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'The control aspects of fire management from the hand raked fireline to the maintained firebreak can produce form, line, color & texture contrasts. Just as these contrasts can produce undesirable results, they can be used productively. It should be obvious by now that…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, fire control, fire management, fire protection, firebreaks, land management, landscape ecology, smoke effects

From the text: 'To summarize we must put more emphasis on prescribed burning; must insure accountability; step up training in techniques and smoke management; make sure there's fire management direction in land use plans and look for new techniques and procedures.'
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, fire protection, land use, smoke management

From the text: 'And, finally, I foresee a balanced fire management program. We do not want to lose our perspective. Aggressive fire control has not lost its importance. Fire readiness is a must. We will continue to have numerous fires in the foreseeable future. We must prevent…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: education, fire control, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, land management, land use, public information, smoke management

From the text: 'My prediction is that it will be necessary, for smoke management purposes, to go to complete regulation by State Forestry Agencies of all prescribed burning in order to save this critical forestry practice in the near future. I can assure you that none of the…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire protection, prescribed fires (escaped), smoke management, wildfires

From the summary ... 'Prescribed burning can be done with few adverse effects on air quality by employing recently developed smoke management techniques. Professionals who plan and direct prescribed burning activities try to avoid causing public inconvenience due to smoke.…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Alabama, Appalachian Mountains, arthropods, bibliographies, biogeography, burning permits, Carya, climax vegetation, coastal plain, competition, distribution, energy, fire hazard reduction, Florida, Fomes annosus, forest management, fuel management, Georgia, health factors, humus, insects, Kentucky, light burning, litter, livestock, Louisiana, mineral soils, Mississippi, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, Nyssa, organic matter, particulates, Piedmont, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plant diseases, prairies, Quercus, range management, reforestation, regeneration, site treatments, sloping terrain, smoke management, South Carolina, succession, Taxodium, Tennessee, Texas, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

From the introduction ... 'In recent years, considerable research has gone into developing inventory procedures for forest residues. However, little apparent work has been done concerning what is consumed by broadcast burning this fuel. Present inventory procedures can be of…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, broadcast burning, coniferous forests, duff, fine fuels, fire management, fuel loading, fuel management, Oregon, particulates, reforestation, sampling, slash, smoke management, Tsuga, Washington

A program of field and laboratory measurements of emissions from the burning of agricultural residues (primarily cereal straw and stubble) and plume behavior is described. Relationships investigated include the dependence of total emissions and plume concentrations on fuel…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Economics
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, backfires, carbon dioxide, chemical elements, croplands, evapotranspiration, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, headfires, ignition, light, moisture, old fields, particulates, pollution, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, temperature, wind

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Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, Europe, Finland, fire case histories, fire exclusion, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, national forests, national parks, rural communities, Russia, suppression, wilderness fire management, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: brush, fire control, fire equipment, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, ignition, logging, mopping up, season of fire, site treatments, slash

Branches, tops and other woody material left after pruning and thinning operations can safely be burnt under the standing trees. Provided the soil and lower humus layer are thoroughly moist and the correct procedure is followed there should not be any damage to trees which have…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, biomass, brush, distribution, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fynbos, ground cover, humus, litter, needles, pine forests, Pinus patula, season of fire, site treatments, soil moisture, South Africa, thinning, trees, weeds, wind, woody fuels

Timberland owners and managers of southern forests are faced with a serious fuel buildup situation. The same favorable climate that promotes some of the fastest growing trees in the nation also produces large amounts of hazardous forest fuels. Wildfires are a constant threat…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire hazard reduction, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, particulates, pine forests, Pinus, rate of spread, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, trees, wildfires

'Lightning and resulting fires have long been part of the Glacier ecosystem. Much of the natural beauty of the park--the diversity of wildlife and the mosaic of vegetation--has been shaped by fire. If aesthetic quality, represented primarily by naturalness, is to persist in…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Social Science, Outreach
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, fire case histories, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire suppression, Larix, lightning, lightning caused fires, Montana, mosaic, national parks, Pinus contorta, smoke effects, Smokey Bear program, succession, wildfires, wildlife

'Simple formulae to predict, without the need of a computer, maximum ground level concentrations of non-reactive pollutants and the atmospheric conditions during which they are likely to occur, would be of considerable value to those interested in pollution prediction and policy…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, air temperature, Europe, fire management, Greece, pollution, smoke effects, wind

