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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, ash, coastal vegetation, education, fire management, grasses, grasslands, grazing, litter, natural areas management, pollution, post fire recovery, prairies, public information, rangeland fires, rangelands, scrub, shrubs, soil nutrients, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), Tympanuchus, weed control, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges

From the Summary and Conclusions (p.148-149) ... 'In conclusion, there are some basic considerations that must be recognized in evaluating the air-quality aspects of prescribed burning. Most obvious is the fact that we actually know very little about the effects of forest fires…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, combustion, fire management, gases, land management, particulates, smoke management, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, particulates, smoke management

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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, algae, Cladium jamaicense, cover type, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire size, Florida, fuel types, grasslands, laboratory fires, leaves, marshlands, moisture, organic matter, organic soils, peat fires, peatlands, pine forests, post fire recovery, prairies, precipitation, scrub, season of fire, size classes, south Florida, statistical analysis, Taxodium, vegetation surveys, water, wetlands, wind

FOFEM - A First Order Fire Effects Model - is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, computer program, tree mortality, soil heating, fuel consumption, fuel load, duff, moisture regimes, fire intensity

To trully allow fires to play their natural role in wilderness ecosystems, it is sometimes necessary to have large fires of long duration. Large fires are ecologically significant events that drive many other ecosystem processes. However, these fires pose significant management…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, Abies magnifica, charcoal, coniferous forests, cutting, dendrochronology, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, fire scar analysis, fire size, forest management, lightning caused fires, Montana, national parks, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), prescribed fires (escaped), Sequoiadendron giganteum , Sierra Nevada, vegetation surveys, wilderness areas, wildfires, Wyoming, Yosemite National Park

From the Conclusions ... 'In conclusion, let me repeat that delivering fire information at the proper time and tailoring it to meet the needs of those affected is critical. Keep in mind that you are dealing with real people who have the same loves, fears, and suspicions that you…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: education, fire damage (property), fire injuries (humans), fire management, firebreaks, livestock, national parks, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, wildfires

From the text ... 'Wilderness management is important to a large segment of the public. The 1988 fires showed that clearly. It is also clear that fire is an integral part of the wilderness. Educating the public, based on solid research, will be an important component of…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: catastrophic fires, droughts, education, erosion, fire case histories, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, land management, national parks, natural areas management, public information, recreation, smoke effects, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

From the Conclusions ... 'Recent amendments to the Clean Air Act have given more explicit attention to prescribed fire as a controllable source of air pollution. In the development and implementation of State and local air pollution control programs, prescribed fire has also…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, national forests, national parks, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, state forests, state parks, wilderness areas, wildfires

The challenge for resource managers is to understand and appreciate the wilderness resource. We must embrace a philosophy that allows natural fire to play its natural role, within social and political realities. As we alter the natural processes, we alter the very essence of…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, suppression, wildfires

From the text ... 'A major problem that land management agencies must overcome is that air quality agency staff usually do not have an understanding for the needs and uses of prescribed fire. While air quality agency staff have excellent understanding of control equipment for…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, fire suppression, fuel loading, land management, particulates, pollution, smoke management, species diversity (plants)

From the Summary ... 'Prescribed natural fire programs adjacent to heavily populated areas are threatened by conflicting laws. Until relief is found through new legislation, wilderness fire managers must be constantly aware of smoke drift and its impact on adjacent areas. It…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, ecosystem dynamics, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel management, land management, national forests, national parks, particulates, rate of spread, Sierra Nevada, smoke effects, smoke management, Yosemite National Park

The decision process involved in developing any plan to manage a prescribed natural fire must consider several divergent resource and management goals. In many cases, these fires may be projected to be, and eventually become, large and long-duration events. The exact final fire…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, land management, private lands, rate of spread, recreation, wilderness areas, wildfires

Area burned and smoke emissions were compared between the presettlement period (before 1935) and the recent period (1979-90) of prescribed natural fire in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Presettlement area burned was estimated to be 1.7 times that during the recent period. By…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Mapping
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Abies grandis, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, crown fires, elevation, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, GIS, Larix lyallii, Montana, Picea engelmannii, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, presettlement fires, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, suppression, surface fires, Thuja plicata, understory vegetation, wildfires

We know that the natural fire regimes of park and wilderness ecosystems are extremely variable. Past management practices (primarily fire exclusion), other resource constraints (endangered species, air quality), location and shape of preserves, and new natural fire policy…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, chaparral, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, flame length, forest management, fuel breaks, fuel loading, fuel management, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), wilderness fire management, wildfires

From the text (p.8-9) ... 'Fire can be friend or foe depending upon how we use it. Our first inclination is to think of all wildfires as bad and all prescribed fires as good, but this isn't necessarily so. The main difference between the two is often really but one of intent.…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal plain, fire management, fire suppression, hardwood forests, hardwoods, histories, landscape ecology, pine forests, Pinus, succession, US Forest Service, wildfires

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, light wind, low rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, torching, low severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, high wind, high rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, active crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, torching, surface fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, torching, surface fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, moderate rate of spread, flanking fire, torching, surface fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, active crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Maple Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, high rate of spread, head fire, active crown fire, high severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, unmanaged fuels, 2016 Maple Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Buffalo Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, low severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, 2016 Buffalo Fire

Fire behavior video from the 2016 Buffalo Fire recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Park County, moderate wind, low rate of spread, head fire, surface fire, low severity fire, low severity fire, uncontained widlfire, resource benefit fire, 2016 Buffalo Fire