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From the text ... 'Fire long has been an important subject of debate, stemming from the apparent contradiction between its controlled use in everyday life and its threats to life and property as uncontrolled wildfires. This paradox has been phrased very well as, 'Fire is a bad…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, Argentina, Europe, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, France, Komarek, E.V., Sr., Patagonia, pine forests, Portugal, rural communities, South America, suppression, wildfires
The effects of after-ripening (storage under warm, dry conditions) on seed germination was examined in six plant species from the arid zone of Western Australia with the aim of improving germination and germination rate for rehabilitation objectives. Study species (Acanthocarpus…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Anthocercis, Australia, deserts, Dioscorea, Eremophila, germination, humidity, moisture, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, seed germination, seed moisture, seeds, smoke management, temperature, Thryptomene, water, western Australia, wood, Zygophyllum, Australia, karrikinolide, seed dormancy
The Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system has been used by the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and Bureaus of the Department of the Interior since 2006 to evaluate wildfire potential across all administrative units in the continental US, and to…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, forest management, forest products, fuel accumulation, fuel management, Healthy Forests Restoration Act, landscape ecology, national forests, season of fire, surface fires, vegetation surveys, wildfires, decision support, landscape analysis, fire danger, fuels management, forest restoration
Revegetation of disturbed land, particularly in arid environments, is often hindered by low seedling establishment. Information on seed biology and germination cues of keystone species is lacking, particularly in arid Australia; a major zone for mining developments. This study…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia spp., Atriplex, Australia, conservation, Dioscorea, Eremophila, germination, keystone species, land management, Melaleuca, mining, Ptilotus, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, Solanum, water, western Australia, dormancy, karrikinolide, seed ecology
The smoke-derived butenolide, 3-methyl-2H-furo[2,3-c]pyran-2-one, is a simple organic compound that can increase both the level and rate of seed germination, widen the environmental range over which germination can occur and have a positive effect on seedling vigour.…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, Australia, chaparral, chemical compounds, fynbos, germination, plant growth, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, South Africa, weed control, weeds, butenolide, plant growth, seed germination
Prescribed burning has been used by the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation (DPR) since 1974 to reduce hazardous fuel loads, to restore/maintain specific habitats, and to preserve rare species populations within state parks, recreation areas, and natural areas.…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coastal plain, education, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, Georgia, liability, mountains, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, Piedmont, pine hardwood forests, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, recreation, savannas, South Carolina, state parks, Virginia, wildfires, fire-dependent communities, interagency burn team, state parks and natural areas
From the text ... 'While most of today's longleaf forests are found on public lands, having grown back from forests cut in the early 20th century, private landowners are taking a new look at the longleaf pine's drought-resistant qualities. A quiet longleaf revival is beginning…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: age classes, Aristida stricta, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, flowering, forest management, gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, grasses, ground cover, hardwood forests, hardwoods, insects, invasive species, keystone species, logging, longleaf pine, mortality, Native Americans, native species (plants), needles, north Florida, old growth forests, pine forests, pine, Pinus palustris, private lands, rate of spread, recreation, reptiles, sandhills, season of fire, seed production, seedlings, smoke effects, streams, understory vegetation, watershed management, watersheds, wildlife habitat management
From the text ... 'But first, before going into the future, I want to talk a little bit about the present and the past and in Florida. Over the last 10 years, Florida has burned, on average, about two million acres a year. That includes silviculture, agriculture, and land…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire size, agriculture, air quality, liability, public information, Florida, fire management, forest management, smoke management
A pair of three-day workshops were held in 2008 and 2009, designed for fire managers responsible for communicating and negotiating with state and local air quality regulators. The workshops were organized by the NWCG Smoke Committee, coordinated by the University of Idaho, and…
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Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality regulations, smoke management, collaboration
This report highlights significant research findings and accomplishments by scientists at the Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station during fiscal year 2008. The mission of the PNW Research Station is to generate and communicate scientific knowledge that helps people…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Aquatic
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Pacific Northwest Research Station, accomplishments report, key findings
Science continues to show the need for the use of prescribed fire in oak-dominated forests of the eastern United States. Fire is necessary to reduce competition by thin-barked species, allowing for the development of oak advance regeneration. Many agencies are beginning to apply…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: state forests, Division of Forestry, Ohio, oak-dominated communities, prescribed fire program, air quality, competition, deciduous forests, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, hardwood forest, oak, precipitation, Quercus, regeneration, season of fire, smoke management
