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This publication provides guidelines for planning and managing smoke from prescribed fires to:
Minimize ambient air quality impairment.
Prevent smoke from being carried to, or accumulating in, areas sensitive to smoke.
Recommend burning guidelines to supplement the regulations …
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords:
From the text ... 'Forest rangers and residents are trying to promote the benefits of using more prescribed burns to control wildfires throughout the state.... Every landowner wants to do more controlled burns, but they have tied our hands with regulations.'
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coniferous forests, droughts, fire control, fire injuries (animals), fire management, fire suppression (aerial), forest management, lightning caused fires, north Florida, prescribed fires (escaped), St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, wildfires
From the text...'The wildfires of 1998 brought another harsh reminder to the people of Florida of the power of natural hazards to destroy property, threaten safety, and cause untold human hardship. Overall, after the firestorm was finally extinguished, the event had caused one…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Chile, coastal forests, education, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire suppression, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, fuel management, histories, land management, logging, natural resource legislation, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, post fire recovery, public information, scrub, shrublands, smoke management, statistical analysis, tropical forests, US Forest Service, wildfires
From the text...'FOFEM 4.0-A First Order Fire Effects Model-is a computer program developed to meet the needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, fuel moisture, logging, mortality, post fire recovery, smoke management, wildfires
From the text...'In the past month and a half 2,214 wildfires (ninety percent of which were started by lightning) have consumed 497,209 acres in Florida. More than forty-five thousand people were evacuated from areas that lay in the path of these fires. Five hundred million…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, education, fire case histories, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, general interest, lightning, lightning caused fires, precipitation, public information, wildfires
Poster abstract...A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM was designed for application to most areas of the United States. First order fire effects are the immediate or direct results of a…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, cover, cover type, duff, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire management, fuel models, land management, mineral soils, mortality, Oregon, smoke effects, Washington, wildfires, wildlife, woody fuels
From the text...'Conditions contributing to Florida's firestorms are similar to problems plaguing Montana forests. Scenes of devastation underscore the need to better manage forests.'
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, education, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, Montana, public information, smoke effects, wildfires
From the text...'If you are not using a Public Information Officer on your prescribed burn projects, you should consider doing so. A PIO will provide a valuable service. As you scramble to get the needed resources, equipment and weather data, they can concentrate on informing…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, education, fire management, pH, public information
Smoke from forest fires in southern Mexico was advected into the U.S. southern plains from April to June 1998. Cloud-to-ground lightning (CG) flash data from the National Lightning Detection Network matched against satellite-mapped aerosol plumes imply that thunderstorms forming…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern, International
Keywords: air quality, droughts, fire danger rating, fire management, lightning, lightning effects, Mexico, smoke effects, smoke management, storms, Texas
For the first 35 years of the Florida State Park System, fire was vigorously suppressed on state park lands. During that time, hardwoods encroached into pinelands and grasslands, and fuel loads reached dangerously high levels. During 1970, Tall Timbers Research Station Director…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida, cover type conversion, education, evolution, fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, grasslands, habitat conversion, hardwoods, human caused fires, hydrology, invasive species, Komarek, E.V., Sr., land management, landscape ecology, liability, lightning, natural resource legislation, north Florida, pine forests, pine, Pinus palustris, plant communities, public information, range management, Sapium sebiferum, season of fire, smoke management, south Florida, state forests, state parks, Sus scrofa, Tall Timbers Research Station, wetlands, wildfires
This paper describes fire characteristics and the immediate effects of a prescribed, high-intensity burn on a 12.2 hectare portion of a stand of Ocala sand pine scrub. The fire team on the Seminole District, Ocala National Forest used the BEHAVE fire model to predict the…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Andropogon, backfires, catastrophic fires, Cladonia, crown fires, crowns, evergreens, fire intensity, fire management, firebreaks, Florida, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Galactia, headfires, humidity, lichens, light, litter, Lyonia ferruginea, mineral soils, moisture, national forests, needles, Ocala National Forest, overstory, Pinus clausa, Quercus chapmanii, Quercus geminata, Quercus laevis, Quercus myrtifolia, Rhynchospora megalocarpa, Sabal etonia, scrub, Serenoa repens, smoke management, snags, temperature, trees, understory vegetation, wind
The noble and heroic 'paradigm' in wildland fire protection is the firefighter who protects forest and other wildlands from attack by fire. The driptorch-lugging prescribed burner carries few of the heroic trappings of suppression personnel. In this paper, we describe the…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, Chapman, H.H., coniferous forests, droughts, education, evolution, fire case histories, fire protection, fire suppression, Florida, histories, national forests, Oregon, public information, smoke effects, Stoddard, H.L., trapping, wilderness fire management, wildlife refuges
Florida's natural communities evolved under the influence of frequent, low-intensity lightning fires. Many communities require such fires for continued existence. Fire managers must contend with the increasing pressure of a burgeoning population. The state's population increases…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: central Florida, education, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, Florida, land management, lightning, low intensity burns, north Florida, public information, smoke effects, smoke management, south Florida, wildfires
