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Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, broadcast burning, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, coniferous forests, experimental areas, field experimental fires, fire intensity, firing techniques, fuel loading, fuel moisture, gases, heavy fuels, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, logging, particulates, pollution, Pseudotsuga menziesii, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, Washington
A major cooperative research effort between the Northern Region and the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station is devoted to the use and effects of prescribed fire. Prescribed fires in logging slash have been scheduled during the entire available burning season. A…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, biomass, distribution, elevation, fire intensity, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, logging, moisture, mountains, pollution, season of fire, seasonal activities, slash, sloping terrain, smoke behavior, temperature, topography, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wind
The AERONOX programme investigated the impact of NOx emissions from aircraft on the atmosphere and included an extensive modelling programme. In the model comparisons undertaken within the AERONOX programme, a standard set of emissions of NO from both aviation and non-aviation…
Person:
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, Asia, biomass, combustion, decomposition, deforestation, distribution, forest management, gases, grasslands, human caused fires, lightning, microorganisms, post fire recovery, rainforests, shrublands, soils, South America, statistical analysis, tropical forests, tundra, NOx, biomass burning, soils, lightning, troposphere, ammonia oxidation, fossil fuels, global emissions, inventories, AERONOX
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: air temperature, Australia, convection, dead fuels, eucalyptus, Eucalyptus sieberi, field experimental fires, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, ignition, leaves, live fuels, New South Wales, radiation, rate of spread, scorch, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, surface fuels, understory vegetation, wind
From the text ... 'The primary objective of prescribed burning on forest recreation areas in New Jersey is to reduce the probability of their destruction by wildfire. Investigation has shown that when uncontrolled fires enter treated areas they do much less damage and…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Economics, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, cover, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire hazard reduction, fire regimes, firing techniques, forest edges, forest types, histories, hunting, litter, mast, natural resource legislation, New Jersey, overstory, pine barrens, pine hardwood forests, post fire recovery, recreation, smoke management, species diversity (plants), state forests, succession, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, watersheds, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management
Germinable seed stores were measured in jarrah forest soils at six sites during one year. The overall mean seed content to a depth of 5 cm was 292 seeds m-². There was a significant seasonal difference, with a maximum of 435 seeds m-² in summer, after the majority of species in…
Person:
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia spp., Acacia pulchella, artificial regeneration, Bossiaea, Bossiaea aquifolium, chemical elements, convection, eucalyptus, germination, heat effects, jarrah, land management, legumes, litter, Mediterranean habitats, minerals, mining, plant physiology, population density, regeneration, sampling, seasonal activities, seed germination, seeds, smoke effects, soils, species diversity (plants), Trymalium ledifolium, western Australia, bauxite, forest, jarrah, mining, season, seed, seed-banks, soil
A computerized fire weather model coupled with a synoptic model is a powerful means of describing the weather part of the fire environment.
Person:
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, ash, fire danger rating, GIS - geographic information system, GPS - global positioning system, smoke behavior, wilderness fire management, wildfires
The independent effects of smoke, ash, and wet and dry heat treatments on seedling emergence from the soil seed bank were tested for soils from fire-prone heathy woodlands in western Victoria. A total of 763 individuals from 56 species were recorded from the surface soil samples…
Person:
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, ash, Australia, chemical elements, ecosystem dynamics, eucalyptus, Eucalyptus baxteri, fire intensity, fire sensitive plants, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, fuel types, germination, heat, land management, Leptospermum, Leucopogon, pH, phosphorus, population density, regeneration, sclerophyll forests, seed dormancy, seedlings, site treatments, smoke effects, soil nutrients, soils, Victoria
In response to pressing needs, a new, GIS-based approach is being developed by the University of Florida and the Division of Forestry. Called the Enhanced Open Burning Authorization and Wildfire Suppression System, it is still a prototype undergoing testing. The primary module…
Person:
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, fuel types, GIS - geographic information system, GPS - global positioning system, grasslands, land management, particulates, Pinus clausa, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, regeneration, smoke effects, smoke management, wetlands, wildfires
The Green Swamp is a 16,000 acre nature preserve located in the southeastern coastal plain of North Carolina. Owned by The Nature Conservancy, it is managed to protect the indigenous assemblage of plants and animals of the area. The swamp supports longleaf pine savannas…
Person:
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, bogs, coastal plain, fire intensity, fire management, firebreaks, fragmentation, fuel loading, hydrology, land management, longleaf pine, North Carolina, organic soils, Pinus palustris, plantations, pocosins, savannas, smoke management, soils, swamps, wildlife refuges
Total particulate matter (PM) emissions were estimated for recent fires (1979-1990) and the presettlement period (prior to 1935) in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (SEW) in Idaho and Montana. Recent period emissions were calculated by l0-day periods for surface fire and crown…
Person:
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: Abies grandis, air quality, coniferous forests, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel models, Idaho, Montana, natural resource legislation, Pinus ponderosa, presettlement fires, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Some of the highest tree mortality in the country is occurring in the forests of the Blue Mountains in northeastern Oregon. The frequency and magnitude of wildfire in the four national forests (six million acres) which comprise this area has increased dramatically over the last…
Person:
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, coniferous forests, conifers, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, low intensity burns, mortality, mountains, multiple resource management, national forests, natural resource legislation, Oregon, pine forests, pine, site treatments, slash, smoke management, wildfires
