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A recent study of simulated forecast-based interventions as a tool to reduce the health and economic burden during smoke episodes. The study illustrated a large health burden associated with these events and the potential benefit an adaptation of current forecasting technologies…
Person: Rappold
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke impact, smoke exposure, health impacts, PM2.5, PM - particulate matter
This guide provides direction for planning and managing smoke from prescribed fires to achieve air quality requirements through improved smoke management practices. The Guide applies to all prescribed fires, those started by managers or by nature throughout the Manti-La Sal…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, backfires, burning permits, coniferous forests, firing techniques, fuel types, health factors, liability, national forests, national parks, plant communities, public information, rangeland fires, rangelands, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, thinning, Utah, watershed management, wilderness areas, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, Yellowstone National Park
From the text...'The purpose of this document is to provide technical information on prescribed burning. It does so in two ways. One, it provides background information useful in determining reasonably available control measures (RACM) and best available control measures (BACM)…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, burning permits, Colorado, combustion, education, fire hazard reduction, firing techniques, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, Georgia, Montana, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, Oregon, particulates, public information, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, US Forest Service, Washington, wind
A recent study of simulated forecast-based interventions as a tool to reduce the health and economic burden during smoke episodes. The study illustrated a large health burden associated with these events and the potential benefit an adaptation of current forecasting technologies…
Person: Rappold
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Safety
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: PM2.5, health effects, smoke forecasting, asthma, heart failure
It was August 30, 1987; the summer was drawing to a close. After 3 years of drought and a hot summer, fuel conditions in northern California and southern Oregon were primed for fires. That evening, dry thunderstorms pounded that region with more than 1,600 lightning strikes. I…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: firefighting personnel, C - carbon, fire case histories, fire size, fire suppression, wildfires, Oregon, climate change, education, fire management, forest management, smoke management
On May 19, 2014, during unusually dry weather, a fire started in a popular recreational area near Funny River Road in the Kenai, near Newberry's home. The wind pushed it through dry grasses and into insect-killed stands of spruce. By the end of the day, fire had consumed 2,500…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: Funny River Fire, UAS - Unmanned Aircraft System, fire fighting, fire case histories, aerial fire suppression, wildfires, drones, fire management, forest management
Over the past decade, concern over potential global warming has focused attention on the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and there is an active debate concerning the desirability of reducing emissions. At the heart of this debate is the future path of both…
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: carbon emissions, climate change