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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, conifers, foliage, Juniperus communis, Juniperus scopulorum, leaves, needles, Picea engelmannii, Picea glauca, pine, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, Pseudotsuga menziesii, resins, shrubs, S - sulfur, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, Terrapene, volatilization

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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, national parks, natural resource legislation, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, mountainous terrain, smoke behavior, wind

A simple, inexpensive, and relatively accurate photographic method for date collection is described. Objects of interest are triangulated from films taken simultaneously at two camera positions. Accumulated synchronization and measurement errors amounted to 0.2 - 0.5 meter. The…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: photography, smoke behavior

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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fuel management

This report reviews the current state of analytical methodology for sulfate in airborne particles. Methods for determination of total aerosol sulfate and total soluble sulfate are assessed. A more detailed review of the relatively new techniques for quantitative speciation of…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, distribution, gases, particulates, sampling, statistical analysis, S - sulfur

From the text ... 'In the process of carrying out proper forest management activities, certain changes and temporary disruptions to the environment are unavoidable. Our aim is to minimize the negative aspects to the environment as associated with these activities....I would like…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, arthropods, brush, burning permits, cover type conversion, diseases, fire hazard reduction, fire protection, fire regimes, firing techniques, forest management, fuel management, fuel moisture, insects, logging, reforestation, regeneration, season of fire, site treatments, slash, smoke management, soils, topography, Washington, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management

From the text ... ' ... we regard the Smoke Management Plan as a successful program to minimize the adverse effects of slash burning upon the populated areas of Washington. The first goal of a regulatory agency is to minimize the adverse effects. Our second goal is to reduce the…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, burning permits, coniferous forests, forest management, fuel management, gases, human caused fires, logging, particulates, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, slash, smoke management, Washington

From the text ... 'Historically, here in the Pacific Northwest, most of our prescribed fire experience has been with broadcast burning of logging slash (Dell and Green, 1968; Brown and Davis, 1973). This has been the most common method of fuel treatment and site preparation ever…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, broadcast burning, brush, cutting, disturbance, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, grasslands, land management, logging, national forests, natural areas management, Oregon, Pseudotsuga menziesii, season of fire, site treatments, slash, smoke management, soils, succession, thinning, trees, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, Vaccinium, Washington, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife

From the Discussion and Summary ... 'The data and observations presented here are fragmentary and are not adequate to establish that smoke from wildfires or prescribed burns markedly affects microbial activity in wildland plant communities. They suggest, however, that such…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Botrytis, competition, disturbance, experimental fires, field experimental fires, Fomes annosus, fungi, Fusarium lateritium, germination, laboratory fires, land management, leaves, microorganisms, nutrients, Penicillium, Peridermium, Pholiota adiposa, plant communities, plant diseases, reproduction, seedlings, seeds, smoke effects, soil nutrients, succession, wildfires

Weather conditions are among the most important elements to be considered in the planning and execution of a prescribed burn. Temperature and relative humidity have a direct effect on the moisture content of fuels. Together with wind they determine fire hazard and the ability of…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire danger rating, fire management, flammability, fuel appraisal, fuel moisture, humidity, moisture, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature, Utah, wind

The Department of Interior is actively engaged in the smoke management business from two apparently opposite viewpoints. In one case we are trying to prevent or extinguish wildfires and minimize adverse effects on air quality as well as other resources. On the other hand we are…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, logging, particulates, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

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Person:
Year: 1976
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, biomass, chemical compounds, distribution, gases, particulates, physics, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, water

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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: age classes, air quality, bark, biomass, char, combustion, dead fuels, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, heavy fuels, particulates, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 1976
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: air quality, carbon dioxide, chemical compounds, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates, pollution, smoke management, statistical analysis, SO2 - sulfur dioxide

Smoke particles absorb much of the thermal radiation from a large fire. This process affects the vertical velocity of the convection column. And it affects fire spread because of the effects of absorption on radiative heating of fuels ahead of the fire. The magnitude of these…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Models, Fuels
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: convection, field experimental fires, fire management, fire size, ignition, Juniperus, Nevada, pine forests, Pinus, radiation, rate of spread, smoke behavior, temperature

'We have read the recent review article 'Primary and Secondary Particulates as Pollutants' by P. F. Fennelly with considerable interest, but yet, concern. Our interest is based on an awareness of the need to examine particulate pollution in terms of particle size and chemical…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, experimental fires, fire intensity, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, gases, laboratory fires, litter, particulates, pollution, slash and burn, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: flame length, photography, smoke behavior, statistical analysis

Our paper points out certain problems in current predictive methods on which most smoke management programs are based. These problems complicate research efforts to improve predictability of air quality impacts of forest burning. In addition, we offer a hypothesis, based on…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, 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, PM - particulate matter, smoke management, slash fire, burning permits, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, ecology, fire intensity, fire regimes, firing techniques, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, gases, herbaceous vegetation, hydrocarbons, mosaic, needles, peat, pollution, slash, statistical analysis, wildfires, wood

Recent estimates of particulate production from forest fires in the United States have ranged from 500,000 to 54,000,000 tons annually. This has been due partly to disparities in estimates of fuel that is consumed during the combustion process, but more to the choice of emission…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emission factor, PM - particulate matter

Chemicals from glowing fires in highly decayed conifer logs may be useful for detection of small fires by spectroscopic methods. Two major chemical constituents were tentatively identified as methanol and furfural (2-furaldehyde). Additional materials tentatively identified were…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire detection, methanol, combustion products

An experimental project on convective plumes initiated from the ground by an exceptionally powerful artificial heat source has been carried out. The heat source consisted of 97 oil burners releasing a total power of 600 MW. The measuring equipment consisted of a ground network…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: combustion, energy, fuel types, heat, photography, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, temperature, weather observations, wind

The report describes the second year of a continuing study to determine the distribution and fate of nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere. Analytical methods developed in the first year were refined and validated and results from the first year study were reexamined with the aid of…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, chemistry, combustion chambers, distribution, gases, humidity, laboratory fires, Missouri, New York, N - nitrogen, ozone, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, southern California, temperature, urban habitats, wind

The nitrogen-containing products of smog chamber reactions have been the subject of much controversy. Concern has arisen over nitrogen products because of the almost universally poor nitrogen balance reported for irradiated mixtures of hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides. Some…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon, chemistry, combustion chambers, distribution, extractives, flame length, fuel management, fuel models, gases, humidity, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, N - nitrogen, ozone, particulates, pollution, temperature

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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: biomass, calcium, conifers, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, forest management, Idaho, magnesium, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, particulates, pine, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus rigida, Pinus sylvestris, plant nutrition, K - potassium, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, smoke effects, sodium, watersheds, wildfires, wind