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From the text ... 'Fire long has been an important subject of debate, stemming from the apparent contradiction between its controlled use in everyday life and its threats to life and property as uncontrolled wildfires. This paradox has been phrased very well as, 'Fire is a bad…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, Argentina, Europe, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, France, Komarek, E.V., Sr., Patagonia, pine forests, Portugal, rural communities, South America, suppression, wildfires
The effects of after-ripening (storage under warm, dry conditions) on seed germination was examined in six plant species from the arid zone of Western Australia with the aim of improving germination and germination rate for rehabilitation objectives. Study species (Acanthocarpus…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Anthocercis, Australia, deserts, Dioscorea, Eremophila, germination, humidity, moisture, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, seed germination, seed moisture, seeds, smoke management, temperature, Thryptomene, water, western Australia, wood, Zygophyllum, Australia, karrikinolide, seed dormancy
The Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system has been used by the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and Bureaus of the Department of the Interior since 2006 to evaluate wildfire potential across all administrative units in the continental US, and to…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, forest management, forest products, fuel accumulation, fuel management, Healthy Forests Restoration Act, landscape ecology, national forests, season of fire, surface fires, vegetation surveys, wildfires, decision support, landscape analysis, fire danger, fuels management, forest restoration
Revegetation of disturbed land, particularly in arid environments, is often hindered by low seedling establishment. Information on seed biology and germination cues of keystone species is lacking, particularly in arid Australia; a major zone for mining developments. This study…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia spp., Atriplex, Australia, conservation, Dioscorea, Eremophila, germination, keystone species, land management, Melaleuca, mining, Ptilotus, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, Solanum, water, western Australia, dormancy, karrikinolide, seed ecology
The smoke-derived butenolide, 3-methyl-2H-furo[2,3-c]pyran-2-one, is a simple organic compound that can increase both the level and rate of seed germination, widen the environmental range over which germination can occur and have a positive effect on seedling vigour.…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, Australia, chaparral, chemical compounds, fynbos, germination, plant growth, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, South Africa, weed control, weeds, butenolide, plant growth, seed germination
Prescribed burning has been used by the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation (DPR) since 1974 to reduce hazardous fuel loads, to restore/maintain specific habitats, and to preserve rare species populations within state parks, recreation areas, and natural areas.…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coastal plain, education, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, Georgia, liability, mountains, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, Piedmont, pine hardwood forests, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, recreation, savannas, South Carolina, state parks, Virginia, wildfires, fire-dependent communities, interagency burn team, state parks and natural areas
From the text ... 'While most of today's longleaf forests are found on public lands, having grown back from forests cut in the early 20th century, private landowners are taking a new look at the longleaf pine's drought-resistant qualities. A quiet longleaf revival is beginning…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: age classes, Aristida stricta, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, flowering, forest management, gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, grasses, ground cover, hardwood forests, hardwoods, insects, invasive species, keystone species, logging, longleaf pine, mortality, Native Americans, native species (plants), needles, north Florida, old growth forests, pine forests, pine, Pinus palustris, private lands, rate of spread, recreation, reptiles, sandhills, season of fire, seed production, seedlings, smoke effects, streams, understory vegetation, watershed management, watersheds, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, artificial regeneration, ecotones, fynbos, geology, grazing, herbicides, litter, Medicago sativa, Mediterranean habitats, native species (plants), natural areas management, old fields, overstory, perennial plants, plowing, population density, seed germination, seeds, sloping terrain, smoke effects, soils, South Africa, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, succulents, wilderness areas, nature reserve, plough plus seed treatments
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Actinotis, artificial regeneration, Australia, Banksia, fire management, germination, moisture, post fire recovery, range management, seed dormancy, seed germination, site treatments, smoke effects, statistical analysis, temperature, Tersonia, western Australia, wildfires, dormancy cycling, fire ephemeral, germination stimulants, scarification, smoke water, soil burial, storage temperature, Actinotus leucocephalus, Tersonia cyathiflora, Banksia woodland
