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Join project staff and members of the committee for a public release webinar about the new report, The Chemistry of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface on Tuesday, September 20th from 3:00PM to 4:00PM EDT. The committee will share information about their findings and…
Person: Allen, Lowry, Adetona, Holder, Rosario-Ortiz, Turpin
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: public health, wildfires, fire chemistry, communities at risk, air quality, water quality
Forest and land fires have been occurring in Indonesia since the 1970s, but within the last two decades the intensity of these fires and their effects on neighbouring countries has elicited high media attention and new political engagement. As a direct consequence, the…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: swidden agriculture, forest fires, land fires, enclosure, agrarian transition, resource frontiers, Indonesia
To collect partner and employee input on the Wildfire Crisis Strategy 10-year Implementation Plan, the Forest Service and National Forest Foundation hosted a series of roundtable discussions in the winter and spring of 2022. Individual roundtables were focused on each of the…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: climate change, fire-adapted communities, fireshed, forest health, fuel treatment, ignition, land management, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), resilience, wildfires, Wildfire Crisis Strategy, trusted communicators, shared stewardship, equity, ITEK - Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Wildfires in America are becoming larger, more frequent, and more destructive, driven by climate change and existing land management practices. Many of these fires occur at the wildland-urban interface (WUI), areas where development and wildland areas overlap and which are…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
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Wildfires are the main disturbance affecting forest ecosystems worldwide and arguably the most important in Mediterranean-type ecosystems (Bowman et al., 2009; San-Miguel-Ayanz et al., 2012). In recent years, many Mediterranean regions of the world - including western U.S.…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: climate change, FFMC - CFFDRS Fine Fuel Moisture Code, DC - CFFDRS Drought Code, Spain, black pine, Pinus nigra, carbon emissions, forest management
Increasing fire impacts across North America are associated with climate and vegetation change, greater exposure through development expansion, and less-well studied but salient social vulnerabilities. We are at a critical moment in the contemporary human-fire relationship, with…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, smoke management, resilience, environmental justice, hazard reduction, SETS - social-environmental-technological systems, climate change, wildfires
In this short communication, we estimate that California's wildfire carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions from 2020 are approximately two times higher than California's total greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions since 2003. Without considering future vegetation regrowth…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: wildfires, greenhouse gas emissions, economic impacts, forest management, CO2 emissions
Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United States has created an environmental and social crisis that must be approached from a transdisciplinary perspective. This presentation will summarize a recently published article in Current Environmental Health…
Person: Smith, D’Evelyn
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke exposure, forest management, fire management, human health, environmental justice, smoke impacts, wildfire preparedness, air pollution, health impacts, respiratory effects, cardiovascular effects, adaptive capacity, partnerships, integrated management, collaborative partnerships, Indigenous Peoples, social equity
[from the text] California is facing an unprecedented and growing forest and wildfire crisis. Decades of fire exclusion, coupled with the increasing impacts of climate change, have dramatically increased wildfires’ size and intensity throughout the state. The 2021 wildfire…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: pyrodiversity, biodiversity, strategic planning, beneficial fire, cultural burning, managed fire, smoke management
Scientists and partners are working to advance our understanding of fire, developing planning tools, and understanding public perceptions to help reduce barriers to conducting prescribed fires.
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: fuels treatment, POD - Potential Operational Delineation, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, community-based partnerships, lynx, habitat
Since 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has provided funding and science delivery for scientific studies associated with managing wildland fire, fuels, and fire-impacted ecosystems to respond to emerging needs of managers, practitioners, and policymakers from local to…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program
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Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United States has created an environmental and social crisis that must be approached from a transdisciplinary perspective. Climate change and more than a century of fire exclusion and wildfire suppression…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: wildland fire, wildfire, public health, air quality, exposure, ecological restoration, environmental justice, interdisciplinary, collaborative partnerships
[from the text] Under this strategy, the Forest Service will work with partners to engineer a paradigm shift by focusing fuels and forest health treatments more strategically and at the scale of the problem, using the best available science as the guide. At the Forest Service,…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: resilience, climate change, forest health, fireshed, fuel treatment, ignition, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), wildfires, land management, fire-adapted communities
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
The NWS mission is to provide weather data, forecasts, warnings, and decision support services for the protection of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy. You may be asking yourself, how…
Person: Lukinbeal
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: coordination, air quality, wildfire, health effects, public messaging, forecasting
Wildfires in boreal forests release large quantities of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, exacerbating climate change. Here, we characterize the magnitude of recent and projected gross and net boreal North American wildfire carbon dioxide emissions, evaluate fire management as…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: Canada, boreal North America, Alaska wildfires, carbon emissions, climate change
The Smoke Management Plan regulates prescribed burning on forest land aimed at reducing fuel loading, restoring forest ecosystems, and potentially reducing the risk to communities from catastrophic wildfires, while minimizing air quality impacts from smoke. The Department of…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Washington, air quality impacts, fuel load reduction, catastrophic wildfire
A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To do so, this review presents a…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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