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From the text ... 'In the summer of 1994, Colorado suffered its worst drought in decades. Severe fire weather was certain to come. On July 2, a major storm hit the State with dry lightning strikes, igniting thousands of wildland fires. Suddenly, the fire blew up. Witnesses at…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: blowups, catastrophic fires, Colorado, crown fires, droughts, fire case histories, fire control, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, hardwood forests, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, lightning, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus edulis, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus gambelii, rate of spread, smoke behavior, smoke management, spot fires, topography, vegetation surveys, Washington, wildfires
Smoke particulate matter from deciduous trees (angiosperms) subjected to controlled burning, both under smoldering and flaming conditions, was sampled by high volume air filtration on precleaned quartz fiber liters. The filtered particles were extracted with dichloromethane and…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest, International
Keywords: Acer macrophyllum, aerosols, air quality, Alnus rubra, Betula glandulosa, Betula pendula, biomass, cellulose, chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, deciduous forests, Eucalyptus dalrympleana, fire management, forest management, fuel types, hydrocarbons, lignin, litter, Mexico, Oregon, particulates, sampling, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature, trees, vegetation surveys
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest, International
Keywords: Abies amabilis, Abies procera, aerosols, air quality, biomass, Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, chemical compounds, chemistry, coniferous forests, conifers, fire management, forest management, fuel types, hydrocarbons, litter, Mexico, Oregon, particulates, Picea sitchensis, Pinus contorta, Pinus engelmannii, Pinus monticola, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus strobus, Pseudotsuga menziesii, sampling, Sequoia sempervirens, smoke effects, smoke management, temperate forests, Tsuga mertensiana, vegetation surveys
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, Avena, Avena fatua, char, combustion, disturbance, germination, organic soils, Queensland, seed dormancy, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, water, weeds, Avena fatua, germination, seed dormancy, smoke water, weeds
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, heat, heat effects, legumes, seed dormancy, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature, western Australia, heat, seedbank, seed dormancy, seed germination, western Australia
The exotic longhorn beetle Arhopalus tristisis a pest of pines, particularly those damaged by fire, and a major export quarantine issue in New Zealand. Actinograph recordings of caged individuals showed that males and females were most active from dusk to midnight. Olfactometer…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: bark, experimental fires, fire injuries (plants), forest management, habits and behavior, insects, New Zealand, pine forests, Pinus radiata, plant diseases, population density, reproduction, trapping, attractant, Pinus radiata, Arhopalus tristis, trap, Cerambycidae, oviposition, bark, repellent
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Anigozanthos, Australia, fire dependent species, flowering, heat effects, jarrah, post fire recovery, seed dormancy, seed germination, seed production, smoke effects, smoke management, western Australia, Anigozanthos manglesii, populations, geographical cline, inflorescence level, germination, heat, seed development
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Anigozanthos, Australia, germination, Hibbertia, Leucopogon, Leucopogon conostephioides, Mediterranean habitats, native species (plants), seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, soil moisture, soil temperature, soils, Stirlingia, Stylidium, western Australia, burial, germination, Anigozanthos manglesii, Conastylis neocymosa, Stylidium affine, Stylidium crossocephalum, Hibbertia commutata, Leucopogon conostephioides, Conospermum triplinervium, Stirlingia latifolia
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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
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, biomass, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, chaparral, chemical compounds, fire management, laboratory fires, national parks, ozone, pesticides, savannas, smoke management, South Africa, wildfires
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Asia, mountainous terrain, particulates, K - potassium, smoke management, soot, S - sulfur, Tibet, urban habitats, Tibet, vegetation burning, soot, transport
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, char, eucalyptus, Eucalyptus baxteri, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, germination, heat, heat effects, heathlands, Mediterranean habitats, national parks, native species (plants), plant communities, population density, sampling, sclerophyll forests, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, Victoria, Wahlenbergia, wood
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asperula, Australia, Centaurium, Crassula, Desmodium, Elymus, Eragrostis, Eucalyptus obliqua , fire management, Geranium, Gnaphalium, grasses, grazing, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, Hypericum, Juncus, native species (plants), New South Wales, perennial plants, Plantago, Poa, population density, sampling, sclerophyll forests, seed dormancy, seed germination, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, Sporobolus, statistical analysis, Trifolium, Trifolium repens, vegetation surveys, Wales
The results of chemical analyses of precipitation samples collected in Singapore between August 1997 and July 1998 are presented. Major inorganic and organic ions were determined in 169 rain samples collected using an automated wet-only sampler. The daily sample pH values ranged…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, biomass, chemical compounds, chemistry, gases, particulates, pH, precipitation, sampling, season of fire, Singapore, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: annual plants, artificial regeneration, chaparral, char, competition, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire management, fire size, floods, foliage, introduced species, Lolium multiflorum, mortality, native species (plants), plant communities, plant growth, post fire recovery, range management, regeneration, roots, sedimentation, seed dormancy, shrubs, species diversity (plants), wildfires
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, fire injuries (plants), fire management, flame length, rate of spread, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, temperature, wind
Significant associations between firefighting and cancer have been reported; however, studies finding toxic products of combustion at municipal fires have been limited by (1) technical difficulties encountered at the scene of working fires, (2) the lack of a coherent sampling…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: experimental fires, firefighting personnel, smoke effects, air quality, chemical compounds, health factors, hydrocarbons, pollution, toxicity, Quebec, Canada, fire management, smoke management
The South-East Asian region experienced a haze episode in 1994 which was widely believed to be due to widespread forest fires in Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesia). Broadband measurements of the surface level solar ultraviolet-B, UV-A and Global radiation at Penang (Malaysia)…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, slash and burn, wildfires, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, ozone, radiation, remote sensing, Indonesia, Sumatra, Asia, fire management, forest management, haze, forest fires, radiation, ultraviolet, ozone
The Alabama Smoke Management Program (SMP) utilizes a basic framework of requirements and procedures for managing smoke from fires managed for resource benefits developed by the State of Alabama with the cooperation and participation of land owners and managers. Historically,…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern
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The National Weather Service Fire Weather Program provides weather forecasting and meteorological support services to state and federal wildland fire management agencies. An Intergovernmental Fire Weather User's Summit, sponsored by the National Weather Service (NWS) and the…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, education, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire management, fire suppression, land management, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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…
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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
The National Weather Service Fire Weather Program provides weather forecasting and meteorological support services to state and federal wildland fire management agencies. An Intergovernmental Fire Weather User's Summit, sponsored by the National Weather Service (NWS) and the…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, biomass, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, land management, particulates, Pinus, smoke management, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, US Forest Service, wildfires
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…
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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
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…
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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…
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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