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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Betula papyrifera, boreal forests, buds, Canada, carbon dioxide, Choristoneura fumiferana, coniferous forests, dendrochronology, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, evergreens, fire danger rating, fire intensity, foliage, forest management, histories, insects, Larix laricina, Malacosoma, Manitoba, needles, phenology, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, plant diseases, plant growth, Populus balsamifera, Populus tremuloides, prairies, precipitation, Pristiphora erichsonii, size classes, soil moisture, statistical analysis, temperature, vegetation surveys, wildfires, xeric soils
Forest-fire policy of U.S. federal agencies has evolved from the use of small patrols in newly created National Parks to diverse policy initiatives and institutional arrangements that affect millions of hectares of forests. Even with large expenditures and substantial…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire hazard, fire suppression, fuel management, forest policy, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, conservation, dead fuels, duff, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental assessment, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire size, forest management, fuel types, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, litter, National Fire Plan, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, Pinus contorta, lodgepole pine, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, public information, shrubs, smoke management, surface fires, thinning, threatened and endangered species, US Forest Service, vulnerable species or communities, wilderness fire management, woody fuels, wildfires, wildlife refuges
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the NASA Earth Observing System Terra and Aqua satellites provides global fire observations of unprecedented quality. This paper presents spatial and temporal distributions of active fires from 2001 and 2002, the…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: diurnal cycle, land cover, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, time series, satellite remote sensing, annual cycle, global fire activity, North America, South America, Africa, agriculture, Asia, Australia, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, evergreens, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, forest management, gases, climate change, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, natural areas management, population density, remote sensing, season of fire, savannas, shrublands, temperature, urban habitats, vegetation surveys, wetlands, wildfires
The geographic focus of the 'Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration' project (known as the Fuels Synthesis Project) is on the dry forests of the Western United States. Project goals include developing accessible analyses, protocols, and tools; writing peer-reviewed…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: dry forests, fuels management, fuels reduction