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The revision of FOFEM, a national fire effects model, is described. FOFEM 5.0 will incorporate the predictions of fuel consumption, tree mortality and smoke production along with the addition of soil heating and an updated user interface. The revised version of FOFEM will model…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, computer programs, cover, cover type, crown fires, fire injuries (plants), fire management, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel management, heat, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, mortality, overstory, soils, surface fires, understory vegetation, BURNUP
BLM/NIFC/RSFWSU will provide a sesion revealing some of the current and past remote sensing involvements within the wildfire area. State of the art electronic sensing methods and devices will be displayed. Several data telemetry options available will also be covered in the…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Brazil, energy, fire control, fire management, fire suppression, humidity, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, radiation, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke management, soils, South America, suppression, telemetry, weather observations, wildfires, wind, weather station, Spanish language
The purpose of the fire phase of the Smoke Clouds and Radiation (SCAR) experiments is to develop a technique for the quantitative remote sensing of fires and fire emissions. The first of the three fire experiments occurred in 1994 in California and the Pacific Noithwest. This…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest, International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, Brazil, energy, fire case histories, fire equipment, fire management, gases, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, radiation, remote sensing, smoke behavior, South America, wildfires, MAS (MODIS Airborne Simulator), MOPITT-A, SCAR - smoke clouds and radiation
A comprehensive investigation of Canadian boreal forest fires was conducted using NOAA-AVHRR imagery. Algorithms were developed to (1) detect active forest fires, (2) map burned areas on daily and annual basis, and (3) estimate fire emissions based on burned area and Canadian…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Alberta, boreal forests, Canada, carbon dioxide, cover, croplands, crown fires, digital data collection, droughts, fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasslands, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Northwest Territories, Ontario, radiation, remote sensing, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, surface fires, wetlands, boreal forest, burned area, DIGITAL FUEL TYPE, FIRE PIXEL, FIRE DETENTION ALGORITHM, FLOWCHARTS, fuel consumption
Current space-borne sensor systems can be used to generate products of fire susceptibility using time-series of vegetation state, the occurrence and rough location of active fires using middle and thermal infrared sensors and smoke and area burned using visible, near and middle…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: digital data collection, Europe, fire management, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel arrangement, Germany, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, national parks, photography, radiation, remote sensing, temperature, hot events on earth, forest fires, fire recognition from space, detection algorithms, BIRD - Bi-spectral Infra-Red Detection, fire detection, INTELLIGENT INFRARED SEASOR PROTOTYPE FOCUS, mid infrared, MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer), SWIR - Short Wave Infra-Red
This paper describes the importance of the use of climate information in the decision-making process for fuels treatments. It is argued that historical climate data and climate forecasts are useful tools for fuels treatment scheduling, in addition to the actual treatment…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, distribution, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, flammability, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, climate change, histories, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, mortality, precipitation, site treatments, smoke management, soil moisture, statistical analysis, Texas, thinning, Utah, wildfires, fuels treatments, climate information, climate variability, climate forecasts, accountability in decision-making, climate prediction models, oceanography, PDSI - Palmer Drought Severity Index
Understanding the trade-off between short-term and long-term consequences of fire impacts on ecosystems is needed before a comprehensive fuels management program can be implemented nationally. We are comparing three vegetation models that may be used to predict the effects of…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, biogeochemical cycles, catastrophic fires, computer programs, digital data collection, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, Florida, fuel accumulation, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel types, GIS, grasses, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, land use planning, logging, Michigan, Montana, mortality, national parks, New Mexico, overstory, prescribed fires (escaped), rate of spread, recreation, remote sensing, shrubs, smoke management, surface fires, surface fuels, thinning, topography, understory vegetation, Utah, wildfires, wildland fuels, Yosemite National Park, risk assessment
Land managers are increasingly implementing strategies that employ the use of fire in prescribed burns to sustain ecosystems and plan to sustain the rate of increase in its use over the next five years. In planning and executing expanded use of fire in wildland treatment, it is…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, catastrophic fires, chemical compounds, combustion, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, gases, health factors, human caused fires, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, lightning caused fires, Native Americans, particulates, shrublands, sloping terrain, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, statistical analysis, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind, smoldering combustion, FIREPLUME, air quality, wildland fires, plume rise, Monte Carlo, dispersion model, Lagrangian, smoke management plans, EPM - Emissions Production Model
