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A Resource from the Western Regional Air Partnership's (WRAP) Fire Emissions Joint Forum (FEJF)In December 2002 the FEJF issued a request for proposal for a bibliography and summary table on Emission Reduction Techniques for agricultural burning and wildland fire in support of…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Fire Behavior
Region(s): National, Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: WRAP - Western Regional Air Partnership, emission factors, agricultural burning, emissions reduction, agricultural residues, burning index, wildland fire
Soil was exposed to red phosphorous/butyl rubber (RP/BR) aerosols at various relative humidities in a recirculating environmental wind tunnel. Soil microbial and enzymatic activities were measured immediately after exposure and periodically thereafter for 56 days. The…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, chemistry, cropland fires, heat effects, humidity, microorganisms, nutrient cycling, pH, pollution, post fire recovery, smoke effects, soil organisms, soils, statistical analysis, toxicity, wildfires, wind
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel loading, Georgia, New England, pine forests, smoke management, Vaccinium, Vermont, wildfires
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Appalachian Mountains, balds, environmental impact statements, fire hazard reduction, fire management, hardwood forests, herbicides, mountains, multiple resource management, national forests, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, site treatments, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Apalachicola Bluffs, Calamintha dentata, Carex baltzellii, Croomia pauciflora, Florida, fungi, habitat conversion, Magnolia ashei, mast, Matelea, north Florida, pine, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, plant diseases, plant growth, reproduction, sandhills, seedlings, species diversity (plants), Taxus floridana, threatened and endangered species (plants), Torreya taxifolia, vegetation surveys
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, Alabama, burning intervals, coastal plain, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire growth, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, Florida, fuel appraisal, fuel management, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, national forests, North Carolina, Piedmont, rate of spread, season of fire, smoke management, South Carolina, Texas, wildfires
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: broadcast burning, duff, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, heat effects, humidity, litter, moisture, mopping up, multiple resource management, precipitation, smoke behavior, smoke effects, soil temperature, statistical analysis, temperature, weather observations, woody plants
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, droughts, Florida, forest management, Georgia, land use, North Carolina, ozone, pine, plant growth, South Carolina, vegetation surveys, Virginia
(1)The behaviour of the August 1936 Galatea fire in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains was reconstructed with respect to the rate of spread, frontal-fire intensity and fuel consumption, and illustrates that tree mortality, seed dispersal distance into the burn and…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, Alberta, Canada, conifers, crown fires, duff, elevation, fine fuels, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel moisture, fuel types, habitat types, ignition, lightning caused fires, litter, moisture, montane forests, mortality, mountainous terrain, mountains, national parks, organic matter, overstory, Picea, Picea engelmannii, pine, Pinus contorta, plant growth, post fire recovery, radiation, rate of spread, regeneration, reproduction, sampling, seed dispersal, seed germination, site treatments, smoke behavior, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, subalpine forests, topography, trees, water, wildfires, wind
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel types, Ilex glabra, particulates, pine forests, Serenoa repens, smoke management, wind
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conifers, flammability, hardwoods, heat, heat effects, laboratory fires, Ohio, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus rubra, wood, wood properties
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, central Florida, Florida, pine forests
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: burning permits, fire intensity, fire management, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, liability, litter, live fuels, logging, pine forests, plant growth, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildlife management, wind
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, Arizona, carbon dioxide, Colorado, convection, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel models, human caused fires, humidity, Idaho, land use, lightning caused fires, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, precipitation, succession, temperature, US Forest Service, Washington, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, Wyoming
From the text ... 'The key consideration for the IC: always make the connection between observed and forecasted weather and observed and forecasted fire behavior.... When IC''s believe the observed instability conditions may significantly increase fire behavior, they should…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, smoke behavior, temperature, Washington, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wind
From the text ... 'Unstable air masses increase chances of big fires. Relative humidity seems to play a smaller role than thought before. Atmospheric stability forecasts, projecting stability for 36 to 48 hours, can warn fire control personnel when to expect erratic fire…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: Alabama, Arkansas, blowups, catastrophic fires, convection, fire control, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, Georgia, humidity, Louisiana, Mississippi, smoke behavior, Tennessee, Washington, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: blowups, convection, fire control, fire management, fire whirls, firefighting personnel, smoke behavior, storms, Washington, wildfires, wind
