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From the Introduction...'A land manager*s decision to use a specific burning technique is influenced by many considerations, only one of which is a goal to reduce smoke emissions. Other important considerations include ensuring public and firefighter safety, maintaining control…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Eastern, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, backing fires, biomass, chaparral, computer programs, coniferous forests, duff, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire size, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, grasslands, ignition, land management, land use, litter, mopping up, mortality, mosaic, nutrients, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, site treatments, slash, smoke management, Tsuga, water, water quality, wilderness fire management, woody fuels
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, community ecology, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, health factors, land management, land use, Los Alamos, military lands, multiple resource management, National Fire Plan, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, plant communities, Washington, wilderness fire management
Between June and November 2000, fourteen focus groups were held in four selected sites to elicit and document the range of perspectives, concepts and lexicon for discussing fire management and fuel treatment. Scales for fuel treatment acceptance factors such as fire knowledge,…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Southern
Keywords: public opinion, aesthetics, air quality, catastrophic fires, climatology, conservation, coniferous forests, cutting, deforestation, drought, education, fire case histories, fire control, fire equipment, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firebreak, flammability, firefighting personnel, Florida, forest management, fuel management, grasses, grazing, herbicide, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, Lake States, lightning caused fires, livestock, logging, Michigan, moisture, national forests, national parks, nutrients, pine forests, plantations, post-fire recovery, precipitation, private lands, public information, recreation, regulations, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, Sierra Nevada, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, species diversity, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species, understory vegetation, wind, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
The success of a fire use program is in large part dependent on a solid foundation set in clear and concise planning. The planning process results in specific goals and measurable objectives for fire application, provides a means of setting priorities, and establishes a…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire use, air quality, backing fire, burning permits, education, fire equipment, fire management, firebreak, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel management, headfires, ignition, land use, mopping up, liability, multiple resource management, public information, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management