitat management

From the text: 'The most pressing problem facing prescribed burners today is smoke which reduces visibility on nearby highways. Included is a summary of smoke-related accidente, attributed to prescribed fires, in the South. And...there are undoubtedly more of which I am not…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Alabama, fire injuries (humans), Florida, Georgia, liability, North Carolina, plantations, smoke management, South Carolina, US Forest Service

From the Objectives: ' A. To minimize ambient air quality impairment from forestry prescribed burning operations. B. To prevent smoke from being carried to or accumulating in areas sensitive to smoke. C. To recommend burning guidelines to supplement the regulations promulated by…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, brush, burning permits, fire management, firefighting personnel, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasses, hardwood forests, litter, logging, organic matter, pine forests, pollution, slash, smoke management, Virginia, wildfires

From the text: 'Prescribed burning is one of the most effective management techniques available to forest managers in the South. With more intensive management of the Southern forest, its use continues to grow each year. However, because of the increasing population, expansion…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Weather, Economics
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: agriculture, Alabama, Arkansas, burning permits, croplands, fire injuries (humans), fire management, Florida, forest management, Georgia, health factors, liability, logging, Louisiana, North Carolina, pine forests, roads, site treatments, slash, smoke management, South Carolina, wind

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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Abies concolor, Abies grandis, age classes, air quality, artificial regeneration, Blue Mountains, Christoneura occidentalis, coniferous forests, diameter classes, duff, fire exclusion, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel types, Idaho, land management, Larix occidentalis, litter, Montana, mortality, national forests, Oregon, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, post fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, range management, rate of spread, reforestation, regeneration, season of fire, site treatments, smoke management, soils, understory vegetation, Washington, wildlife

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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, broadcast burning, coniferous forests, education, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, forest products, fuel management, fuel models, Idaho, ignition, litter, Montana, mopping up, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, range management, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, Washington, wildfires, wildlife, wind

Hazards created by smoke from a prescribed fire are very real. Every year, many people are killed or injured as a result of accidents precipitated by smoke on highways. Recognizing the problem, state and local governments are seeking more laws to control when and where fire can…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Alabama, fire management, forest management, fuel types, grasses, Ilex glabra, pine forests, Pinus, Sabal palmetto, Serenoa repens, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wind

In reaching its decision that the clearing of land by fire, and its resulting natural consequence, is an inherently dangerous act, the First District Court of Appeals erred in failing to consider the beneficial effect of controlled burning. Today, controlled burning plays an…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire management, Florida, land management, liability, natural resource legislation, north Florida, pine forests, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

From the Executive Summary (p.iv) ... 'A coordinated program of research on the 1988 fires should be intiated immediately. The essential ingredients for such a program include an ecosystem approach to provide conceptual integration and operational coordination of many individual…
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, amphibians, arthropods, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, community ecology, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, grasslands, hydrology, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, Lepidoptera, logging, Montana, national forests, national parks, nongame birds, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus contorta, plant communities, public information, range management, recreation, remote sensing, reptiles, runoff, small mammals, soil nutrients, soils, species diversity (plants), streams, succession, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, vulnerable species or communities, water, water quality, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, cones, coniferous forests, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire injuries (animals), fire regimes, fuel moisture, human caused fires, Idaho, lightning caused fires, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, nongame birds, old growth forests, old growth vegetation, openings, Pandion halioetus, pine forests, Pinus palustris, post fire recovery, predation, public information, raptors, seeds, serotiny, small mammals, smoke behavior, smoke effects, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), waterfowl, wildfires, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: droughts, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire suppression, fuel moisture, heavy fuels, mopping up, precipitation, season of fire, seasonal activities, smoke effects, soil moisture, statistical analysis, wildfires

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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, Ceanothus, chaparral, education, field experimental fires, fire intensity, fire size, gases, ignition, post fire recovery, public information, regeneration, site treatments, smoke effects, soils, southern California, state forests, wildfires, wind

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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air quality, Australia, bibliographies, biomass, boreal forests, Canada, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, deforestation, distribution, Europe, fire regimes, fuel loading, fuel types, gases, climate change, habitat types, land use, remote sensing, savannas, slash and burn, statistical analysis, tropical forests, understory vegetation, wildfires

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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, fire management, firing techniques, grasslands, manuals, Minnesota, Montana, mopping up, North Dakota, smoke management, South Dakota, tallgrass prairies, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Many factors increase susceptibility of forests to wildfire. Among them are increases in human population, changes in land use, fire suppression, and frequent droughts. These factors have been exacerbating forest susceptibility to wildfires over the last century in southern…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California
Keywords: bark beetle, air pollution, drought, nitrogen deposition, diseases, San Bernardino Mountains, forest densification, ozone exposure, wildfire

This report highlights significant research findings and accomplishments by scientists at the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station during fiscal year 2008. The mission of the PNW Research Station is to generate and communicate scientific knowledge that helps people…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Aquatic
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Pacific Northwest Research Station, accomplishments report, key findings

Long-term monitoring of aerosol optical properties at a boreal forest AERONET site in interior Alaska was performed from 1994 through 2008 (excluding winter), Large interannual variability was observed, with some years showing near background aerosol optical depth (AOD) levels…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: Arctic, boreal region, optical properties, burning aerosols, coastal, AERONET - Aerosol Robotic Network