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The emission of mercury from biomass burning was investigated in laboratory experiments and the results confirmed in airborne measurements on a wildfire near Hearst, Ont. Mercury contained in vegetation (live, dead, coniferous, deciduous) was essentially completely released in…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Acer, Adenostoma fasciculatum, air quality, biomass, Ceanothus crassifolius, chemistry, conifers, Connecticut, deciduous forests, fire management, flammability, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, hardwood forests, Idaho, Ilex glabra, litter, Montana, national forests, needles, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus monticola, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus strobus, pollution, Pseudotsuga menziesii, sampling, smoke management, South Carolina, statistical analysis, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, Washington, wildfires
From the Conclusion ... 'A comprehensive, mechanistic simulation of wildland fire and ecosystem dynamics across a landscape may not be possible because of computer limitations, inadequate research, inconsistent data, and extensive parameterization. Therefore empirical and…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: bacteria, climate change, decomposition, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, evapotranspiration, fire growth, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fuel moisture, fungi, heat effects, humidity, hydrology, ignition, insects, landscape ecology, leaves, litter, mortality, nutrient cycling, photosynthesis, plant diseases, precipitation, radiation, rate of spread, regeneration, roots, runoff, seed dispersal, seed production, smoke behavior, smoke management, soil moisture, soil organic matter, soils, stand characteristics, temperate forests, understory vegetation, wilderness fire management, wildfires, woody fuels
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Eastern, Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: Alberta, buds, Canada, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, fire injuries (plants), heat, heat effects, leaves, moisture, mortality, mountains, plant growth, plant physiology, post fire recovery, prairies, smoke effects, soil temperature, statistical analysis, surface fires, Wisconsin
From the text ... 'Scientists at the University of Florida believe prescribed burnig may protect dogwoods from anthracnose by creating environmental conditions unfavorable to the disease.' Contact author at: sjose@ufl.edu .
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Anthracnose, biogeography, Cornus, Discula, distribution, Florida, forest management, fungi, Great Smoky Mountains, land management, land use, national parks, North Carolina, plant diseases, population density, smoke effects, state parks, wildfires
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: age classes, air quality, annual plants, biomass, competition, fire frequency, fire management, grasslands, grazing, histories, invasive species, land management, litter, mortality, Nassella, native species (plants), natural areas management, perennial plants, phenology, plant growth, population density, population ecology, regeneration, season of fire, seed germination, seedlings, soil nutrients, statistical analysis, topography, weed control, wilderness areas, wildfires
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics
Region(s): Northwest, International
Keywords: Achnatherum, annual plants, Artemisia tridentata, artificial regeneration, Astragalus, biomass, Centrocercus urophasianus, community ecology, competition, Crepis, Elymus elymoides, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, firing techniques, flame length, forage, forbs, fragmentation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, game birds, grasses, grasslands, habitat conversion, headfires, herbaceous vegetation, microclimate, mosaic, native species (animals), native species (plants), Oregon, perennial plants, plant communities, plant growth, Poa secunda, population density, population ecology, post fire recovery, Pseudoroegneria, range management, rate of spread, regeneration, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, shrublands, site treatments, statistical analysis, succession, temperature, topography, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, vulnerable species or communities, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges
From the text...'A new generation of prescribed fire statutes have been developed in the southeastern states beginning with Florida in 1990 (Brenner and Wade 1992). The Florida statute goes to great length to recognize prescribed burning as a useful land management tool. The…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern
Keywords: fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, Georgia, land management, liability, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, pine forests, prairies, range management, rangelands, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text...'I believe that the Forest Service should take the lead in developing low-density stand management guidelines, but it isn’t going to be easy. The anti-management environmental lobby has beaten the agency into a position of inactivity. The Administration…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, Appalachian Mountains, ecosystem dynamics, education, FIA, fire adaptations (plants), fire management, forest management, forest products, forest types, Georgia, grasses, hardwood forests, insects, Kentucky, landscape ecology, loblolly pine, logging, Longleaf Alliance, mast, mosaic, mountains, national forests, Native Americans, North Carolina, Ozarks, pine forests, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plant diseases, population density, prairies, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, private lands, public information, Quercus, savannas, stand characteristics, Tennessee, thinning, topography, trees, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, Virginia, wildfires
Wildfire represents a serious challenge to communities in the rural West. After decades of fire suppression, land managers now perceive a greater role for wildfire in the ecosystem. In the meantime,migration patterns from urban to rural settings have increased the…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, Cascades Range, catastrophic fires, education, fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, hardwood forests, land management, multiple resource management, national forests, pine forests, post fire recovery, public information, recreation, rural communities, season of fire, US Forest Service, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, dead fuels, ecosystem dynamics, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, fuel models, fuel types, GIS, hardwood forests, heavy fuels, land management, landscape ecology, liability, litter, live fuels, Montana, national forests, old growth vegetation, overstory, pine forests, remote sensing, smoke management, thinning, woody plants
Factors influencing the probability of fire occurrence in the south central United States were investigated using a geographic information system (GIS) and a multinomial logit model. Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data at the plot level were merged with census data at the…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Alabama, Arkansas, distribution, education, FIA - Forest Inventory and Analysis, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel types, geography, GIS - geographic information system, hardwood forests, human caused fires, incendiary fires, land use, logging, Mississippi, Oklahoma, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus spp., plantations, population density, prescribed fires (chance ignition), prescribed fires (escaped), private lands, roads, statistical analysis, Tennessee, Texas, topography, urban habitats, wildfires
