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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: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, Australia, charcoal, distribution, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire regimes, fuel accumulation, habitat types, histories, lakes, New Guinea, paleoclimatology, pollen, post fire recovery, precipitation, prehistoric fires, sampling, sedimentation, statistical analysis, swamps
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Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal vegetation, fire management, grasslands, natural areas management, pollution, post fire recovery, prairies, rangeland fires, rangelands, shrubs, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), Tympanuchus, weed control, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
[no description entered]
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
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Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies spp., agriculture, air quality, annual plants, Artemisia, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, boreal forests, burning intervals, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, Colorado, coniferous forests, crown fires, dead fuels, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fuel types, gases, grasses, heat effects, human caused fires, Juniperus, litter, national forests, nutrient cycling, organic matter, ozone, perennial plants, Picea spp., Pinus edulis, post fire recovery, precipitation, sampling, savannas, season of fire, shrubs, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, tropical forests, understory vegetation, wildfires, woody plants
Three questions regarding fire research needs were asked of 355 respondents at 68 western USDA Forest Service locations. Responses have been analyzed, summarized, and categorized. Results provide guidance for defining and setting priorities in wildfire research in the western…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: fire danger rating, forest management, fuel management, land management, land use, multiple resource management, nutrient cycling, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Andropogon cabanisii, Aristida stricta, Avicennia germinans, Big Cypress National Preserve, birds, Cladium jamaicense, coastal forests, competition, fire danger rating, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firing techniques, Florida, fuel types, game birds, grasses, hardwood hammocks, hardwoods, human caused fires, incendiary fires, lightning caused fires, mammals, marshes, particulates, peat fires, pine forests, Pinus elliottii densa, post fire recovery, Sabal palmetto, salt marshes, Serenoa repens, small mammals, south Florida, succession, swamps, Taxodium distichum, wetlands, wildlife habitat management
The levels of benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) were determined in downtown Caracas in order to have a first approach to the problem related to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in this city. Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela is located 10.30°N and 66.7°E in a valley at an altitude of…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, fire management, hydrocarbons, mountains, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, South America, temperature, tropical regions, Venezuela, wildfires
Fire management specialists in the southeastern United States needing guides for predicting or assessing particulate matter emission factors, emission rates, and heat release rate can use the models presented in this paper for making these predictions as a function of flame…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, Florida, forest management, fuel types, Georgia, headfires, heat, Ilex glabra, particulates, pine forests, plantations, rate of spread, Serenoa repens, smoke management, statistical analysis
'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
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Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: artificial regeneration, backfires, burning intervals, cutting, diseases, fire equipment, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, firing techniques, flame length, flank fires, forest management, hardwoods, headfires, humidity, Louisiana, pine forests, plantations, precipitation, season of fire, site treatments, sloping terrain, smoke management, spot fires, statistical analysis, wildlife habitat management, wind
An earlier paper* described three techniques used to estimate the moisture content of large (3- to 9-inch diameter) woody fuels in logging slash west of the Cascade range in Washington and Oregon. Our paper examines the use of these and other independent variables to predict…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: broadcast burning, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, fire hazard reduction, fuel appraisal, fuel arrangement, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, heat, logging, moisture, Oregon, Pseudotsuga menziesii, size classes, slash, surface fuels, trees, Tsuga heterophylla, Washington, woody fuels
Goals and objectives outlined in the Clean Air Act of 1977 are in conflict with land management practices that utilize control or prescribed burns to maintain a healthy ecosystem. Specifically, smoke emissions from burn areas can significantly and adversely affect the visual air…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, land management, landscape ecology, national parks, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, pollution, K - potassium, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness fire management
'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
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
The effects of fires on the Australian landscape are considered with respect to: lands of the urban-wildland interface; timber lands (especially State Forests); rural landscapes; and areas set aside as national parks, reserves and wilderness. The effects of both planned and…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: landscape management, Australia, agriculture, ash, bibliographies, biomass, burning intervals, catastrophic fires, community ecology, conservation, croplands, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire regimes, fire suppression, fire whirls, forest management, fuel accumulation, grazing, habitat types, human caused fires, land management, land use, land use planning, landscape ecology, litter, livestock, logging, national parks, plant communities, plant growth, plantations, post-fire recovery, regeneration, roots, rural communities, season of fire, site treatments, slash, soil nutrients, state forests, understory vegetation, trees, weed control, wildfires, wilderness areas
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Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, combustion, computer programs, fuel models, Oregon, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke management
A book based on a conference of the same name held 22-24 October, 1979 at the University of New Brunswick. There are 15 chapters, including an introduction by the editors. The remaining 14 chapters are divided into 5 sections: Past and present fire frequencies; Physical effects…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, fire frequency, fire management, jack pine, black spruce, ignitions, lichen, northern ecosystems, organic mat, peat deposits, permafrost, tundra, wilderness management, biomass burning, climate change, fire interval, regeneration, smoke management, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Greenland, Russia, Europe
Describes a new wildfire effects appraisal system developed for Wisconsin.
