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Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, smoke management, weather observations

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Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, energy, gases, hydrocarbons, organic matter, particulates, S - sulfur, volatilization, wood

The results of chemical analyses of precipitation samples collected in Singapore between August 1997 and July 1998 are presented. Major inorganic and organic ions were determined in 169 rain samples collected using an automated wet-only sampler. The daily sample pH values ranged…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, biomass, chemical compounds, chemistry, gases, particulates, pH, precipitation, sampling, season of fire, Singapore, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires

From the text...'The terms listed below were either taken from existing glossaries or developed specifically for this Guide. Where terms were taken from an existing glossary or document, the source reference is indexed in brackets (e.g. [source number]), with full reference…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, 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, bibliographies, computer programs, ecosystem dynamics, fuel types, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires

From the text...'Smoke management program administration can range from activities conducted at the local burn program level to a multi-state coordinated effort to manage smoke. The EPA Interim Air Quality Policy on Wildland and Prescribed Fires (Interim Policy) (EPA 1998)…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, 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, education, public information, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires

From the text...'An inventory or estimate of total statewide (or some other geographically distinct unit) annual emissions of criteria pollutants is a necessary part of understanding the burden on the air resource in an area and taking appropriate control actions. Emission…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, broadcast burning, duff, fire danger rating, fire size, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, heavy fuels, humus, live fuels, national parks, pollution, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, woody fuels

From the Introduction...'There are several reasons why wildland fire managers may want to conduct an ambient air quality-monitoring program. These include: • smoke management program evaluation purposes, • to fulfill a public information need, • to verify assumptions used in…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, 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 equipment, health factors, particulates, public information, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wilderness fire management, wildfires

From the Summary...'For many projects a simple model often provides as good information as a more complex model. Regulations, however, may dictate the level of modeling required for each project. Other times, community values will determine the level of effort needed to…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, burning permits, CO - carbon monoxide, fire size, fuel loading, fuel types, health factors, particulates, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management

From the Summary...'Managing smoke in ways that prevent serious impact to sensitive areas from single burns or multiple burns occurring simultaneously requires knowledge of the weather conditions that will affect smoke emissions, trajectories, and dispersion. Not only is it…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, biomass, cover, lakes, moisture, sloping terrain, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, storms, temperature, topography, weather observations, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind

From the text...'Federal agencies are subject to certain laws and requirements that are not necessarily applicable to states or private entities in the same manner or at all. Federal agencies are required to do long-range planning for management of the lands they manage through…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, burning permits, CO - carbon monoxide, forest management, fuel management, land management, national forests, particulates, recreation, smoke behavior, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management

From the Conclusions...'Because smoke from fire can cause negative effects to public health and welfare, air quality protection regulations must be understood and followed by responsible fire managers. Likewise, air quality regulators need an understanding of how and when fire…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, Arizona, CO - carbon monoxide, Colorado, education, fire management, Florida, fuel loading, fuel management, health factors, Idaho, land use, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, national parks, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, ozone, pollution, public information, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management

From the text...'Evidence to date suggests that fireline workers exceed recommended exposure limits during prescribed burns and wildfires less than 10 percent of the time (Reinhardt and others 2000; Reinhardt and Ottmar 2000). The concept that few fireline personnel spend a…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: CO - carbon monoxide, firefighting personnel, health factors, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires

From the text...'In summary, the physics of light extinction in the atmosphere coupled with the chemical composition and physical size distribution of particles in wildland fire smoke combine to make fire (especially in the West) an important contributor to visibility impairment…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, distribution, light, Montana, national parks, particulates, physics, recreation, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management

From the text...'This section discusses the effects of air pollution, especially particulate matter, on human health and morbidity. Wildland fire smoke is discussed as one type of air pollution that can be harmful to public health.'
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, education, health factors, Montana, pollution, public information, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires

From the text...'Advanced smoke management programs evaluate individual and multiple burns; coordinate all prescribed fire activities in an area; consider cross-boundary (landscape) impacts; and weigh decisions about fires against possible health, visibility, and nuisance…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, burning permits, education, fuel management, health factors, liability, national parks, natural resource legislation, public information, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, 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, bibliographies, health factors, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will implement new regulations for the management of atmospheric particulate matter 2.5 Fm and less in diameter (PM2.5), tropospheric ozone, and regional haze in the next few years. These three air quality issues relate…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, combustion, education, fire management, gases, health factors, human caused fires, ozone, particulates, pollution, public information, remote sensing, site treatments, smoke management, thinning, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind

Fire effects are modeled for a variety of reasons including: to evaluate risk, to develop treatment prescriptions, to compare management options, and to understand ecosystems. Fire effects modeling may be conducted at a range of temporal and spatial scales. First-order fire…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: combustion, crown scorch, duff, erosion, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fuel inventory, fuel models, heat, mortality, soil temperature, succession, vegetation surveys

The role of climate and natural disturbance in the past provides a context for understanding present and future changes in biota. The vegetation history of the Yellowstone region, like that of North America as a whole, is largely one of plant invasions and extinctions in…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Acer spp., biogeography, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, Castanea dentata, charcoal, distribution, disturbance, fire frequency, fire regimes, forest management, fossils, hardwood forests, introduced species, invasive species, Juniperus occidentalis, Juniperus osteosperma, landscape ecology, Larix laricina, Larrea tridentata, paleoecology, Picea abies, Picea engelmannii, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, Pinus monophylla, pioneer species, plant communities, plant diseases, pollen, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, succession, temperature, Tsuga canadensis, wildfires, Yellowstone National Park

New methods for retrieving tropospheric ozone column depth and absorbing aerosol (smoke and dust) from the Earth Probe—Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (EP/TOMS) are used to follow pollution and to determine interannual variability and trends. During intense fires over Indonesia…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, biomass, dust, ENSO, fire intensity, GIS, India, Indonesia, Oceania, ozone, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires

'In improving a system, one has to design the improvements, experiment and redesign, implement the new system, and evaluate it. I am going to discuss the concepts and constraints we encounter in designing improvements to our systems of appraising fire impact on resource values.'
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, coniferous forests, fire equipment, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest products, grazing, hardwood forests, logging, mortality, nutrient cycling, pollution, rangelands, recreation, season of fire, smoke effects, watershed management, wildfires, wildlife

The particulate plume from the power plant of Great Canadian Oil Sands, Ltd. was observed using a mobile laser radar (LIDAR). Thirteen Eulerian average cross sections were obtained from which the horizontal and vertical dispersion coefficients, plume rise and plume bearing were…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Alberta, Canada, chemistry, distribution, Ontario, particulates, pollution, weather observations, wind

'On the first poster board of the series is seen a media montage ranging from covers of hearing records...to those for legislation and regulation...to environmental and resource management issues (including a typically misleading newspaper headline)...to scientific literature...…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, cover, natural resource legislation, smoke management, US Forest Service

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Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, combustion, elevation, gases, Indonesia, Kalimantan, minerals, particulates, peat, K - potassium, radiation, smoke effects, soil management, S - sulfur, tropical forests, wildfires, aerosol particles, biomass burning, Indonesia, ECX analysis, elemental composition, peat combustion

From the text... 'This initial release of these Guidelines reflects the efforts of the Fire Management Task Force and subsequent review by park, regional and WASO staff. It represents the framework of the Service fire management program. The WASO Office of Fire Management,…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, education, fire control, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, health factors, human caused fires, national parks, natural resource legislation, public information, site treatments, smoke management, vegetation surveys, wilderness fire management, wildfires, fire management plans, INTERAGENCY COORDINATION, physical fitness, presuppression