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed an initiative for a National Wildfire Prediction Program. The program will provide guidance for fire managers throughout the country, assisting them to efficiently use limited fire-fighting…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Southwest, International
Keywords: catastrophic fires, computer programs, digital data collection, fire control, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, fuel accumulation, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, light, Los Alamos, New Mexico, physics, smoke behavior, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildfire, prediction, firefighting, NWPP - National Wildfire Prediction Program
The workshop began with the workshop facilitator, Neil Sampson, summarizing 17 invited papers presented on the opening day of the conference. These papers provided a state-of-the-science overview of pre-selected topics including Overview (3 papers), GIS and Remote Sensing…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, computer programs, erosion, Europe, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fuel appraisal, fuel models, GIS, grasslands, health factors, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, landscape ecology, overstory, remote sensing, shrublands, site treatments, smoke effects, soils, South America, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, United Kingdom, decision tools, dissemination of information, GLOBAL STUDIES
In 1988, nearly half a million hectares of forest burned in the Greater Yellowstone Area. Six years later, the burned areas were still visible in the dual-polarization radar images acquired by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar C (SIR-C) at both C- (5.6 cm wavelength) and L-band (24…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, biomass, catastrophic fires, char, community ecology, coniferous forests, cover, crowns, digital data collection, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire management, fire scar analysis, flammability, GIS, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, lightning caused fires, moisture, mosaic, national parks, needles, old growth forests, overstory, Picea engelmannii, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, plant physiology, post fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, regeneration, remote sensing, rocky habitats, statistical analysis, succession, understory vegetation, wildfires, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, Landsat
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: age classes, biomass, Canada, charcoal, computer programs, dendrochronology, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire scar analysis, fire size, climate change, heat, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, mosaic, remote sensing, sedimentation, vegetation surveys, wildfires
We characterized the historical, current, and future wildland fire smoke emissions on National Forests and Grasslands of the western United States. This information provided a basis for summary interpretations included in the U.S. Forest Service report "Protecting People and…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire regimes, forest types, grasslands, national forests, prescribed fires (chance ignition), rangelands, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
The management of fire in wilderness requires the balancing of mandates to both preserve natural conditions and minimize the impacts of human activities. Created to preserve and protect lands "in their natural condition”, the 1964 Wilderness Act also requires that wilderness be…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Colorado, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel management, herbaceous vegetation, histories, ignition, natural resource legislation, presettlement fires, smoke effects, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Problem: Many of Florida*s residents are newly arrived from areas of the US and the world that have long severed direct contact with the natural environment. Because of this, they have a poor understanding of the role fire plays in Florida. They resent any attempts on the part…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, ash, conservation, education, Florida, health factors, juvenile literature, land management, public information, smoke management
From Web Document, Executive Summary... ' Premise This strategy is based on the premise that sustainable resources are predicated on healthy, resilient ecosystems. In fire-adapted ecosystems, some measure of fire use - at appropriate intensity, frequency, and time of year -…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, arthropods, catastrophic fires, coastal forests, Colorado, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, diseases, disturbance, droughts, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, fishes, flammability, floods, Florida, forest management, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, grasslands, health factors, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, light burning, logging, Montana, multiple resource management, national forests, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, rangelands, recreation, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, species diversity, stand characteristics, streamflow, Texas, threatened and endangered species, topography, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, Utah, Washington, water quality, watersheds, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, Wyoming