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: aborigines, agriculture, air quality, Australia, backfires, Canada, chaparral, chemical compounds, coniferous forests, distribution, fire adaptations (plants), fire management, fire suppression, forage, forest management, forest products, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, human caused fires, hunting, land management, land use, lightning caused fires, mammals, National Fire Plan, national parks, Native Americans, Northern Territory of Australia, Pinus ponderosa, plant growth, presettlement fires, regeneration, seed dormancy, seed germination, smoke effects, sprouting, US Forest Service, wildfires
The following list of research topics was generated by agencies within AWFCG during 2005. The topics were ranked originally by the AWFCG Fire Research and Development Committee (FRDAC) and finally by the AWFCG members. Ranking was as follows: 3= high, 2 = medium, 1= low (or H…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska
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Biologicaily rich savannas and woodlands dominated by Pinus palustris once dominated the southeastern U.S. landscape. With European settlement, fire suppression, and landscape fragmentation, this ecosystem has been reduced in area by 97%. Half of remnant forests are not burned…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: Acer rubrum, Alabama, Carya pallida, Carya tomentosa, char, combustion, community ecology, competition, coniferous forests, conservation, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, European settlement, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, Georgia, Liquidambar styraciflua, litter, longleaf pine, Louisiana, Magnolia grandiflora, military lands, mineral soils, mortality, mycorrhiza, national forests, native species (plants), natural areas management, north Florida, Nyssa sylvatica, organic matter, overstory, pine, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus elliottii densa, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plant communities, plant physiology, population density, population ecology, post fire recovery, Prunus serotina, Quercus geminata, Quercus hemisphaerica, Quercus incana, Quercus laevis, Quercus margaretta, Quercus marilandica, Quercus nigra, roots, savannas, scorch, smoke effects, South Carolina, stand characteristics, state parks, suppression, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, wildfires, ecological restoration, fire suppression, longleaf pine, smoldering duff combustion, fire reintroduction
Traveling the borderland between modern Montana and the endless expanse of what's now known as southern Alberta. Still smoking all around, the explorer notes: 'grass having been lately burnt,' 'grass nearly all burnt,' 'grass yet burning.' For days, his journals are filled with…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northern Rockies, International
Keywords: Alberta, Canada, community ecology, digital data collection, ecosystem dynamics, education, European settlement, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, general interest, grasses, grasslands, histories, hunting, landscape ecology, light, lightning, Montana, mortality, mountains, Native Americans, presettlement fires, public information, succession, suppression, wildfires, wildlife, wood, woody fuels, fire culture, MYTHOLOGY, TRIBAL FORESTERS, VIRTUAL FORESTS
From the text ... 'Restoration treatments can be ecologically as well as socially and economically beneficial. ... The fire regime at Girard was largely due to frequent burning by American Indians. ...Seeley Lake shows the importance of questioning the 'naturalness' of a given…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: age classes, catastrophic fires, Cervus elaphus, community ecology, competition, coniferous forests, conifers, crown fires, diameter classes, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, forage, forest fragmentation, forest management, insects, lakes, land management, Larix occidentalis, logging, mammals, Montana, national forests, Native Americans, nongame birds, old growth forests, overstory, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, population density, Pseudotsuga menziesii, raptors, rate of spread, recreation, regeneration, smoke effects, stand characteristics, succession, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Amazon, Brazil, clearcutting, deforestation, ecosystem dynamics, forest fragmentation, forest management, gases, climate change, ground fires, histories, hydrology, livestock, logging, precipitation, soil erosion, South America, species diversity (plants), tropical forests, wildfires
From the text ... 'In Federal land management, ecological restoration has emerged in recent years as an alternative to the intensive management for commercial resource extraction widely practiced following World War II and the passive management -- 'letting Nature heal herself…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: Abies spp., Arizona, community ecology, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fuel appraisal, histories, Juniperus, land management, Larix occidentalis, national forests, Native Americans, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus edulis, Pinus ponderosa, plant communities, Populus, private lands, Sequoiadendron giganteum , smoke behavior, state forests, threatened and endangered species (plants), Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