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Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: annual plants, Audouinia capitata, Australia, Banksia, Banksia attenuata, Banksia menziesii, Fabaceae, forest management, germination, Hibbertia amplexicaulis, introduced species, Leucopogon conostephioides, mortality, native species (plants), perennial plants, plant growth, post fire recovery, season of fire, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, smoke effects, Stipa, Stirlingia, western Australia, germination, seedling survival, soil stored seed-bank

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Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, biomass, cover, fire danger rating, fire management, fragmentation, human caused fires, ignition, land use planning, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, biomass, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, environmental impact analysis, fire management, gases, human caused fires, Iowa, leaves, litter, particulates, pollution, population ecology, sampling, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis

Forest managers are seeking ways to manage smoke from their prescribed burns. Why? How much management is needed for an intermittent source of emissions occurring only once every three to five years? Isn't wood smoke good smoke? These and other questions must be faced.
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, forest management, general interest, particulates, smoke management, wood

This paper describes simple laboratory experiments to determine whether it is possible, or likely, that selenium is lost during burning operations in eucalypt forests. It appears that, after a fire, less than half of the selenium in forest litter may be left as residue in the…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: ash, Australia, calcium, eucalyptus, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel types, laboratory fires, litter, minerals, phosphorus, soil nutrients, statistical analysis, S - sulfur, Victoria, volatilization

As early as 1890, thoughtful persons had observed and pointed out that controlled fire might have a place and was possibly necessary in the silviculture of longleaf pine. Dr. Roland Harper, a botonist, proposed its use for understory hardwood control from 1911 to urge the use of…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, artificial regeneration, forage, forest management, grazing, hardwoods, longleaf pine, pine forests, pine, Pinus palustris, seeds, site treatments, slash, slash pine, smoke management, wildlife

Soil CO2 flux (JCO2) was measured at midday over a 2-yr period in undisturbed tallgrass prairie (Konza Prairie, Kansas, USA) to quantify seasonal and annual budgets, to evaluate temperature and moisture as determinants of soil CO2 flux, and to assess the effect of a common land…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Andropogon gerardii, grazing, land management, soil respiration, tallgrass prairie, grasslands, Kansas, Konza Prairie, soil CO2 flux, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, Bison bison, burning intervals, CO2 - carbon dioxide, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, experimental fire, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, histories, land use, moisture, natural areas management, organic matter, prairie, range management, season of fire, soil moisture, soil temperature, soils, Sorghastrum nutans, statistical analysis, temperature, topography, tropical forest, water

The California chaparral community has a rich flora of species with different mechanisms for cuing germination to postfire conditions. Heat shock triggers germination of certain species but has no stimulatory effect on a great many other postfire species that are chemically…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: chaparral, fire, NO2 - nitrogen dioxide, scarification, smoke-induced germination, seed coat

This policy statement has been prepared in response to plans by some Federal, tribal and State wildland owners/managers to significantly increase the use of wildland and prescribed fires to achieve resource benefits in the wildlands. Many wildland ecosystems are considered to…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Outreach, Planning, 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, air pollution, smoke management, visibility, smoke management plan, air quality management

In Mediterranean climates, the shrubby plant cover and the coniferous forest above it are vulnerable to frequent large fires. The fuelbreak, a strip of land in a strategic area-such as a ridgetop-where fuel modification and often type conversion can be accomplished, is an…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: chaparral, fire management, fuelbreak, herbicide, fuel modification, type conversion, agriculture, air quality, annual plant, brush, conifers, cover, fire control, fire frequency, fire management planning, fire suppression, fuel types, grasses, fuel breaks, ground cover, habitat conversion, herbaceous vegetation, invasive species, land use, land use planning, Mediterranean habitats, perennial plant, pollution, range management, regeneration, shrubs, site treatments, topography, watershed management, wilderness fire management, wildfires, woody plants

I am going to talk about the agency I work for and our workload here in Southern Arizona. We are working with private ranchers on non federal land, to get fire back on those ecosystems, and mesh it with grazing management. One of the biggest problems confronting us is to use…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Arizona, livestock, private lands, fire reintroduction, ranching, agriculture, air quality, conservation, deserts, drought, ecosystem dynamics, fine fuels, fire management, fire size, grasses, grasslands, grazing, plant communities, range management, smoke management, soil conservation

Burning of slashed tropical forests and pastures is among the most significant global sources of atmospheric emissions, yet the composition of the fuels and fires that creates these emissions is not well characterized. As part of the Smoke, Clouds, and Radiation-Brazil (SCAR-B)…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: aboveground biomass, tropical forest, Brazil, pasture, canopy fire