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Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, broadcast burning, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, coniferous forests, experimental areas, field experimental fires, fire intensity, firing techniques, fuel loading, fuel moisture, gases, heavy fuels, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, logging, particulates, pollution, Pseudotsuga menziesii, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, Washington
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Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, biomass, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, central Florida, chaparral, chemistry, coastal plain, coastal vegetation, combustion, ecosystem dynamics, flammability, Florida, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, grasses, grasslands, hydrogen, Juncus roemerianus, live fuels, CH4 - methane, Quercus, sampling, Serenoa repens, smoke behavior, Spartina bakeri, wetlands, wildlife refuges
A major cooperative research effort between the Northern Region and the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station is devoted to the use and effects of prescribed fire. Prescribed fires in logging slash have been scheduled during the entire available burning season. A…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, biomass, distribution, elevation, fire intensity, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, logging, moisture, mountains, pollution, season of fire, seasonal activities, slash, sloping terrain, smoke behavior, temperature, topography, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wind
These smoke management guidelines are directed to the experienced prescribed burner who is knowledgeable about fire behavior. The objectives are to manage the production and dispersion of smoke when prescribe burning to prevent any adverse impact on communities, roads, or other…
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: combustion, fire equipment, fire management, fuel arrangement, fuel moisture, fuel types, Georgia, pine forests, roads, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, topography, weather observations, wildfires, wind
From the text ... 'The primary objective of prescribed burning on forest recreation areas in New Jersey is to reduce the probability of their destruction by wildfire. Investigation has shown that when uncontrolled fires enter treated areas they do much less damage and…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Economics, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, cover, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, firing techniques, forest edges, forest types, histories, hunting, litter, mast, natural resource legislation, New Jersey, overstory, pine barrens, pine hardwood forests, post fire recovery, recreation, smoke management, species diversity (plants), state forests, succession, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, watersheds, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management
Prescribed burning, an indispensable tool of forest management through-out much of the South, is accused of being an agent of air pollution. In some instances, a concerted effort is being made to restrict its use. Yet, no one has shown that air quality has deteriorated more in…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, combustion, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel accumulation, plant growth, pollution, public information, wildfires
From the summary ... ' In summary, the results of these large scale fire tests, conducted under marginal burning conditions, were negative; but, paradoxically, I find this very heartening, for we can now be much more confident in our predictions of fire behavior to be expected…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, chemistry, eucalyptus, fire intensity, fire whirls, flammability, fuel loading, ignition, litter, needles, nuclear winter, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, rate of spread, surface fires, temperature, topography, tropical forests, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text ... 'Several papers on concentrated fire vortices were presented at the 1967 Mass Fire Research Symposium in Washington, and the resulting discussion of dynamical effects on large fires due to organized vorticity ranged from the importance of rotation in fire…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: chaparral, conservation, Europe, fire case histories, fire management, fire whirls, Germany, mountains, physics, southern California, storms, vortices, Washington, wind
We conclude that HRV did form during an intense Montana wildland fire on a mountain face that was observed by the junior author. This article describes the phenomenon.
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: crown fires, fire case histories, fire control, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire whirls, flame length, fuel models, grass fuels, Montana, Pinus contorta, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, spot fires, topography, US Forest Service, vortices, wildfires, wind
The public outcry about the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park and adjacent natural forests, coupled with concern among natural resource managers, convinced the Secretaries of the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to establish the Fire Management Policy Review Team in…
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel loading, fuel moisture, general interest, land management, lightning caused fires, national parks, prescribed fires (chance ignition), recreation, season of fire, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
Although burning was originally intended as a control measure for blind seed disease in perennial ryegrass, growers soon discovered the benefits of open field burning for other grass seed crops.
