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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, aerial ignition, Australia, bark, combustion, droughts, eucalyptus, European settlement, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, fuel accumulation, fuel appraisal, heat, presettlement fires, wildfires, wind
From the text ... 'Before we can begin working on a problem, we all need to understand its nature and scope. Fire is a problem that is usually easy to grasp, but wildfire has tended to occur in remote, less popluated areas, away from personal experience and the probing eye of…
Person:
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, combustion, duff, education, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire equipment, fire management, fire protection, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flame length, Florida, health factors, litter, logging, New Jersey, particulates, precipitation, smoke effects, urban habitats, wildfires
The public outcry about the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park and adjacent natural forests, coupled with concern among natural resource managers, convinced the Secretaries of the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to establish the Fire Management Policy Review Team in…
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel loading, fuel moisture, general interest, land management, lightning caused fires, national parks, prescribed fires (chance ignition), recreation, season of fire, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, Yellowstone National Park
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Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Africa, air quality, Asia, CO2 - carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, community ecology, deforestation, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire danger rating, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire suppression, forest management, general interest, climate change, Indonesia, land use, mortality, multiple resource management, Philippines, public information, South America, wilderness fire management, wildfires
A detailed set of data was compiled on 20 large fire whirlwinds observed at 27 prescribed burns conducted in Ontario. There appear to be two types of such whirlwinds: one occurs in pairs on the leeward side of the convection column and the other is created after the entire…
Person:
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, fire intensity, black spruce, Picea mariana, fire whirls, aerial ignition, convection, duff, energy, fire case histories, fire control, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire management planning, fire size, fire weather, fire whirls, forest management, fuel loading, ignition, logging, rate of spread, size classes, slash, smoke behavior, storms, temperature, vortices, weather observations, wind