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From the text ... 'In the southern United States, we have learned to use fire as an effective, inexpensive tool for applying specific management treatments to our forests. Hazard or rough reduction is the principal use of prescribed fire, but seedbed and site preparation,…
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, combustion, fire hazard reduction, fuel management, Georgia, headfires, laboratory fires, litter, Pinus taeda, plantations, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife
Created through the Wildfire Disaster Recovery Act of 1989 (PL 101-286), in response to the destructive western fire season of 1987 and the Yellowstone fires of 1988, the Commission was asked to consider the environmental and economic effects of disastrous wildfires through…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, arid regions, biomass, catastrophic fires, chaparral, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire case histories, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, forest products, fuel accumulation, fuel management, general interest, hardwood forests, histories, Idaho, land management, land use, liability, logging, mosaic, natural resource legislation, Nevada, nongame birds, Oncorhynchus, Oregon, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, public information, rangelands, small mammals, smoke management, Strix occidentalis, thinning, threatened and endangered species (animals), understory vegetation, watershed management, West Virginia, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
From the text ... 'One area where great strides can be made is in the climatology of fire weather and its application to fire planning. Recent advances have been made in application of climatology to agriculture, and many of the same principles can be applied to forest fire…
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, education, fire control, fire danger rating, firing techniques, forest management, gases, histories, lightning caused fires, pollution, US Forest Service
From the text... 'The Simpson Timber Company (Simpson) conducted a slash burn of forest material on seventy-eight acres of its property situated about nine miles west of Olympia, Washington. The burn produced noticeable smoke and particulate fallout in the Olympia area, which…
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, burning permits, fire hazard reduction, fire management, liability, logging, natural resource legislation, pollution, reforestation, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, Washington
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Acer glabrum, air quality, Amelanchier, catastrophic fires, cavity nesting birds, Colorado, cover type conversion, cutting, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, herbicides, Larix occidentalis, lightning caused fires, logging, mammals, mosaic, Oregon, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, public information, Purshia tridentata, season of fire, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, threatened and endangered species (plants), understory vegetation, Washington, wildfires
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, cover type, crown fires, diseases, duff, erosion, field experimental fires, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, flame length, forest management, fuel accumulation, Georgia, grasses, hydrology, leaves, mineral soils, pH, Pinus brutia, Pinus contorta, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus kelloggii, Quercus wislizeni, Sequoia sempervirens, site treatments, smoke effects, soil moisture, state forests, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, water repellent soils, watersheds, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife habitat management, infliltration, hydrophobicity, forest floor consumption, fireline intensity
Prescribed burning has become an indispensable tool of forest management in the South. It is a scientific prescription designed to cure ailments of the forest - ailments that include undesirable fuel accumulations, the encroachment of unwanted species, unattractive wildlife…
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, burning intervals, competition, cover, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel accumulation, gases, ground cover, land use, light burning, minerals, multiple resource management, nutrient cycling, pine forests, smoke effects, smoke management, soil organic matter, understory vegetation, wildlife
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, elevation, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, firing techniques, forest management, fuel management, fuel moisture, logging, mountains, Oregon, pine forests, rural communities, season of fire, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, topography, Washington, wind
In this air quality assessment, aerial photo attributes and an emissions inventory approach were used to estimate smoke production over time for the Deschutes, Grand Ronde, Methow, Pend Oreille, Wenatchee, and Yakima river basins in eastern Oregon and eastern Washington.…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, forest health, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, PM10 emissions, Deschutes River Basin, Grand Ronde River Basin, Methow River Basin, Pend Oreille River Basin, Wenatchee River Basin, Yakima River Basin, wildfires, smoke production, vegetation mapping, aerial photo interpretation, current fuel loading, CONSUME, photo series, emission factors, fuel moisture, fuel consumption, emission production, historical fuel loading
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, bark, catastrophic fires, charcoal, climax vegetation, cones, coniferous forests, decay, disturbance, energy, field experimental fires, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, gases, ignition, Larix occidentalis, litter, logging, Montana, mosaic, multiple resource management, organic matter, particulates, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, reproduction, sampling, serotiny, smoke behavior, smoke management, succession, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Planning, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Abies concolor, air quality, C - carbon, coniferous forests, crown fires, crowns, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire injuries (humans), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire protection, fire regimes, fuel appraisal, fuel management, Georgia, grasslands, hardwoods, herbaceous vegetation, ignition, landscape ecology, light, logging, mortality, national forests, overstory, physics, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus radiata, Pinus sabiniana, private lands, Quercus agrifolia, Quercus douglasii, statistical analysis, surface fires, US Forest Service, Umbellularia californica, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, fire management, landscapes, decision analysis, fire perimeter, SHORT INTERVAL FIRE-ADAPTED FOREST SYSTEMS, FOUNTAIN FIRE, SHASTA COUNTY, CA, Oakland-Berkeley Hills Fire