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Year: 1984
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, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Canada, pollution, remote sensing, wildfires
From the Summary ... 'Prescribed surface fire in southern pine forests controls brown spot (Scirrhia acicola) of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) and fusiform rust (Cronartium fusiforme) of southern pines. Rhizina root rot and many wood rots are favored by fire. Additional…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Fire Ecology, Fire Ecology
Region(s): California, Eastern, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Southern, International
Keywords: agriculture, Agrostis tenuis, air quality, Arceuthobium, Australia, burning permits, Canada, Claviceps purpurea, Cronartium fusiforme, croplands, Cynodon dactylon, diseases, Festuca arundinacea, Festuca rubra, fire equipment, fire frequency, fire management, firing techniques, fuel management, fungi, Gloeotinia temulenta, grass fires, grasses, human caused fires, Idaho, insects, Lolium perenne, longleaf pine, Minnesota, Oregon, pine forests, pine, Pinus palustris, plant diseases, Rhizina, Rhizina undulata, Scirrhia acicola, site treatments, slash, Washington, wood
The purpose of this paper is to discuss why and how the remote sensing photographic approach can be used in the detection and assessment of vegetation damage. The necessary attributes of the interpreter are mentioned, along with the need to clearly define and outline the…
Person:
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: age classes, air quality, arthropods, bark, Canada, coniferous forests, conifers, crowns, diseases, foliage, forest management, hardwood forests, hardwoods, insects, photography, remote sensing, statistical analysis, wind
'AFA has taken a policy stand that supports immediate reductions of fossil-fuel emissions that contribute to acid rain, in concert with continuing research to clarify causes, effects, and costs of controlling the phenomenon. This month, we present part three in a six-part series…
Person:
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Economics, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, Canada, charcoal, clearcutting, Europe, forest management, gases, Germany, hardwood forests, leaching, logging, microorganisms, mineral soils, mortality, New England, New Hampshire, nutrients, ozone, Picea, Pinus, plant growth, plantations, pollution, precipitation, regeneration, soils, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, Washington, woody fuels
'The world's largest forest fire, which burned from September 1982 until july1983 in eastern Kalimantan, the Indonesian sector of Borneo, almost certainly caused the extinction of several species of plants and animals. It will probably result in a long-term decline in food…
Person:
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, Borneo, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), floods, mortality, peat, precipitation, surface fires, wildfires
In Canada about 1.3 million hectares (M ha) of forests are destroyed by wildfires each year, and about 63% of all these fires are man-caused. During the 1980 and 1981 fire seasons, however, about 10 M ha were damaged; estimated annual emissions from forest fires were 224 million…
Person:
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Alberta, ash, biomass, Canada, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, cellulose, combustion, environmental impact analysis, experimental fires, fire injuries (plants), fire management, human caused fires, hydrocarbons, lightning caused fires, Manitoba, Newfoundland, N - nitrogen, Northwest Territories, Ontario, ozone, particulates, photosynthesis, sampling, Saskatchewan, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, backfires, duff, education, Europe, fire control, fire equipment, fire suppression, firebreaks, litter, moisture, mosses, smoke management, Soviet Union, taiga, USSR, wildfires
This report presents data describing the air quality within 50 km of the Miller Creek experimental block in terms of 24-hour average mass loadings in the atmosphere, some results of the airborne analysis of the combustion products from two typical flights, diffusion analysis of…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northern Rockies, International
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, Australia, clearcutting, combustion, distribution, duff, field experimental fires, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, Larix occidentalis, logging, Montana, national forests, needles, particulates, photography, Picea, pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, sampling, size classes, slash, sloping terrain, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, temperature, wildfires
In-flight measurements of the following parameters have been carried out in the smoke from prescribed fires: carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, particulate matter, integrated light scattering coefficient and ultraviolet radiation intensity. One fire (in…
Person:
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, ash, Australia, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, chemistry, fire intensity, fire management, light, N - nitrogen, ozone, particulates, radiation, sampling, smoke management, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, Victoria, western Australia