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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfire, wildland fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy)
Introduction: Environmental contaminants are groups of unwanted, ubiquitous chemicals, found in food via weathering of the earth's crust, combustion (natural or anthropogenic), industrial uses or as unwanted bi-products of manufacturing processes. Evidence suggests that the…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire frequency, wildfires, agriculture, chemical compounds, chemical elements, diseases, disturbance, climate change, health factors, hydrocarbons, toxicity, water, water quality, fire management, land management, environmental contaminants, food, forest fires, human exposure, mercury methylation, water re-use
In this study, ash is analyzed as a geological material; in particular, we focus on ash produced by the burning of Ponderosa pine, a conifer that is widespread throughout mountainous landscapes of western North America. One set of ash samples used in the analysis was collected…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: combustion, post-fire recovery, wildfires, aluminum, ash, Ca - calcium, C - carbon, duff, erosion, grasses, magnesium, manganese, minerals, needles, N - nitrogen, particulates, P - phosphorus, K - potassium, runoff, soil nutrients, temperature, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Montana, fire management, fuel management, smoke management, coniferous forests, debris flows, rheology, soil nutrients, surface sealing, wood ash
BACKGROUND: In June 2008, burning peat deposits produced haze and air pollution far in excess of National Ambient Air Quality Standards, encroaching on rural communities of eastern North Carolina. Although the association of mortality and morbidity with exposure to urban air…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: peat fires, smoke effects, wildfires, aerosols, air quality, diseases, health factors, remote sensing, North Carolina, fire management, smoke management, watershed management, bogs, peatlands, cardiopulmonary health effects, satellite data, syndromic surveillance, wildfire smoke exposure
This document provides a list of publications produced by the Rocky Mountain Research Station from April-June, 2011. It includes series publications, science perspectives, journal articles, and other publications. The topics covered include all aspects of forest management.
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Social Science
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: Forest Service, publications, research publications
This document provides a list of publications produced by the Rocky Mountain Research Station from January-March, 2011. It includes series publications, science perspectives, journal articles, and other publications. The topics covered include all aspects of forest management.
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: US Forest Service, publications, research publications
This assessment was conducted to fulfill the requirements of section 712 of the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 and to improve understanding of carbon (C) and greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes in the Great Plains region in the central part of the United States. The…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: C - carbon, carbon storage, greenhouse gas, flux, climate change, wildfires, wildland fire, area burned, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, carbon dioxide
Emitted to the atmosphere through fire and fossil fuel combustion, refractory black carbon nanoparticles (rBC) impact human health, climate, and the carbon cycle. Eventually these particles enter aquatic environments, where they may affect the fate of other pollutants. While…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, hydrocarbons, particulates, runoff, toxicity, Nevada, fire management, smoke management, watershed management, lakes, watersheds