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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, 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, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, Arizona, biomass, catastrophic fires, Colorado, coniferous forests, crown fires, crowns, disturbance, education, environmental impact analysis, environmental impact statements, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, forest management, fuel breaks, fuel management, fuel types, general interest, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, landscape ecology, logging, low intensity burns, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, New Mexico, old growth forests, Oregon, overstory, partial cutting, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, roads, second growth forests, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, site treatments, size classes, slash, surface fuels, thinning, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, annual plants, catastrophic fires, Ceanothus, Centaurea, Colorado, coniferous forests, Cytisus, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire case histories, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, general interest, health factors, herbaceous vegetation, Idaho, invasive species, light burning, lightning caused fires, litter, logging, Montana, national forests, national parks, native species (animals), native species (plants), natural resource legislation, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus ponderosa, plant communities, precipitation, riparian habitats, runoff, seedlings, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, shrubs, smoke effects, soil nutrients, soils, streams, surface fires, thinning, water, water quality, water repellent soils, weed control, wildfires, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, woody fuels
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: British Columbia, Canada, catastrophic fires, coastal forests, community ecology, coniferous forests, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fine fuels, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel management, fuel moisture, general interest, grazing, Great Plains, histories, landscape ecology, lightning caused fires, livestock, logging, Mexico, national forests, national parks, native species (animals), native species (plants), Nebraska, old growth forests, Oregon, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus engelmannii, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, roads, Sequoia sempervirens, Sequoiadendron giganteum , smoke effects, South Dakota, thinning, Tsuga heterophylla, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text ... 'This article updates the uses of the fire severity index called the Haines Index (HI). We discuss the original intended use of HI, its current operational use, some ways that users have modified it, and different aspects of HI that researchers are examining to…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: convection, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, flame length, fuel moisture, ignition, rate of spread, smoke behavior, temperature, Washington, wildfires, wind
From the text ... 'For decades, foresters have been setting fires at least every two years in the Wade Tract. Instead of destroying the forest, the low-intensity flames that sweep through the tract trigger lush growth, fostering a biological diversity rivaling that of a tropical…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aimophila aestivalis, Aristida stricta, competition, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, Georgia, hardwoods, land management, lightning caused fires, litter, low intensity burns, mowing, nongame birds, north Florida, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus palustris, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, site treatments, soil nutrients, south Georgia, species diversity (plants), Stoddard, H.L., Tall Timbers Research Station, vegetation surveys, Wade Tract, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
The AERONOX programme investigated the impact of NOx emissions from aircraft on the atmosphere and included an extensive modelling programme. In the model comparisons undertaken within the AERONOX programme, a standard set of emissions of NO from both aviation and non-aviation…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, Asia, biomass, combustion, decomposition, deforestation, distribution, forest management, gases, grasslands, human caused fires, lightning, microorganisms, post fire recovery, rainforests, shrublands, soils, South America, statistical analysis, tropical forests, tundra, NOx, biomass burning, soils, lightning, troposphere, ammonia oxidation, fossil fuels, global emissions, inventories, AERONOX
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: air temperature, Australia, convection, dead fuels, eucalyptus, Eucalyptus sieberi, field experimental fires, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, ignition, leaves, live fuels, New South Wales, radiation, rate of spread, scorch, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, surface fuels, understory vegetation, wind
Germinable seed stores were measured in jarrah forest soils at six sites during one year. The overall mean seed content to a depth of 5 cm was 292 seeds m-². There was a significant seasonal difference, with a maximum of 435 seeds m-² in summer, after the majority of species in…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia spp., Acacia pulchella, artificial regeneration, Bossiaea, Bossiaea aquifolium, chemical elements, convection, eucalyptus, germination, heat effects, jarrah, land management, legumes, litter, Mediterranean habitats, minerals, mining, plant physiology, population density, regeneration, sampling, seasonal activities, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, soils, species diversity (plants), Trymalium ledifolium, western Australia, bauxite, forest, jarrah, mining, season, seed, seed-banks, soil
A computerized fire weather model coupled with a synoptic model is a powerful means of describing the weather part of the fire environment.
