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The purpose of the fire phase of the Smoke Clouds and Radiation (SCAR) experiments is to develop a technique for the quantitative remote sensing of fires and fire emissions. The first of the three fire experiments occurred in 1994 in California and the Pacific Noithwest. This…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest, International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, Brazil, energy, fire case histories, fire equipment, fire management, gases, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, radiation, remote sensing, smoke behavior, South America, wildfires, MAS (MODIS Airborne Simulator), MOPITT-A, SCAR - smoke clouds and radiation
The workshop began with the workshop facilitator, Neil Sampson, summarizing 17 invited papers presented on the opening day of the conference. These papers provided a state-of-the-science overview of pre-selected topics including Overview (3 papers), GIS and Remote Sensing…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, computer programs, erosion, Europe, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fuel appraisal, fuel models, GIS, grasslands, health factors, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land management, landscape ecology, overstory, remote sensing, shrublands, site treatments, smoke effects, soils, South America, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, United Kingdom, decision tools, dissemination of information, GLOBAL STUDIES
In 1988, nearly half a million hectares of forest burned in the Greater Yellowstone Area. Six years later, the burned areas were still visible in the dual-polarization radar images acquired by the Spaceborne Imaging Radar C (SIR-C) at both C- (5.6 cm wavelength) and L-band (24…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, biomass, catastrophic fires, char, community ecology, coniferous forests, cover, crowns, digital data collection, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire management, fire scar analysis, flammability, GIS, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, lightning caused fires, moisture, mosaic, national parks, needles, old growth forests, overstory, Picea engelmannii, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, plant physiology, post fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, regeneration, remote sensing, rocky habitats, statistical analysis, succession, understory vegetation, wildfires, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park, Landsat
One of the main problems is the strategic and operative prediction of wildland fire risks in Siberia. It requires the elaboration of a geoinformation expert system to predict emergency situations causing large wildland fires. The process for developing this system consists of…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: backfires, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, duff, Europe, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire intensity, fire management, flame length, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel inventory, fuel management, GIS, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, lakes, landscape ecology, litter, peat, rate of spread, rivers, Russia, season of fire, Siberia, smoke behavior, storms, streams, surface fires, vegetation surveys, vortices, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind, REGIONAL FUEL MAPS, steppe fires
We characterized recent historical and current vegetation composition and structure of a representative sample of subwatersheds on all ownerships within the interior Columbia River basin and portions of the Klamath and Great Basins. For each selected subwatershed, we constructed…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies grandis, Arceuthobium americanum, arthropods, bark, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, conifers, cover, cover type, cover type conversion, croplands, crown fires, diseases, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire regimes, forest management, fuel loading, herbaceous vegetation, histories, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, light, Montana, mountains, Oregon, overstory, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rivers, shrublands, smoke management, species diversity (plants), succession, trees, Washington, watersheds, wildfires, change detection, landscape assessment, spatial patterns, reference variation, ecosystem health, forest health, fire exclusion, disturbance regimes
The results of a survey concerning National Forest System prescribed burning activity and costs from 1985 to 1995 are examined. Ninety-five of one hundred and fourteen national forests responded. Acreage burned and costs for conducting burns are reported for four types of…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, arthropods, brush, burning permits, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, game birds, grasses, grasslands, grazing, hardwood forests, ignition, insects, liability, logging, national forests, natural resource legislation, nongame birds, pine forests, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, range management, rangelands, reforestation, slash, slash and burn, smoke management, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: age classes, biomass, Canada, charcoal, computer programs, dendrochronology, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire scar analysis, fire size, climate change, heat, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, mosaic, remote sensing, sedimentation, vegetation surveys, wildfires
We characterized the historical, current, and future wildland fire smoke emissions on National Forests and Grasslands of the western United States. This information provided a basis for summary interpretations included in the U.S. Forest Service report "Protecting People and…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire regimes, forest types, grasslands, national forests, prescribed fires (chance ignition), rangelands, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
