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We have analyzed the soluble portion of impurities trapped in solid precipitation that accumulated at Summit (central Greenland) from 1193 A.D. to the present. Seventy-three ice layers show elevated concentrations of ammonium and formate, caused by high-latitude biomass burning…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: Greenland, ice cores, biomass burning, ion concentrations, boreal vegetation, paleoclimate
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:
We assessed the exposure of rural residents in the small community of Theobroma, Brazil, to the smoke generated from widespread agricultural and forest burning during August and September, 1995. Samples were collected for an 8-day period by using five battery powered personal…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Brazil, agricultural burning, forest burning, CO - carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, personal aerosol sampling pumps, benzene, respirable particles, biomass burning, Amazon, air quality
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: combustion, European settlement, fire management, Florida, forbs, grasses, grasslands, hardwoods, human caused fires, lightning, Native Americans, pine forests, regeneration, shrubs, smoke management, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, 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, firing techniques, Florida, smoke management
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates
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Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, smoke behavior, smoke management, wind
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Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, recreation, soil erosion, water quality
Major requirements for the effective use of presecribed fire are discussed together with a review of advantages and limitations. About 1.2 million ha are annually treated with prescribed fire in the South for site preparation, wildlife habitat improvement, reduction of wildfire…
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, forest management, particulates, site treatments, smoke management, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
The history of the Clean Air Act is reviewed from 1955 to 1980. The 1980 Visibility Regulation is cited as the first federal clean air policy which specifically addresses prescribed burning. Thirty-six states containing National Parks and Wilderness areas are now required to…
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, histories, land management, logging, national parks, smoke management, wilderness areas, wildlife
From the text...'Two studies recently looked at differences in impacts on National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and visibility from wildland fires (prescribed fire and wildfire). The First Study: was part of the analysis for the Columbia River Basin (CRB) Environmental…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, coniferous forests, fire management, fuel appraisal, fuel management, land management, Oregon, particulates, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, shrublands, smoke management, vegetation surveys, Washington, wildfires, wildlife
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Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Adenostoma, air quality, amphibians, biogeography, Ceanothus, chaparral, coastal vegetation, community ecology, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, grasslands, mammals, Mediterranean habitats, nongame birds, post fire recovery, reptiles, sclerophyll vegetation, small mammals, southern California, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), succession, wading birds, wildfires
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, ash, Asia, biomass, boreal forests, Canada, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chaparral, China, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire management, forest management, gases, greenhouse gases, human caused fires, CH4 - methane, ozone, post fire recovery, Russia, statistical analysis, tropical forests, wetlands, woody fuels
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
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Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, air quality, biomass, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, chaparral, chemical compounds, fire management, laboratory fires, national parks, ozone, pesticides, savannas, smoke management, South Africa, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: annual plants, artificial regeneration, chaparral, char, competition, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire management, fire size, floods, foliage, introduced species, Lolium multiflorum, mortality, native species (plants), plant communities, plant growth, post fire recovery, range management, regeneration, roots, sedimentation, seed dormancy, shrubs, species diversity (plants), wildfires
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Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, fire injuries (plants), fire management, flame length, rate of spread, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, temperature, wind
It is shown that similarity solutions in strong buoyant plumes (plant or axisymmetric) exist if a local characteristic turbulent diffusion coefficient varies inversely proportional to the square of the local gas density in the plume. The similarity formulation implies that the…
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: axis, flame length, gases, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature
From the text...'with good smoke control, field burning can even help the environment by reducing the need for pesticides.'
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, fire management, firing techniques, grasses, grasslands, Oregon, pesticides, plant diseases, seed production, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature, weeds
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
Combustion products of burning vegetation can increase seed germination of many species of fire-prone plant communities. We tested the influence of heating sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata Nutt.) subcanopy soil, aqueous extracts of artificially burned soil, and sagebrush smoke on…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Achnatherum, Artemisia tridentata, Bromus tectorum, combustion, Festuca idahoensis, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, germination, grass fires, grasses, grasslands, heat effects, Idaho, leaves, Nevada, plant communities, plant growth, Purshia tridentata, range management, rangelands, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, Sierra Nevada, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature
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...'Conclusions:..Our observations indicate that smoke alone will not necessarily drive spotted owls off their territories. Even fire in close proximity and very high levels of disturbance associated with fire-fighting failed to force the bullgrouse female to…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: Abies grandis, cavity nesting birds, coniferous forests, crown scorch, disturbance, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, firebreaks, forest management, lakes, land management, logging, mortality, Native Americans, old growth forests, Oregon, photography, Pinus ponderosa, post fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, salvage, smoke effects, Strix occidentalis, Washington, wildlife, wildlife habitat management