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In Sept. 2003, a prescribed burn on the Uinta National Forest escaped, costing nearly $3 million to extinguish while choking Utah cities with smoke for a week. When the incident drew harsh criticism from local officials and news media, fire managers worried that prescribed…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: social acceptance, Uinta National Forest, disturbance, education, fire case histories, property damage, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, logging, national forests, natural areas management, escaped prescribed fires, public information, sampling, statistical analysis, thinning, Utah, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildland fuels
From the Conclusion ... 'An ecological review on air pollution as a whole, and in particular the relationship of control burning to such possible pollution warrants the following conclusions: (1) In spite of the tremendous amounts of pollutant materials released into the…
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, bibliographies, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, education, gases, histories, lightning, lightning caused fires, national forests, N - nitrogen, particulates, pollution, public information, smoke management, US Forest Service, urban habitats, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife management
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, age classes, air quality, biomass, clearcutting, community ecology, coniferous forests, conservation, decay, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, experimental areas, forest management, forest types, hardwood forests, litter, logging, moisture, multiple resource management, national forests, N - nitrogen, old growth forests, Oregon, organic matter, overstory, plant growth, pollution, post fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, runoff, size classes, slash, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soils, species diversity (plants), state forests, Strix occidentalis, Washington
'...Manufactured inorganic fertilizers now supply the majority of the nutrients which once came from farmyard manure. The grain goes into silos and bins rather than under thatch. Much of the livestock is housed in intensive buildings which do not require bedding. At the same…
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, C - carbon, energy, Europe, fertilization, fertilizers, Great Britain, livestock, nutrients, organic matter, pollution, public information, soil management, soil organisms, soils
In Florida, natural communities require periodic fires for maintenance of their ecological integrity. Because of public concerns, wildfires can no longer be allowed to perform this mandatory function so prescribed burning is essential to manage these plant and animal communities…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Florida, aesthetics, allelopathy, biogeography, burning permits, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, climatology, community ecology, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, European settlement, fire control, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (humans), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire protection, fire suppression, firing techniques, flame length, flatwoods, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, fuel types, herbaceous vegetation, humidity, ignition, incendiary fires, insects, land management, landscape ecology, liability, Native Americans, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus palustris, plant communities, plant diseases, population density, post-fire recovery, escaped prescribed fires, private lands, public information, rate of spread, reforestation, scrub, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, state forests, state parks, temperature, US Forest Service, vegetation surveys, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind