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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 climate mitigation potential of tropical peatlands has gained increased attention as Southeast Asian peatlands are being deforested, drained and burned at very high rates, causing globally significant carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to the atmosphere. We used a process-based…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: climate change, peatlands, carbon dioxide, air quality, peatlands, peatland rewetting, carbon dynamics, oil palm, REDD - reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, swamp forests, Borneo, carbon accumulation, conservation, Indonesia, Sumatra

Ecological Restoration and Management of Longleaf Pine Forests is a timely synthesis of the current understanding of the natural dynamics and processes in longleaf pine ecosystems. This book beautifully illustrates how incorporation of basic ecosystem knowledge and an…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, climate change, regeneration, biodiversity, forest management

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
Keywords:

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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Person:
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…
Person:
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

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…
Person:
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

Large-scale, recurrent fires in Indonesia in recent decades have caused widespread deforestation and transformation of peatlands, and have contributed to substantial smoke haze and greenhouse-gas pollution. In some areas, local community use of fire for livelihood needs could be…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fishing, livelihoods, peatlands, turtles, agriculture, community ecology, deforestation, drought, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire size, fish, fuel loading, GIS - geographic information system, grasslands, grasslike plants, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, hydrology, natural areas management, overstory, plant growth, population density, post-fire recovery, rate of spread, regeneration, remote sensing, scrub, shrublands, soils, vegetation surveys

Three topics were presented by three different speakers: 1) Tom Spies presents Fire Regime: Past, Present, Future; Addressing Multiple perspectives; 2) Steve Acker presents Ecology: Effects of fire on Vegetation; and 3) Jane Kertis presents Opportunities and Challenges to…
Person: Spies, Acker, Kertis
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Mapping, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fire regimes, succession, Willamette National Forest, fire activity, fire return interval

Smoke from fire can sharply reduce air quality by releasing particulate matter, one of the most dangerous types of air pollution for human health. A third of U.S. households have someone sensitive to smoke. Minimizing the amount and impact of smoke is a high priority for land…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, risk reduction, air resource management, fire management, BlueSky Modeling Framework

The Western Governors’ Association hosted the webinar, Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges on Dec. 19, 2017 as part of the series for the National Forest and Rangeland Management Initiative. Prescribed fire is a tool for land managers to address wildfire…
Person: Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Models, 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: air quality, legal liability, land management, wildfires, smoke management, exceptional event, smoke management plan

Join us in a discussion on how climatic changes can influence wildland fire activity across the globe and how these critical fire weather variables have changed over the last 40 years. These changes in key weather variables have combined to both lengthen the fire season and…
Person: West, Legarza, Jolly, Emanuel, Knight
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climate change, relative humidity, rain, annual precipitation, fire regimes, fire danger indices, fire season length, fire return interval, global carbon cycle, Forest Resilience Bond, fire suppression, fire suppression costs

Fire is an inevitable and ecologically important process that maintains the health of forest ecosystems in the Western United States. A century of fire suppression has increased fuel loads to the point that inevitable wildfires often burn too fast and too hot to be contained,…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: 2013 Rim Fire, air quality, land management, smoke management, Yosemite National Park

The Research and Development (R&D) Wildland Fire and Fuels program at the Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, continues to be an internationally renowned program for generating critical and essential data, knowledge, and applications for all…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildland fire, wildfires, atmospheric chemistry, fuels management, fuel treatment, research and development

Invasive alien plants impact ecosystems, which often necessitates their removal. Where indigenous species recovery fails following removal alone, an active intervention involving reintroduction of seed of native species may be needed. This study investigated the potential for a…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, South Africa, seeds, heat, germination, regeneration

Exposure to smoke can influence the germination of seeds in many fire-prone ecosystems, but this effect is not well studied in grasslands. Smoke treatments such as smoke water could be useful as management and restoration tools if the response of target species in natural…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern, Southwest
Keywords: seeds, liquid smoke, germination, Texas, grasslands, laboratory experiments, emergence

Climate projections for the southwestern US suggest a warmer, drier future and have the potential to impact forest carbon (C) sequestration and post-fire C recovery. Restoring forest structure and surface fire regimes initially decreases total ecosystem carbon (TEC), but can…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: climate change, carbon balance, carbon sequestration, wildfires, forest management, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, carbon dynamics, LANDIS-II, fire regimes, Arizona, Gambel oak, Quercus gambelii, Rocky Mountain juniper, Juniperus scopulorum, NEE - net ecosystem exchange

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently finalized updates to the 2007 Exceptional Event Rule. This webinar will explore those updates, why changes were made and examine ways in which they may affect fire in the Great Plains, including prescribed fire in areas like the…
Person: Watson
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: exceptional event, air quality, EER - Exceptional Event Rule, Flint Hills, smoke management, BSMP - Basic Smoke Management Practices, Kansas, Oklahoma, tallgrass prairie, invasive species, eastern redcedar, cattle, smoke management plan, fire return interval, burn interval