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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: litter, nutrient cycling, particulates, phosphate, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus taeda, precipitation, runoff, soil leaching, soil nutrients, South Carolina, volatilization

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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel loading, particulates, smoke management, weather observations

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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, dead fuels, fuel moisture, headfires, live fuels, particulates, pine forests, smoke management, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, dead fuels, fuel moisture, headfires, live fuels, particulates, pine forests, pollution, smoke management, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, hydrocarbons, Ilex glabra, laboratory fires, Liquidambar styraciflua, particulates, pine forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus taeda, Quercus laevis, Serenoa repens, understory vegetation

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Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Australia, carbon dioxide, chemistry, decay, eucalyptus, fire intensity, fuel appraisal, fuel types, gases, light, litter, ozone, rural communities, sampling, site treatments, smoke effects, trees

'A program of burning experiments was carried out to assess the air pollutant emmissions potential of forest residues in the Pacific Norhtwest. Only the fine fuel component of slash fuelbeds was considered. Ponderosa pine slash, Douglas-fir slash with needles, and Douglas-fir…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, air temperature, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, combustion, coniferous forests, field experimental fires, fine fuels, fire intensity, fire management, fire retardants, flammability, fuel appraisal, fuel arrangement, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, humidity, hydrocarbons, ignition, laboratory fires, live fuels, logging, needles, old growth forests, particulates, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, second growth forests, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, understory vegetation, Washington, wildfires, wind

About 872,000 acres of forest and agricultural land were burned in Georgia during 1972, releasing an estimated 17,000 tons of particulate matter into the atmosphere. Most of this burning was done in the southwestern half of the State during January, February, and March.…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, coastal plain, combustion, computer programs, fire control, fire hazard reduction, flatwoods, fuel management, Georgia, particulates, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, weather observations, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

From the text...'Several important facets of any wilderness fire management program must be understood by everyone. First, there are risks involved--primarily the risk of fires escaping. We may not always be able to contain them within the mangement unit. Also, wilderness fire…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, elevation, fire adaptations, fire exclusion, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, Idaho, national forests, needles, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, plant communities, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rate of spread, savannas, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, shrublands, shrubs, spot fires, subalpine forests, vegetation surveys, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

The atmospheric trace element abundances associated with agricultural field burning and rural air have been measured for the Willamette Valley of western Oregon. Neutron activation analysis is as used to measure the concentrations of about 26 trace elements in gross air…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, croplands, gases, grasses, human caused fires, Oregon, particulates, pollution, rural communities, sampling, slash and burn, smoke effects, statistical analysis

Prescribed fire is the intentional use of fire to achieve certain land management goals. Over 2 million acres of forest land in the southern United States are treated with this tool each year. The benefits from these burns can be offset by a degradation of air quality due to the…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, backfires, combustion, distribution, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasses, hardwood forests, Ilex glabra, land management, leaves, litter, needles, particulates, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus taeda, Quercus rubra, sampling, Serenoa repens, smoke management, Solidago, wind

Prescribed fire has been used in managing our southern forest lands for over 50 years. However, burning forest fuels comes under the open burning regulations of the various states. These regulations and how they affect forest management are highlighted by three geographic areas…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): California, Eastern, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, backing fires, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, Idaho, Illinois, logging, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, pollution, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, Texas, Virginia, Washington, wildfires

Prescribed burning is a preferred treatment in many fuel management situations because of its low cost, campatibility with other land-use objectives, and little or not undesirable side effects. The problems, limitations, and associated consequences of fire treatments are…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, backfires, broadcast burning, brush, burning intervals, CO - carbon monoxide, coastal plain, cutting, fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, firebreaks, flank fires, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel moisture, heavy fuels, hydrocarbons, ignition, land use, litter, multiple resource management, particulates, pine forests, regeneration, season of fire, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, understory vegetation, wildfires

From the Summary ... 'Combustion emissions from dead, dry forest fuel are considerably less than those from live, green material. For the most part, prescribed burning involves dead, dry fuel in contrast to wildfires where a high proportion of live, green material is included in…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, chemistry, coastal plain, combustion, dead fuels, fire hazard reduction, fuel accumulation, fuel types, gases, heavy fuels, hydrocarbons, light, pine forests, precipitation, smoke behavior, soils, wildfires

From the Summary ... 'The behavior of the convection column above a large fire is thus characterized by (1) marked inflow of air at the lower levels, and (2) rapid ascent of hot air at the higher levels, whereby mixing with the surrounding atmosphere is reduced. The height to…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, convection, experimental fires, fire case histories, fuel types, grasses, heat, moisture, Northern Territory of Australia, smoke behavior, temperature, western Australia, wildfires

Smoke from large scale fuel reduction fires in Western Australia has been investigated from an aircraft. These fires are typically 10,000-20,000 acres in area with fuel loadings of 3-6 tons/acre. Measurements were made of mass concentration, scattering coefficient and total…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, burning intervals, Eucalyptus diversicolor, Eucalyptus marginata, European settlement, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel loading, particulates, presettlement fires, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, western Australia, wind

Animal exposure studied and large scale fire data indicate that one of the early life hazards in a developing fire is from the generation of carbon monoxide and other combustion gases. A gas chromatograph as been interfaced to an NBS Smoke Chamber to study the rate of generation…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: CO - carbon monoxide, emission rate, combustion gases, smoke chamber

A program of laboratory burning experiments was carried out to assess the air pollutant emissions potential of forest residues in the Pacific Northwest. The emphasis was on measuring particulate emission factors and their relation to fire intensity.
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: fire intensity, fuel consumption, slash fire, particulate emissions

Forest land generally produces considerable woody material other than that which is harvested as timber, needed for recycling of nutrients to the soil, or for sheltering wildlife and young forest seedlings. Excess forest residues, both living and dead, are often subject to…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: fuels management, silviculture, brush, forest residue, slash

[From the text] Fire has been an integral part of America's wildlands for millions of years. The only environments not experiencing fire as a significant ecological factor were those that remained very cold, very wet, or very dry, and even in these regions, extreme variation in…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations, fire exclusion, fire management, fire management planning, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel types, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, national parks, chance ignition prescribed fires, recreation

From the text ... 'The smoke rising from a grass, brush or forest fire is primarily formed by the condensation of moisture and other vapors produced through pyrolysis and combustion. This smoke formation depends on the rate at which the surrounding air moves into the fire to…
Person:
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Fire Ecology, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: adaptation, brush, brush fires, C - carbon, chemistry, combustion, fire equipment, fuel types, gases, grass fires, grasses, moisture, ozone, particulates, pollution, sampling, wildfires