From the text...'In most cases, the role of the public information officer, the Wildfire Mitigation Specialist, is to make the first contact with homeowner associations and individuals describing the positive benefits of the wildfire mitigation program. How to make neighborhoods…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: backfires, catastrophic fires, droughts, education, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, Firewise, Florida, fuel accumulation, fuel management, general interest, headfires, logging, mowing, natural resource legislation, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, post fire recovery, private lands, public information, season of fire, smoke management, state forests, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text...'This chapter of the Wildland Fire Education Handbook contains additional background information and resources [forms and lists] to help make your programs a success: Audience Needs Assessment and Survey; Landscaping With Fire in Mind; Workshop Report; Toolkit…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: bibliographies, conservation, education, fire control, fire dependent species, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, flatwoods, Florida, general interest, herbicides, landscape ecology, native species (plants), pine forests, public information, reproduction, rural communities, sampling, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, thinning, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, xeric soils
From the text...'This chapter of the Wildland Fire Education Handbook contains: a description of five videos on wildland fire in Florida that are included in the Toolkit, information on how to use the CD-ROM or slide images to create a presentation, descriptions of the…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire control, fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, flatwoods, Florida, fuel accumulation, general interest, grasslands, health factors, landscape ecology, native species (animals), native species (plants), pine forests, prairies, public information, reproduction, scrub, smoke behavior, swamps, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text...'Despite the large number of publications available nationally about wildland fire, Florida's unique ecosystems demand a set of locally relevant and ecosystem-specific publication. The authors and partners of the Wildland Fire Education Toolkit are pleased to…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, conservation, education, fire adaptations (plants), fire control, fire dependent species, Florida, forest management, general interest, land management, landscape ecology, native species (plants), pine forests, public information, rangelands, reproduction, site treatments, smoke behavior, wilderness fire management, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
Following a survey of forest homeowners in rural Michigan to assess the value of reducing the risk of damage from wildfires at the wildland-urban interface, focus-group discussions were conducted with a subset of survey participants to learn about their perceptions concerning…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, brush, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, Dendroica kirtlandii, education, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, ignition, landscape ecology, Michigan, nongame birds, Pinus banksiana, private lands, public information, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, fire management, fire risk assessment, focus groups, Mack Lake Fire
A 35-year controlled burning experiment in Minnesota oak savanna showed that fire frequency had a great impact on ecosystem carbon (C) stores. Specifically, compared to the historical fire regime, fire suppression led to an average of 1.8 Mg·ha^-1·yr^-1 of C storage, with most…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire suppression, carbon storage, Minnesota, oak savanna, missing carbon, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, community ecology, Corylus americana, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, fire management planning, forest management, human caused fires, litter, Mg - magnesium, plant communities, presettlement fires, Quercus ellipsoidalis, Quercus macrocarpa, range management, roots, savannas, soils, statistical analysis, woody plants
Lists the conference proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology as part of the 80th AMS Annual Meeting (Jan. 9-14, 2000 in Long Beach, CA).
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Year: 2000
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emissions and smoke, fire behavior, planning, proceedings, weather
The paper addresses forest fire regimes in central Siberia. Past fire frequency was reconstructed for forest ecosystems situated at different latitudes. A method is proposed for rating lightning forest fire danger.
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire regimes, forest fire, Siberia, storm, agriculture, air quality, bogs, boreal forests, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, climatology, combustion, deciduous forests, dendrochronology, distribution, disturbance, drought, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, fire frequency, fire management, fire management planning, fire scar analysis, flammability, forest management, geology, grasses, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, lichens, lightning, lightning caused fires, logging, montane forests, mosses, needles, Pinus, Pinus sibirica, Pinus sylvestris, precipitation, rate of spread, regeneration, rivers, Russia, season of fire, shrubs, soils, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, storms, surface fires, taiga, temperature, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, woody plants, wildfires
This paper describes results of FROSTFIRE, a forest fire experiment carried out in July 1999 and also surveys results of the Donnelly Flats forest fire in June 1999 from the point of view of forest fire behavior. An investigation of the Donnelly Flats forest fire site found that…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: combustion, fire management, fuel loadings, Frostfire, air quality, black spruce, boreal forests, CO2 - carbon dioxide, cover, dendrochronology, ecology, experimental fire, fire intensity, fuel management, ignition, lichen moss fuels, lightning, lightning caused fires, mosses, needles, photography, Picea mariana, population density, temperature, trees, wilderness fire management