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Prescribed burning in forestry is a valuable land management tool that has been extensively used in Australia, Eurasia, and North America. Nevertheless, fire is inherently dangerous and may impose risk upon humans, properties, and other natural resources. With the case of…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: burning permits, liability, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, fire management, forest management, burn permits, liability, statutes, written prescriptions

From the text ... '..., in today's world with imcreasing populations, and more people living in the wildland urban interface, prescribed burn practitioners must put more emphasis on smoke management. If we don't manage our smoke and the resulting negative impacts, then the…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: heat, smoke behavior, air temperature, humidity, precipitation, public information, storms, wind, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, land management, smoke management

This document is intended to provide guidelines forest resource managers which, if properly applied, can reduce the risk of adverse impacts of smoke from forestry or agricultural-related burns on smoke-sensitive areas.
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords:

The Range-Wide Conservation Plan for Longleaf Pine calls for increasing longleaf pine from 3.4 million acres to 8 million acres by 2025. This effort is supported by federal and state agencies and nongovernmental organizations (NGO) in the Southeast, and dovetails with the…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, smoke management, air quality regulations, prescribed burning policies, stakeholder collaboration

Fires in agricultural ecosystems emit greenhouse gases and aerosols that influence climate on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Annex 1 countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), many of which ratified the Kyoto Protocol, are required to…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: agriculture, CO2 - carbon dioxide, cropland fires, mitigation, biomass burning, satellite observations, radiative forcing, fire frequency, aerosols, air quality, greenhouse gases, remote sensing, fire management, range management, croplands

Based on its review of the air quality criteria and the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM), the EPA is making revisions to the suite of standards for PM to provide requisite protection of public health and welfare and to make corresponding…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: EPA - Environmental Protection Agency, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, wildfires, AQI - Air Quality Index

This webinar will cover two large, multi-region studies of public perceptions of smoke from wildland and prescribed fire funded by the JFSP. A mail/internet survey conducted by the University of Idaho investigated perceptions of urban and rural residents in the northern Rocky…
Person: Toman, Olsen, Hall, Blades
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): California, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: public perception, smoke impacts, smoke management, public involvement processes, community involvement, community-based partnerships, interagency collaboration, public survey

Tropospheric ozone (O3) negatively impacts human health and ecosystems, and is a greenhouse gas. Wildfires are a source of tropospheric O3, and studies show that wildfires are increasing in North America. In this study, we present a critical review of O3 production from…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: biomass burning, fire frequency, fire intensity, smoke behavior, wildfires, air quality, greenhouse gases, N - nitrogen, ozone, pollution, fire management, smoke management, ozone production, wildfires, air quality impacts, ozone exceedances, ozone photochemistry