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The germination requirements of a broad spectrum of common species found in grassy woodlands and forests in the New England region of northern New South Wales were tested in a series of replicated growth-cabinet experiments. The effects of dark/diurnal light and smoke/no smoke…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat effects, smoke effects, herbaceous vegetation, light, seed germination, transpiration, New South Wales, Australia, forest management
We assessed the impact of forest fire on the nesting success of the endemic Red-knobbed Hornbill Aceros cassidix in north Sulawesi, Indonesia. Pre- and post-fire breeding activity was monitored at 60 nest trees. Low rainfall and possible reductions in fruit abundance did not…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Effects, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: heat effects, smoke effects, wildfires, habits and behavior, nesting, nongame birds, population density, reproduction, Indonesia, fire management, wildlife habitat management, Indonesia, wildfires, nesting, habits and behavior, nongame birds
The purpose of the fire phase of the Smoke Clouds and Radiation (SCAR) experiments is to develop a technique for the quantitative remote sensing of fires and fire emissions. The first of the three fire experiments occurred in 1994 in California and the Pacific Noithwest. This…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest, International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, Brazil, energy, fire case histories, fire equipment, fire management, gases, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, radiation, remote sensing, smoke behavior, South America, wildfires, MAS (MODIS Airborne Simulator), MOPITT-A, SCAR - smoke clouds and radiation
Needs for analytical tools, the roles existing tools play, the processes they represent, and how they might interact are elements of key findings generated during a workshop held in Seattle February 17-18, 1999. The workshop was attended by 26 Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP)…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: catastrophic fires, computer programs, digital data collection, diseases, disturbance, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fuel accumulation, fuel inventory, fuel management, fuel models, grasses, Idaho, ignition, insects, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, mosaic, multiple resource management, overstory, rate of spread, shrubs, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, snags, soils, surface fuels, understory vegetation, wildlife habitat management
Fuels maps are a fundamental part of fire management activities such as prescribed fire planning, suppression strategies, smoke management, and fire effects. The constraints imposed by fiscal and human resources make it desirable to have a method that can rapidly and objectively…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, cover, cover type, croplands, crowns, deciduous forests, evergreens, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel inventory, GIS, grasses, grasslands, habitat types, herbaceous vegetation, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land use, leaves, mosaic, mountains, photography, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, population density, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, remote sensing, rocky habitats, shrublands, smoke management, statistical analysis, suppression, understory vegetation, urban habitats, wetlands, woody plants, Wyoming, land cover, fire fuels, remote sensing, Landsat, aerial photography, NLCD (National Land Cover Data) SET, LEAF-ON and LEAF-OFF TM MOSAICS, barrens
Prescribed fire was tested as a potential tool for site preparation and for reducing fire hazard after clearcut logging in dark coniferous forests in Siberia. Experimental burns were conducted on 8 sites to evaluate the practicality of fire use and effects of prescribed fires on…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, artificial regeneration, Asia, BEHAVE, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, coniferous forests, disturbance, experimental areas, experimental fires, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, hydrocarbons, logging, low intensity burns, CH4 - methane, Pinus sylvestris, post fire recovery, rate of spread, regeneration, Russia, sampling, Siberia, slash, surface fires, wind, woody fuels
Seasonal tropospheric distributions of ozone, carbon monoxide and aerosols and their relationship with sources over southern Africa are compared for two airborne sampling campaigns during southern hemisphere spring 1992 (SAFARI-92) and autumn 1994 (SAFARI-94). Average trace gas…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, season of fire, smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, ozone, South Africa, Africa, fire management, forest management, smoke management
We characterized recent historical and current vegetation composition and structure of a representative sample of subwatersheds on all ownerships within the interior Columbia River basin and portions of the Klamath and Great Basins. For each selected subwatershed, we constructed…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies grandis, Arceuthobium americanum, arthropods, bark, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, conifers, cover, cover type, cover type conversion, croplands, crown fires, diseases, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire regimes, forest management, fuel loading, herbaceous vegetation, histories, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, light, Montana, mountains, Oregon, overstory, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rivers, shrublands, smoke management, species diversity (plants), succession, trees, Washington, watersheds, wildfires, change detection, landscape assessment, spatial patterns, reference variation, ecosystem health, forest health, fire exclusion, disturbance regimes