Wildland fires are an integral part of many ecosystems across North America; and these ecosystems often exhibit adaptations to periodic fire. These fire-adapted ecosystems are often termed fire-dependent, if recurring disturbances by fire are essential to the functioning of the…
Person:
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Northwest, Southern, International
Keywords: adaptation, air quality, Canada, charcoal, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, Florida, fuel accumulation, histories, liability, lightning, multiple resource management, natural resource legislation, Oregon, pine forests, public information, smoke management, trees, volcanoes, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife
Prescribed burning, an indispensable tool of forest management through-out much of the South, is accused of being an agent of air pollution. In some instances, a concerted effort is being made to restrict its use. Yet, no one has shown that air quality has deteriorated more in…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, combustion, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel accumulation, plant growth, pollution, public information, wildfires
From the summary ... ' In summary, the results of these large scale fire tests, conducted under marginal burning conditions, were negative; but, paradoxically, I find this very heartening, for we can now be much more confident in our predictions of fire behavior to be expected…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, chemistry, eucalyptus, fire intensity, fire whirls, flammability, fuel loading, ignition, litter, needles, nuclear winter, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, rate of spread, surface fires, temperature, topography, tropical forests, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text ... 'Several papers on concentrated fire vortices were presented at the 1967 Mass Fire Research Symposium in Washington, and the resulting discussion of dynamical effects on large fires due to organized vorticity ranged from the importance of rotation in fire…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: chaparral, conservation, Europe, fire case histories, fire management, fire whirls, Germany, mountains, physics, southern California, storms, vortices, Washington, wind
Although burning was originally intended as a control measure for blind seed disease in perennial ryegrass, growers soon discovered the benefits of open field burning for other grass seed crops.
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, cropland fires, disturbance, fertilizers, field experimental fires, grass fires, grasses, Lolium, Oregon, perennial plants, plant diseases, plant growth, season of fire, seasonal activities, seed production, seedlings
Emissions from burning the residue following grass-seed harvest have been determined by both field and laboratory studies. Field studies have been conducted by Oregon State University engineers on actual grass plots. The laboratory studies were conducted by scientists at the…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, annual plants, cropland fires, Dactylis glomerata, Festuca, fire management, grasses, Lolium multiflorum, Lolium perenne, Oregon, perennial plants, Poa, pollution
This report summarizes avaiable information on agricultural field burning in the Willamette Valley. Such information should be useful to all concerned with this practice and with the contribution it makes to air pollution in the state. The areas covered include background and…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, cropland fires, fire management, grasses, Lolium perenne, Oregon, perennial plants, pollution
'During the past year, burning treatments on the Miller Creek Block were essentially completed. Preparations for moving to Newman Ridge, on the St. Regis District, this spring are well underway. Current plans call for 16 instrumented fires on Newman Ridge during 1969 to conclude…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Economics
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, air quality, coniferous forests, duff, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, Idaho, logging, Montana, Pseudotsuga menziesii, roots, seedlings, slash, soil moisture, soil temperature, Tsuga heterophylla, US Forest Service, weather observations, wildlife
Current research on the effects of slash burning on air quality is concerned with the reduction or dispersal of gaseous emissions and particulates. Guidelines for accomplishing these goals are being developed. The use of other disposal methods is also under study, particularly…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, combustion, fire management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, histories, logging, mountains, Oregon, particulates, pollution, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, Washington, wildfires, wind
Biomass samples from a diverse range of ecosystems were burned in the Intermountain Fire Sciences Laboratory open combustion facility. Midinfrared spectra of the nascent emissions were acquired at several heights above the fires with a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (…
Person:
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass combustion, smoldering, infrared spectroscopy, canopy fire, FTIR - Fourier transform infrared absorption spectroscopy
The Fire Behavior Research Work Unit (RWU) of the Intermountain Research Station has been developing the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) since 1994. The WFAS will eventually combine the functionality of the current fire-danger rating system (Deeming et al. 1977) and the…
Person:
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire potential, WFAS - Wildland Fire Assessment System, fire danger rating, climatology, crown fires, fire frequency, fire intensity, fuel moisture, live fuels, Oklahoma, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires
The emissions from burning the residue following grass-seed harvest were determined by means of a combined laboratory-field study. Samples of the straw and stubble residue were burned in the laboratory burning tower at the University of California at Riverside. Complete analyses…
Person:
Year: 1969
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: grass, grass fire, laboratory fires, Oregon, PM - particulate matter, laboratory experiments, Willamette Valley, particulate emissions, agriculture, air quality, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical elements, Dactylis glomerata, experimental areas, Festuca, fire management, fire weather, fuel moisture, fuel types, ground cover, hydrocarbons, Lolium multiflorum, Lolium perenne, moisture, N - nitrogen, particulates, Poa spp., pollution, sampling, season of fire, seasonal activities, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, wind
A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM computes duff and woody fuel consumption, smoke production, and fire-caused tree mortality for most forest and rangeland types in the United States.…
Person:
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, tree mortality, duff, fuel consumption, air quality, bibliographies, computer program, cover, cover type, fire danger rating, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management planning, fire models, fuel moisture, mortality, particulates, smoke management, succession, US Forest Service, wildfires