Person:
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, ash, fire danger rating, GIS - geographic information system, GPS - global positioning system, smoke behavior, wilderness fire management, wildfires
The independent effects of smoke, ash, and wet and dry heat treatments on seedling emergence from the soil seed bank were tested for soils from fire-prone heathy woodlands in western Victoria. A total of 763 individuals from 56 species were recorded from the surface soil samples…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, ash, Australia, chemical elements, ecosystem dynamics, eucalyptus, Eucalyptus baxteri, fire intensity, fire sensitive plants, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, fuel types, germination, heat, land management, Leptospermum, Leucopogon, pH, phosphorus, population density, regeneration, sclerophyll forests, seed dormancy, seedlings, site treatments, smoke effects, soil nutrients, soils, Victoria
In response to pressing needs, a new, GIS-based approach is being developed by the University of Florida and the Division of Forestry. Called the Enhanced Open Burning Authorization and Wildfire Suppression System, it is still a prototype undergoing testing. The primary module…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, fuel types, GIS - geographic information system, GPS - global positioning system, grasslands, land management, particulates, Pinus clausa, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, regeneration, smoke effects, smoke management, wetlands, wildfires
The Green Swamp is a 16,000 acre nature preserve located in the southeastern coastal plain of North Carolina. Owned by The Nature Conservancy, it is managed to protect the indigenous assemblage of plants and animals of the area. The swamp supports longleaf pine savannas…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, bogs, coastal plain, fire intensity, fire management, firebreaks, fragmentation, fuel loading, hydrology, land management, longleaf pine, North Carolina, organic soils, Pinus palustris, plantations, pocosins, savannas, smoke management, soils, swamps, wildlife refuges
Total particulate matter (PM) emissions were estimated for recent fires (1979-1990) and the presettlement period (prior to 1935) in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (SEW) in Idaho and Montana. Recent period emissions were calculated by l0-day periods for surface fire and crown…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: Abies grandis, air quality, coniferous forests, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel models, Idaho, Montana, natural resource legislation, Pinus ponderosa, presettlement fires, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Some of the highest tree mortality in the country is occurring in the forests of the Blue Mountains in northeastern Oregon. The frequency and magnitude of wildfire in the four national forests (six million acres) which comprise this area has increased dramatically over the last…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, coniferous forests, conifers, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, low intensity burns, mortality, mountains, multiple resource management, national forests, natural resource legislation, Oregon, pine forests, pine, site treatments, slash, smoke management, wildfires
Wildland fires are an integral part of many ecosystems across North America; and these ecosystems often exhibit adaptations to periodic fire. These fire-adapted ecosystems are often termed fire-dependent, if recurring disturbances by fire are essential to the functioning of the…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Northwest, Southern, International
Keywords: adaptation, air quality, Canada, charcoal, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, Florida, fuel accumulation, histories, liability, lightning, multiple resource management, natural resource legislation, Oregon, pine forests, public information, smoke management, trees, volcanoes, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife
This paper describes the Oklahoma Fire Danger Model, an operational fire danger rating system for the state of Oklahoma (USA) developed through joint efforts of Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma, and the Fire Sciences Laboratory of the USDA Forest Service in…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: adaptation, fire danger rating, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, land management, live fuels, moisture, Montana, Oklahoma, pine hardwood forests, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke management, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Outdoor fires, such as wildfires and prescribed burns, can emit substantial amounts of particulate matter and other pollutants into the atmosphere. In Texas, an inventory of forest, grassland and agricultural burning activities revealed that fires consumed vegetation on 1.6 and…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, duff, fire management, fire size, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, fuel management, grasslands, litter, logging, particulates, pine forests, pollution, range management, rangelands, slash, smoke management, statistical analysis, Texas, wildfires, wildland fuels
