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The Objective of this Prescribed Burning Guide: To help resource managers plan and execute prescribed burns in Southern forests by: Explaining the reasons for prescribed burning. · Emphasizing the environmental effectsl · Explaining the importance of weather in prescribed…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, aesthetics, air quality, arthropods, backing fires, competition, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, firing techniques, flank fires, Florida, forage, fuel moisture, hardwoods, headfires, heat effects, humidity, insects, livestock, manuals, pine forests, plant diseases, plant growth, precipitation, runoff, season of fire, site treatments, smoke management, soil nutrients, soils, temperature, wildlife habitat management, wind
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Person:
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, bark, conifers, gases, Oregon, particulates, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Tsuga heterophylla, wood
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Person:
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, broadcast burning, logging, Oregon, site treatments, slash, smoke management, wind
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Person:
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, fire hazard reduction, fuel management, slash, smoke management
From the text ... 'The future role of prescribed fire in management of park and wilderness lands is not as clear to me as the role of natural fire. Its value, at least in certain instances, has been clearly demonstrated. As a tool, even in these cases, it has not been recognized…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Fire Ecology
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, birds, coniferous forests, fire adaptations, fire control, fire management, forest management, forest types, habitat types, lightning, mountains, national parks, natural areas management, nesting, public information, recreation, season of fire, Sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum , succession, trees, wildfires, wildlife
From the Summary ... 'Control burning activities within Everglades National Park have expanded notably within the last year and a half. Prior to that time such activities were confined strictly to the pinelands habitat of the Park. The control burn program is now being broadened…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, brush, Casuarina equisetifolia, Conocarpus erectus, everglades, experimental fires, field experimental fires, fire adaptations, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, Florida, forbs, forest types, grasses, habitat types, hardwood hammocks, hardwoods, herbaceous vegetation, hydrology, introduced species, invasive species, Laguncularia racemosa, landscape ecology, marshes, national parks, natural areas management, Panicum, peatlands, pine, Pinus elliottii densa, pollution, post fire recovery, prairies, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, Rhizophora mangle, roads, sampling, season of fire, shrubs, soils, south Florida, Spartina, Sporobolus, succession, succulents, swamps, wetlands, wind, woody plants
From the text ... '[A]ttempts to suppress all natural and man caused fires in the sequoia-mixed conifer forest during the past half century or more have resulted in the accumulation of extreme quantitites of dead and living fuels. This buildup has resulted in what has been…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather, Economics, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Abies concolor, age classes, air quality, anthropology, Arctostaphylos patula, bark, Ceanothus, chaparral, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, duff, ecosystem dynamics, experimental fires, field experimental fires, fire adaptations, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, firing techniques, forbs, forest management, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel management, grasses, grasslike plants, habitat types, heat, heavy fuels, herbaceous vegetation, Libocedrus decurrens, litter, livestock, logging, montane forests, mountains, national parks, Native Americans, natural areas management, organic matter, overstory, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, population density, post fire recovery, Quercus kelloggii, recreation, Ribes roezlii, sampling, season of fire, seedlings, seeds, Sequoia, Sequoiadendron giganteum , shrubs, soils, succession, temperature, trees, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, wildfires
From the text ... 'The ponderosa pine-grassland is characterized by the occurrence and distribution of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa. It is widely spread covering some 36 million acres from the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia to Durango, Mexico, and from Nebraska to the…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, aesthetics, air quality, Andropogon scoparius, Arizona, British Columbia, Calamagrostis rubescens, Canada, Chamaebatia foliolosa, coniferous forests, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, Elymus, European settlement, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire scar analysis, fire suppression, flammability, forage, forest management, forest types, fuel management, gases, grasses, grasslands, grazing, habitat types, herbaceous vegetation, landscape ecology, livestock, Mexico, Montana, montane forests, Muhlenbergia, multiple resource management, national parks, Native Americans, Nebraska, needles, openings, pine, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, public information, Purshia tridentata, recreation, regeneration, reproduction, South Dakota, succession, surface fires, understory vegetation, water, wildlife
From the summary:'Experimental study on the visibility through fire smoke was carried out. The relation among the brightness of sign, visual distance, and the extinction coefficient of smoke at the instant of obscuration threshold was obtained by using the smoke chamber. The…
Person:
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, experimental fires, Japan, smoke management, temperature
From the text ' Under specific circumstances it has been shown that prescribed burning can be used: (1) to reduce fuel accumulation from logging and slashing and the hazard of accidental fire; (2) to prepare seedbeds and reduce competition for tree regeneration; (3) to improve…
Person:
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Great Basin, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, competition, diseases, education, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire management, firing techniques, fishes, forage, fuel accumulation, grazing, livestock, logging, Montana, multiple resource management, public information, recreation, regeneration, slash, smoke management, soils, succession, wildfires, wildlife
