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Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, broadcast burning, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, coniferous forests, experimental areas, field experimental fires, fire intensity, firing techniques, fuel loading, fuel moisture, gases, heavy fuels, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, logging, particulates, pollution, Pseudotsuga menziesii, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, Washington
A major cooperative research effort between the Northern Region and the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station is devoted to the use and effects of prescribed fire. Prescribed fires in logging slash have been scheduled during the entire available burning season. A…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, biomass, distribution, elevation, fire intensity, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, logging, moisture, mountains, pollution, season of fire, seasonal activities, slash, sloping terrain, smoke behavior, temperature, topography, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wind
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, ash, Asia, biomass, boreal forests, Canada, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chaparral, China, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire management, forest management, gases, greenhouse gases, human caused fires, CH4 - methane, ozone, post fire recovery, Russia, statistical analysis, tropical forests, wetlands, woody fuels
Created through the Wildfire Disaster Recovery Act of 1989 (PL 101-286), in response to the destructive western fire season of 1987 and the Yellowstone fires of 1988, the Commission was asked to consider the environmental and economic effects of disastrous wildfires through…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, arid regions, biomass, catastrophic fires, chaparral, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire case histories, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, forest products, fuel accumulation, fuel management, general interest, hardwood forests, histories, Idaho, land management, land use, liability, logging, mosaic, natural resource legislation, Nevada, nongame birds, Oncorhynchus, Oregon, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, public information, rangelands, small mammals, smoke management, Strix occidentalis, thinning, threatened and endangered species (animals), understory vegetation, watershed management, West Virginia, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Pre-industrial human activities which changed the atmospheric greenhouse gas or aerosol loading, or which modified the properties of the earth's surface, such as albedo, roughness, or vegetation cover, had the potential to modify the regional or even global climate. The primary…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Eastern, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest, International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, cover, deforestation, Europe, European settlement, fuel management, climate change, human caused fires, India, presettlement fires, regeneration, topography
From the text ... 'The primary objective of prescribed burning on forest recreation areas in New Jersey is to reduce the probability of their destruction by wildfire. Investigation has shown that when uncontrolled fires enter treated areas they do much less damage and…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Economics, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, cover, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, firing techniques, forest edges, forest types, histories, hunting, litter, mast, natural resource legislation, New Jersey, overstory, pine barrens, pine hardwood forests, post fire recovery, recreation, smoke management, species diversity (plants), state forests, succession, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, watersheds, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management
Firefighters have always had to contend with the nuisances and discomfort caused by smoke they inhale while trying to suppress wildland fires. Until special equipment is developed to exclude all smoke, firefighters will continue to have symptoms from irritations caused by…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, fire equipment, fire suppression, gases, particulates, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, toxicity, wildfires, wildland fuels
The capture of fire by the genus Homo changed forever the natural history of the Earth. Even today fire appears at the core of many popular scenarios for an environmental apocalypse. Yet the larger history of fire - the varied ways human society have sought to use and control…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Economics, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: aborigines, agriculture, air quality, Australia, biomass, charcoal, combustion, Europe, everglades, Finland, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, forest management, fuel appraisal, Greece, histories, human caused fires, ignition, lightning caused fires, Mediterranean habitats, prehistoric fires, Scandinavia, season of fire, slash and burn, statistical analysis, Sweden, wildlife habitat management
Prescribed burning, an indispensable tool of forest management through-out much of the South, is accused of being an agent of air pollution. In some instances, a concerted effort is being made to restrict its use. Yet, no one has shown that air quality has deteriorated more in…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, combustion, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel accumulation, plant growth, pollution, public information, wildfires
From the summary ... ' In summary, the results of these large scale fire tests, conducted under marginal burning conditions, were negative; but, paradoxically, I find this very heartening, for we can now be much more confident in our predictions of fire behavior to be expected…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, chemistry, eucalyptus, fire intensity, fire whirls, flammability, fuel loading, ignition, litter, needles, nuclear winter, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, rate of spread, surface fires, temperature, topography, tropical forests, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text ... 'Several papers on concentrated fire vortices were presented at the 1967 Mass Fire Research Symposium in Washington, and the resulting discussion of dynamical effects on large fires due to organized vorticity ranged from the importance of rotation in fire…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: chaparral, conservation, Europe, fire case histories, fire management, fire whirls, Germany, mountains, physics, southern California, storms, vortices, Washington, wind
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Acer glabrum, air quality, Amelanchier, catastrophic fires, cavity nesting birds, Colorado, cover type conversion, cutting, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, herbicides, Larix occidentalis, lightning caused fires, logging, mammals, mosaic, Oregon, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, public information, Purshia tridentata, season of fire, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, threatened and endangered species (plants), understory vegetation, Washington, wildfires
Large, free-burning fires do not burn steadily. As most experienced fire personnel know, fire behavior varies significantly with time. It frequently can be described as pulsating. This pulsing is caused by a process called layer-replacement. As the burning creates a zone of hot…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: combustion, convection, experimental fires, gases, smoke behavior, wilderness fire management
Planning prescribed fires for optimal periods which results in emissions reduction is an extremely useful air quality management technique. New information suggests that one more useful tool in smoke management may involve using the capacity of the atmosphere to remove smoke…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, Betula papyrifera, biomass, Canada, coniferous forests, fuel moisture, heat, logging, moisture, pine forests, Pinus banksiana, Populus, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, Tsuga, wilderness fire management, wildfires
A major problem with weather data in complex terrain is temporal and spatial interpolation. The British Columbia Forest Service, through the services of Atmospheric Dynamics Corporation, has adapted a meso-scale weather model to provide hourly predictions out to 4.5 days for a…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: British Columbia, Canada, rate of spread, smoke management, temperature, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
Although burning was originally intended as a control measure for blind seed disease in perennial ryegrass, growers soon discovered the benefits of open field burning for other grass seed crops.
