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The Prescribed Burn Fireclimate Survey 1-57 was the first of four prescribed burn surveys in 1957. In this burn we were looking particularly for effects of fire on the wind patterns on the lee side of the fire. Instrumentation, observation techniques, and data collected were…
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Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: brush, distribution, field experimental fires, firing techniques, grasses, pine, Pinus sabiniana, Quercus, range management, rangelands, rate of spread, sloping terrain, smoke effects, topography, weather observations, wind

[from the text] Forest fires in the United States have caused an average annual loss of about 70 human lives, the destruction of trees worth at the very least $25,000,000, and the loss of stock, crops, buildings, and other improvements to the amount of many millions more. To…
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Year: 1912
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire damage, area burned, fire cause, economic impacts