The results of a survey concerning National Forest System prescribed burning activity and costs from 1985 to 1995 are examined. Ninety-five of one hundred and fourteen national forests responded. Acreage burned and costs for conducting burns are reported for four types of…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, arthropods, brush, burning permits, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, game birds, grasses, grasslands, grazing, hardwood forests, ignition, insects, liability, logging, national forests, natural resource legislation, nongame birds, pine forests, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, range management, rangelands, reforestation, slash, slash and burn, smoke management, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
From the text (p.246) ... 'A quail hunting plantation manager must have a broad knowledge of agriculture, timber management and forestry, wildlife management, how to train hunting dogs (both pointing and retrieving), and horsemanship. They must be skilled at direction and…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, Colinus virginianus, conservation, croplands, hunting, land management, land use, logging, multiple resource management, natural resource legislation, nesting, north Florida, pine forests, plantations, population density, season of fire, seasonal activities, site treatments, smoke management, south Georgia, wetlands, wildlife, wildlife management
From the text...'Next time you have concerns about burning, remember that selective herbicides can reduce the frequency and intensity of prescribed fires. The wildlife on your land will thank you for the increased diversity of plants they need, and your neighbors will thank you…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, herbicides, season of fire, smoke management, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, wildlife
Stand-replacing prescribed fires are recommended to regenerate stands of Table Mountain pine (Pinus pungens) in the southern Appalachian Mountains because the species has serotinous cones and its seedlings require abundant sunlight and a thin forest floor. A 350-hectare…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Acer rubrum, Appalachian Mountains, backing fires, Carya, catastrophic fires, cones, coniferous forests, crown fires, Dendroctonus frontalis, duff, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, Georgia, hardwood forests, human caused fires, Kalmia latifolia, lightning caused fires, litter, mesic soils, mineral soils, mountains, Nyssa sylvatica, overstory, Oxydendrum arboreum, Pinus pungens, Pinus rigida, population density, post fire recovery, Quercus prinus, regeneration, roots, Sassafras albidum, seed dispersal, seedlings, serotiny, shrubs, site treatments, smoke management, soil management, stand characteristics, trees, understory vegetation, fire intensity, Pinus pungens, southern Appalachian Mountains, Table Mountain pine
From the text...'To date, however, there has been limited documentation of field applications where smoke or charred wood have been used to increase the success of a planting. This makes it difficult to quantify the effectiveness of these methods as well as the species-specific…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: Africa, annual plants, Asteraceae, Australia, chaparral, charring, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fynbos, heat effects, heathlands, perennial plants, scrub, seed dormancy, seed germination, shrublands, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, South Africa, South America, Wisconsin, wood
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: age classes, biomass, Canada, charcoal, computer programs, dendrochronology, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire scar analysis, fire size, climate change, heat, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, mosaic, remote sensing, sedimentation, vegetation surveys, wildfires
From the text ... 'Removing American Indians from the land effectively ended wildland burning practices that had lasted for millennia. ...The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management together administer several hundred million acres of grassland and other grazing land where…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, artificial regeneration, clearcutting, cover type conversion, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, floods, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, grasslands, grazing, health factors, hydrology, land management, liability, lightning caused fires, logging, low intensity burns, mosaic, national forests, Native Americans, old growth forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, plant growth, prairies, presettlement vegetation, savannas, season of fire, shrublands, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, soil nutrients, succession, thinning, US Forest Service, vegetation surveys, Washington, wilderness fire management, wildlife habitat management
