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Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, fire management, grasslands, human caused fires, land management, recreation, savannas, shrublands, watershed management, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire intensity, fire retardants, laboratory fires, particulates, site treatments, slash, smoke management, wood
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, Interior Alaska, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: litter, nutrient cycling, particulates, phosphate, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus taeda, precipitation, runoff, soil leaching, soil nutrients, South Carolina, volatilization
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel loading, particulates, smoke management, weather observations
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, dead fuels, fuel moisture, headfires, live fuels, particulates, pine forests, smoke management, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, dead fuels, fuel moisture, headfires, live fuels, particulates, pine forests, pollution, smoke management, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, hydrocarbons, Ilex glabra, laboratory fires, Liquidambar styraciflua, particulates, pine forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus taeda, Quercus laevis, Serenoa repens, understory vegetation
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Australia, carbon dioxide, chemistry, decay, eucalyptus, fire intensity, fuel appraisal, fuel types, gases, light, litter, ozone, rural communities, sampling, site treatments, smoke effects, trees
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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, general interest, public information, soils, water quality, wildfires, wildlife
This review summarizes the available literature relevant to British Columbia concerning the influences of harvesting and post-harvest practices upon the forest environment and resources, and points out significant gaps in knowledge where research would be useful. This will aid…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., aesthetics, air quality, bibliographies, British Columbia, Canada, coniferous forests, decay, disturbance, fishes, forest management, hardwood forests, hydrology, logging, microclimate, Picea, pine forests, Pinus contorta, plant growth, recreation, regeneration, roads, runoff, seed germination, seedlings, slash, soil erosion, soil organisms, soils, succession, watershed management, wildlife
'A program of burning experiments was carried out to assess the air pollutant emmissions potential of forest residues in the Pacific Norhtwest. Only the fine fuel component of slash fuelbeds was considered. Ponderosa pine slash, Douglas-fir slash with needles, and Douglas-fir…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, air temperature, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, combustion, coniferous forests, field experimental fires, fine fuels, fire intensity, fire management, fire retardants, flammability, fuel appraisal, fuel arrangement, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, humidity, hydrocarbons, ignition, laboratory fires, live fuels, logging, needles, old growth forests, particulates, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, second growth forests, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, understory vegetation, Washington, wildfires, wind
About 872,000 acres of forest and agricultural land were burned in Georgia during 1972, releasing an estimated 17,000 tons of particulate matter into the atmosphere. Most of this burning was done in the southwestern half of the State during January, February, and March.…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, coastal plain, combustion, computer programs, fire control, fire hazard reduction, flatwoods, fuel management, Georgia, particulates, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, weather observations, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
From the text...'Several important facets of any wilderness fire management program must be understood by everyone. First, there are risks involved--primarily the risk of fires escaping. We may not always be able to contain them within the mangement unit. Also, wilderness fire…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, elevation, fire adaptations, fire exclusion, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, Idaho, national forests, needles, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, plant communities, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, savannas, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, shrublands, shrubs, spot fires, subalpine forests, vegetation surveys, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
The atmospheric trace element abundances associated with agricultural field burning and rural air have been measured for the Willamette Valley of western Oregon. Neutron activation analysis is as used to measure the concentrations of about 26 trace elements in gross air…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, croplands, gases, grasses, human caused fires, Oregon, particulates, pollution, rural communities, sampling, slash and burn, smoke effects, statistical analysis
Prescribed fire is the intentional use of fire to achieve certain land management goals. Over 2 million acres of forest land in the southern United States are treated with this tool each year. The benefits from these burns can be offset by a degradation of air quality due to the…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, backfires, combustion, distribution, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasses, hardwood forests, Ilex glabra, land management, leaves, litter, needles, particulates, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus taeda, Quercus rubra, sampling, Serenoa repens, smoke management, Solidago, wind
Prescribed fire has been used in managing our southern forest lands for over 50 years. However, burning forest fuels comes under the open burning regulations of the various states. These regulations and how they affect forest management are highlighted by three geographic areas…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): California, Eastern, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, backing fires, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, Idaho, Illinois, logging, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, pollution, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, Texas, Virginia, Washington, wildfires
The information presented in this paper is directed to those concerned with the disposal of agricultural wastes. The purpose of this paper is to provide a concise, up to date report on the approaches followed by the various states in dealing with the disposal of agricultural…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern, Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, burning permits, CO - carbon monoxide, croplands, fire management, firing techniques, human caused fires, hydrocarbons, nitrogen
From the text...'The Southern Forest Fire Laboratory of the USDA Forest Service's Southeastern Forest Experiment Station at Macon, Georgia, is engaged in research and development work to manage smoke from prescribed fire. A part of this work is the development of techniques to…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, fire management, Georgia, headfires, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, pollution, rate of spread, smoke behavior, smoke management, wind
Prescribed burning is a preferred treatment in many fuel management situations because of its low cost, campatibility with other land-use objectives, and little or not undesirable side effects. The problems, limitations, and associated consequences of fire treatments are…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, backfires, broadcast burning, brush, burning intervals, CO - carbon monoxide, coastal plain, cutting, fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, firebreaks, flank fires, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel moisture, heavy fuels, hydrocarbons, ignition, land use, litter, multiple resource management, particulates, pine forests, regeneration, season of fire, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, understory vegetation, wildfires
From the Summary ... 'Combustion emissions from dead, dry forest fuel are considerably less than those from live, green material. For the most part, prescribed burning involves dead, dry fuel in contrast to wildfires where a high proportion of live, green material is included in…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, chemistry, coastal plain, combustion, dead fuels, fire hazard reduction, fuel accumulation, fuel types, gases, heavy fuels, hydrocarbons, light, pine forests, precipitation, smoke behavior, soils, wildfires
From Experimental Results ... 'Smoke samples were collected in a small aircraft, which was flown through the smoke columns from a series of large prescribed fires in the forest areas of Western Australia in the spring of 1970. The smoke particles were deposited on air-filters or…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, chemistry, combustion, gases, sampling, smoke behavior, western Australia, wildfires, wind
From the Summary ... 'The behavior of the convection column above a large fire is thus characterized by (1) marked inflow of air at the lower levels, and (2) rapid ascent of hot air at the higher levels, whereby mixing with the surrounding atmosphere is reduced. The height to…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, convection, experimental fires, fire case histories, fuel types, grasses, heat, moisture, Northern Territory of Australia, smoke behavior, temperature, western Australia, wildfires
From the text ... 'The smoke rising from a grass, brush or forest fire is primarily formed by the condensation of moisture and other vapors produced through pyrolysis and combustion. This smoke formation depends on the rate at which the surrounding air moves into the fire to…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Fire Ecology, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: adaptation, brush, brush fires, carbon, chemistry, combustion, fire equipment, fuel types, gases, grass fires, grasses, moisture, ozone, particulates, pollution, sampling, wildfires
Smoke from large scale fuel reduction fires in Western Australia has been investigated from an aircraft. These fires are typically 10,000-20,000 acres in area with fuel loadings of 3-6 tons/acre. Measurements were made of mass concentration, scattering coefficient and total…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, burning intervals, Eucalyptus diversicolor, Eucalyptus marginata, European settlement, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel loading, particulates, presettlement fires, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, western Australia, wind