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Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, broadcast burning, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, coniferous forests, experimental areas, field experimental fires, fire intensity, firing techniques, fuel loading, fuel moisture, gases, heavy fuels, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, logging, particulates, pollution, Pseudotsuga menziesii, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, Washington
A major cooperative research effort between the Northern Region and the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station is devoted to the use and effects of prescribed fire. Prescribed fires in logging slash have been scheduled during the entire available burning season. A…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, biomass, distribution, elevation, fire intensity, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, logging, moisture, mountains, pollution, season of fire, seasonal activities, slash, sloping terrain, smoke behavior, temperature, topography, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wind
Prescribed burning in forestry is a valuable land management tool that has been extensively used in Australia, Eurasia, and North America. Nevertheless, fire is inherently dangerous and may impose risk upon humans, properties, and other natural resources. With the case of…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: burning permits, liability, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, fire management, forest management, burn permits, liability, statutes, written prescriptions
The ability to predict fuel consumption during fires is essential for a wide range of applications, including estimation of fire effects and fire emissions. This project identified predictors of fuel consumption for the dominant fuel bed components (litter (<0.6-cm diameter…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel models, season of fire, air quality, duff, herbaceous vegetation, lichens, litter, mosses, statistical analysis, Pinus echinata, shortleaf pine, Pinus palustris, longleaf pine, Pinus taeda, loblolly pine, Pebble Hill, Tall Timbers Research Station, Wade Tract, north Florida, Georgia, fire management, forest management, fuel management, old growth forests, pine forests, pine hardwood forests
From the text ... 'The Encyclopedia of Southern fire Science (ESFS) is a web/based resource containing approximately 600 webpages of peer-reviewed fire science knowledge about the southern United States. Much of the information is equally applicable to other regions. Information…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: wildfires, computer networks, computer programs, research, fire management, smoke management
From the text ... 'Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction through prescribed burning,…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, fuel loading, low intensity burns, rate of spread, smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, climate change, fire management, land management, smoke management
From the Overview ... 'Exposure to smoke from wildland fire is an important public health concern. While fire managers can minimize prescribed fire smoke impacts by identifying smoke-sensitive areas and using appropriate burn techniques, smoke exposure is an inevitable side…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: smoke effects, wildfires, air quality, health factors, particulates, fire management, smoke management
The contribution of PCDD/PCDF emissions from soil during open burning of biomass was examined. Mass labelled PCDD/PCDF was added to soil containing native PCDD/PCDF and biomass was laid out on this soil and burnt, simulating sugarcane trash and forest fires. Smoke samples were…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: cropland fires, wildfires, air quality, biomass, chemical compounds, litter, pollution, soil temperature, New South Wales, Australia, fire management, forest management, croplands, PCDD - polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, PCDF - polychlorinated dibenzofurans, persistent organic pollutants, bushfires, forest fires, emission factors
From the text ... 'Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park held its annual Fire Fest on Saturday at its visitor center. There were five stations that attendees could visit and a hayride that took them out into the basin. Each station offered ample information about how prescribed…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire size, fire suppression, smoke effects, surface fires, wildfires, litter, The Nature Conservancy, Florida, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, range management, prairies
From the text ... '..., in today's world with imcreasing populations, and more people living in the wildland urban interface, prescribed burn practitioners must put more emphasis on smoke management. If we don't manage our smoke and the resulting negative impacts, then the…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: heat, smoke behavior, air temperature, humidity, precipitation, public information, storms, wind, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, land management, smoke management
Fire regimes in many north Australian savanna regions are today characterised by frequent wildfires occurring in the latter part of the 7-month dry season. A fire management program instigated from 2005 over 24,000 km2 of biodiversity-rich Western Arnhem Land aims to reduce the…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire regimes, season of fire, wildfires, elevation, greenhouse gases, remote sensing, roads, Northern Territory of Australia, fire management, forest management, savannas, sloping terrain, fire management, greenhouse gas emissions, leverage, planned fire, unplanned fire, Australia
Multiple air monitoring campaigns were conducted from 2003 to 2007 during the months of December through April in which time-integrated monitoring of PM2.5 was performed during 55 prescribed burn (PB) events administered under select meteorological conditions. The data were…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire intensity, fire size, ignition, air quality, particulates, statistical analysis, wind, Georgia, South Carolina, fire management, smoke management, air pollution, Generalized Additive Models, mixed-models, particulate matter
