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The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) is using high intensity fire to perpetuate fresh-water marsh on Sanibel Island. Shrubs are invading the marsh because of the decreased hydroperiod. A policy of fire conclusion was followed until 1971 when a destructive wildfire…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Aquatic, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Casuarina equisetifolia, catastrophic fires, competition, conservation, disturbance, droughts, education, fine fuels, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, firebreaks, Florida, fuel accumulation, introduced species, invasive species, litter, marshes, nutrient cycling, plant communities, public information, shrubs, smoke management, species diversity (animals), wildfires

Various studies report changes in phosphorus and nitrogen concentrations in surface waters after wildfires; however, we have found no reports which include nutrient data collected during actual wildfire activity. We had an opportunity to collect water chemistry data from several…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: ash, catastrophic fires, chemistry, fire intensity, gases, hydrology, leaching, lightning caused fires, Montana, N - nitrogen, nutrients, particulates, phosphorus, pine forests, Pinus contorta, plant diseases, post fire recovery, sampling, smoke effects, streams, volatilization, water, watershed management, watersheds, wildfires, wind

The effects of a late-summer prescribed burn on the chemistry of a second-order mountain stream in the south-western Cape, South Africa, were investigated. Nitrate concentrations in stream water were significantly higher during the winter of the post-burn year. Increased…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, calcium, chemical elements, chemistry, hydrogen, magnesium, mountains, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, nutrients, K - potassium, precipitation, runoff, soil nutrients, South Africa, streams, water, water quality