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The Manual includes information on the organization's standard operating procedures, requirements, and guidelines regarding fire management. It also outlines the necessary steps for developing and maintaining a succesful fire management program. The Manual is a dynamic document…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, conservation, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, health factors, liability, manuals, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires
Much of the public's attitude toward wildland fire as an important part of natural processes has been misguided, sometimes through programs perpetuating fear and misunderstanding of the vital role of fire in wildlands. Results presented here were part of a larger study that…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel management, land management, public information, rangelands, recreation, sampling, smoke management, Tennessee, thinning, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife
A risk assessment framework was used to assess the risks of forest fire smoke (ffs) to the exposed communities, critical infrastructures and the environment. The present work is focused on the planning and problem formulation phases of this risk assessment procedure.…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Models, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, chemical compounds, fire management, firefighting personnel, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, toxicity, wildfires, wind, forest fire smoke, data integration, field chemical data, risk assessment, firefighters
From the text ... 'Motorists on Thomasville Road in northern Leon county Wednesday afternoon were greeted by smoke and flames.The State Division of Forestry burned the forested medians south of County road 12 as part of the annual Prescribed Fire Awareness Week.Prescribed fire…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida stricta, conservation easements, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, north Florida, pine forests, Pinus palustris, Red Hills, roads, Tall Timbers Research Station, wildfires, wildlife
Much of the recent work in reducing wildland fire danger has occurred in the western and southeastern United States. However, high-risk areas do exist at the wildland-urban interface areas in the Northeast and very little work has been done to understand the fire management…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, firebreaks, National Fire Plan, wildfires, air quality, cutting, public information, thinning, Massachusetts, New England, fire management, forest management, pine barrens, homeowner perceptions-wildland fire risk, fire hazard reduction strategies
Fire is the dominant disturbance in forest ecosystems across Canada and Alaska, and has important implications for forest ecosystems, terrestrial carbon dioxide emissions and the forestry industry. Large fire activity had increased in Canadian and Alaskan forests during the last…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire, drought, carbon dioxide, computer program, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, flammability, forest management, moisture, season of fire, wildfires
The efficiency of fuel breaks installed in wildland-urban interfaces to reduce fire hazard depends strongly on the conditions of spread (rate of spread, flame height) of a surface fire through the shrub on the ground and also on the possibility of a transition for this fire from…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: Mediterranean shrublands, physical models, wildfire modeling, Brachypodium ramosum, Brachypodium spp., crown fires, decomposition, energy, Europe, fire hazard, fire hazard reduction, fire management, flame length, France, fuel breaks, fuel loading, fuel management, heat, ignition, Mediterranean habitats, overstory, Pinus spp., Pinus halepensis, Quercus spp., Quercus coccifera , radiation, rate of spread, shrublands, soot, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, temperature, trees, understory vegetation, wildfires, wind
Fire scientists in the United States began exploring the relationships of fire-danger and hazard with weather, fuel moisture, and ignition probabilities as early as 1916. Many of the relationships identified then persist today in the form of our National Fire-Danger-Rating…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: NFDRS - National Fire Danger Rating System, vegetation, United States, satellite-derived maps, Priest River Experiment Station, weather maps, climatology, coniferous forests, dead fuels, drought, duff, evolution, experimental areas, fire control, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire management planning, fuel moisture, GIS - geographic information system, Idaho, ignition, moisture, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, precipitation, rate of spread, sloping terrain, smoke effects, statistical analysis, succession, wind, woody fuels, wildfires
Whether the goal is to improve wildlife habitat, gauge the effects of prescribed burns or wildfire, or assess the unaccustomed conditions and hidden dangers of fallen trees in the aftermath of hurricanes, a suite of tools developed by the Fire and Environmental Research…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: CONSUME, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, fuel loading, Natural Fuels Photo Series, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Digital Photo Series
We explore the impact of future climate change on the risk of forest and grassland fires over Australia in January using a high resolution regional climate model, driven at the boundaries by data from a transitory coupled climate model. Two future emission scenarios (relatively…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: climate change, Australia, fire risk
