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From the text ... 'In the process of carrying out proper forest management activities, certain changes and temporary disruptions to the environment are unavoidable. Our aim is to minimize the negative aspects to the environment as associated with these activities....I would like…
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, arthropods, brush, burning permits, cover type conversion, diseases, fire hazard reduction, fire protection, fire regimes, firing techniques, forest management, fuel management, fuel moisture, insects, logging, reforestation, regeneration, season of fire, site treatments, slash, smoke management, soils, topography, Washington, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management

From the text ... 'Historically, here in the Pacific Northwest, most of our prescribed fire experience has been with broadcast burning of logging slash (Dell and Green, 1968; Brown and Davis, 1973). This has been the most common method of fuel treatment and site preparation ever…
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, broadcast burning, brush, cutting, disturbance, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, grasslands, land management, logging, national forests, natural areas management, Oregon, Pseudotsuga menziesii, season of fire, site treatments, slash, smoke management, soils, succession, thinning, trees, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, Vaccinium, Washington, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife

The Department of Interior is actively engaged in the smoke management business from two apparently opposite viewpoints. In one case we are trying to prevent or extinguish wildfires and minimize adverse effects on air quality as well as other resources. On the other hand we are…
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, logging, particulates, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management