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From the Conclusion ... 'A comprehensive, mechanistic simulation of wildland fire and ecosystem dynamics across a landscape may not be possible because of computer limitations, inadequate research, inconsistent data, and extensive parameterization. Therefore empirical and…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: bacteria, climate change, decomposition, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, evapotranspiration, fire growth, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fuel moisture, fungi, heat effects, humidity, hydrology, ignition, insects, landscape ecology, leaves, litter, mortality, nutrient cycling, photosynthesis, plant diseases, precipitation, radiation, rate of spread, regeneration, roots, runoff, seed dispersal, seed production, smoke behavior, smoke management, soil moisture, soil organic matter, soils, stand characteristics, temperate forests, understory vegetation, wilderness fire management, wildfires, woody fuels
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Eastern, Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: Alberta, buds, Canada, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, fire injuries (plants), heat, heat effects, leaves, moisture, mortality, mountains, plant growth, plant physiology, post fire recovery, prairies, smoke effects, soil temperature, statistical analysis, surface fires, Wisconsin
From the text ... 'Scientists at the University of Florida believe prescribed burnig may protect dogwoods from anthracnose by creating environmental conditions unfavorable to the disease.' Contact author at: sjose@ufl.edu .
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Anthracnose, biogeography, Cornus, Discula, distribution, Florida, forest management, fungi, Great Smoky Mountains, land management, land use, national parks, North Carolina, plant diseases, population density, smoke effects, state parks, wildfires
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: age classes, air quality, annual plants, biomass, competition, fire frequency, fire management, grasslands, grazing, histories, invasive species, land management, litter, mortality, Nassella, native species (plants), natural areas management, perennial plants, phenology, plant growth, population density, population ecology, regeneration, season of fire, seed germination, seedlings, soil nutrients, statistical analysis, topography, weed control, wilderness areas, wildfires
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics
Region(s): Northwest, International
Keywords: Achnatherum, annual plants, Artemisia tridentata, artificial regeneration, Astragalus, biomass, Centrocercus urophasianus, community ecology, competition, Crepis, Elymus elymoides, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, firing techniques, flame length, forage, forbs, fragmentation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, game birds, grasses, grasslands, habitat conversion, headfires, herbaceous vegetation, microclimate, mosaic, native species (animals), native species (plants), Oregon, perennial plants, plant communities, plant growth, Poa secunda, population density, population ecology, post fire recovery, Pseudoroegneria, range management, rate of spread, regeneration, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, shrublands, site treatments, statistical analysis, succession, temperature, topography, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, vulnerable species or communities, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges
From the text...'A new generation of prescribed fire statutes have been developed in the southeastern states beginning with Florida in 1990 (Brenner and Wade 1992). The Florida statute goes to great length to recognize prescribed burning as a useful land management tool. The…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern
Keywords: fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, Georgia, land management, liability, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, pine forests, prairies, range management, rangelands, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text...'I believe that the Forest Service should take the lead in developing low-density stand management guidelines, but it isn’t going to be easy. The anti-management environmental lobby has beaten the agency into a position of inactivity. The Administration…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, Appalachian Mountains, ecosystem dynamics, education, FIA, fire adaptations (plants), fire management, forest management, forest products, forest types, Georgia, grasses, hardwood forests, insects, Kentucky, landscape ecology, loblolly pine, logging, Longleaf Alliance, mast, mosaic, mountains, national forests, Native Americans, North Carolina, Ozarks, pine forests, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plant diseases, population density, prairies, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, private lands, public information, Quercus, savannas, stand characteristics, Tennessee, thinning, topography, trees, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, Virginia, wildfires
Wildfire represents a serious challenge to communities in the rural West. After decades of fire suppression, land managers now perceive a greater role for wildfire in the ecosystem. In the meantime,migration patterns from urban to rural settings have increased the…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, Cascades Range, catastrophic fires, education, fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, hardwood forests, land management, multiple resource management, national forests, pine forests, post fire recovery, public information, recreation, rural communities, season of fire, US Forest Service, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, dead fuels, ecosystem dynamics, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, fuel models, fuel types, GIS, hardwood forests, heavy fuels, land management, landscape ecology, liability, litter, live fuels, Montana, national forests, old growth vegetation, overstory, pine forests, remote sensing, smoke management, thinning, woody plants
Factors influencing the probability of fire occurrence in the south central United States were investigated using a geographic information system (GIS) and a multinomial logit model. Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data at the plot level were merged with census data at the…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Alabama, Arkansas, distribution, education, FIA - Forest Inventory and Analysis, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel types, geography, GIS - geographic information system, hardwood forests, human caused fires, incendiary fires, land use, logging, Mississippi, Oklahoma, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus spp., plantations, population density, prescribed fires (chance ignition), prescribed fires (escaped), private lands, roads, statistical analysis, Tennessee, Texas, topography, urban habitats, wildfires
Most western state laws pertaining to prescribed burning do not specifically deal with range rehabilitation. Prescribed burns require a burning permit issued by the State Forester, or his equivalent, prior to ignition during closed fire seasons. Air quality standards have been…
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, air temperature, arid regions, burning permits, CO - carbon monoxide, Colorado, combustion, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, hydrocarbons, ignition, liability, logging, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, particulates, pollution, post-fire recovery, season of fire, site treatments, slash, smoke management, statistical analysis, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, Utah, Washington, water, water quality, wind
It is now well established that fire plays an important part as a periodic disturbing influence on many of the forest types of North America. The species composition of such forests has undergone selection as a result of the regularity of fires during their history so that the…
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Betula, biomass, Calluna, charcoal, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, Europe, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire management, forest types, heathlands, lakes, nutrient cycling, phosphorus, Pinus, pollen, K - potassium, sedimentation, smoke effects, succession, wildfires