Other than land clearing for urban development (Wear and others 1998) no disturbance is more common in southern forests than fire. The pervasive role of fire predates human activity in the South (Komarek 1964, 1974)), and humans magnified that role. Repeating patterns of fire…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: agriculture, Aimophila aestivalis, backing fires, broadcast burning, Carya, Chamaecyparis thyoides, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, European settlement, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, flank fires, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, ground fires, hardwood forests, headfires, histories, insects, litter, logging, Meleagris gallopavo, Native Americans, Picoides borealis, Piedmont, pine forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus pungens, Pinus rigida, Pinus serotina, Pinus taeda, Pinus virginiana, plant communities, plant diseases, presettlement fires, Quercus, rate of spread, serotiny, site treatments, smoke management, soil moisture, succession, surface fires, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, vulnerable species or communities, wildlife habitat management
From the text ... 'On the Dude Fire Staff Ride tomorrow, we will retrace the steps of people who were under pressure. Some of those people handled pressure well. Some didn't. For a richer understanding of the Dude Fire, we should focus on what happens when people are overcome by…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: Arizona, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, hardwood forests, pine forests, rate of spread, smoke effects, Washington, wildfires
Biomass combustion is an important primary source of particles with adsorbed biomarker compounds in the global atmosphere. The introduction of natural product organic compounds into smoke occurs primarily by direct volatilization/steam stripping and by thermal alteration based…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, cellulose, chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, coniferous forests, conifers, hardwood forests, heat effects, hydrocarbons, Larix, lignin, organic matter, particulates, peat, Picea, pine forests, Pinus, pollution, potash, K - potassium, Pseudotsuga, recreation related fires, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, statistical analysis, temperature, Tsuga mertensiana, volatilization, wildfires, woody plants
From the text...'Fire is a natural ecological process; it controls insects and disease and is necessary for natural succession of plant communities. Foliage, litter, and herbaceous matter are typically the predominant fuel components consumed in many prescribed and wildfire…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest, Southern
Keywords: Acer, aerosols, air quality, Aristida stricta, biomass, chemical compounds, combustion, cones, crowns, fire intensity, fire management, Florida, foliage, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, hardwood forests, health factors, hydrocarbons, insects, lignin, litter, mortality, needles, North Carolina, Oregon, organic matter, particulates, pH, pine forests, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus taeda, plant communities, Quercus, Sabal palmetto, sampling, slash, smoke management, soil organic matter, statistical analysis, succession, surface fires, Tsuga heterophylla, understory vegetation, wildfires, woody fuels
The Hayman Fire is discussed. USDA Forest Service employee Merrill Kauffman is interviewed. 'NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Transcript: Online Focus' Transcript is coverage of Colorado wildfires, July 1 & 2, 2002. See PBS website, for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer TV program,…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Colorado, conservation, crown fires, education, fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, hardwood forests, liability, natural resource legislation, pine forests, public information, rate of spread, smoke management, Smokey Bear program, thinning, US Forest Service, web page, wildfires
Smoke, canopy-derived mulch, and broadcast seeds were used to maximize the establishment of Banksia woodland species in sand quarries in Western Australia. Smoke, particularly aerosol smoke, had a positive effect on total seedling recruitment. Pre-mined (woodland) sites showed a…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia pulchella, aerosols, Allocasuarina fraseriana, Allocasuarina humilis, Australia, Banksia, Banksia attenuata, Banksia menziesii, Beaufortia elegans, Bossiaea, Eucalyptus marginata, forest management, jarrah, litter, overstory, plant growth, regeneration, seed dispersal, seed germination, seeds, smoke management, soils, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, western Australia, Xanthorrhoea preissii
From the text...'It was my observation then that local residents demonstrated little interest in fuel hazard reduction near their homes unless a fire had ocurred recently and nearby. Sadly, as a member of the Berkely Fire Safety Commission from 1992 to 2001, I found that the…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel appraisal, smoke effects, wildfires
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, char, cones, coniferous forests, conifers, convection, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fossils, Montana, national forests, needles, paleoecology, particulates, Picea engelmannii, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, plant communities, pollen, Populus tremuloides, Pseudotsuga menziesii, slash, wildfires