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Biomass combustion plays an important role in the earth's biogeochemical cycling. The monitoring of wildfires and their associated variables at global scales is feasible and can lead to predictions of the influence of combustion on biogeochemical cycling and tropospheric…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: thermal analysis, wildfires, biogeochemical cycles, biomass burning, remote sensing, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer

Soil was exposed to red phosphorous/butyl rubber (RP/BR) aerosols at various relative humidities in a recirculating environmental wind tunnel. Soil microbial and enzymatic activities were measured immediately after exposure and periodically thereafter for 56 days. The…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, chemistry, cropland fires, heat effects, humidity, microorganisms, nutrient cycling, pH, pollution, post fire recovery, smoke effects, soil organisms, soils, statistical analysis, toxicity, wildfires, wind

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel loading, Georgia, New England, pine forests, smoke management, Vaccinium, Vermont, wildfires

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, ash, distribution, experimental areas, field experimental fires, ground cover, Kansas, litter, Peromyscus maniculatus, population density, post fire recovery, prairies, sampling, season of fire, small mammals, smoke effects, statistical analysis, tallgrass prairies, trapping, wilderness areas, wildlife, wildlife habitat management

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, clearcutting, fire management, forest management, herbicides, histories, logging, multiple resource management, Oregon, site treatments, slash, smoke management

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Appalachian Mountains, balds, environmental impact statements, fire hazard reduction, fire management, hardwood forests, herbicides, mountains, multiple resource management, national forests, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, site treatments, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Apalachicola Bluffs, Calamintha dentata, Carex baltzellii, Croomia pauciflora, Florida, fungi, habitat conversion, Magnolia ashei, mast, Matelea, north Florida, pine, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, plant diseases, plant growth, reproduction, sandhills, seedlings, species diversity (plants), Taxus floridana, threatened and endangered species (plants), Torreya taxifolia, vegetation surveys

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, Alabama, burning intervals, coastal plain, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire growth, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, Florida, fuel appraisal, fuel management, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, national forests, North Carolina, Piedmont, rate of spread, season of fire, smoke management, South Carolina, Texas, wildfires

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: broadcast burning, duff, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, heat effects, humidity, litter, moisture, mopping up, multiple resource management, precipitation, smoke behavior, smoke effects, soil temperature, statistical analysis, temperature, weather observations, woody plants

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass, Chersina angulata, distribution, fire adaptations (animals), fire frequency, fire injuries (animals), flammability, fynbos, grass fires, grasses, grasslands, ground cover, heat effects, light, mortality, pioneer species, population density, post fire recovery, predators, rangeland fires, raptors, reptiles, South Africa, statistical analysis, succession, temperature, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, droughts, Florida, forest management, Georgia, land use, North Carolina, ozone, pine, plant growth, South Carolina, vegetation surveys, Virginia

(1)The behaviour of the August 1936 Galatea fire in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains was reconstructed with respect to the rate of spread, frontal-fire intensity and fuel consumption, and illustrates that tree mortality, seed dispersal distance into the burn and…
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, Alberta, Canada, conifers, crown fires, duff, elevation, fine fuels, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, fire suppression, fuel appraisal, fuel moisture, fuel types, habitat types, ignition, lightning caused fires, litter, moisture, montane forests, mortality, mountainous terrain, mountains, national parks, organic matter, overstory, Picea, Picea engelmannii, pine, Pinus contorta, plant growth, post fire recovery, radiation, rate of spread, regeneration, reproduction, sampling, seed dispersal, seed germination, site treatments, smoke behavior, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, subalpine forests, topography, trees, water, wildfires, wind

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, Erica hebecalyx, Erica sessiliflora, Ericaceae, fynbos, gases, heat effects, seed germination, seeds, South Africa

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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, ash, coastal vegetation, education, fire management, grasses, grasslands, grazing, litter, natural areas management, pollution, post fire recovery, prairies, public information, rangeland fires, rangelands, scrub, shrubs, soil nutrients, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), Tympanuchus, weed control, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fuel types, Ilex glabra, particulates, pine forests, Serenoa repens, smoke management, wind

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conifers, flammability, hardwoods, heat, heat effects, laboratory fires, Ohio, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus rubra, wood, wood properties

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, central Florida, Florida, pine forests

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: burning permits, fire intensity, fire management, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, liability, litter, live fuels, logging, pine forests, plant growth, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildlife management, wind

From the Summary and Conclusions (p.148-149) ... 'In conclusion, there are some basic considerations that must be recognized in evaluating the air-quality aspects of prescribed burning. Most obvious is the fact that we actually know very little about the effects of forest fires…
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, combustion, fire management, gases, land management, particulates, smoke management, wildfires

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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, Australia, European settlement, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, habitat conversion, hunting, presettlement fires, smoke effects, wildfires

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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, particulates, smoke management

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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, algae, Cladium jamaicense, cover type, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire size, Florida, fuel types, grasslands, laboratory fires, leaves, marshlands, moisture, organic matter, organic soils, peat fires, peatlands, pine forests, post fire recovery, prairies, precipitation, scrub, season of fire, size classes, south Florida, statistical analysis, Taxodium, vegetation surveys, water, wetlands, wind

From the text (p.8-9) ... 'Fire can be friend or foe depending upon how we use it. Our first inclination is to think of all wildfires as bad and all prescribed fires as good, but this isn't necessarily so. The main difference between the two is often really but one of intent.…
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal plain, fire management, fire suppression, hardwood forests, hardwoods, histories, landscape ecology, pine forests, Pinus, succession, US Forest Service, wildfires

From the text ... 'In the southern United States, we have learned to use fire as an effective, inexpensive tool for applying specific management treatments to our forests. Hazard or rough reduction is the principal use of prescribed fire, but seedbed and site preparation,…
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, combustion, fire hazard reduction, fuel management, Georgia, headfires, laboratory fires, litter, Pinus taeda, plantations, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife

From the text ... 'One area where great strides can be made is in the climatology of fire weather and its application to fire planning. Recent advances have been made in application of climatology to agriculture, and many of the same principles can be applied to forest fire…
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, education, fire control, fire danger rating, firing techniques, forest management, gases, histories, lightning caused fires, pollution, US Forest Service