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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Appalachian Mountains, bibliographies, Calamagrostis cainii, community ecology, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, fungi, genetics, Great Smoky Mountains, introduced species, land management, multiple resource management, national parks, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, plant communities, plant growth, pollution, recreation, species diversity (plants), succession, Sus scrofa, Tennessee, threatened and endangered species (plants), vegetation surveys, vulnerable species or communities, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants
From the text: 'Basically this paper covers the information contained in the first part of Chapter 6. 'How to Manage Smoke' of the SOUTHERN FORESTRY SMOKE MANAGEMENT GUIDEBOOK. The chapter presents a logic sequence that guides the user through a series of decisions designed to…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, cover, fire protection, forest management, fuel types, grasses, Ilex glabra, litter, logging, needles, overstory, pine forests, Pinus, pollution, Serenoa repens, smoke management, wind
From the text: 'An introduction to the information needed and the procedure that should be followed to properly manage smoke from the prescription burning of forest fuel is presented. The information has been excerpted from Chapter VI of the Southern Forestry Smoke Management…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire protection, particulates, pine forests, pollution, smoke management
From the text: 'My prediction is that it will be necessary, for smoke management purposes, to go to complete regulation by State Forestry Agencies of all prescribed burning in order to save this critical forestry practice in the near future. I can assure you that none of the…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire protection, prescribed fires (escaped), smoke management, wildfires
From the summary ... 'Prescribed burning can be done with few adverse effects on air quality by employing recently developed smoke management techniques. Professionals who plan and direct prescribed burning activities try to avoid causing public inconvenience due to smoke.…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Alabama, Appalachian Mountains, arthropods, bibliographies, biogeography, burning permits, Carya, climax vegetation, coastal plain, competition, distribution, energy, fire hazard reduction, Florida, Fomes annosus, forest management, fuel management, Georgia, health factors, humus, insects, Kentucky, light burning, litter, livestock, Louisiana, mineral soils, Mississippi, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, Nyssa, organic matter, particulates, Piedmont, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plant diseases, prairies, Quercus, range management, reforestation, regeneration, site treatments, sloping terrain, smoke management, South Carolina, succession, Taxodium, Tennessee, Texas, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
In Mediterranean climates, the shrubby plant cover and the coniferous forest above it are vulnerable to frequent large fires. The fuelbreak, a strip of land in a strategic area-such as a ridgetop-where fuel modification and often type conversion can be accomplished, is an…
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: chaparral, fire management, fuelbreak, herbicide, fuel modification, type conversion, agriculture, air quality, annual plant, brush, conifers, cover, fire control, fire frequency, fire management planning, fire suppression, fuel types, grasses, fuel breaks, ground cover, habitat conversion, herbaceous vegetation, invasive species, land use, land use planning, Mediterranean habitats, perennial plant, pollution, range management, regeneration, shrubs, site treatments, topography, watershed management, wilderness fire management, wildfires, woody plants
Predictive equations for duff reduction and mineral soil exposure by prescribed fire are presented. An explanation is suggested for the dependence of duff combustion on surface fuel combustion. Surface fire duration and fuel moisture estimates of the National Fire-Danger Rating…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: duff, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, site preparation, air quality, chemistry, coniferous forests, dominance, fine fuels, erosion, fire danger rating, fire management, fire management planning, fire weather, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, heat, heat effects, ignition, mineral soil, post-fire recovery, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, regeneration, season of fire, seeds, site treatments, smoke management, soils, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, understory vegetation, water quality, Oregon, Washington