Rapid decline and degradation of longleaf pine ecosystems in the southeastern United States are conservation concerns. Prescribed fire is the primary management activity in this fire-dependent ecosystem, but prescribed fire is under increasing scrutiny, primarily due to air…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire dependent species, fire frequency, air quality, cavity nesting birds, ground cover, herbicides, predation, reptiles, small mammals, threatened and endangered species (animals), Aristida stricta, wiregrass, Gopherus polyphemus, gopher tortoise, Peromyscus gossypinus, cotton mouse, Picoides borealis, red-cockaded woodpecker, Pinus palustris, longleaf pine, Sigmodon hispidus, cotton rat, Jones Ecological Research Center, Georgia, fire management, forest management, wildlife management, pine forests, capture-mark-recapture (CMR) methods, longleaf pine management, herbicide application, herbicide-fire combination, survival rate
In this study we compare airborne radionuclide concentrations during prescribed burns at the Savannah River Site (SRS) and a sample of forests in the Southeastern United States. The spatial trends of airborne radionuclide concentrations from prescribed burn areas at SRS are also…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, particulates, sampling, South Carolina, fire management, forest management, total suspended particulates, radionuclides, spatial analysis
From the text ... 'The primary objective of prescribed burning on forest recreation areas in New Jersey is to reduce the probability of their destruction by wildfire. Investigation has shown that when uncontrolled fires enter treated areas they do much less damage and…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Economics, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, cover, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, firing techniques, forest edges, forest types, histories, hunting, litter, mast, natural resource legislation, New Jersey, overstory, pine barrens, pine hardwood forests, post fire recovery, recreation, smoke management, species diversity (plants), state forests, succession, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, watersheds, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management
Prescribed burning, an indispensable tool of forest management through-out much of the South, is accused of being an agent of air pollution. In some instances, a concerted effort is being made to restrict its use. Yet, no one has shown that air quality has deteriorated more in…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, combustion, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel accumulation, plant growth, pollution, public information, wildfires
Although burning was originally intended as a control measure for blind seed disease in perennial ryegrass, growers soon discovered the benefits of open field burning for other grass seed crops.
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, cropland fires, disturbance, fertilizers, field experimental fires, grass fires, grasses, Lolium, Oregon, perennial plants, plant diseases, plant growth, season of fire, seasonal activities, seed production, seedlings
Emissions from burning the residue following grass-seed harvest have been determined by both field and laboratory studies. Field studies have been conducted by Oregon State University engineers on actual grass plots. The laboratory studies were conducted by scientists at the…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, annual plants, cropland fires, Dactylis glomerata, Festuca, fire management, grasses, Lolium multiflorum, Lolium perenne, Oregon, perennial plants, Poa, pollution
This report summarizes avaiable information on agricultural field burning in the Willamette Valley. Such information should be useful to all concerned with this practice and with the contribution it makes to air pollution in the state. The areas covered include background and…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, cropland fires, fire management, grasses, Lolium perenne, Oregon, perennial plants, pollution
'During the past year, burning treatments on the Miller Creek Block were essentially completed. Preparations for moving to Newman Ridge, on the St. Regis District, this spring are well underway. Current plans call for 16 instrumented fires on Newman Ridge during 1969 to conclude…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Economics
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, coniferous forests, duff, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, Idaho, logging, Montana, Pseudotsuga menziesii, roots, seedlings, slash, soil moisture, soil temperature, Tsuga heterophylla, US Forest Service, weather observations, wildlife
Current research on the effects of slash burning on air quality is concerned with the reduction or dispersal of gaseous emissions and particulates. Guidelines for accomplishing these goals are being developed. The use of other disposal methods is also under study, particularly…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, combustion, fire management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, histories, logging, mountains, Oregon, particulates, pollution, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, Washington, wildfires, wind
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Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Adenostoma fasciculatum, air quality, artificial regeneration, brush, chaparral, cover, field experimental fires, fire management, forage, grasslands, habitat conversion, herbaceous vegetation, land management, livestock, mosaic, natural resource legislation, Odocoileus, population density, post fire recovery, range management, season of fire, shrubs, site treatments, soil erosion, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wildlife management
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Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fire intensity, precipitation, smoke behavior, smoke effects, Washington, wildfires
Managing smoke produced by prescribed fires has, in recent years, become a critical consideration when planning a prescribed fire event. In some situations, planning for smoke management may be more complicated than planning for the prescribed fire itself. Considerations such as…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke impacts, smoke management, smoke sensitive area (SSA), burning technique
The State of North Carolina has engaged in an active prescribed fire and smoke management program since the 1970s in an effort to maintain a healthy ecosystem and minimize uncontrolled fuel overgrowth that contributes to catastrophic wildfires. Each of the State's 13 natural…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: NFDRS - National Fire Danger Rating System, North Carolina, fire data