We present a systematic study of the vertical distribution of gases produced in controlled combustions induced in caribbean pine (Pinus caribaea var hondurensis). Small areas of pine debris were burned and were taken into a comercial gas cromatographer. A simple mathematical…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Caribbean, combustion, distribution, fire management, gases, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Pinus caribaea, statistical analysis
The Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) simulates fuel dynamics and potential fire behaviour over time, in the context of stand development and management. Existing models of fire behavior and fire effects were added to FVS to form this…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: age classes, biomass, Cascades Range, catastrophic fires, chaparral, computer programs, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, crowns, dead fuels, decay, decomposition, diameter classes, distribution, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, flame length, flammability, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, grasses, habitat types, herbaceous vegetation, Idaho, insects, leaves, litter, live fuels, logging, moisture, Montana, mortality, needles, northern California, Oregon, particulates, salvage, scorch, shrubs, size classes, snags, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, succession, surface fires, surface fuels, thinning, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, wind, woody fuels, FVS, FFE, forest fire, stand dynamics, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, BEHAVE, NEXUS, snags, coarse, woody debris, FARSITE, TETONS
Montague Plain Wildlife Management Area (MPWMA) is a 1,512 acre property in western Massachusetts owned and managed by the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. The primary purposes of the site are to protect and preserve an outstanding example of a xeric outwash…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: Acer rubrum, amphibians, barrens, Betula populifolia, community ecology, Danthonia spicata, Desmodium, education, fine fuels, fire control, fire dependent species, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire sensitive plants, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flammability, foliage, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, Gaylussacia baccata, geology, grasslands, hardwood forests, humidity, hydrology, Hypericum perforatum, ignition, insects, Juniperus communis, land use, leaves, litter, Massachusetts, needles, New England, overstory, paleoecology, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus rigida, Pinus strobus, plant communities, Polytrichum, Populus, post fire recovery, precipitation, presettlement fires, Prunus pensylvanica, public information, Quercus ilicifolia, rate of spread, regeneration, roads, Rubus, Schizachyrium scoparium, scrub, seedlings, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, Solidago juncea, Spiraea, succession, surface fuels, Terrapene, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), topography, Vaccinium, vegetation surveys, vulnerable species or communities, watersheds, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife management, wind
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Australia, Cyperaceae, fire dependent species, fire intensity, fire sensitive plants, germination, heat, heat effects, heathlands, Kunzea ambigua, mosaic, New South Wales, plant growth, range management, regeneration, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, shrublands, smoke effects, smoke management
In a year of catastrophic wildland fires across the country, Alaska once again had the dubious honor of being host to the nation's largest wildland fire.
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: catastrophic fires, fire case histories, fire management, fire suppression, lightning caused fires, rate of spread, smoke effects, wilderness areas, wildfires
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, brush, Cascades Range, chemical compounds, chemistry, duff, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, litter, multiple resource management, Oregon, particulates, pollution, site treatments, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, Washington, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, forest management, gases, logging, national forests, national parks, Oregon, particulates, pollution, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, Washington, wilderness areas, wood
The potential for air pollution from industrial sources to reach wilderness areas throughout the Northwestern United States is approximated from monthly mean emissions, along with wind speeds and directions. A simple index is derived to estimate downwind concentration. Maps of…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, mixing height, pollution, Columbia River basin, pollution trajectories, steering wind, industrial emissions
Changes in forest structure were examined 10-15 months after an unprecedented understorey wildfire burnt previously undisturbed primary forest in central Brazilian Amazonia, following the severe 1997-1998 El Niño dry season. On the basis of 20 0.25 ha plots (10 m x 250 m) in…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: aboveground biomass, carbon emissions, fire disturbance, global warming, surface fires, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, Amazonia
An Autonomous Fire Detector (AFD) is a miniature electronic package combining position location capability [using the Global Positioning System (GPS)], communications (packet or voice-synthesized radio), and fire detection capability (thermal, gas, smoke detector) into an…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: remote sensing, fire detection, fire monitoring, field systems, local fire detection, AFD - Autonomous Fire Detector , CO - carbon monoxide, computer program, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, fire weather, firefighting personnel, GPS - global positioning system, wildfires, wind
The feasibility and fundamentals of forest fire detection by smoke sensing with single-wavelength lidar are discussed with reference to results of 532-nm lidar measurements of smoke plumes from experimental forest fires in Portugal within the scope of the Gestosa 2001 project.…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, Portugal, Gestosa, fire management, fire suppression, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires
Fire regimes were reconstructed from fire-scarred trees on five large forested study sites (135-810 ha) on the North and South Rims at Grand Canyon National Park. Adequacy of sampling was tested with cumulative sample curves, effectiveness of fire recording on individual trees,…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Gambel oak, ponderosa pine, Grand Canyon National Park, mixed conifer, Kaibab Plateau, Coconino Plateau, modern calibration, Abies concolor, Arizona, biogeography, burning intervals, climatology, coniferous forests, dendrochronology, distribution, drought, elevation, European settlement, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire scar analysis, fire size, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, hardwoods, landscape ecology, national forests, national parks, Native Americans, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, population density, Populus tremuloides, Douglas-fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus gambelii, Robinia, sampling, season of fire, smoke management, statistical analysis, surface fires, wilderness fire management, wildfires
A method is proposed for estimating the weight of fuel burned (available fuel) by prescribed fires in southern pine stands. Weights of available fuel in litter alone and in litter plus understory materials can be estimated. Prediction equations were developed by regression…
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: moisture content, fuel consumption, litter layer, Cliftonia monophylla, disturbance, fire hazard reduction, Florida, fuel accumulation, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, Georgia, Ilex glabra, litter, loblolly pine, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, Serenoa repens, slash pine, smoke management, South Carolina