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Prescribed burning costs are extemely variable, even if conditions are similar. This variability complicates planning and evaluation of prescribed burning programs and budgets, resulting in imprecise projecions of their economic benefits. Evaluating the worth of prescribed…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, fire size, Idaho, Montana, mopping up, Oregon, statistical analysis

Most ecosystems in North America evolved with the aid of periodic fires. Managers of natural areas, including prairies and wetlands, who seek to maintain ecologically diverse sites will at some point explore the use of fire in their management program. This article introduces…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, backfires, burning intervals, burning permits, education, fire control, fire equipment, fire management, firebreaks, general interest, liability, mortality, natural areas management, prairies, smoke management, wetlands

There is new constitutional law affecting the govemment's ability to regulate private property. That law applies in circumstances where regulation eliminates all economically beneficial use of property or attaches unreasonable conditions to permits for regulated activity. This…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Economics
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: burning permits, liability, natural resource legislation, smoke management

Prescribed fire as a social issue becomes automatically an ecological, political, and economic issue. Any issue that affects us socially we take to the political arena, and its final resolution will involve the costs of different avenues to resolving the issue. Unfortunately,…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: conservation, education, European settlement, fire control, fire exclusion, fire suppression, human caused fires, prehistoric fires, public information, wilderness fire management

Legal liability for prescribed burning has been and will be of significant importance to those engaged in this type of activity, In what situations will the prescribed burner be held pecuniarily liable? What factual scenarios denote non-liability? What are the statutory…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, 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, fire management, fire protection, land management, liability, smoke management, water quality

Natural processes are clearly provided for in the Wilderness Act of 1964. This Act defines wilderness as a large land area which is primarily affected by the forces of nature. In addition, the defined purpose of the Act was to assure these lands were to be preserved and…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, coniferous forests, conifers, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations, forest management, lightning caused fires, multiple resource management, natural resource legislation, pine forests, pine, prescribed fires (chance ignition), recreation, threatened and endangered species, water, water quality, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires

The Clean Air Act (Act) includes several provisions that can affect prescribed burning activity conducted by land managers. The provisions include reasonably and best available control measures for prescribed burning in the form of smoke management, a requirement that Federal…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, Appalachian Mountains, burning permits, education, natural resource legislation, particulates, public information, smoke management, wildfires