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In 1983 the most severe fire in Victorian mountain forests for over forty years killed extensive areas of highly productive eucalypt forest, requiring a large scale timber salvage and forest rehabilitation program. The scheduling of these programs was dependent upon a rapid and…
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: age classes, arthropods, artificial regeneration, ash, Australia, backfires, catastrophic fires, crown fires, crown scorch, decay, droughts, Eucalyptus regnans, fine fuels, fire control, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, fungi, ground fires, hardwood forests, insects, litter, logging, mortality, mosaic, overstory, photography, post fire recovery, rate of spread, regeneration, remote sensing, salvage, spot fires, understory vegetation, Victoria, wildfires, wind

The relationship between daily total tons of forestry fuel consumed by prescribed burns in western Oregon and 24-hour average total suspended particulate (TSP) concentration in the Willamette Valley is examined. The relationship is statistically significant at the 95% level. A…
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, fire hazard reduction, forest management, national forests, Oregon, particulates, rural communities, seasonal activities, smoke management, statistical analysis, topography, weather observations