The wildland fire emissions estimation system is a geographic information system to calculate smoke released from forest fires. It is a method for producing coherent, consistent, spatially and temporally resolved GIS based emission estimates for wildfire and prescribed burning.…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, cover, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, GIS, health factors, histories, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Wildland fire has been an integral part of the conterminous United States' ecological landscape for millennia. Today wildland fire has to compete with other socially desirable goals for a share of a limited air resource. New ozone, particulate, and visibility protection air-…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, cover type conversion, fire management, fire regimes, habitat conversion, health factors, land use, landscape ecology, natural resource legislation, ozone, remote sensing, threatened and endangered species (plants), wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife
The management of fire in wilderness requires the balancing of mandates to both preserve natural conditions and minimize the impacts of human activities. Created to preserve and protect lands "in their natural condition”, the 1964 Wilderness Act also requires that wilderness be…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Colorado, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel management, herbaceous vegetation, histories, ignition, natural resource legislation, presettlement fires, smoke effects, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From Web Document, Executive Summary... ' Premise This strategy is based on the premise that sustainable resources are predicated on healthy, resilient ecosystems. In fire-adapted ecosystems, some measure of fire use - at appropriate intensity, frequency, and time of year -…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, arthropods, catastrophic fires, coastal forests, Colorado, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, diseases, disturbance, droughts, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, fishes, flammability, floods, Florida, forest management, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, grasslands, health factors, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, light burning, logging, Montana, multiple resource management, national forests, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, rangelands, recreation, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, species diversity, stand characteristics, streamflow, Texas, threatened and endangered species, topography, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, Utah, Washington, water quality, watersheds, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, Wyoming
From the text ... 'Removing American Indians from the land effectively ended wildland burning practices that had lasted for millennia. ...The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management together administer several hundred million acres of grassland and other grazing land where…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, artificial regeneration, clearcutting, cover type conversion, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, floods, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, grasslands, grazing, health factors, hydrology, land management, liability, lightning caused fires, logging, low intensity burns, mosaic, national forests, Native Americans, old growth forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, plant growth, prairies, presettlement vegetation, savannas, season of fire, shrublands, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, soil nutrients, succession, thinning, US Forest Service, vegetation surveys, Washington, wilderness fire management, wildlife habitat management
From the text...'In most cases, the role of the public information officer, the Wildfire Mitigation Specialist, is to make the first contact with homeowner associations and individuals describing the positive benefits of the wildfire mitigation program. How to make neighborhoods…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: backfires, catastrophic fires, droughts, education, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, Firewise, Florida, fuel accumulation, fuel management, general interest, headfires, logging, mowing, natural resource legislation, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, post fire recovery, private lands, public information, season of fire, smoke management, state forests, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text...'This chapter of the Wildland Fire Education Handbook contains: a description of five videos on wildland fire in Florida that are included in the Toolkit, information on how to use the CD-ROM or slide images to create a presentation, descriptions of the…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire control, fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, flatwoods, Florida, fuel accumulation, general interest, grasslands, health factors, landscape ecology, native species (animals), native species (plants), pine forests, prairies, public information, reproduction, scrub, smoke behavior, swamps, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: adaptation, agriculture, air quality, backfires, biomass, blowups, broadcast burning, brush, catastrophic fires, chaparral, coniferous forests, croplands, crown fires, crowns, dead fuels, decay, decomposition, droughts, erosion, experimental fires, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire protection, fire retardants, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, grasses, grazing, heavy fuels, histories, human caused fires, hunting, Idaho, ignition, incendiary fires, insects, invasive species, land use, leaves, lightning caused fires, live fuels, livestock, logging, minerals, mining, Montana, mortality, national forests, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, needles, New Mexico, overstory, particulates, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, prescribed fires (escaped), private lands, public information, range management, salvage, season of fire, sedimentation, seed dispersal, site treatments, size classes, slash, sloping terrain, Smokey Bear program, soils, species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, thinning, trees, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, water quality, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wind, Wisconsin, woody fuels, Yellowstone National Park, appropriations, Cerro Grande Fire, disaster relief funding, FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency, forest and rangeland health, fuel ladder, glassificatrion, insurance, roles and responsibilities, stewardship, slurry, slurry bombers
