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From the text...'Once the fire is contained, reevaluate the high risk gravity areas. Clearly identify high risk fire escape areas, particularly those needing more work to secure firelines. Do not ask: can we work there safely? Ask: do we need to work there at all?'
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: fire management, fire suppression, health factors, litter, mopping up, national forests, smoke management, snags, Washington, wildfires
From the text ... 'A coalition of state and federal groups said Monday they hoped to warm Floridians to the practice of burning off the dry vegetation that wildfires feed upon. The North Florida Prescribed Fire Council unveiled a series of public service announcements that shows…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: central Florida, education, fire case histories, fire management, Florida, general interest, north Florida, public information, roads, smoke effects, smoke management, Tall Timbers Research Station, wildfires
From the text...'The number one problem facing wildlife species today is loss of habitat. Subdivisions, industrial development, agriculture, golf courses, shopping centers, etc., continue to take away valuable wildlife habitat that can't be replaced. Wildlife are continually…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, Agrostis alba, Andropogon gerardii, backing fires, Cassia, Dactylis glomerata, energy, Festuca, fine fuels, fire exclusion, firebreaks, forage, forbs, fuel management, fuel moisture, grasses, herbicides, humidity, Kentucky, legumes, Lespedeza, lightning caused fires, Medicago sativa, moisture, mowing, native species (plants), nesting, old growth forests, Panicum virgatum, Phleum, roads, savannas, season of fire, smoke management, Sorghastrum nutans, tallgrass prairies, threatened and endangered species (animals), tillage, trees, Trifolium repens, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind
From the text...'In the last 30 to 40 years...changes in forest structure prompted a return to using fire, under carefully controlled conditions, to accomplish many of the same purposes that were historically provided by natural fires. Today, approximately 8 million acres are…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: backing fires, burning intervals, burning permits, competition, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, flank fires, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, general interest, headfires, ignition, liability, pine forests, smoke management, wildlife habitat management
From the text ... 'On Monday, firefighters were still trying to contain 700 to 800 acres of wildfires there that were caused when two prescribed burns--designed partly to prevent forest fires--from a few weeks ago rekindled in dry and windy conditions.'
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Apalachicola National Forest, droughts, fire case histories, fire management, fire suppression, general interest, national forests, north Florida, precipitation, roads, spot fires, wildfires
From the text ... 'Smoke turned daylight into darkness Monday near a fire in the Everglades that has charred about 120,000 acres, prompting authorities to warn some people with respiratory problems to stay indoors....Firefighters set controlled blazes to help contain the…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: everglades, fire case histories, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, general interest, grasses, marshes, national parks, roads, south Florida, wildfires, wind
The effect that the wind's vertical variation has on fire plume behaviour is investigated. A parabolized set of governing equations are discretized using finite differences to arrive at the numerical model. Lagrangian particles are used to visualize the flow, account for…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California
Keywords: plume rise, wind, plume structure, particulate emissions
For many thousands of years south-eastern Australia has experienced wildfires. These days, in an average summer around six hundred wildfires occur in Victoria's parks and forests. Between twenty and thirty percent of these fires are caused by lightning. In the last 150 years…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: seasonal effects, topography, Australia, slope effects
User's guide for the Consume 2.1 software system. Consume is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption and emissions from the burning of…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: duff consumption, fuel moisture, piled fuels, prescribed burning, woody fuel consumption, Consume 2.1, CONSUME
The Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT) is a vegetation simulation model developed to examine the impacts of a variety of landscape scale disturbances on vegetation succession and development. It assumes that the ecosystem exists in a discrete number of states, and…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire frequency, VDDT - Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool, vegetation, Yosemite National Park, Abies magnifica, age classes, Calocedrus, catastrophic fires, computer program, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire weather, forest management, fuel breaks, fuel loading, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, montane forests, national forests, overstory, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus monticola, Pinus ponderosa, population density, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus chrysolepis, Quercus wislizenii, recreation, site treatments, subalpine forests, succession, threatened and endangered species, Tsuga mertensiana, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildland fires