Equations for predicting duff and large woody fuel (7.6+ cm) consumption are summarized. Dependent variables are duff depth reduction, percentage duff depth reduction, percentage mineral soil, large fuel diameter reduction, and percentage large fuel reduction. Opportunities to…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies grandis, Artemisia tridentata, coniferous forests, conifers, duff, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel management, fuel models, grasses, mineral soils, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus monticola, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, wildfires, woody fuels
We studied cross-seasonal changes in pulmonary function and respiratory symptoms in 52 wildland firefighters in Northern California. The mean cross-seasonal change in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEVI) was-1.2% (95% confidence interval [CI] -O.5, -2.0%) with a…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, backfires, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, dust, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fuel types, gases, national forests, northern California, particulates, smoke effects, smoke management, topography, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
A feasibility study has been carried out of the analysis of total condensate (at -50 °C) of smoke from smoldering combustion of wood. All of the phenol and furan components in the aqueous condensate were extracted into methylene chloride and the extract was analyzed by GC/MS.…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, combustion, combustion chambers, experimental fires, fire suppression, laboratory fires, lignin, Montana, mopping up, Pinus ponderosa, Populus trichocarpa, smoke effects, wood, wood chemistry
A prescribed fire was ignited near Chapleau, western Ontario, Canada, on the afternoon of August 10, 1989. The fire, covering approximately 400 ha, burned vigorously over a period of 3 hours, from 1400 to 1700 EDT, generating a plume cloud structure including a portion…
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Year: 1991
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, International, National
Keywords: Canada, distribution, field experimental fires, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fuel loading, lightning, lightning effects, logging, Ontario, physics, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management
After the serious smoke inversion conditions on the northern California and southern Oregon fires of 1987 and the Greater Yellowstone Area fires of 1988, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) hosted a conference - 'The Effect of Forest Fire Smoke on Firefighters'-in…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, northern California, Oregon, smoke behavior, smoke effects, Yellowstone National Park
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, fire suppression, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, storms
This paper draws on comments from 89 reporters who covered the fires, on comments from 146 of their new sources, and on evaluations of network television coverage by four groups of wildfire experts. The research also incorporates a content analysis of stories about the fires…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: bibliographies, catastrophic fires, education, environmental impact analysis, environmental impact statements, fire case histories, fire control, fire management, fire suppression, land management, national parks, public information, wildfires, Yellowstone National Park
Computers are rapidly expanding into the urban fire safety area. This paper presents some social implications caused by the use of computers for fire safety databases, arson prediction programs, and fire simulation programs. In regards to the new technological advances this…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Arizona, computer programs, fire control, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, human caused fires, incendiary fires, Massachusetts, rate of spread, wildfires
A climatic gradient across Northwestern Ontario induces a spatial gradient in fire incidence, with few fires in the Northeastern part and many in the Southwestern part. The resultant landscape mosaics exhibit maximum landscape (beta) diversity with intermediate disturbance…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: Abies balsamea, aesthetics, age classes, boreal forests, Canada, CO2 - carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, distribution, disturbance, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, climate change, human caused fires, landscape ecology, lightning caused fires, mosaic, national parks, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Picea glauca, Pinus banksiana, plant communities, Populus tremuloides, prescribed fires (chance ignition), statistical analysis, temperate forests, trees, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
[From the text] In the southeastern United States, the native biota of many natural ecosystems are adapted to periodic burning. It is generally believed that in Florida at the time of European intervention, these ecosystems were sustained as fire climax communities by relatively…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, climax vegetation, fire management, Florida, land management, land use, land use planning, natural resource legislation, particulates, plant communities, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, state parks
The western national parks managed by the Canadian Parks Service (CPS) are dominated by fire dependent forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and trembling aspen. Values at risk and high-intensity fire regimes limit the acceptability of unscheduled (lightning and unplanned man)…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerial ignition, age classes, Canada, coniferous forests, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, flame length, fuel types, headfires, human caused fires, ignition, lightning, lightning caused fires, mortality, national parks, Picea, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus glabra, Populus tremuloides, prescribed fires (chance ignition)
Fire-maintained pine barrens once covered more than 20,000 hectares in the Albany region on sand deposits associated with glacial Lake Albany. Today, urbanization and fire suppression have reduced the area to less than 1,000 hectares of pine barrens, which are dissected by…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Social Science, Fire Ecology, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: adaptation, barrens, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest fragmentation, fuel loading, histories, ignition, lightning, New York, pine barrens, pioneer species, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges
We present a systematic study of the vertical distribution of gases produced in controlled combustions induced in caribbean pine (Pinus caribaea var hondurensis). Small areas of pine debris were burned and were taken into a comercial gas cromatographer. A simple mathematical…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Caribbean, combustion, distribution, fire management, gases, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Pinus caribaea, statistical analysis
The Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) simulates fuel dynamics and potential fire behaviour over time, in the context of stand development and management. Existing models of fire behavior and fire effects were added to FVS to form this…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: age classes, biomass, Cascades Range, catastrophic fires, chaparral, computer programs, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, crowns, dead fuels, decay, decomposition, diameter classes, distribution, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, flame length, flammability, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, grasses, habitat types, herbaceous vegetation, Idaho, insects, leaves, litter, live fuels, logging, moisture, Montana, mortality, needles, northern California, Oregon, particulates, salvage, scorch, shrubs, size classes, snags, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, succession, surface fires, surface fuels, thinning, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, wind, woody fuels, FVS, FFE, forest fire, stand dynamics, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, BEHAVE, NEXUS, snags, coarse, woody debris, FARSITE, TETONS