This report highlights significant research findings and accomplishments by scientists at the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station during fiscal year 2008. The mission of the PNW Research Station is to generate and communicate scientific knowledge that helps people…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Aquatic
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Pacific Northwest Research Station, accomplishments report, key findings
Forest-fire policy of U.S. federal agencies has evolved from the use of small patrols in newly created National Parks to diverse policy initiatives and institutional arrangements that affect millions of hectares of forests. Even with large expenditures and substantial…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, 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, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire hazard, fire suppression, fuel management, forest policy, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, conservation, dead fuels, duff, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental assessment, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire size, forest management, fuel types, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, litter, National Fire Plan, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, Pinus contorta, lodgepole pine, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, public information, shrubs, smoke management, surface fires, thinning, threatened and endangered species, US Forest Service, vulnerable species or communities, wilderness fire management, woody fuels, wildfires, wildlife refuges
Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has always been large in scale. The depth and breadth of the research conducted here, however, may surprise even many who are engaged in it. Our research programs have a wide geographical and temporal scope, an…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Forest Service, research, research accomplishment report
The Rocky Mountain Research Station is one of six regional units that make up the USDA Forest Service Research and Development organization-the most extensive natural resources research organization in the world. We maintain 12 field laboratories throughout a 14-state territory…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: Forest Service, research, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Biomass consumption and CO2, CO and hydrocarbon gas emissions in an Amazonian forest clearing fire are presented and discussed. The experiment was conducted in the arc of deforestation, near the city of Alta Floresta, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The average carbon content of…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass consumption, gas emissions, Brazil, Amazonian forest fires, air quality, Amazon, biomass, biomass burning, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, deforestation, fire management, forest management, gases, hydrocarbons, ignition, moisture, particulates, precipitation, smoke management, statistical analysis, tropical forest, wildfires
This report details a procedure for identifying fuel loading models (FLMs) in the field. FLMs are a new classification system for predicting fire effects from on-site fuels. Each FLM class represents fuel beds that have similar fuel loadings and produce similar emissions and…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel loading, fire mapping, fuel classification, first-order fire effects, fuel classification key, fine fuels, fuel types, heavy fuels, air quality, biomass, duff, herbaceous vegetation, litter, soil temperature, fuel management, wildlife habitat management, chaparral, grasslands, shrublands
ANNOTATION: This paper provides results of modeling the effects of eight different fuel treatments on tree-based C storage and release over a century, with and without wildfire. Model runs show that, after a century of growth without wildfire, the control stored the most C.…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California
Keywords: forest management, wildfires, carbon emissions, carbon release, carbon storage, fuel treatment effects, Abies concolor, Abies magnifica, air quality, Calocedrus decurrens, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, climatology, coniferous forests, diameter classes, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, flammability, fuel management, pine, Pinus jeffreyi, Jeffrey pine, Pinus lambertiana, presettlement vegetation, Sierra Nevada, thinning
The Review and Update of the 1995 Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (January 2001) remains sound and presents a single cohesive federal fire policy for the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture. However, some issues associated with implementation of this policy need…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management planning
Policies have been enacted to encourage carbon (C) sequestration through afforestation, reforestation, and other silvicultural practices; however, the effects of wildfires on forest C stocks are poorly understood. We present information from Sierran mixed-conifer forests…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra Nevada, soils, carbon sequestration, mechanical treatment, mixed conifer, Abies concolor, air quality, Arbutus menziesii, Calocedrus decurrens, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, Chrysolepis sempervirens, coniferous forests, diameter classes, duff, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, forest products, fuel management, Lithocarpus densiflorus, litter, logging, mortality, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas-fir, Quercus kelloggii, reforestation, soil management, surface fuels, trees, wildfires