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The control of wildfires in forested areas may not always be a desirable objective since certain benefits can result that are important enough to warrant prescribed burning in some cases. Included in these benefits is the control of harmful insects and plant diseases and of…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Southern, International
Keywords: Alberta, arthropods, Canada, Coleoptera, coniferous forests, Dendroctonus, Diptera, diseases, ecosystem dynamics, Florida, forest management, habits and behavior, heat, heat effects, humus, insects, Melanophila, Odonata, Pantala flavescens, Picea, pine forests, plant diseases, smoke effects, species diversity, temperature, trees, wildfires, wood

The development of the smoke cloud from a summer wildfire in a forest area was studied on a radar screen. In conjunction with photographs taken at the same time, it has been possible to follow the variations in height of both the top and bottom of the smoke column as it was…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, chemistry, droughts, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire management, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, hardwood forests, national parks, photography, pine forests, rate of spread, smoke behavior, smoke management, spot fires, telemetry, topography, Victoria, wildfires, wind

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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, gases, particulates, smoke behavior, smoke management, western Australia

We report a study of three intense forest fires, all of area about 30 km2, in which convection extended to heights ranging from 2150 m to 4300 m. The observations taken comprise surface-level wind, temperature, and humidity; mean temperature, temperature fluctuations, and…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: jarrah, Australia, entrainment, Eucalyptus spp., turbulence, temperature gradient, wildfire, inflow

In preparing for this symposium, discussion inevitably turned to the many facets of wildfire in the subarctic which should be considered - material, philosophical, economic. Is fire detrimental to the environment? 'Are the practices which you employ in controlling wildfires (…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, ecology, natural resources, wildlife, smoke effects, rehabilitation, revegetation, taiga, Yukon, air quality, burning permits, Calamagrostis, community ecology, ecosystem dynamics, fire control, Eriophorum vaginatum, fire management, fire management planning, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flowering, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, land use, litter, Native Americans, particulates, plant communities, plant growth, pollution, roots, seedlings, soil moisture, tundra, waterfowl, wildlife habitat management, wildfires, woody plants

Although bush fires have been common in Australia for many thousands of years (cf. for example, Bermingham, Packham, and Vines, 1971) little is known about the smoke they produce. However, if the practice of prescribed burning - already employed as a routine method of reducing…
Person:
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, ash, Australia, brush, Eucalyptus marginata, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, gases, jarrah, light, Mediterranean habitats, N - nitrogen, particulates, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, vines, western Australia

Fire in a plant community causes alterations in the chemical status of the community and in the availability of nutrients in the soil. These changes have been followed in an experimental study of grassland and tall herb communities on the Carboniferous Limestone of Derbyshire.…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology
Region(s): International
Keywords: Agrostis tenuis, ash, calcium, chemical compounds, chemistry, drainage, Europe, Festuca ovina, Filipendula ulmaria, grasslands, Great Britain, Helictotrichon pratense, herbaceous vegetation, Holcus lanatus, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, nutrients, nutrition, phosphorus, plant communities, plant growth, plant nutrients, plant nutrition, post fire recovery, K - potassium, Rumex acetosa, runoff, sampling, soil leaching, soil nutrients, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, water