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Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: 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: fuel management, smoke management
To trully allow fires to play their natural role in wilderness ecosystems, it is sometimes necessary to have large fires of long duration. Large fires are ecologically significant events that drive many other ecosystem processes. However, these fires pose significant management…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, Abies magnifica, charcoal, coniferous forests, cutting, dendrochronology, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, fire scar analysis, fire size, forest management, lightning caused fires, Montana, national parks, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), prescribed fires (escaped), Sequoiadendron giganteum , Sierra Nevada, vegetation surveys, wilderness areas, wildfires, Wyoming, Yosemite National Park
From the text ... 'A major problem that land management agencies must overcome is that air quality agency staff usually do not have an understanding for the needs and uses of prescribed fire. While air quality agency staff have excellent understanding of control equipment for…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, fire suppression, fuel loading, land management, particulates, pollution, smoke management, species diversity (plants)
From the Summary ... 'Prescribed natural fire programs adjacent to heavily populated areas are threatened by conflicting laws. Until relief is found through new legislation, wilderness fire managers must be constantly aware of smoke drift and its impact on adjacent areas. It…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, ecosystem dynamics, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel management, land management, national forests, national parks, particulates, rate of spread, Sierra Nevada, smoke effects, smoke management, Yosemite National Park
We know that the natural fire regimes of park and wilderness ecosystems are extremely variable. Past management practices (primarily fire exclusion), other resource constraints (endangered species, air quality), location and shape of preserves, and new natural fire policy…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, chaparral, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, flame length, forest management, fuel breaks, fuel loading, fuel management, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), wilderness fire management, wildfires
Samples (170) of biomass combustion smoke were obtained in Brazilian tropical rainforest and savannah during August-September 1992. Speciation of the ionic fraction of fine (d > 2 :m) and coarse (15 :m > d > 2:m) mode particles was achieved using ion chromatography, and…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, air quality, Amazon, biomass, Brazil, chemical elements, combustion, deforestation, ecosystem dynamics, land management, litter, nutrients, overstory, rainforests, savannas, smoke effects, South America, statistical analysis
Prescribed fire is used to treat roughly 5 percent (1,500,000 acres) of Florida*s wildland each year. Superimposed on this fire-maintained landscape is one of the fastest growing populations in the United States. Much of this population increase is a result of immigration from…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, burning permits, education, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, flammability, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, land use, landscape ecology, liability, natural resource legislation, public information, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
A study of the relation of daily levels of air pollution and mortality in New York City for the ten year period 1963-1972 has recently been completed. This study, which will be published shortly, confirms our preliminary finding reported at the June 1974 Denver meeting of the…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, energy, gases, mortality, New York, particulates, pollution, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, temperature
The rate of rise of the convection columns above experimental fires depends on the rate of average atmospheric temperature lapse in the lower 1,000 meters. The type of fuels used in these fires will probably produce a mass fire if the burning area is 27 plus or minus 2 hectares…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air temperature, convection, energy, experimental fires, field experimental fires, fire size, fuel management, fuel types, ignition, Juniperus osteosperma, light, Nevada, photography, Pinus, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature, wind
Losses to the atmosphere of our nutrient elements, phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), and magnesium (Mg), caused by slash burning a logged-over mixed forest coupe in the Florentine Valley in Tasmania, were estimated by weighing and sampling the slash on marked plots…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, ash, Australia, biomass, calcium, chemical elements, duff, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel types, grasses, heathlands, leaching, litter, logging, magnesium, nutrients, phosphorus, plant nutrients, K - potassium, regeneration, sampling, slash, slash and burn, Tasmania, temperature, volatilization, wood
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: burning intervals, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire regimes, fungi, germination, grasses, microorganisms, needles, pine, Pinus radiata, plant communities, post fire recovery, seedlings, smoke behavior, smoke effects, wildfires
The aim of this study was to assess the effects on combustion characteristics, and their consequences on nutrient losses, of (1) the change in load and packing ratio of the fuel bed, and (2) the change in fuel moisture content. Eighty-one experimental burns were carried out, on…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: fireline intensity, fuel loading, fuel moisture content, fuel consumption, Pinus pinaster, laboratory experiments, particulate and volatile nutrient losses, laboratory fires, air quality, combustion, fire intensity, fire management, France, fuel moisture, Mediterranean habitats, moisture, needles, nutrients, pine forests, Pinus, statistical analysis, temperature
Pollutants sampled during the burning of 30 lb ponderosa pine fuel beds yielded emission factors for CO, hydrocarbon gases, and particulate matter of 146, 8.4, and 9.1 lb/ton of fuel, respectively. When similar beds were treated with diammonium phosphate flame retardant, these…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, PM - particulate matter, slash burning, pollutants, flame retardants, air quality, combustion, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, gases, humidity, laboratory fires, CH4 - methane, mopping up, national forests, phosphate, pine forests, slash, wildfires
We compared the potential fire behavior and smoke production of historical and current time periods based on vegetative conditions in forty-nine 5100- to 13 5OO-hectare watersheds in six river basins in eastern Oregon and Washington. Vegetation composition, structure, and…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, fire management, fire risk assessment, fuel loading, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke management, PM10 emissions, landscape-level assessment
Burned and unburned sites (4 ha each) of black and white spruce in interior Alaska were studied in 1993 and 1994 within and adjacent to an area burned by wildfire in 1990. The main purpose of the research was to quantify fuel consumption and carbon release during the fire.…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: carbon flux, consumption, wildfire, boreal, global warming, taiga
Comprises 80 references to papers and publications related specifically to fire management of wilderness areas in the USA. An index is given to 11 general subject categories.
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: bibliography, fire management, fuels management, fire operations, fire management plan, fire regimes, forest management, national forests, national parks, public information, smoke management, wilderness fire management
From the introduction ... 'This report describes and presents the results of four groups of experiments designed to obtain information on some facets of N2 fixation. The objectives of these experiments were to: (1) Determine N2 fixation potential for a number of Coastal Plain…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: bacteria, chemical compounds, coastal forests, coastal plain, energy, fertilization, fertilizers, fire exclusion, fire management, gases, litter, minerals, moisture, N - nitrogen, nitrogen fixation, North Carolina, nutrients, phosphorus, Pinus elliottii, Pinus taeda, plantations, sampling, savannas, season of fire, site treatments, soil management, soil moisture, soil organisms, soils, South Carolina, statistical analysis, swamps
Pollutant production due to the combustion of forest slash material has been determined from measurements obtained for controlled field burns. Temporal and spatial concentrations of CO2 and total particulate were measured during flights of an instrumented aircraft through the…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, clearcutting, combustion, coniferous forests, duff, fire management, fuel inventory, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, hydrogen, laboratory fires, Larix occidentalis, logging, moisture, Montana, needles, N - nitrogen, particulates, pollution, Pseudotsuga menziesii, sampling, slash, smoke management, statistical analysis, US Forest Service
As part of the FOS-DECAFE experiment at Lamto (Ivory Coast) in January 1991, various aerosol samples were collected at ground level near prescribed fires or under local background conditions, to characterize the emissions of particulate matter from the burning of savanna…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, backing fires, biomass, boreal forests, C - carbon, combustion, distribution, forest types, climate change, headfires, ignition, Ivory Coast, particulates, pollution, K - potassium, savannas, slash, tropical forests, wildfires