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, cropland fires, disturbance, fertilizers, field experimental fires, grass fires, grasses, Lolium, Oregon, perennial plants, plant diseases, plant growth, season of fire, seasonal activities, seed production, seedlings
Emissions from burning the residue following grass-seed harvest have been determined by both field and laboratory studies. Field studies have been conducted by Oregon State University engineers on actual grass plots. The laboratory studies were conducted by scientists at the…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, annual plants, cropland fires, Dactylis glomerata, Festuca, fire management, grasses, Lolium multiflorum, Lolium perenne, Oregon, perennial plants, Poa, pollution
This report summarizes avaiable information on agricultural field burning in the Willamette Valley. Such information should be useful to all concerned with this practice and with the contribution it makes to air pollution in the state. The areas covered include background and…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, cropland fires, fire management, grasses, Lolium perenne, Oregon, perennial plants, pollution
'During the past year, burning treatments on the Miller Creek Block were essentially completed. Preparations for moving to Newman Ridge, on the St. Regis District, this spring are well underway. Current plans call for 16 instrumented fires on Newman Ridge during 1969 to conclude…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Economics
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, coniferous forests, duff, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, Idaho, logging, Montana, Pseudotsuga menziesii, roots, seedlings, slash, soil moisture, soil temperature, Tsuga heterophylla, US Forest Service, weather observations, wildlife
Current research on the effects of slash burning on air quality is concerned with the reduction or dispersal of gaseous emissions and particulates. Guidelines for accomplishing these goals are being developed. The use of other disposal methods is also under study, particularly…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, combustion, fire management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, histories, logging, mountains, Oregon, particulates, pollution, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, Washington, wildfires, wind
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Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: arthropods, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire management, fire regimes, flammability, forest management, fuel loading, glaciers, insects, Lycaeides melissa, New York, pine barrens, Pinus rigida, plant communities, Quercus prinus, sand dunes, scrub, smoke management, vulnerable species or communities, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management
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Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida stricta, artificial regeneration, community ecology, conservation, cover type conversion, ecosystem dynamics, fire regimes, forest management, fuel types, general interest, longleaf pine, north Florida, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus palustris, Pinus torreyana, plant diseases, post fire recovery, presettlement vegetation, seedlings, smoke effects, south Georgia, state parks, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), vulnerable species or communities, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: age classes, Canada, CO2 - carbon dioxide, chemistry, cutting, decay, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, experimental areas, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, forest management, land management, low intensity burns, mortality, mosaic, Ontario, phenology, pine forests, Pinus banksiana, plant growth, plant physiology, Populus grandidentata, Populus tremuloides, post fire recovery, precipitation, regeneration, reproduction, roots, seasonal activities, site treatments, soil moisture, soil temperature, soils, statistical analysis, surface fires, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, combustion, fire size, fuel types, heat, heat effects, ignition, moisture, nuclear winter, post fire recovery, rate of spread, slash, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, urban habitats, wildfires
Biomass and hydrocarbon fuel fires are two common sources of obscuring smoke which present significant operational challenges over a broad range of possible viewing wavelengths. This is especially true of very large fires where the primary smoke particles (approx. 0.1-0.3 um…
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): California, Northern Rockies, Northwest, International
Keywords: Canada, atmospheric dynamics, hydrocarbons, biomass burning
My discussion starts with some of the chemical aspects of forest fuels important from an emissions production standpoint. Then combustion processes are discussed. Finally, the emissions are described according to particulate matter and gaseous fractions.
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, biomass burning, gaseous emissions, combustion processes
The emissions from burning the residue following grass-seed harvest were determined by means of a combined laboratory-field study. Samples of the straw and stubble residue were burned in the laboratory burning tower at the University of California at Riverside. Complete analyses…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: grass, grass fire, laboratory fires, Oregon, PM - particulate matter, laboratory experiments, Willamette Valley, particulate emissions, agriculture, air quality, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical elements, Dactylis glomerata, experimental areas, Festuca, fire management, fire weather, fuel moisture, fuel types, ground cover, hydrocarbons, Lolium multiflorum, Lolium perenne, moisture, N - nitrogen, particulates, Poa spp., pollution, sampling, season of fire, seasonal activities, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, wind
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Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: crown fires, fire case histories, fire size, fuel moisture, fuel types, humidity, Idaho, lightning caused fires, national forests, Oregon, rate of spread, rural communities, smoke behavior, spot fires, temperature, topography, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
A detailed set of data was compiled on 20 large fire whirlwinds observed at 27 prescribed burns conducted in Ontario. There appear to be two types of such whirlwinds: one occurs in pairs on the leeward side of the convection column and the other is created after the entire…
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, fire intensity, black spruce, Picea mariana, fire whirls, aerial ignition, convection, duff, energy, fire case histories, fire control, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire management planning, fire size, fire weather, fire whirls, forest management, fuel loading, ignition, logging, rate of spread, size classes, slash, smoke behavior, storms, temperature, vortices, weather observations, wind
CO sub(2)-normalized emission ratios (Delta X/ Delta CO sub(2); V/V; where Delta X and Delta CO sub(2) identical with the enhancement of trace gas and CO sub(2), respectively, above background levels) for carbon monoxide (CO), hydrogen (H sub(2)), methane (CH sub(4)), total…
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: Canada, CH4 - methane, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, greenhouse gas emissions, N2O - nitrous oxide, biomass burning, Abies balsamea, air quality, Betula papyrifera, biomass, boreal forests, Florida, chemistry, climatology, combustion, ecosystem dynamics, fuel types, gases, grasses, habitat types, H2 - hydrogen, litter, Ontario, Picea mariana, Populus tremuloides, regeneration, sampling, season of fire, Thuja occidentalis, wetlands