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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: computer programs, mountains, Oregon, slash, smoke management, temperature, topography, weather observations, wind
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Person:
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
Prescribed burning produces particulate and gaseous air pollutants in relatively small amounts over the course of an entire year. However, on any given day, the pollutants resulting from prescribed burning may constitute a major fraction of the local or regional air pollution…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, backfires, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, environmental impact analysis, fire management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates, pollution, rate of spread, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wind
Increases in the severity and frequency of large fires necessitate improved understanding of the influence of smoke on air quality and public health. The objective of this study is to estimate the effect of smoke from fires across the continental U.S. on regional air quality…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: air quality, PM2.5, fire severity, fire frequency, O3 - ozone, PM - particulate matter
Tropical peatland burning in Asia has been intensifying over the last decades, emitting huge amounts of gas species and aerosol particles. Both laboratory and field studies have been conducted to investigate emission from peat burning, yet a significant variability in data still…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: Sumatra, Indonesia, temperature, greenhouse gases, peatlands, CH4 - methane, haze, aerosol particles
Simulations of biomass burning (BB) emissions in global chemistry and aerosol transport models depend on external inventories, which provide location and strength for BB aerosol sources. Our previous work shows that to first order, satellite snapshots of aerosol optical depth (…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass burning, aerosol transport modeling, GFED - Global Fire Emissions Database, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, AOD - aerosol optical depth, satellite data, GOCART - Goddard Chemistry Aerosol Radiation and Transport
In preparing for this symposium, discussion inevitably turned to the many facets of wildfire in the subarctic which should be considered - material, philosophical, economic. Is fire detrimental to the environment? 'Are the practices which you employ in controlling wildfires (…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, ecology, natural resources, wildlife, smoke effects, rehabilitation, revegetation, taiga, Yukon, air quality, burning permits, Calamagrostis, community ecology, ecosystem dynamics, fire control, Eriophorum vaginatum, fire management, fire management planning, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flowering, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, land use, litter, Native Americans, particulates, plant communities, plant growth, pollution, roots, seedlings, soil moisture, tundra, waterfowl, wildlife habitat management, wildfires, woody plants
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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire control, Interior Alaska, Mount McKinley National Park, Tanana Valley, tourism, Denali National Park and Preserve, fire management, forest management, heat effects, national parks, recreation, smoke effects, wildfires, wildlife
Findings from a study of fire effects on the aquatic environment lead to the conclusion that the fire had fewer deleterious effects than did activities from fighting the fire -- improper siting of 'cat' lines as an example. These findings were important in decisions by land…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: wildfire, taiga, environmental impacts, chemical compounds, community ecology, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire control, fire management, fire retardants, fire suppression, lakes, land management, mosses, pollution, rate of spread, smoke effects, wildfires
During summer 1969, fires burned 86,000 acres of the Kenai National Moose Range, south-central Alaska; two fires accounted for 99 percent of the burned area. Suppression efforts involved nearly 5,000 men; 135 miles of catline were constructed, and 822,000 gallons of retardant…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: effectiveness, rehabilitation methods, artificial regeneration, browse, fertilization, fire case histories, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (animals), fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firebreak, forest management, light, mammals, mortality, national forests, post-fire recovery, regeneration, recreation, site treatments, rivers, small mammals, snags, statistical analysis, suppression, US Forest Service, trees, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
From the text... 'The 'Soiling Potential' technique for evaluating fossil fuel combustion plumes in quantitative units is explained by examples and test results. The technique may serve as a valuable tool in emission inventory programs since it is a reproducible method for…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, ash, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, chemistry, combustion, fuel management, gases, Ohio, particulates, pollution, smoke behavior, statistical analysis
