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From the text ... 'During my 24 years as a wildland firefighter, knowing that I had protected someone's home or community has always made my chest swell. ...The ying and yang of firefighting is partly this: By suppressing fire for so many decades, we have let fuels build up to…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ash, CO - carbon monoxide, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fire whirls, firefighting personnel, flame length, fuel accumulation, fuel management, heat effects, Idaho, lightning caused fires, Montana, mortality, national parks, old growth forests, precipitation, resprouting, season of fire, spot fires, temperature, trees, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
From the text ... 'The Sioux and Cheyenne traditionally set fire to the prairie as they moved their summer camps in pursuit of game. ...The Great Sioux War provides a sharp contrast in how two different cultures with diverse values and objectives utilized fire. ...Many fires set…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: backfires, Black Hills, disturbance, droughts, ecotones, fire management, forage, fuel types, heat effects, histories, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, land use, lightning caused fires, Montana, Native Americans, prairies, precipitation, rangelands, smoke effects, South Dakota, storms, topography, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, Wyoming
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Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, backing fires, Centaurea maculosa, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, environmental impact analysis, erosion, fire equipment, fire retardants, fire suppression, firebreaks, fishes, hydrocarbons, introduced species, invasive species, land use, Lolium multiflorum, marshes, mopping up, multiple resource management, national parks, native species (plants), pollution, post fire recovery, recreation, roads, sedimentation, site treatments, smoke effects, soils, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), water quality, weed control, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, ecosystem dynamics, energy, evapotranspiration, fuel accumulation, gases, leaves, Manitoba, Oregon, overstory, Picea mariana, post fire recovery, precipitation, radiation, regeneration, species diversity (plants), succession, understory vegetation, NEE - net ecosystem exchange
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Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: bark, birds, coniferous forests, Dendroctonus, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, fuel loading, fuel moisture, herbaceous vegetation, insects, moisture, mortality, multiple resource management, national parks, Oregon, overstory, population density, season of fire, Sequoia, shrubs, smoke management, surface fires, thinning, understory vegetation, FFS - Fire and Fire Surrogate Study
Better understanding is needed of what makes educational efforts most effective in increasing public support for wildfire management and mitigation efforts. Results of a mail survey of homeowners in Incline Village, Nevada, indicate that personalized contact is key in the…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: defensible space, public acceptance, education, Nevada, public attitudes, wildfire, homeowner perceptions, information sources, property damage, fire damage, fire damage protection, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire damage (property), fire intensity, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, light burning, escaped prescribed fires, smoke effects, surface fires, aesthetics, health factors, logging, partial cutting, population density, private lands, public information, thinning, Abies concolor, fire management planning, fuel management, land use, wildlife habitat management, coniferous forests
In this report we analyze airborne measurements to suggest that methanol in biomass burning smoke is lost heterogeneously in clouds. When a smoke plume intersected a cumulus cloud during the SAFARI 2000 field project, the observed methanol gas phase concentration rapidly…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass burning, clouds
Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS) is a user-friendly computer program designed for scientists and resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software manages data concerning consumption, emissions and heat release characteristics…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: duff consumption, fuel consumption, fuel moisture, wildfires, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, heat release, plume rise
A new PC-based Visual Basic software program called FEPS version 1.0 (Fire Emission Production Simulator) is now available on the Web. It is a user-friendly computer program, designed to predict emissions and heat release characteristics from prescribed or wildfires using system…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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: FEPS - Fire Emissions Production Simulator, fuel consumption, computer program, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, emission data, heat release data
The primary objective of the Emission Production Model project is: To improve the usability, accuracy, and applicability of an Emission Production Model to predict air pollutant source strength, heat release rate, and plume buoyancy from all fire environments and all fuel types…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air pollutants, heat release rate, buoyant plume
During the summer of 2003, biomass fires burned a large area of Siberia, the largest in at least 10 years. We used the NRL Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System (NAAPS) model to forecast the transport of the smoke from these fires. Transport of these airmasses to North America…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, Northwest, International
Keywords: British Columbia, burned area, Siberia, Washington, biomass burning, long-range transport of pollution, O3 - ozone, surface ozone
