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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfire, wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy)
Wildland fire is a natural force that has shaped most vegetation types of the world. However, its inappropriate management during the last century has led to more frequent and catastrophic fires. Wildland fires are also recognized as one of the sources of CO2 and other…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, wildfires, air quality, carbon dioxide, deforestation, gases, plant growth, Patagonia, Argentina, South America, fire management, forest management, CO2 emissions, Kyoto Protocol, emissions mitigation, biomass growth
Fire has a role in ecosystem services; naturally produced wildfires are important for the sustainability of many terrestrial biomes and fire is one of nature's primary carbon-cycling mechanisms. Under a warming climate, it is likely that fire frequency and severity will increase…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: climate change, biomass burning, policy, air quality
Peatlands in Indonesia are protected by regulations that forbid the conversion of these lands into plantations. However, peat fires here have been found to be a major source of smoke that travels across national boundaries creating regional haze. Despite these regulations, more…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): International
Keywords: peat fires, air quality, plantations, Indonesia, Asia, fire management, peatlands, Indonesia, peatlands, fire and haze, oil palm plantations, patronage politics, decentralization
The Cooperative Agreement Between Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) and Mississippi Forestry Commission (MFC) is an agreement addressing smoke from prescribed fires.
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
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Presentation by Dr. Carol Blocksome, Kansas State University, at the 2013 Tallgrass Prairie & Oak Savanna Regional Fire Conference in Dubuque, Iowa.
Person: Blocksome
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, Kansas, smoke management plan, outreach strategy
Roger Ottmar led numerous field studies on the effects of smoke on firefighter health. He presented this talk at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This 30 minute module (RX410 Unit 5B) covers effects of various smoke components…
Person: Ottmar
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: firefighter safety, PM - particulate matter, risk management, smoke management, firefighter health, smoke exposure, health effects
Roger Ottmar has a long and distinguished career studying smoke and effects on firefighter and public health. He presented this talk on the public health impacts of smoke at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This introductory (…
Person: Ottmar
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Clean Air Act, liability, NO - nitrogen oxide, ozone, PM - particulate matter, visibility, CO - carbon monoxide, pollutants, health risk, lead, SO2 - sulfur dioxide