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, cropland fires, disturbance, fertilizers, field experimental fires, grass fires, grasses, Lolium, Oregon, perennial plants, plant diseases, plant growth, season of fire, seasonal activities, seed production, seedlings
The objective of this study was to improve a smoke emissions model that is currently being used to help reduce pollution impacts from prescribed burning of hmber harvest residues. Smoke emissions from these types of burns have been characterized with in situ, real time sampling…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, biomass, broadcast burning, combustion, coniferous forests, decay, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, hardwood forests, logging, moisture, Oregon, pine forests, pollution, sampling, site treatments, smoke management, Washington
Emissions from burning the residue following grass-seed harvest have been determined by both field and laboratory studies. Field studies have been conducted by Oregon State University engineers on actual grass plots. The laboratory studies were conducted by scientists at the…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, annual plants, cropland fires, Dactylis glomerata, Festuca, fire management, grasses, Lolium multiflorum, Lolium perenne, Oregon, perennial plants, Poa, pollution
This report summarizes avaiable information on agricultural field burning in the Willamette Valley. Such information should be useful to all concerned with this practice and with the contribution it makes to air pollution in the state. The areas covered include background and…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, cropland fires, fire management, grasses, Lolium perenne, Oregon, perennial plants, pollution
'During the past year, burning treatments on the Miller Creek Block were essentially completed. Preparations for moving to Newman Ridge, on the St. Regis District, this spring are well underway. Current plans call for 16 instrumented fires on Newman Ridge during 1969 to conclude…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Economics
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, coniferous forests, duff, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, Idaho, logging, Montana, Pseudotsuga menziesii, roots, seedlings, slash, soil moisture, soil temperature, Tsuga heterophylla, US Forest Service, weather observations, wildlife
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, cover type, crown fires, diseases, duff, erosion, field experimental fires, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, flame length, forest management, fuel accumulation, Georgia, grasses, hydrology, leaves, mineral soils, pH, Pinus brutia, Pinus contorta, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus kelloggii, Quercus wislizeni, Sequoia sempervirens, site treatments, smoke effects, soil moisture, state forests, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, water repellent soils, watersheds, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife habitat management, infliltration, hydrophobicity, forest floor consumption, fireline intensity
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Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: combustion, computer programs, cover type, duff, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Georgia, heat, hydrology, mineral soils, mortality, overstory, Pinus ponderosa, regeneration, scorch, soil moisture, soil temperature, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, succession, trees, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, woody fuels, fuel consumption, tree mortality, computer model, national geographic zones, USER NETWORK
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Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, catastrophic fires, China, coniferous forests, cutting, dead fuels, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire injuries (humans), fire protection, fire size, Georgia, human caused fires, ignition, lightning caused fires, logging, mortality, radiation, rate of spread, remote sensing, smoke behavior, temperature, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
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Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, International
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, boreal forests, British Columbia, Canada, computer programs, coniferous forests, decay, decomposition, diameter classes, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fire management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, Georgia, Idaho, logging, Palmaceae, Picea glauca, Pseudotsuga menziesii, slash, statistical analysis, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, woody fuels, woody fuel consumption, model testing, CONSUME model, interior cedar-hemlock forests
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Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, Australia, biomass, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, digital data collection, distribution, droughts, energy, eucalyptus, fire control, fire frequency, fire scar analysis, fuel types, Georgia, grasslands, greenhouse gases, land management, mosaic, Northern Territory of Australia, nutrients, particulates, plant growth, precipitation, radiation, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, statistical analysis, understory vegetation, biomass burning, NOAA-AVHRR (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer), fire mosaic, fire scar, Northern Territory of Australia, gaseous emissions, anthropogenic effects