Old-growth savannas and forests dominated by longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) are of great conservation and research interest. Comprehensive inventories of old-growth communities, however, are lacking for most of longleaf pine's natural range. We searched the literature,…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: age classes, Alabama, amphibians, bibliographies, biogeography, carnivorous plants, cavity nesting birds, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, conservation, conservation easements, Cumberland Plateau, Dasypus novemcinctus, diameter classes, distribution, disturbance, duff, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, Georgia, Gopherus polyphemus, ground cover, ground fires, histories, Imperata cylindrica, introduced species, invasive species, invertebrates, keystone species, land use, landscape ecology, light, Liqustrum sinese, logging, Longleaf Alliance, longleaf pine, Lonicera japonica, Louisiana, Lygodium, military lands, Mississippi, mountains, national forests, native species (plants), natural areas management, nongame birds, North Carolina, old growth forests, partial cutting, Picoides borealis, Piedmont, pine forests, Pinus palustris, plant communities, plantations, presettlement vegetation, private lands, Red Hills, reptiles, sandhills, Sapium sebiferum, savannas, South Carolina, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), stand characteristics, state forests, surface fires, Tall Timbers Research Station, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), vegetation surveys, Virginiana, vulnerable species or communities, Wade Tract, wildfires, wildlife refuges, Wisteria
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, algae, biogeochemical cycles, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, Indonesia, microorganisms, mortality, natural areas management, remote sensing, smoke effects, Sumatra, wildfires
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, biomass, catastrophic fires, combustion, European settlement, fire case histories, fire control, fire equipment, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, land use, landscape ecology, national forests, national parks, private lands, wilderness fire management, wildfires
This study analyzes spatial and temporal variability of emissions from wildland fires across the contiguous US. The emissions are estimates based on a recently constructed dataset of historical fire records collected by multiple US governmental agencies. Both wildfire and…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, particulates, pollution, precipitation, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wildfire, air pollutants, atmosphere-emission relationship
Biomass burning constitutes a major contribution to global emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, greenhouse gases and aerosols. Furthermore, biomass burning has an impact on health, transport, the environment and land use. Vegetation fires are certainly not…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, Asia, biomass, Canada, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, Central America, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, fire frequency, fire management, human caused fires, Italy, land use, CH4 - methane, natural areas management, nutrient cycling, Portugal, remote sensing, Russia, season of fire, statistical analysis, United Kingdom, vegetation surveys, wildfires
Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) numbers on Fort Jackson began declining in the late 1980s to a low of 7 potential breeding groups and 3 solitary male groups, consisting of approximately 29 individuals in 10 active clusters by 1995. Intensive management practices were…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Mapping
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: age classes, Andropogon, Aristida stricta, artificial cavities, burning intervals, cavity nesting birds, cavity trees, coastal plain, conservation, distribution, droughts, Dryocopus pileatus, Elaphe obsoleta, fire regimes, forage, forest management, genetics, GIS, Glaucomys, Glaucomys volans, hardwoods, herbicides, Melanerpes, Melanerpes carolinus, military lands, nesting, nongame birds, old growth forests, overstory, parasites, Picoides borealis, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, population density, population ecology, predators, Quercus laevis, reproduction, reptiles, sandhills, Schizachyrium spp., site treatments, small mammals, smoke management, South Carolina, statistical analysis, thinning, translocation, Vaccinium arboreum, wildlife habitat management, artificial cavities, dispersal, Dryocopus pileatus, Fort Jackson, Glaucomys volans, herbicide, Melanerpes carolinus, Picoides borealis, pileated woodpecker, PADD restrictor, PVC inserts, red-bellied woodpecker, red-cockaded woodpecker, sandhills, southern flying squirrel, translocation
Red-cockaded woodpecker populations declined precipitously following European Settlement and expansion and cutting of the original pine forests across the southeastern United States. By 1990 most residual populations lacked demographic viability, existed in degraded habitat, and…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern, International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arkansas, artificial cavities, biogeography, cavity nesting birds, cavity trees, coastal plain, cutting, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Elaphe obsoleta, European settlement, fire dependent species, fire regimes, fragmentation, Glaucomys volans, habitat suitability, habitat types, land use, landscape ecology, litigation, logging, Louisiana, military lands, national forests, natural resource legislation, nongame birds, Oklahoma, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus echinata, population density, population ecology, predation, private lands, reptiles, Schizachyrium spp., site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), translocation, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges, woody plants, Interior Highlands, Picoides borealis, red-cockaded woodpecker, status, West Gulf Coastal Plain
During the 1970s and 1980s, the Francis Marion National Forest (FMNF) supported the second largest and only documented naturally increasing population of red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis). Prior to Hurricane Hugo hitting the FMNF in September 1989, the red-cockaded…
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Economics, Hazard and Risk, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, age classes, artificial cavities, birds, burning intervals, cavity nesting birds, cavity trees, coastal plain, competition, distribution, disturbance, droughts, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, ground cover, habitat conversion, habitat suitability, habits and behavior, hardwoods, herbaceous vegetation, ignition, mortality, national forests, nesting, nongame birds, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, pocosins, population ecology, reproduction, salvage, season of fire, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, statistical analysis, storms, thinning, threatened and endangered species (animals), trees, US Forest Service, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, wind, artificial cavities, decline, Francis Marion National Forest, Hurricane Hugo, long term recovery, Picoides borealis, recovery, red-cockaded woodpecker