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From the text...'Welcome to Chapter 1 of the Wildland Fire Education Handbook. This handbook originally accompanied the Wildland Fire Education Toolkit which consisted of print materials, videos, CD-Rom, and roadside sign. The tookit, in its entirety, may be borrowed from your…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida stricta, catastrophic fires, central Florida, conservation, education, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire control, fire dependent species, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, flatwoods, Florida, general interest, grasses, north Florida, pine forests, Pinus, prairies, public information, reproduction, rural communities, sandhills, scrub, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
That the capacity of global models to predict the future can be well tested by their capacity to reconstruct past events is generally agreed, as is the definition of normal winter as the numerical equivalent of >5x103 degree-days (with the degrees in Fahrenheit). One-…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, Asia, biomass, boreal forests, catastrophic fires, combustion, coniferous forests, crown fires, decay, dendrochronology, droughts, fire case histories, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire management, fire scar analysis, flammability, grasslands, humus, Larix, light, logging, nuclear winter, peat, radiation, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, Soviet Union, taiga, temperature, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: annual plants, Australia, Corymbia, Eucalyptus marginata, germination, grasses, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, jarrah, mining, New South Wales, perennial plants, plant communities, population density, sampling, sclerophyll forests, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, shrubs, small mammals, smoke effects, soils, species diversity (plants), Wales, emergence, germination, heat, mine rehabilitation, sclerophyll, seed dormancy, soil seed bank
From the text (p.1213)... 'The study was initiated in September 1997, after the haze had begun, and continued for 2 mo after the subsidence of the haze and the return of the pollution indices to significantly lower values.'
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, biomass, health factors, mortality, particulates, pollution, Singapore, smoke effects, smoke management, Southeast Asia, statistical analysis, biomass burning
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: adaptation, agriculture, air quality, backfires, biomass, blowups, broadcast burning, brush, catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, croplands, crown fires, crowns, dead fuels, decay, decomposition, droughts, erosion, experimental fires, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire protection, fire retardants, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, grasses, grazing, heavy fuels, histories, human caused fires, hunting, Idaho, ignition, incendiary fires, insects, invasive species, land use, leaves, lightning caused fires, live fuels, livestock, logging, minerals, mining, Montana, mortality, national forests, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, needles, New Mexico, overstory, particulates, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, prescribed fires (escaped), private lands, public information, range management, salvage, season of fire, sedimentation, seed dispersal, site treatments, size classes, slash, sloping terrain, Smokey Bear program, soils, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, thinning, trees, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, water quality, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wind, Wisconsin, woody fuels, Yellowstone National Park, appropriations, Cerro Grande Fire, disaster relief funding, FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency, forest and rangeland health, fuel ladder, glassificatrion, insurance, roles and responsibilities, stewardship, slurry, slurry bombers
Following a survey of forest homeowners in rural Michigan to assess the value of reducing the risk of damage from wildfires at the wildland-urban interface, focus-group discussions were conducted with a subset of survey participants to learn about their perceptions concerning…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, brush, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, Dendroica kirtlandii, education, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, ignition, landscape ecology, Michigan, nongame birds, Pinus banksiana, private lands, public information, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, fire management, fire risk assessment, focus groups, Mack Lake Fire
The goal of this report is to analyze whether or not prescribed fire could be used to regain the meadow perimeter of Donegan Prairie. A secondary issue of protecting late successional habitat in surrounding old growth timber from high intensity fire also will be addressed. If…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: BEHAVE, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, FVS - Forest Vegetation Simulator, economic analysis, fuels reduction, Oregon, Umpqua National Forest, meadow restoration
This paper discusses the overall effects fire has on the carbon budget of boreal forests Studies on using the boreal forest as a means to sequester carbon have not adequately accounted for these effects, Among other approaches, it has been suggested that suppression of fire in…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, carbon accumulation, carbon budget, carbon sequestration, carbon storage, climate change, biogenic emissions
A major goal in satellite remote sensing of fire is to derive globally accurate measurements of the spatial and temporal distribution of burning. To date, the main sensor employed in fire and fire-scar detection has been the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire scars, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, fire detection, trace gas emissions, active fires, satellite remote sensing
A 35-year controlled burning experiment in Minnesota oak savanna showed that fire frequency had a great impact on ecosystem carbon (C) stores. Specifically, compared to the historical fire regime, fire suppression led to an average of 1.8 Mg·ha^-1·yr^-1 of C storage, with most…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire suppression, carbon storage, Minnesota, oak savanna, missing carbon, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, community ecology, Corylus americana, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, fire management planning, forest management, human caused fires, litter, Mg - magnesium, plant communities, presettlement fires, Quercus ellipsoidalis, Quercus macrocarpa, range management, roots, savannas, soils, statistical analysis, woody plants