From the Introduction...'The wildlands of Dade County, including pine rocklands, and coastal and freshwater marshes, are an endangered resource; only 4 percent of the original extent of pine rocklands remain outside Everglades National Park. Metro Dade County Departments of…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, burning permits, conservation, education, everglades, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, Florida, forest management, fuel management, land management, liability, marshes, marshlands, multiple resource management, national parks, natural resource legislation, pine forests, public information, recreation, rocky habitats, smoke management, south Florida, state parks, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), urban habitats, vulnerable species or communities, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife
Prescribed fire is an indispensable tool used by the Florida Chapter of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in stewardship of its preserves. The inherent complexity associated with utilizing fire effectively, however, poses numerous challenges. To help understand and learn from fire's…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: computer programs, education, fire frequency, fire management, Florida, GIS, histories, ignition, post fire recovery, scrub, smoke management, south Florida, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), topography
From the Abstract...'Over the last eight years Miami-Dade County DERM has been trying to organize and increase the use of prescribed fire. Two years ago, at the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Initiative, talk focused around pine rockland endangered species. After much…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, education, fire management, firebreaks, Florida, herbicides, liability, natural areas management, pine forests, private lands, public information, rocky habitats, smoke management, south Florida, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: education, fire frequency, fire management, Florida, public information, season of fire, smoke management, south Florida, threatened and endangered species
The use of prescribed fire in the wildland/urban interface is one of the greater challenges facing land managers today. Ecological goals must be balanced with political and societal constraints, such as laws and regulations and public perceptions regarding fire. Successful (or…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California, Eastern, Southern
Keywords: education, fire management, New York, public information, smoke management, south Florida
From the Abstract: 'Fire managers face various problems, including: A. Classic urban interface issues. 1. Endangerment of private property, especially structures. 2. Air quality and smoke management. 3. Loss of cost-effectiveness by managing fire on extremely small parcels. B.…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, education, fire management, Florida, fragmentation, introduced species, Pinus, public information, rocky habitats, smoke management, south Florida, wildlife
From the Abstract...'The park has been using prescribed fire to manage slash pine savannas since 1958 when it started the first prescribed fire program in the National Park Service, and it continues to be the primary resource management tool. Prescribed fire operations have…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: everglades, fire exclusion, fire injuries (plants), fire management, flank fires, fuel loading, grasses, hammocks, hardwood forests, hardwood hammocks, headfires, introduced species, mortality, Pinus elliottii densa, savannas, scorch, season of fire, slash, slash pine, smoke management, south Florida, species diversity, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants)
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, Europe, Finland, fire case histories, fire exclusion, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, national forests, national parks, rural communities, Russia, suppression, wilderness fire management, wildfires
This policy statement has been prepared in response to plans by some Federal, tribal and State wildland owners/managers to significantly increase the use of wildland and prescribed fires to achieve resource benefits in the wildlands. Many wildland ecosystems are considered to…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Outreach, 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, fire management, air pollution, smoke management, visibility, smoke management plan, air quality management
ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery, and ecological fire regime…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire regimes, climate change, emission estimates, biomass burning, pre-industrial conditions, Adenostoma, agriculture, biomass, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chaparral, coastal plain, Appalachian Mountains, coniferous forests, cropland fires, croplands, deserts, ecotones, ecology, everglades, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire regimes, fuel loading, fuel models, grasslands, grazing, habitat types, Juniperus, land use, landscape ecology, logging, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus ponderosa, pocosins, prairie, presettlement fires, Prosopis, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus, remote sensing, rural communities, savannas, scrub, shrub fuels, shrublands, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
A large forest fire occurred about 300 km to the northeast of the Edmonton area in early summer 1995. The forest fire produced nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and ozone which were transported down-wind. Continuous monitoring of O3, NO and NO2 and integrated measurements of…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Alberta, Canada, fire management, hydrocarbons, N - nitrogen, ozone, pollution, smoke management, urban habitats, wildfires, forest fire, ozone, photochemical smog, urban and rural pollution, air quality
Despite increasing temperatures since the end of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1850), wildfire frequency has decreased as shown in many field studies from North America and Europe. We believe that global warming since 1850 may have triggered decreases in fire frequency in some regions…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: boreal forests, Canada, climate model, global change, Europe, Abies balsamea, age classes, Alberta, Betula spp., bibliographies, CO2 - carbon dioxide, climatology, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Finland, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, climate change, grasslands, histories, humidity, Iva, Lake States, land use, Minnesota, Montana, New Brunswick, North Dakota, Norway, Ontario, Picea spp., pine hardwood forests, Pinus spp., population density, Populus spp., precipitation, Quebec, Rocky Mountains, Scandinavia, season of fire, South Dakota, species diversity, succession, Sweden, temperature, Vermont, wildfires, wind, Wyoming