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Forest fires have been photographed from the air with infra-red film, and observations wiht an infra-red image converter have been used to map wild fires through heavy smoke. © Institute of Foresters of Australia. Abstract reproduced by permission.
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, fire management, fire suppression, flame length, photography, smoke effects, smoke management, spot fires, Victoria, wildfires
From the introduction letter ... 'This publication deals with fire, a significant force in the forest environment. Depending upon land management objectives for a specific area, plus a host of environmental variables, fire will sometimes be an enemy, at times a friend, and…
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire resistant plants, forest management, hunting, ignition, land management, land use, lightning caused fires, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, recreation, regeneration, succession, understory vegetation, wildfires
The control of wildfires in forested areas may not always be a desirable objective since certain benefits can result that are important enough to warrant prescribed burning in some cases. Included in these benefits is the control of harmful insects and plant diseases and of…
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Southern, International
Keywords: Alberta, arthropods, Canada, Coleoptera, coniferous forests, Dendroctonus, Diptera, diseases, ecosystem dynamics, Florida, forest management, habits and behavior, heat, heat effects, humus, insects, Melanophila, Odonata, Pantala flavescens, Picea, pine forests, plant diseases, smoke effects, species diversity, temperature, trees, wildfires, wood
The development of the smoke cloud from a summer wildfire in a forest area was studied on a radar screen. In conjunction with photographs taken at the same time, it has been possible to follow the variations in height of both the top and bottom of the smoke column as it was…
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, chemistry, droughts, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire management, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, hardwood forests, national parks, photography, pine forests, rate of spread, smoke behavior, smoke management, spot fires, telemetry, topography, Victoria, wildfires, wind
Results of the 1971inventory of fire use in Georgia indicate that 589,633 acres were burned for agricultural purposes and 527,557 acres were presribed burned for forestry purposes. About 95 percent of this burning was done in the southern half of the State. It was estimated that…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, coastal plain, computer programs, fire control, fire hazard reduction, flatwoods, Georgia, particulates, Piedmont, sandhills, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
During the last 17 days of April 1971, smoke from wildfires in the Florida Everglades drifted over the east coast of southern Florida. Smoke restricted visibilities 67.9% of the time at Palm Beach International Airport, and aircraft operations were 11.9% less than for an…
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, everglades, fire case histories, fire management, fire size, Florida, particulates, pollution, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, south Florida, temperature, urban habitats, wildfires, wind
An examination of the beneficial use of fire in the southern forest, including history, current use, technique, economic considerations, legal restrictions, and outlook for continued use of prescribed burning in light of mounting pressures to eliminate sources of smoke and other…
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, forest products, fuel management, grazing, hardwood forests, histories, light, logging, Oklahoma, pine forests, Pinus palustris, public information, regeneration, site treatments, slash, wildfires
Samples were collected from smoke clouds above forest fires, and the sizes of the smoke particles were determined. Most particles appeared to be approximately 0.1 in diameter. © Institute of Foresters of Australia. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Person:
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, biomass, distribution, field experimental fires, particulates, precipitation, radiation, sampling, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, swamps, western Australia, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, combustion, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire protection, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, gases, Georgia, grasses, human caused fires, invasive species, land management, legumes, lightning caused fires, multiple resource management, particulates, pine forests, plant diseases, public information, shrubs, site treatments, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management
Potential temperature analysis supplies needed information that is not obtainable by other methods of graphical analysis. Terrain surface maps and large-scale cross sections are constructed by using data from weather stations, raobs, and aircraft soundings. Interpretation of the…
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: elevation, mountainous terrain, mountains, Oregon, pest control, smoke behavior, temperature, topography, weather observations, wind
The combustion products (smoke) from forest wildfires or prescribed burns are often considered on a par with any other emission that might affect air quality. But enough is known about smoke from woody fuels to indicate that its importance is limited almost entirely to…
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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: air quality, air pollutants, wood smoke, CO - carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, particulates, SO2 - sulfur dioxide
A field technique for evaluating winds aloft is described. It can be used at remote places-even at the site of a wildfire. It has proved accurate as any known single theodolite technique, and is time-saving because the winds aloft are evaluated in miles per hour from direct…
Person:
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: wind velocity, winds aloft, air quality, fire management, fire suppression, wildfires, wind
The benefits from fire use - including hazard reduction, silvicultural manipulation, pathogen control, and nutrient recycling - might be forfeited by public reaction to smoke, whether harmful or not. Generally, the public desires alternatives to burning, but might accept fire if…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire intensity, retardants, laboratory experiments, particulate emissions, diammonium phosphate, ammonium sulfate
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Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, arthropods, competition, cover, croplands, fire hazard reduction, forest management, grasses, hardwoods, insects, litter, mosaic, nutrient cycling, pine forests, plant diseases, plant growth, regeneration, soils, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
'...twenty-seven systemic and nine protectant fungicides were evaluated for suppression of ascocarp formation in Claviceps purpurea. The chemicals were applied once over sclerotia from Lolium perenne at the soil surface. In one or two separate tests, complete or nearly complete…
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Economics
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, burning intervals, chemistry, Claviceps purpurea, croplands, fungi, grasslands, herbicides, Lolium perenne, Oregon, perennial plants, plant diseases, soils
Burning experiments in the laboratory on samples of forest floor (L + F + H organic layers) from an old-growth Tsuga heterophylla/Pseudotsuga taxifolia forest, indicated a 25-64% loss of N from the forest floor at temperatures of 300-700 C. Burning increased the N concentration…
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, forest floor, N - nitrogen, British Columbia, burning, chemical concentration, fire control, forest litter, humus chemistry, plant composition, slash burning, soil nitrogen
A field study on grass field burning was conducted in the Willamette Valley of Oregon during the summer of 1965. Approximately 230,000 acres of grass field are burned in the valley during August and September. Serious air pollution problems result from this burning. The purposes…
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, air temperature, arthropods, ash, combustion, croplands, decomposition, distribution, experimental fires, fuel management, fuel moisture, grass fires, grasses, grasslands, humidity, insects, land management, Lolium, moisture, N - nitrogen, Oregon, organic matter, particulates, plant diseases, pollution, slash and burn, soil moisture, temperature, wind
Although bush fires have been common in Australia for many thousands of years (cf. for example, Bermingham, Packham, and Vines, 1971) little is known about the smoke they produce. However, if the practice of prescribed burning - already employed as a routine method of reducing…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, ash, Australia, brush, Eucalyptus marginata, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, gases, jarrah, light, Mediterranean habitats, N - nitrogen, particulates, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, vines, western Australia
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Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, decay, experimental areas, fertilization, land management, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, Oryza sativa, plant diseases, plant growth, post fire recovery, site treatments, soil nutrients, statistical analysis, Vicia, volatilization
From the text...”Extinguishing forest fires must be done urgently, in most cases, using whatever tools at hand, with little time to employ mechanical methods. Making matters worse, location of the fire cannot be foreseen, nor such factors as wind direction and velocity. Passive…
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: backfires, combustion, convection, fire management, fire suppression, fire whirls, flame length, flammability, forest management, gases, overstory, O - oxygen, rate of spread, temperature, volatilization, wind