The advantages of using prescribed fire to fulfill certain land management objectives in the southern United States are well known. Fire is often the most economical tool available for preparing planting sites, improving forage conditions on ranges, improving wildlife habitat,…
Person:
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forage, forest management, land management, liability, pollution, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, surface fires, surface fuels, trees, US Forest Service, weather observations, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
Costs and effectiveness of fire control, need for hazard reduction, slash disposal policy, history of slash burning, opportunities for prescribed burning, as well as fire effects, costs and benefits are described breifly. Most attention is given to the Vancouver Forest District…
Person:
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: British Columbia, Canada, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire management, histories, Pseudotsuga menziesii, slash, smoke effects, Tall Timbers Research Station, US Forest Service
To burn or not to burn? That is the question--or is it? If we have forests, we'll have fuels. If we do not control the buildup of fuels one way or the other, we'll have fires and many of them will be bad. We'll have them as a result of either man's action or nature's lightning.…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, coastal plain, combustion, crown scorch, disturbance, environmental impact analysis, fire control, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel types, gases, hardwoods, hydrocarbons, light burning, lightning, low intensity burns, mortality, multiple resource management, national forests, particulates, pine forests, plant growth, pollution, sedimentation, seedlings, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, South Carolina, sprouting, understory vegetation, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, backfires, crown fires, fire case histories, fire control, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, firebreaks, flank fires, forage, forest edges, ground fires, headfires, humus, invasive species, land management, landscape ecology, mineral soils, mortality, multiple resource management, pine forests, Pinus taeda, rate of spread, runoff, seedlings, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, soil management, spot fires, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, water, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, cutting, fire management, fuel accumulation, fuel arrangement, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, logging, particulates, site treatments, smoke management, statistical analysis
An aerial ignition system using and incendiary device and a helicopter can be used to backburn a large area safely and completely. The system was used to backburn 4,800 acres and helped bring under control a large fire in February 1986. The system and the conditions under which…
Person:
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerial ignition, Australia, Australian Capital Territory, backfires, convection, crown fires, eucalyptus, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, flammability, humidity, ignition, incendiary fires, rate of spread, sclerophyll forests, spot fires, temperature, topography, wind
'The Canadian Forest Fire Research Institute recently developed a functionally foolproof rate-of-fire spread timer; it costs about $10 to make.'
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire management, fuel accumulation, Ontario, rate of spread
Site preparation and hazard-reduction burns are common. Under selected fuel and weather conditions, these prescribed fires can do their job without dirtying the air.
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, blowups, catastrophic fires, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire suppression, forest management, general interest, Georgia, plant diseases, pollution, range management, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Economics
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, croplands, grasslands, livestock, Oregon, particulates, seed production
Smoke from slash burns in the Cascade Mountains during a 3-day period of stable air conditions at lower elevations in October 1969 added little to existing air pollution in the Willamette Valley, in western Oregon. Aerial observations and weather data analysis determined that…
Person:
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, Cascades Range, clearcutting, elevation, fire case histories, fire hazard reduction, mountains, national forests, Oregon, pollution, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature, weather observations, wind
Wildland managers in the South use prescribed burning to reduce dangerous fuels, control understory hardwoods, combat disease, facilitate pine regeneration, and improve wildlife habitat. Burning techniques are highly developed, and prescribed burners believe they can use fire…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: backfires, competition, education, fire hazard reduction, firing techniques, forest management, hardwoods, headfires, logging, multiple resource management, pine forests, plant diseases, public information, regeneration, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, understory vegetation, wilderness fire management, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, backfires, croplands, fire intensity, fuel moisture, headfires, particulates, smoke behavior, smoke management
This paper reports a detailed laboratory study of two-dimensional starting plumes. From dimensional analysis, equations in a parametric form for the motion of two-dimensional starting plumes are derived. The governing equations are also obtained from an approximate inviscid flow…
Person:
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: plume, fire plumes, laboratory experiments, buoyant plume, starting plume
The number of potential burning days and the potential burn acreage under smoke control restrictions were estimated for hypothetical forest areas on both sides of a pollution prone area, the Willamette Valley in western Oregon. On the basis of a sample of 2 dry years, the…
Person:
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air pollution, broadcast burning, Oregon, slash disposal, Willamette Valley, smoke abatement
Convection in the air above an intense fire in northern Australia has been studied, and the results are compared with those of an earlier investigation.At the height of the fire a short-lived condensation cloud, covering little more than 10% of the total fire area, rose to…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: convection, wind, Australia, bushfire, climatology, fire intensity, fuel appraisal, heat, Northern Territory of Australia, smoke behavior