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire benefits, fire damage, fire management, valuation procedure, management plan, Wisconsin, aesthetics, agriculture, air quality, catastrophic fires, environmental impact analysis, fire intensity, statistical analysis, wildlife habitat management
An introduction to the spatial and temporal diversity of fire is given for northern circumpolar ecosystems. Both physical and biological parameters make northern ecosystems different from those in temperate regions; these parameters, such as long day length through the summer…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: boreal forest, fire, fire management, regeneration, resource management, climate change, fire interval, northern ecosystems, permafrost, smoke management, biomass burning
This paper is directed to those interested in techniques for measuring emission rates and emission factors for forest fires and other open combustion sources. A source-sampling procedure that involved the use of a vertical array of lightweight, battery-operated instruments…
Person:
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, C - carbon, combustion, dead fuels, field experimental fires, fire equipment, fire management, gases, headfires, humidity, low intensity burns, N - nitrogen, Ohio, particulates, rate of spread, sampling, smoke behavior, smoke management, temperature, wind
'Two studies were undertaken. An initial study in 1974 produced results that indicated significant losses of nitrogen and some other elements. The study was repeated 1981 as a check on the results of the 1974 burn, and to provide an assessment of the methods used in the first…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Acer macrophyllum, air quality, Alnus rubra, Betula papyrifera, biomass, British Columbia, calcium, Canada, chemical elements, clearcutting, combustion, ecosystem dynamics, forest management, fuel management, laboratory fires, magnesium, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, particulates, phosphorus, pine hardwood forests, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus radiata, Populus trichocarpa, K - potassium, Pseudotsuga menziesii, sampling, slash, soils, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla
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Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): Hawaii, International
Keywords: age classes, air quality, arthropods, bibliographies, biogeography, community ecology, distribution, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, eucalyptus, foliage, forest types, fungi, insects, Metrosideros polymorpha, mortality, national parks, New Zealand, N - nitrogen, Nothofagus, overstory, Papua New Guinea, plant communities, plant diseases, plant growth, plant physiology, population ecology, rainforests, regeneration, size classes, small mammals, soil nutrients, species diversity (plants), storms, succession, volcanoes
Wild and prescribed fires currently burn about 20,100 ha per year in Washington west of the Cascade Crest: prehistoric wildfires burned an estimated 19,200 ha per year. Modern burning consumes 38 g/m²/yr of fuel; the estimated prehistoric rate was 35 g/m²/yr over a 50-percent…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: prehistoric fires, smoke production, fuel consumption, western Washington, Abies amabilis, aerial ignition, air quality, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, elevation, evergreens, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire regimes, fire weather, foliage, forest types, heavy fuels, lightning caused fires, litter, logging, multiple resource management, national parks, natural resource management, Picea sitchensis, population density, prehistoric fires, season of fire, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, understory vegetation, wildfires