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The history and development of ecologically-based fire management policies in savanna protected areas during the 20th century are reviewed. Research on fire in savannas began in the 1950s, and from the 1980s onwards, managers of savanna protected areas experimented on large…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, CO2 - carbon dioxide, conservation, evolution, fire management, fire regimes, histories, Loxodonta africana, mammals, national parks, precipitation, range management, savannas, South Africa, wildfires, adaptive management, enrichment, elephants, heterogeneity
Historical range of variation (HRV) has been used as a conceptual tool to determine appropriate management actions to sustain or restore diversity of ecological systems. This concept has come into question for both biological and social considerations, and the southeastern…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: cavity nesting birds, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, disturbance, fine fuels, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, forest fragmentation, forest management, fragmentation, fuel management, game birds, Georgia, grasslands, histories, human caused fires, Jones Ecological Research Center, land use, logging, low intensity burns, Native Americans, nongame birds, Picoides borealis, pine, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, savannas, soil management, species diversity (plants), threatened and endangered species (animals), understory vegetation, wetlands, disturbances, fire regimes, historical, future range of variability, legacies, rareness, social acceptability, species richness
Long-range transported particulate matter (PM) air pollution episodes associated with wildfires in the Eastern Europe are relatively common in Southern and Southeastern Finland. In severe cases such as in August-September 2002, the reduced visibility and smell of the smoke, and…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Belarus, biomass, combustion, diseases, Europe, Finland, fire case histories, fire management, health factors, light, mortality, particulates, pollution, Russia, smoke effects, smoke management, toxicity, Ukraine, wildfires, PM2.5, mortality, uncontrolled biomass combustion, long-range transport, forest fire
Renewable energy sources are expected to represent a growing proportion of the primary energy sources for the production of electricity. Environmental and social reasons support this tendency. European and Spanish energy plans assign a role of primary importance to biomass in…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, biomass, carbon dioxide, energy, Europe, fire frequency, fire management, flammability, forest management, fuel models, fuel types, population density, scrub, shrublands, Spain, wildfires, external effects, CO2 emissions, employment, energy dependence, forest fires, Spain
We evaluate the fine-grain age patch model of fire regimes in southern California shrublands. Proponents contend that the historical condition was characterized by frequent small to moderate size, slow-moving smoldering fires, and that this regime has been disrupted by fire…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: age classes, BEHAVE, chaparral, distribution, droughts, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firebrands, flammability, Foehn winds, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, ignition, mosaic, range management, scrub, shrublands, southern California, suppression, wildfires, wind, 19th century, Baja California, chaparral, fine-grain age patch mosaic, high-intensity fires, megafires, sage scrub, Santa Ana winds
The past decade has seen an increasing interest in forest management based on historical or natural disturbance dynamics. The rationale is that management that favours landscape compositions and stand structures similar to those found historically should also maintain…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: age classes, Canada, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, distribution, disturbance, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, logging, old growth forests, Quebec, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, wildfires
From the text ... 'Once fires are established on the western portion of the Klamath National Forest, the pattern becomes a long-term commitment of resources, overhead teams, and expenditures.... When it comes to what to do with the Wooley Fire, there is no shortage of issues and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: fire case histories, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, health factors, ignition, national forests, northern California, public information, rate of spread, smoke effects, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildfires, wildlife habitat management
From the text ... 'One of the challenges for all smoke dispersion and impact models is to characterize the accuracy of their prediction of smoke trajectories, concentration of pollutants, and duration of impacts.... Understanding the needs and requirements of the model users is…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, Georgia, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, wildfires
The South is the birthplace of statutes and ordinances that both advocate and protect the cultural heritage of woods burning, which has been practiced in this region uninterrupted for more than 10,000 years. We present a brief overview of fire use in the South and discuss why…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: community ecology, coniferous forests, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire adaptations (plants), fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, Georgia, hardwood forests, land management, liability, natural resource legislation, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, smoke management, Smokey Bear program, Tall Timbers Research Station, wildfires, wood
Over the last century, fire exclusion in the forests of the Sierra Nevada has allowed surface fuels to accumulate and has led to increased tree density. Stand composition has also been altered as shade tolerant tree species crowd out shade intolerant species. To restore forest…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Abies concolor, air quality, bark, Calocedrus decurrens, char, coniferous forests, Cornus nuttallii, Dendroctonus ponderosae, Dendroctonus valens, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, insects, Ips, moisture, mortality, Nevada, old growth forests, phenology, pine, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, population density, Quercus kelloggii, Scolytus ventralis, scorch, season of fire, Sierra Nevada, size classes, statistical analysis, surface fuels, trees, Abies spp., Pinus, Dendroctonus, Scolytus, bark beetle
Previous research has found that exposure to fire-related cues enhances germination of some plant species, and such species may exist in frequent-fire southwestern United States Pinus ponderosa forests. I performed four greenhouse experiments with Penstemon barbatus, a perennial…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: germination, seeds, Penstemon barbatus, Adenostoma fasciculatum, Arizona, char, coniferous forests, fire frequency, fire management, forbs, forest management, Grevillea spp., heat effects, perennial plant, Pinus ponderosa, plant ecology, presettlement fires, Schizachyrium scoparium, season of fire, seed germination, smoke effects, smoke management, soil temperature, soils, statistical analysis
From the introduction: Let me emphasize that I only claim to speak with authority about the task of restoring fire to the National Forests. Private landowners have their own special problems in using prescribed fire, size of forest tracts, lack of expertise, etc. Before we can…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: eastern forests, fire management, historic fire use, public education, oak forests, prescribed fire program, catastrophic fires, education, fire frequency, fire size, forest management, grasslands, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, Native Americans, public information, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
During 2005, the USDA Forest Service celebrated its Centennial, recognizing 100 years of successfully caring for the land and serving people. The Rocky Mountain Research Station has been, and continues to be, an integral part of the Forest Service mission, dating back to the…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: Forest Service, research, Rocky Mountain Research Station
ANNOTATION: This paper provides results of modeling the effects of eight different fuel treatments on tree-based C storage and release over a century, with and without wildfire. Model runs show that, after a century of growth without wildfire, the control stored the most C.…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California
Keywords: forest management, wildfires, carbon emissions, carbon release, carbon storage, fuel treatment effects, Abies concolor, Abies magnifica, air quality, Calocedrus decurrens, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, climatology, coniferous forests, diameter classes, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, flammability, fuel management, pine, Pinus jeffreyi, Jeffrey pine, Pinus lambertiana, presettlement vegetation, Sierra Nevada, thinning
Fire in the boreal forest renews forest stands and changes the ecosystem properties. The successional stage of the vegetation determines the radiative budget, energy balance partitioning, evapotranspiration and carbon dioxide flux. Here, we synthesize energy balance measurements…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, eddy-covariance method, forest fire, albedo, brown ratio, climate change, energy balance, evapotranspiration, radiation
From the Foreword ... 'This conference proceedings is also the best evidence of a grand, energetic conversation that the fires of 1988 launched. Among these many voices you will hear a tale much more complex than the saga of 1988 first revealed. It takes time to stand back far…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, Canada, C - carbon, charcoal, crown scorch, education, fire case histories, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, flame length, fuel management, fuel types, insects, landscape ecology, Mexico, mortality, national parks, nutrient cycling, overstory, public information, remote sensing, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
Area burned is one of four primary parameters necessary for estimating biomass burning emissions, and it is a parameter than remains illusive, particularly if we include all area burned. In this report, we compare the intensive 2002 ground-based data for the western United…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, biomass, biomass burning, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, Colorado, ENSO, fire case histories, fire management, fire size, forest management, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, private lands, range management, rangelands, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, wildfires, Wyoming
Studies of restoration ecology are well established for northern peatlands, but at an early stage for tropical peatlands. Extensive peatland areas in Southeast Asia have been degraded through deforestation, drainage and fire, leading to on- and off-site environmental and socio-…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, Borneo, C - carbon, community ecology, cover, deforestation, diameter classes, drainage, droughts, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire scar analysis, fire size, forbs, greenhouse gases, hydrology, Indonesia, Kalimantan, land use, moisture, peat, peatlands, population density, regeneration, savannas, seedlings, Southeast Asia, succession, tropical regions, vegetation surveys, water, watershed management, watersheds, wildfires, tropical peatland, restoration ecology, peatland degradation, land cover change, hydrology, greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable livelihoods
Natural fires annually decimate up to 1% of the forested area in the boreal region of Quebec, and represent a major structuring force in the region, creating a mosaic of watersheds characterized by large variations in vegetation structure and composition. Here, we investigate…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Betula papyrifera, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, drainage, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, lakes, mosaic, nutrient cycling, nutrients, organic matter, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, Populus tremuloides, Populus trichocarpa, Quebec, succession, water, watershed management, watersheds, wildfires, boreal, carbon dioxide flux, forest fire, lakes, organic carbon, plankton respiration, watershed
Bushfire fighting is a hazardous occupation and control strategies are generally in place to minimize the hazards. However, little is known regarding firefighters' exposure to bushfire smoke, which is a complex mixture of toxic gases and particles. In Australia, during the…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, cover, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, fuel moisture, gases, health factors, hydrocarbons, ignition, Northern Territory of Australia, particulates, pollution, season of fire, smoke management, southern Australia, spot fires, statistical analysis, suppression, Tasmania, topography, toxicity, vegetation surveys, Victoria, wildfires, bushfire, respirable particles, respiratory irritants, personal exposure, health
We report measurements and analysis of a boreal forest fire, integrating the effects of greenhouse gases, aerosols, black carbon deposition on snow and sea ice, and postfire changes in surface albedo. The net effect of all agents was to increase radiative forcing during the…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Models
Region(s): Alaska, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerosols, boreal forests, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire management, fire regimes, forest management, gases, climate change, greenhouse gases, ozone, Picea mariana, post fire recovery, precipitation, radiation, statistical analysis, wildfires
To assess the contribution of biomass burning to the emissions of atmospheric trace species in China, we estimated various biomass-burning activities using statistical data, survey data, expert estimates and a satellite data set. Fuel wood and crop residue burned as fuel and in…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Asia, biomass, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, China, croplands, fire management, grasslands, wildfires, wood, woody fuels, biofuel, forest fires, fate of crop residue, field burning
Observations of aerosol physical, chemical, and optical properties made at 38 locations in Washington, Oregon, and California are presented to show the regional-scale influence of wildfire smoke during the summer of 2002. Aerosol measurements made during an intensive field…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, fire management, light, Nevada, Oregon, K - potassium, season of fire, Sierra Nevada, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, Washington, wildfires, wind, Yosemite National Park, aerosol, regional scale, haze, C - carbon, wildland fire
Throughout August and September, 2003, wildfires burned in close proximity to Missoula, Montana, with smoke emanating from the fires impacting the valley for much of the summer. This presented the perfect opportunity to measure the levels of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: air quality, C - carbon, droughts, fire management, foam, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, Montana, particulates, season of fire, smoke management, wildfires, elemental carbon, forest fire, dioxins, organic carbon, PM2.5
Prescribed fires are likely to re-emit atmospherically deposited mercury (Hg), and comparison of soil Hg storage in areas affected by prescribed fire to that in similar unburned areas may provide cross-validating estimates of atmospheric Hg deposition. Prescribed fires are…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: mercury emissions, podzolic soils, Spodosols, Florida, mercury deposition, air quality, C - carbon, coastal plain, fire management, fire regimes, forest management, Ilex glabra, longleaf pine, Hg - mercury, needles, N - nitrogen, Osceola National Forest, Pinus palustris, Serenoa repens, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, soil management, soil nutrients, soils, statistical analysis, understory vegetation