Following a survey of forest homeowners in rural Michigan to assess the value of reducing the risk of damage from wildfires at the wildland-urban interface, focus-group discussions were conducted with a subset of survey participants to learn about their perceptions concerning…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, brush, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, Dendroica kirtlandii, education, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, ignition, landscape ecology, Michigan, nongame birds, Pinus banksiana, private lands, public information, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, fire management, fire risk assessment, focus groups, Mack Lake Fire
A 35-year controlled burning experiment in Minnesota oak savanna showed that fire frequency had a great impact on ecosystem carbon (C) stores. Specifically, compared to the historical fire regime, fire suppression led to an average of 1.8 Mg·ha^-1·yr^-1 of C storage, with most…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire suppression, carbon storage, Minnesota, oak savanna, missing carbon, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, community ecology, Corylus americana, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, fire management planning, forest management, human caused fires, litter, Mg - magnesium, plant communities, presettlement fires, Quercus ellipsoidalis, Quercus macrocarpa, range management, roots, savannas, soils, statistical analysis, woody plants
A 3-D numerical investigation is carried out to assess the impact of a forest fire in northeastern China on the photochemical oxidant cycle of east Asia. Two simulations, without and with the emissions from the fire, are carried out during springtime in May 1987. The fire,…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosol index, Asia, black carbon, boreal forests, China, emission estimates, numerical modeling, tropospheric ozone, aerosols, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, fire case histories, fire management, human caused fires, Japan, ozone, remote sensing, wildfires
The Tanana River basin in interior Alaska occupies approximately 11.9 million hectares. Forests of the basin consist of white or black spruce (Picea glauca, P. mariana), tamarack (Larix laricina), paper birch (Betula papyrifera), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), and balsam…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: biodiversity, disturbance, ecosystem management, arthropods, fire management, timber, fuelwood, history, mining, Tanana River Basin, Betula, Betula papyrifera, black spruce, bottomland hardwood, diseases, ecology, ecosystem dynamics, education, forest management, forest products, fuel types, histories, human caused fires, hunting, insects, Larix spp., Larix laricina, lightning caused fires, logging, mammals, mortality, mosaic, Native Americans, Picea, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Populus, Populus balsamifera, Populus tremuloides, presettlement fires, public information, riparian habitats, roads, understory vegetation, wood
Fire suppression has resulted in severe management challenges, especially in the wildland-urban interface zone. Fire managers seek to reduce fuels and risks in the interface zone, while striving to return the natural role of fire to wildland ecosystems. Managers must balance the…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: fire benefits, fire severity, GIS - geographic information system, landscape scale, fuel management, wildland fire use, fire risk, air quality, computer program, drought, ecosystem dynamics, fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, health factors, Idaho, ignition, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, land use, landscape ecology, Montana, natural resource legislation, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, site treatments, suppression, surface fuels, topography, wilderness fire management, wildland fuels, wildfires
The paper addresses forest fire regimes in central Siberia. Past fire frequency was reconstructed for forest ecosystems situated at different latitudes. A method is proposed for rating lightning forest fire danger.
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire regimes, forest fire, Siberia, storm, agriculture, air quality, bogs, boreal forests, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, climatology, combustion, deciduous forests, dendrochronology, distribution, disturbance, drought, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, fire frequency, fire management, fire management planning, fire scar analysis, flammability, forest management, geology, grasses, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, Idaho, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, lichens, lightning, lightning caused fires, logging, montane forests, mosses, needles, Pinus, Pinus sibirica, Pinus sylvestris, precipitation, rate of spread, regeneration, rivers, Russia, season of fire, shrubs, soils, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, storms, surface fires, taiga, temperature, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, woody plants, wildfires
This paper describes results of FROSTFIRE, a forest fire experiment carried out in July 1999 and also surveys results of the Donnelly Flats forest fire in June 1999 from the point of view of forest fire behavior. An investigation of the Donnelly Flats forest fire site found that…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: combustion, fire management, fuel loadings, Frostfire, air quality, black spruce, boreal forests, CO2 - carbon dioxide, cover, dendrochronology, ecology, experimental fire, fire intensity, fuel management, ignition, lichen moss fuels, lightning, lightning caused fires, mosses, needles, photography, Picea mariana, population density, temperature, trees, wilderness fire management
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada
1 Areas burned annually in the United States between 1700 and 1990 were derived from published estimates of pre-European burning rates and from wildfire statistics of the US Forest Service. Changes in live and dead vegetation following fire and fire exclusion were determined for…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, biomass, C - carbon, chaparral, coniferous forests, croplands, deserts, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, grasslands, habitat conversion, land use, post fire recovery, prairies, presettlement fires, succession, tundra, wildfires, biomass, carbon emissions, carbon sink, carbon storage, fire management, land use change, terrestrial ecosystems