Extensive measurements of smoke exposure among wildland firefighters are summarized, showing that firefighters can be exposed to significant levels of carbon monoxide and respiratory irritants, including formaldehyde, acrolein, and respirable particulate matter. Benzene was also…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: hazard, wildfires, CO - carbon monoxide, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, firefighter safety, firefighters, air quality, CO2 - carbon dioxide, chemical compounds, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire injury, fire management, fire management planning, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, health factors, mop up, particulates, pollution, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, toxicity, wind
Fire shelters are critical safety items required for use by most wildland firefighters in the United States. Most testing of fire shelters, clothing and other personal protective equipment (PPE) has been limited to prescribed fires or laboratory based studies. This study reports…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, crown fires, jack pine, Pinus banksiana, black spruce, fire shelter, ICFME - International Crown Fire Modeling Experiment, Picea mariana, Northwest Territories, air temperature, field experimental fires, fire damage (property), fire equipment, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, humidity, gases, ignition, mortality, photography, wind
During the past 80 years, various disturbances (such as wildfire and wind events) and management actions (including fire exclusion, logging, and domestic livestock grazing) have significantly modified the composition and structure of forests and ranges across the western United…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, fuel consumption, fuel loadings, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, vegetation cover, smoke production, Columbia River basin
The radiative energy emitted by large fires and the corresponding smoke aerosol loading are simultaneously measured from the MODIS sensor from both the Terra and Aqua satellites. Quantitative relationships between the rates of emission of fire radiative energy and smoke are…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, atmospheric particles, dispersion, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, pollution, fires, prediction, space remote sensing
For most overnight campers, camping and campfires seem to go together. Campfires are not only psychologically reassuring, they seem to offer an easy way to get rid of trash. But after cooking dinner, it is wise to burn the garbage in your campfire? How benign are the fumes…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ash, ash content, burn, burning garbage, campfires, development, gas emissions
FOFEM 5.2 is a simple, yet versatile computer program that predicts first order fire effects using text and graphic outputs. It can be used in a variety of situations including: determining acceptable upper and lower fuel moistures for conducting prescribed burns, determining…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Eastern, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, fuel consumption, fuel moisture, particulates, tree mortality, mineral soil exposure, soil heating, smoke production
Confidence in decisionmaking can often come from knowing if others in similar circumstances would choose the same management strategy. Researchers at the USDA FS Pacific Northwest Research Station and the University of Saskatchewan have developed a Selection Criteria Analysis…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuels treatments, FASTRACS - Fuel Analysis, Smoke Tracking, and Report Access Computer System, Selection Criteria Analysis
Tutorials for determining tree mortality, fuel consumption, smoke emissions and soil heating using the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), version 5.0 computer program.
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, fuel consumption, tree mortality, soil heating
We report the results of a questionnaire and workshop that sought to gain a better and deeper understanding of the contemporary information needs of wildland fire and fuels managers. Results from the questionnaire indicated that the decision to suppress a wildland fire was most…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: strategic planning, WFU - wildland fire use, decision support, management plan, catastrophic fires, computer program, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire management planning, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, fuel accumulation, fuel management, GIS - geographic information system, grazing, heavy fuels, herbicide, invasive species, land management, recreation, US Forest Service, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife habitat management
This experiment studied burning characteristics of pine cones as a separate fuel component. Cones of fire resisters ponderosa pine, Jeffrey pine, longleaf pine, and south Florida slash pine, and cones of fire evaders Monterey pine, knobcone pine, sand pine, and pond pine were…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): 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: cones, Aristida stricta, biogeography, coastal plain, coniferous forests, crown fires, evolution, fire adaptations, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, flame length, flammability, forest management, germination, ground fires, longleaf pine, needles, pine forests, pine, Pinus elliottii densa, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Pinus radiata, Pinus serotina, seed germination, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, slash, slash pine, smoke management, statistical analysis, surface fuels
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, aerosols, trace gas emissions, biomass burning
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, aerosols, trace gas emissions, biomass burning
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfire, air pollution, atmospheric science, PM - particulate matter
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: education, fire education, fire terminology