While the need to return fire as an agent of change in the ecosystems of southern California is clear, many challenges confront land managers and fire service professionals in accomplishing this work. Both internal and external hurdles must be addressed to reach land management…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: air quality, ignitions, litigation, smoke management
Forty-one years ago, the AMS published the Glossary of Meteorology. Containing 7900 terms, more than 10,000 copies have been sold over four decades through five printings. It is a tribute to the editors of the first edition that it has withstood the test of time and continued to…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: glossary, meteorology
Atmospheric deposition is the result of air pollution gases and aerosols leaving the atmosphere as 'dry' or 'wet' deposition. Little is known about just how much pollution is deposited onto soils, lakes and streams. To determine the extent and trends of forest exposure to air…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: nitrogen deposition, air resource management, sulfur deposition, wet deposition, dry deposition, atmospheric deposition, NADP/NTN, CASTNET, IMPROVE
[Excerpt from preface] Mountain Meteorology: Fundamentals and Applications aims to heighten awareness and appreciation of the weather in mountainous areas by introducing the reader to the basic principles and concepts of mountain meteorology and by discussing applications of…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: mountain weather data, mountain meteorological effects
Smoke from raging fires produced in the aftermath of a major nuclear exchange has been predicted to cause large decreases in surface temperatures. However, the extent of the decrease and even the sign of the temperature change depend on how the smoke is distributed with altitude…
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): California, International
Keywords: heat release rate, atmospheric stability, plume rise, wind speed, water vapor, nuclear explosions, smoke injection height
The fire plume interacting with an inclined surface was visualised and analysed using a modified positive-negative grid schlieren system combined with a CCD camera and computer system. The fire source was simulated by a gas burner with a fine perforated burning surface. This…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): International
Keywords: slope, fire plumes, fire plume attachment, critical inclination angle
A southeasterly flow in the form of a low-level jet that enters the Mexico City basin through a mountain gap in the southeast corner of the basin developed consistently in the afternoons or early evenings during a four-week 1997 winter field campaign. Peak wind speeds often…
Person:
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: gap, wind, Mexico City
Prescribed fires are used on about 155,000 acres of land each year in the Pacific Northwest states of Oregon and Washington. Particulate matter emission factors can be altered by selecting optimal burning conditions to improve combustion efficiency. This paper reports on the…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: Oregon, phases of combustion, Washington, emission factors, particulate matter (PM) emissions
We used an airborne Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (AFTIR), coupled to a flow-through, air-sampling cell, on a King Air B-90 to make in situ trace gas measurements in isolated smoke plumes from four, large, boreal zone wildfires in interior Alaska during June 1997.…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: wildfire, AFTIR - airborne Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, trace gas emissions, boreal forest fires, smoke plumes, smoke monitoring
A numerical index that estimates the atmosphere's capacity to disperse smoke from prescribed burning is described. The physical assumptions and mathematical development of the index are given in detail. A preliminary interpretation of dispersion index values is offered. A…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Gaussian Dispersion Models, smoke management, ventilation factor, air quality forecasting, Mesoscale, air pollution potential, Pasquill stability class, air pollution sources, air quality, smoke management
In this paper I describe progress in reducing emissions in western Washington and western Oregon and include a projection for future improvement.
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: emission reduction, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, western Washington, western Oregon
Fires in the northern interior have long been known to smolder for long periods. Because emission rates from smoldering smoke are small in comparison to rates of emissions during flaming, however, and because it is difficult to monitor smoldering fires, there are few…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Frostfire, CO emissions, smoldering fires
The TASET project was funded by the Joint Fire Science Program to develop a structured analysis of smoke management and to recommend specific developments for advancing the state of science in this field. The structured analysis was conducted by determining specific information…
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Year: 2000
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, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke management, TASET - Technically Advanced Smoke Estimation Tools
[From the introduction] Fire has been an important disturbance process for millennia in the wildlands of the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington. Records from early explorers and on many older trees suggest that fires burned at frequent intervals in…
Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, Blue Mountains, Douglas-fir, fire regimes, grasslands, Juniperus occidentalis, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, grand fir, mountain hemlock, Oregon, subalpine fir, Tsuga mertensiana, western juniper, shrublands, Agropyron spicatum, air quality, bark, bibliographies, community ecology, crown fires, disturbance, ecology, ecosystem dynamics, Festuca idahoensis, Festuca viridula, fire adaptations, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, forbs, grasses, histories, landscape ecology, Larix occidentalis, montane forests, mountains, overstory, pine forests, plant communities, plant growth, post-fire recovery, regeneration, resprouting, season of fire, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, size classes, smoke effects, soils, species diversity, succession, surface fires, understory vegetation, Washington, wildfires
Project Objectives: We request support from the JFSP to: 1. adapt FFE-FVS to support fire-related economic analysis by linking FFE-FVS to IASELECT (Wiitala 1992) and CHEAPOII (Horn and others 1986). IASELECT quantifies the optimal economic performance of a fire organization in…
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Year: 2000
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FFE-FVS - Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator, fire suppression, cost-benefit analysis