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Lesson Overview: In this activity, students learn that smoke from wildland fires can either disperse readily or stick around, reducing visibility on the earth’s surface and making it difficult to breathe. Then they apply health guidelines regarding smoke to a very important…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, visibility, air quality, human health

In this paper we briefly review current knowledge concerning the possible consequences of a changing climate for terrestrial ecosystems. Forests and grasslands of western North America figure prominently in the discussion, but our intent is to consider general principles rather…
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, arthropods, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, community ecology, deforestation, dendrochronology, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, forest management, forest types, gases, climate change, grasslands, grazing, habitat conversion, histories, insects, land management, logging, nutrient cycling, old growth forests, Oregon, organic matter, perennial plants, physiology, Pinus ponderosa, plant growth, precipitation, range management, soil erosion, soil nutrients, species diversity (plants), storms, temperature, water, wildfires, wind

Airborne measurements of 13 trace gases from seven forest fires in North America are used to determine their average emission factors. The emission factors are then used to estimate the contributions of biomass ubrning to the worldwide fluxes of these gases. The estimate for NH3…
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest, International
Keywords: Adenostoma, air quality, Artemisia arbuscula, Betula, biomass, brush, Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, chaparral, combustion, coniferous forests, fuel types, gases, Ontario, Oregon, particulates, Picea mariana, pine, Pinus banksiana, pollution, Populus, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Rhus, sampling, statistical analysis, Tsuga, wildfires, woody plants