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Fire Science Research Work Unit accomplishments 1980-1984 are summarized and publications listed. Current fire behavior and fire effects investigations are briefly described.
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: adaptation, aerial ignition, artificial regeneration, dead fuels, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, firing techniques, flame length, Florida, forest management, fuel moisture, fuel types, Georgia, heavy fuels, loblolly pine, longleaf pine, North Carolina, organic soils, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plant growth, plantations, research, slash pine, smoke management, spot fires, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, wildfires

From the text:'It*s imperative you have the right messages to explain and justify "prescribed burning.” The messages must be tailored to the audiences you need to reach and be adapted to the delivery system you use to send the messages. All three elements are important — the…
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: burning permits, conservation easements, education, fire suppression, land management, logging, public information, reforestation, smoke management, wildlife habitat management

In 1983 the most severe fire in Victorian mountain forests for over forty years killed extensive areas of highly productive eucalypt forest, requiring a large scale timber salvage and forest rehabilitation program. The scheduling of these programs was dependent upon a rapid and…
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: age classes, arthropods, artificial regeneration, ash, Australia, backfires, catastrophic fires, crown fires, crown scorch, decay, droughts, Eucalyptus regnans, fine fuels, fire control, fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, fungi, ground fires, hardwood forests, insects, litter, logging, mortality, mosaic, overstory, photography, post fire recovery, rate of spread, regeneration, remote sensing, salvage, spot fires, understory vegetation, Victoria, wildfires, wind

Provides information on fire management policy, programs, and issues in parks, wildernesses, and other natural areas. In more than 100 papers, poster papers, and workshop summaries, both researchers and managers explore basic wilderness management philosophies, explain current…
Person:
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, ignitions, policy, revegetation, wilderness fire, Native American burning, natural fire, lightning ignition, human ignition, air quality, high intensity fires