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) provides a web interface to a twice-daily, 40-year database of wind speed, mixing height and ventilation index for the United States at a spatial resolution of approximately 5km (Ferguson et al. 2003). This provides smoke…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: VCIS - Ventilation Climate Information System, wind speed, air quality
We present an overview of the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS), a tool that enables land managers, regulators, and scientists to create and catalogue fuelbeds and to classify those fuelbeds for their capacity to support fire and consume fuels. The fuelbed…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: crown fires, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, flaming combustion, residual combustion, smoldering combustion, fuelbeds, surface fire behavior, air quality, Artemisia spp., C - carbon, coniferous forests, duff, fire hazard, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel management, fuel types, Juniperus occidentalis, land management, lichens, litter, mosses, national forests, overstory, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, shrubs, surface fires, wildfires, woody plants
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) was completed with Joint Fire Science Program support in 2000 under a 1998-2000 project called, Assessing Values of Air Quality and Visibility at Risk from Wildiand Fires. It is a twice-daily, 30- year database of surface wind,…
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Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, risk assessment, VCIS - Ventilation Climate Information System, mixing height, surface wind, visibility, ventilation
The present paper proposes an original approach to estimate gaseous and particulate emissions from boreal forest fires based on the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction ( FBP) System. The FBP System permits calculation of fuel consumption and rate of spread for individual…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, distribution, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire management, forest management, gases, greenhouse gases, headfires, organic matter, particulates, precipitation, Quebec, rate of spread, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, wildfires, air quality, black carbon, climate change, greenhouse gas, particulate matter
In their classic article Allen and Gould (Allen, G.M., and E.M. Gould. 1986. Complexity, wickedness, and public forests. J. For. 84(4):20 -24) stated that the most daunting problems associated with public forest management had a ''wicked'' element: ''Wicked problems share…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: C - carbon, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, climate change, Idaho, land management, liability, Montana, mosaic, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, private lands, Pseudotsuga menziesii, smoke management, thinning, Washington, wicked problems, thinning
The need to understand how forest management practices affect soil CO2 exchange with the atmosphere (soil respiration) has increased with the recognition of a likely feedback effect of climate warming on soil respiration rates. Previous research addressing the mechanisms driving…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Abies concolor, Arctostaphylos patula, Calocedrus decurrens, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, Ceanothus cordulatus, coniferous forests, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, flame length, forest management, fuel management, microclimate, moisture, mortality, national forests, Nevada, pine forests, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, plantations, post fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Pteridium aquilinum, Ribes roezlii, scorch, Sequoiadendron giganteum , Sierra Nevada, site treatments, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil temperature, statistical analysis, temperature, understory vegetation, soil CO2 efflux, thinning, soil moisture, scorch height
At least three global-change phenomena are having major impacts on Amazonian forests: (1) accelerating deforestation and logging; (2) rapidly changing patterns of forest loss; and (3) interactions between human land-use and climatic variability. Additional alterations caused by…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Amazon, Brazil, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, deforestation, fire danger rating, fragmentation, hunting, hydrology, land use, logging, mining, multiple resource management, rainforests, rivers, roads, runoff, slash and burn, South America, Swietenia, tropical forests, wildfires
From the text (pp.6-7) ... 'Another [reason periodic low-intensity fires have ceased to provide forest and land maintenance] is the culture of fire suppression in America deliberately created in the early 20th century to promote a shift to intensive forestry and away from…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Hazard and Risk, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: age classes, air quality, artificial regeneration, backing fires, burning intervals, burning permits, C - carbon, competition, cover, crown scorch, duff, education, FEIS, fine fuels, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, hardwood forests, herbaceous vegetation, herbicides, ignition, land use, liability, light, litter, livestock, logging, mineral soils, mortality, N - nitrogen, north Florida, nutrient cycling, pine forests, pine, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus taeda, plant growth, population density, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, site treatments, slash, soil leaching, stand characteristics, suppression, Tall Timbers Research Station, thinning, trees, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, woody fuels