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Fire attitudes and recreational acceptability

From the Executive Summary... 'Changes in policies governing fire in publicly-managed recreation areas have generated concern among federal land management professionals about public acceptance. This concern is compounded by the increasing numbers of people engaged in outdoor…
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Arizona, burning intervals, education, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, human caused fires, land management, land use, light, lightning, lightning caused fires, low intensity burns, public information, recreation, sampling, statistical analysis, wildfires, wildlife

Prescribed burning in Louisiana pinelands

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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: artificial regeneration, backfires, burning intervals, cutting, diseases, fire equipment, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, firing techniques, flame length, flank fires, forest management, hardwoods, headfires, humidity, Louisiana, pine forests, plantations, precipitation, season of fire, site treatments, sloping terrain, smoke management, spot fires, statistical analysis, wildlife habitat management, wind

Slash burning and fuel consumption in the Douglas-fir subregion

An earlier paper* described three techniques used to estimate the moisture content of large (3- to 9-inch diameter) woody fuels in logging slash west of the Cascade range in Washington and Oregon. Our paper examines the use of these and other independent variables to predict…
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: broadcast burning, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, fire hazard reduction, fuel appraisal, fuel arrangement, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, heat, logging, moisture, Oregon, Pseudotsuga menziesii, size classes, slash, surface fuels, trees, Tsuga heterophylla, Washington, woody fuels

A fire effects appraisal system for Wisconsin

Describes a new wildfire effects appraisal system developed for Wisconsin.
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire benefits, fire damage, fire management, valuation procedure, management plan, Wisconsin, aesthetics, agriculture, air quality, catastrophic fires, environmental impact analysis, fire intensity, statistical analysis, wildlife habitat management