Biomass consumption and CO2, CO and hydrocarbon gas emissions in an Amazonian forest clearing fire are presented and discussed. The experiment was conducted in the arc of deforestation, near the city of Alta Floresta, state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. The average carbon content of…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass consumption, gas emissions, Brazil, Amazonian forest fires, air quality, Amazon, biomass, biomass burning, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, deforestation, fire management, forest management, gases, hydrocarbons, ignition, moisture, particulates, precipitation, smoke management, statistical analysis, tropical forest, wildfires
This report details a procedure for identifying fuel loading models (FLMs) in the field. FLMs are a new classification system for predicting fire effects from on-site fuels. Each FLM class represents fuel beds that have similar fuel loadings and produce similar emissions and…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel loading, fire mapping, fuel classification, first-order fire effects, fuel classification key, fine fuels, fuel types, heavy fuels, air quality, biomass, duff, herbaceous vegetation, litter, soil temperature, fuel management, wildlife habitat management, chaparral, grasslands, shrublands
ANNOTATION: This paper provides results of modeling the effects of eight different fuel treatments on tree-based C storage and release over a century, with and without wildfire. Model runs show that, after a century of growth without wildfire, the control stored the most C.…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California
Keywords: forest management, wildfires, carbon emissions, carbon release, carbon storage, fuel treatment effects, Abies concolor, Abies magnifica, air quality, Calocedrus decurrens, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, climatology, coniferous forests, diameter classes, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, flammability, fuel management, pine, Pinus jeffreyi, Jeffrey pine, Pinus lambertiana, presettlement vegetation, Sierra Nevada, thinning
The Review and Update of the 1995 Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (January 2001) remains sound and presents a single cohesive federal fire policy for the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture. However, some issues associated with implementation of this policy need…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management planning
Policies have been enacted to encourage carbon (C) sequestration through afforestation, reforestation, and other silvicultural practices; however, the effects of wildfires on forest C stocks are poorly understood. We present information from Sierran mixed-conifer forests…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California
Keywords: Sierra Nevada, soils, carbon sequestration, mechanical treatment, mixed conifer, Abies concolor, air quality, Arbutus menziesii, Calocedrus decurrens, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, Chrysolepis sempervirens, coniferous forests, diameter classes, duff, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, forest products, fuel management, Lithocarpus densiflorus, litter, logging, mortality, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas-fir, Quercus kelloggii, reforestation, soil management, surface fuels, trees, wildfires
Landowners and managers, municipalities, the logging and livestock industries, and conservation professionals all increasingly recognize that setting prescribed fires may reduce the devastating effects of wildfire, control invasive brush and weeds, improve livestock range and…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, 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: human dimension, public relations, smoke management, mop up
A 39-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation describes North Carolina's smoke management program, the process of progressing from a voluntary smoke…
Person: Curcio
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, North Carolina, particulate matter (PM) concentrations, smoke management program
A 27-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation explains Arizona's Enhanced Smoke Management Program, the reasons for its development, and offers an…
Person: Sherron
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: air quality, air pollution, Arizona, haze, smoke management program
A 29-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation provides an overview of the need for managing for air quality in Arkansas, the elements of their smoke…
Person: McCorkle
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, Clean Air Act, non-attainment area, ozone, PM - particulate matter, smoke management, Arkansas, fine particles, smoke management plan
A 26-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. Describes Ohio's approaches to smoke management, fire laws, current fire and air qualities, issues, measures to address these…
Person: Bowden
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, non-attainment area, prescribed fire councils, smoke management, Ohio, Basic Smoke Management Practices
A 38-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation describes the purpose of Rx fire councils, provides an introduction to the Oklahoma (OK) prescribed Fire…
Person: O'Meilia
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire weather, prescribed fire councils, smoke dispersion
A 38-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation explains the regulations states must consider in developing their smoke management programs, definition…
Person: Sharp
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, Clean Air Act, climate change, haze, ozone, smoke management, smoke management program, exceptional event, public safety
A 47-minute presentation recorded in February 2009 as part of Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation describes fire activity and emission inventories, common sources of error in modeling and examples of…
Person: O'Neill
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, Gaussian Dispersion Models, non-attainment area, smoke behavior, dispersion models, trace gases, atmospheric chemistry, SMARTFIRE, EI - Emission Inventory
A 13-minute presentation recorded in February 2009 as part of Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. This presentation explains the effect of smoke on light and visibility and gives several examples of smoke affected view-…
Person: Wickman
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: light, aerosols, Clean Air Act, particle size, visibility, light scattering coefficient