From the Conclusion ... 'An ecological review on air pollution as a whole, and in particular the relationship of control burning to such possible pollution warrants the following conclusions: (1) In spite of the tremendous amounts of pollutant materials released into the…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, bibliographies, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, education, gases, histories, lightning, lightning caused fires, national forests, N - nitrogen, particulates, pollution, public information, smoke management, US Forest Service, urban habitats, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife management
Fire in a plant community causes alterations in the chemical status of the community and in the availability of nutrients in the soil. These changes have been followed in an experimental study of grassland and tall herb communities on the Carboniferous Limestone of Derbyshire.…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Agrostis tenuis, ash, calcium, chemical compounds, chemistry, drainage, Europe, Festuca ovina, Filipendula ulmaria, grasslands, Great Britain, Helictotrichon pratense, herbaceous vegetation, Holcus lanatus, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, nutrients, nutrition, phosphorus, plant communities, plant growth, plant nutrients, plant nutrition, post fire recovery, K - potassium, Rumex acetosa, runoff, sampling, soil leaching, soil nutrients, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, water
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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: calcium, Calluna vulgaris, fire intensity, heathlands, iron, magnesium, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, particulates, phosphorus, plant nutrients, K - potassium, volatilization, zinc
Across leading environmental challenges-fire management, climate change, deforestation - there is growing awareness of the need to better account for diverse stakeholder perceptions across complex, multi-level governance arrangements. Perceptions often condition behavior,…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire management, deforestation, peat fires, C - carbon, Indonesia, policy, Q method, haze, conservation, transboundary governance, tropical peatlands, climate change, transboundary haze, management, consequences, biodiversity, agriculture, dynamics, services
Climate change in the western United States has increased the frequency of extreme fire weather events and is projected to increase the area burned by wildfire in the coming decades. This changing fire regime, coupled with increased high-severity fire risk from a legacy of fire…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: climate change, C - carbon, air quality, forest management, wildfires, thinning, Sierra Nevada, Abies magnifica, carbon sequestration, Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project, Dinkey Creek, fire emission, forest management, LANDIS-II, mixed-conifer, Pinus ponderosa, wildfire, fuel reduction treatments, mixed-conifer forest, Lake Tahoe Basin, climate change, wildfire risk, landscape, dynamics
Forest managers are challenged with meeting numerous demands that often include wildlife habitat and carbon (C) sequestration. We used a probabilistic framework of wildfire occurrence to (1) estimate the potential for fuel treatments to reduce fire risk and hazard across the…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: forest management, C - carbon, wildfires, air quality, California spotted owl, Strix occidentalis occidentalis, ArcFuels, forest thinning, wildfire emissions, Ponderosa pine forests, mixed-conifer forest, Sierra Nevada, risk analysis, crown fire, fire severity
Wildfires release the greatest amount of carbon into the atmosphere compared to other forest disturbances. To understand how current and potential future fire regimes may affect the role of the Eurasian boreal forest in the global carbon cycle, we employed a new, spatially-…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, C - carbon, fire regimes, climate change, fire size, fire frequency, Siberia, taiga, boreal forest, C - carbon, climate change, Sibbork, Siberia, simulation model, Spatially-Explicit, taiga, Southern Siberia, Sayan Mountains, disturbance, vegetation, mortality, wildfire, biomass
Aerosols emitted by landscape fires affect many climatic processes. Here, we combined an aerosol-climate model and a coupled climate-carbon model to study the carbon cycle and climate effects caused by fire-emitted aerosols (FEA) forcing at the top of the atmosphere and at the…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Models, Fire Effects, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, C - carbon, aerosols, carbon cycle, Remote Effects, feedbacks, Diffuse-Radiation, Landscape Fires, system, Future, emission, Impact, cloud, attribution, sensitivity
Forest fires are very common in tropical region during February May months and are known to have significant impact on ecosystem dynamics. Moreover, aerosols emitted from these burning activities significantly modulate the Earth's radiation budget. In present study, we…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, C - carbon, air quality, Himalayas, forest fire, biomass burning, black carbon, organic carbon, Surface Darkening, Himalayas, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Data Assimilation System, black carbon emissions, Era-Interim, Premonsoon Season, model simulations, light absorption, Temperature Data, Tibetan Plateau, climate change
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
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a highly toxic, nonirritating gas. One of the products of combustion, it is invisible, odorless, tasteless, and slightly lighter than air. But smoke, another combustion product, is visible. And when smoke is present, it is highly likely that CO and other…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire fighting, CO - carbon monoxide, forest fires, CO poisoning, fire fighting vehicles, fire resistant materials, air quality, C - carbon, fire suppression, wildfires