From the text...'In most cases, the role of the public information officer, the Wildfire Mitigation Specialist, is to make the first contact with homeowner associations and individuals describing the positive benefits of the wildfire mitigation program. How to make neighborhoods…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: backfires, catastrophic fires, droughts, education, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, Firewise, Florida, fuel accumulation, fuel management, general interest, headfires, logging, mowing, natural resource legislation, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, post fire recovery, private lands, public information, season of fire, smoke management, state forests, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: adaptation, agriculture, air quality, backfires, biomass, blowups, broadcast burning, brush, catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, croplands, crown fires, crowns, dead fuels, decay, decomposition, droughts, erosion, experimental fires, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire protection, fire retardants, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, grasses, grazing, heavy fuels, histories, human caused fires, hunting, Idaho, ignition, incendiary fires, insects, invasive species, land use, leaves, lightning caused fires, live fuels, livestock, logging, minerals, mining, Montana, mortality, national forests, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, needles, New Mexico, overstory, particulates, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, prescribed fires (escaped), private lands, public information, range management, salvage, season of fire, sedimentation, seed dispersal, site treatments, size classes, slash, sloping terrain, Smokey Bear program, soils, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, thinning, trees, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, water quality, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wind, Wisconsin, woody fuels, Yellowstone National Park, appropriations, Cerro Grande Fire, disaster relief funding, FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency, forest and rangeland health, fuel ladder, glassificatrion, insurance, roles and responsibilities, stewardship, slurry, slurry bombers
The goal of this report is to analyze whether or not prescribed fire could be used to regain the meadow perimeter of Donegan Prairie. A secondary issue of protecting late successional habitat in surrounding old growth timber from high intensity fire also will be addressed. If…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: BEHAVE, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, FVS - Forest Vegetation Simulator, economic analysis, fuels reduction, Oregon, Umpqua National Forest, meadow restoration
This paper discusses the overall effects fire has on the carbon budget of boreal forests Studies on using the boreal forest as a means to sequester carbon have not adequately accounted for these effects, Among other approaches, it has been suggested that suppression of fire in…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, carbon accumulation, carbon budget, carbon sequestration, carbon storage, climate change, biogenic emissions
A 35-year controlled burning experiment in Minnesota oak savanna showed that fire frequency had a great impact on ecosystem carbon (C) stores. Specifically, compared to the historical fire regime, fire suppression led to an average of 1.8 Mg·ha^-1·yr^-1 of C storage, with most…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire suppression, carbon storage, Minnesota, oak savanna, missing carbon, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, community ecology, Corylus americana, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, fire management planning, forest management, human caused fires, litter, Mg - magnesium, plant communities, presettlement fires, Quercus ellipsoidalis, Quercus macrocarpa, range management, roots, savannas, soils, statistical analysis, woody plants
High carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations from uncertain origins occurred episodically in the southeastern USA during the summer of 1995. It is shown that these episodes were caused by large forest fires in Canada. Over a period of 2 weeks, these natural emissions increased CO…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, Canada, CO - carbon monoxide, pollutant concentrations
Measurements of the spatial variability of methane (CH4) emissions, net CO2 ecosystem exchange (NEE), and dissolved carbon (CH4, CO2, and DOC) were made in a boreal patterned peatland in northern Sweden in the summers (May to September) of 1992 and 1993. Carbon balance terms…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, atmosphere, carbon storage, CH4 - methane, CO2 - carbon dioxide, DOC - dissolved organic carbon, peatland
FrostFire is a major field experiment and modeling effort to study the role of fire in boreal forests as a global change feedback and simultaneously provide fire managers with an improved capacity to predict fire severity based on meteorological conditions. The centerpiece of…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire severity, boreal, carbon release, carbon stock, Frostfire
The first-ever experimental study of gaseous emissions from tropical biomass in southeast Asia is reported. Forest fires have been responsible for regional haze episodes in recent years, and most of the fires were in areas where peat is the dominant biomass fuel. Samples of peat…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: combustion, Asia, CH4 - methane, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, haze, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, peat
The Tanana River basin in interior Alaska occupies approximately 11.9 million hectares. Forests of the basin consist of white or black spruce (Picea glauca, P. mariana), tamarack (Larix laricina), paper birch (Betula papyrifera), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), and balsam…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: biodiversity, disturbance, ecosystem management, arthropods, fire management, timber, fuelwood, history, mining, Tanana River Basin, Betula, Betula papyrifera, black spruce, bottomland hardwood, diseases, ecology, ecosystem dynamics, education, forest management, forest products, fuel types, histories, human caused fires, hunting, insects, Larix spp., Larix laricina, lightning caused fires, logging, mammals, mortality, mosaic, Native Americans, Picea, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Populus, Populus balsamifera, Populus tremuloides, presettlement fires, public information, riparian habitats, roads, understory vegetation, wood