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Year: 1913
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, agriculture, Appalachian Mountains, balds, Blue Ridge Mountains, Castanea dentata, catastrophic fires, community ecology, cones, crowns, decay, ecosystem dynamics, European settlement, forage, forest management, forestation, fuel accumulation, fuel types, grasses, Great Smoky Mountains, hardwood forests, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, land management, Liriodendron, livestock, logging, moisture, mortality, mountains, multiple resource management, Native Americans, needles, North Carolina, old fields, openings, phenology, pine, Pinus echinata, Pinus virginiana, Quercus montana, season of fire, seasonal activities, water quality, wildfires
From the text ... ' It is almost impossible for forestry to do anything in defense against smoke devastation. Even when conditions of terrain permit, the cultivation of timber with higher smoke resistance is outweighed by the important factor of mininum mass effect. Incidentally…
Person:
Year: 1938
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, coniferous forests, Fagus, forest management, hardwood forests, leaves, pine, Pinus, plant growth, pollution, Quercus, scrub, S - sulfur, trees, urban habitats, wood
Description of botanical collecting trip to south Florida in 1921.
Person:
Year: 1923
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Acer rubrum, deserts, distribution, droughts, everglades, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire resistant plants, Florida, hardwood hammocks, histories, humus, lakes, land management, marshlands, mortality, Native Americans, native species (plants), Nyssa biflora, organic soils, pine forests, Pinus, plant communities, prairies, Quercus nigra, Quercus virginiana, rivers, Sabal palmetto, sand dunes, scrub, soil moisture, soil nutrients, south Florida, species diversity (plants), succession, Taxodium distichum, vegetation surveys, xeric soils
'Severe fires sometimes surround and destroy grown animals and birds and kill them outright; but the greatest damage occurs through the destruction of eggs and young, and the ruin of coverts, without which game falls an easy prey to vermin and hunters. Fire also important…
Person:
Year: 1923
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: birds, coniferous forests, conservation, disturbance, education, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, fishes, forest management, game birds, grasslands, ground fires, incendiary fires, pine forests, pollution, prairies, public information, season of fire, wildfires, wildflowers, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind