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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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Person:
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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Person:
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
(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…
Person:
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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Person:
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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Person:
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
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Person:
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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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, fine fuels, fire frequency, fire management, fuel loading, gases, particulates, remote sensing, smoke management, biomass burning emissions modeling, remote sensing, fuel consumption
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, artificial regeneration, ecotones, fynbos, geology, grazing, herbicides, litter, Medicago sativa, Mediterranean habitats, native species (plants), natural areas management, old fields, overstory, perennial plants, plowing, population density, seed germination, seeds, sloping terrain, smoke effects, soils, South Africa, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, succulents, wilderness areas, nature reserve, plough plus seed treatments
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: aborigines, agriculture, air quality, Australia, backfires, Canada, chaparral, chemical compounds, coniferous forests, distribution, fire adaptations (plants), fire management, fire suppression, forage, forest management, forest products, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, human caused fires, hunting, land management, land use, lightning caused fires, mammals, National Fire Plan, national parks, Native Americans, Northern Territory of Australia, Pinus ponderosa, plant growth, presettlement fires, regeneration, seed dormancy, seed germination, smoke effects, sprouting, US Forest Service, wildfires
Combustion of woody material produces and releases water, but the effects of this water on the atmospheric circulation created by a wildfire are rarely recognized, let alone understood. This paper presents observational data and basic physical arguments to support the hypothesis…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Arizona, Canada, combustion, convection, evapotranspiration, fire management, flame length, Florida, fuel moisture, heat, Idaho, Michigan, military lands, Minnesota, moisture, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Ontario, smoke management, South Carolina, statistical analysis, temperature, Washington, water, wildfires, wood chemistry
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Colorado, crown fires, distribution, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire whirls, flame length, Florida, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, GIS, grasses, heat, heavy fuels, humidity, litter, overstory, photography, rate of spread, statistical analysis, surface fires, topography, understory vegetation, wildfires, wind
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, combustion, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, fuel appraisal, fuel management, GIS, season of fire, smoke management, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Betula papyrifera, boreal forests, buds, Canada, carbon dioxide, Choristoneura fumiferana, coniferous forests, dendrochronology, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, evergreens, fire danger rating, fire intensity, foliage, forest management, histories, insects, Larix laricina, Malacosoma, Manitoba, needles, phenology, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, plant diseases, plant growth, Populus balsamifera, Populus tremuloides, prairies, precipitation, Pristiphora erichsonii, size classes, soil moisture, statistical analysis, temperature, vegetation surveys, wildfires, xeric soils
A modeling framework has been developed to examine the spatial and temporal aspects of biomass burning emissions from southern African savanna fires. The complexity of the fire emissions processes is described using a spatially and temporally explicit model that integrates…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fuel loading, fuel moisture, air quality, cover, gases, remote sensing, statistical analysis, Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Africa, fire management, forest management, fuel management, grasslands, savannas, African savannas, biomass burning, OVOC - oxygenated volatile organic compounds, seasonal trace gas emissions, sensitivity analysis
The following list of research topics was generated by agencies within AWFCG during 2005. The topics were ranked originally by the AWFCG Fire Research and Development Committee (FRDAC) and finally by the AWFCG members. Ranking was as follows: 3= high, 2 = medium, 1= low (or H…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords:
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass, Canada, droughts, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Indonesia, land use, litter, Malaysia, pollution, remote sensing, smoke effects, spot fires, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires, fire management, tropical forest management, vegetation fires, forest fires, land fires, hotspots, fire detection
From the text ... 'Prescribed burning is a significant source of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the southeastern United States. However, limited data exist on the emission characteristics from this source. Various organic and inorganic compounds both in the gas and particle…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, chemical compounds, chemistry, coniferous forests, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, gases, Georgia, military lands, nongame birds, particulates, Picoides borealis, pine forests, smoke management, soil organisms, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildfires, wood, Fort Benning, FORT GORDON, levoglucosan, POC - Particulate Organic compound, VOC - volatile organic compounds
Biologicaily rich savannas and woodlands dominated by Pinus palustris once dominated the southeastern U.S. landscape. With European settlement, fire suppression, and landscape fragmentation, this ecosystem has been reduced in area by 97%. Half of remnant forests are not burned…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: Acer rubrum, Alabama, Carya pallida, Carya tomentosa, char, combustion, community ecology, competition, coniferous forests, conservation, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, European settlement, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, Georgia, Liquidambar styraciflua, litter, longleaf pine, Louisiana, Magnolia grandiflora, military lands, mineral soils, mortality, mycorrhiza, national forests, native species (plants), natural areas management, north Florida, Nyssa sylvatica, organic matter, overstory, pine, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus elliottii densa, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plant communities, plant physiology, population density, population ecology, post fire recovery, Prunus serotina, Quercus geminata, Quercus hemisphaerica, Quercus incana, Quercus laevis, Quercus margaretta, Quercus marilandica, Quercus nigra, roots, savannas, scorch, smoke effects, South Carolina, stand characteristics, state parks, suppression, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, wildfires, ecological restoration, fire suppression, longleaf pine, smoldering duff combustion, fire reintroduction
Traveling the borderland between modern Montana and the endless expanse of what's now known as southern Alberta. Still smoking all around, the explorer notes: 'grass having been lately burnt,' 'grass nearly all burnt,' 'grass yet burning.' For days, his journals are filled with…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Northern Rockies, International
Keywords: Alberta, Canada, community ecology, digital data collection, ecosystem dynamics, education, European settlement, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, general interest, grasses, grasslands, histories, hunting, landscape ecology, light, lightning, Montana, mortality, mountains, Native Americans, presettlement fires, public information, succession, suppression, wildfires, wildlife, wood, woody fuels, fire culture, MYTHOLOGY, TRIBAL FORESTERS, VIRTUAL FORESTS
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies balsamea, adaptation, age classes, arachnids, arthropods, boreal forests, Calathus ingratus, Canada, Carabidae, Cladium, clearcutting, Coleoptera, community ecology, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, forest management, grasslands, ground cover, habitat suitability, habitat types, habits and behavior, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, histories, insects, invertebrates, Kalmia angustifolia , landscape ecology, Larix laricina, Ledum groenlandicum, lichen moss fuels, lichens, logging, mortality, mosses, Picea mariana, population density, population ecology, Quebec, regeneration, reproduction, soils, statistical analysis, temperature, trapping, understory vegetation, Vaccinium, wildfires, xeric soils, boreal forest, community response, disturbance, forest fire, ground beetles, logging, fire-prone landscapes, PTEROSTICHUS BREVICORNIS
From the text ... 'The August 2004 issue of the Canadian Journal of forest Research (volume 34[8]) is devoted to a special topic: 'The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in Canada's Northwest Territories: Advancing the Science of Fire Behaviour.' Running from…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, charcoal, crown fires, experimental fires, fire management, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel types, histories, Northwest Territories, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, regeneration, sedimentation, Tall Timbers Research Station, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife
From the text ... 'In Federal land management, ecological restoration has emerged in recent years as an alternative to the intensive management for commercial resource extraction widely practiced following World War II and the passive management -- 'letting Nature heal herself…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: Abies spp., Arizona, community ecology, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fuel appraisal, histories, Juniperus, land management, Larix occidentalis, national forests, Native Americans, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus edulis, Pinus ponderosa, plant communities, Populus, private lands, Sequoiadendron giganteum , smoke behavior, state forests, threatened and endangered species (plants), Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Wetlands dominated by flora of the Gramineae and Cyperaceae, such as fens and sedge meadows, have been shown to be fire dependent or fire related in their natural history as well as their community composition and structure. Prescribed burning is therefore a useful and often…
Person:
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: Alnus rugosa, Betula sandbergii, bogs, burning intervals, Calamagrostis canadensis, Carex stricta, community ecology, conservation, Cornus stolonifera, Cyperaceae, education, fire dependent species, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Gramineae, grasslike plants, ground cover, histories, humidity, ignition, introduced species, invasive species, land management, Larix laricina, moisture, mortality, natural areas management, openings, overstory, plant communities, public information, resprouting, Salix, season of fire, shrubs, species diversity (plants), succession, temperature, water, wetlands, wildlife refuges, wind, Wisconsin, woody plants
Forest-fire policy of U.S. federal agencies has evolved from the use of small patrols in newly created National Parks to diverse policy initiatives and institutional arrangements that affect millions of hectares of forests. Even with large expenditures and substantial…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire hazard, fire suppression, fuel management, forest policy, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, conservation, dead fuels, duff, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental assessment, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire size, forest management, fuel types, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, litter, National Fire Plan, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, Pinus contorta, lodgepole pine, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, public information, shrubs, smoke management, surface fires, thinning, threatened and endangered species, US Forest Service, vulnerable species or communities, wilderness fire management, woody fuels, wildfires, wildlife refuges