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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
A description of a proposed multi-component smoke forecasting system is presented. This system is an extension of that currently used for smoke management in Victoria (Australia) by Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) in collaboration with the Australian Bureau of…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, computer programs, fire management, pollution, smoke behavior, smoke management, topography, Victoria, weather observations
The Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT) is a general strategic tradeoff model useful for rapid assessment of landscape scale management and disturbance alternatives. In this study, shrub lands composed primarily of chaparral plant species and lower montane forests of the…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, chaparral, disturbance, fire management, land management, landscape ecology, montane forests, mountains, national forests, shrublands, wildfires
A new experimental smoke and dispersion forecast program was developed and implemented for the summer 2000 fire season in Idaho and Montana. This program was based on the prescribed fire Smoke Management Program (SMP) currently operating through the Montana/Idaho State Airshed…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: air quality, fire management, health factors, Idaho, Montana, multiple resource management, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke management, vulnerable species or communities, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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
The Megram Fire burned over 125,000 acres on two National Forests in northern California (Six Rivers and Shasta-Trinity) during the summer of 1999. Within a period of 73 days this fire burned through parts of a wilderness area, a Late Successional Reserve, a Roadless Area, a…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Safety
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: catastrophic fires, community ecology, environmental impact analysis, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, forest types, fuel appraisal, fuel breaks, fuel management, grasses, landscape ecology, mortality, multiple resource management, national forests, Native Americans, northern California, overstory, plantations, rivers, roads, shrubs, smoke effects, stand characteristics, trees, watersheds, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
Problem: Many of Florida*s residents are newly arrived from areas of the US and the world that have long severed direct contact with the natural environment. Because of this, they have a poor understanding of the role fire plays in Florida. They resent any attempts on the part…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, ash, conservation, education, Florida, health factors, juvenile literature, land management, public information, smoke management
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 additional background information and resources [forms and lists] to help make your programs a success: Audience Needs Assessment and Survey; Landscaping With Fire in Mind; Workshop Report; Toolkit…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: bibliographies, conservation, education, fire control, fire dependent species, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, flatwoods, Florida, general interest, herbicides, landscape ecology, native species (plants), pine forests, public information, reproduction, rural communities, sampling, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, thinning, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, xeric soils
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
From the text...'Despite the large number of publications available nationally about wildland fire, Florida's unique ecosystems demand a set of locally relevant and ecosystem-specific publication. The authors and partners of the Wildland Fire Education Toolkit are pleased to…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, conservation, education, fire adaptations (plants), fire control, fire dependent species, Florida, forest management, general interest, land management, landscape ecology, native species (plants), pine forests, public information, rangelands, reproduction, site treatments, smoke behavior, wilderness fire management, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
From the text...'Welcome to Chapter 1 of the Wildland Fire Education Handbook. This handbook originally accompanied the Wildland Fire Education Toolkit which consisted of print materials, videos, CD-Rom, and roadside sign. The tookit, in its entirety, may be borrowed from your…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida stricta, catastrophic fires, central Florida, conservation, education, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire control, fire dependent species, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, flatwoods, Florida, general interest, grasses, north Florida, pine forests, Pinus, prairies, public information, reproduction, rural communities, sandhills, scrub, smoke management, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: annual plants, Australia, Corymbia, Eucalyptus marginata, germination, grasses, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, jarrah, mining, New South Wales, perennial plants, plant communities, population density, sampling, sclerophyll forests, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, shrubs, small mammals, smoke effects, soils, species diversity (plants), Wales, emergence, germination, heat, mine rehabilitation, sclerophyll, seed dormancy, soil seed bank
From the text (p.1213)... 'The study was initiated in September 1997, after the haze had begun, and continued for 2 mo after the subsidence of the haze and the return of the pollution indices to significantly lower values.'
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, biomass, health factors, mortality, particulates, pollution, Singapore, smoke effects, smoke management, Southeast Asia, statistical analysis, biomass burning
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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
The goal of this report is to analyze whether or not prescribed fire could be used to regain the meadow perimeter of Donegan Prairie. A secondary issue of protecting late successional habitat in surrounding old growth timber from high intensity fire also will be addressed. If…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: BEHAVE, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, FVS - Forest Vegetation Simulator, economic analysis, fuels reduction, Oregon, Umpqua National Forest, meadow restoration
This paper discusses the overall effects fire has on the carbon budget of boreal forests Studies on using the boreal forest as a means to sequester carbon have not adequately accounted for these effects, Among other approaches, it has been suggested that suppression of fire in…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, carbon accumulation, carbon budget, carbon sequestration, carbon storage, climate change, biogenic emissions
A major goal in satellite remote sensing of fire is to derive globally accurate measurements of the spatial and temporal distribution of burning. To date, the main sensor employed in fire and fire-scar detection has been the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire scars, AVHRR - Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer, fire detection, trace gas emissions, active fires, satellite remote sensing
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
While the need to return fire as an agent of change in the ecosystems of southern California is clear, many challenges confront land managers and fire service professionals in accomplishing this work. Both internal and external hurdles must be addressed to reach land management…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: air quality, ignitions, litigation, smoke management
Forty-one years ago, the AMS published the Glossary of Meteorology. Containing 7900 terms, more than 10,000 copies have been sold over four decades through five printings. It is a tribute to the editors of the first edition that it has withstood the test of time and continued to…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: glossary, meteorology