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The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to set forth the principles of the working relationship between the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) - Division of Air Quality (DAQ) and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Eastern
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'On the first poster board of the series is seen a media montage ranging from covers of hearing records...to those for legislation and regulation...to environmental and resource management issues (including a typically misleading newspaper headline)...to scientific literature...…
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, cover, natural resource legislation, smoke management, US Forest Service
From the text... 'This initial release of these Guidelines reflects the efforts of the Fire Management Task Force and subsequent review by park, regional and WASO staff. It represents the framework of the Service fire management program. The WASO Office of Fire Management,…
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, education, fire control, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, health factors, human caused fires, national parks, natural resource legislation, public information, site treatments, smoke management, vegetation surveys, wilderness fire management, wildfires, fire management plans, INTERAGENCY COORDINATION, physical fitness, presuppression
The Western Governors’ Association hosted the webinar, Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges on Dec. 19, 2017 as part of the series for the National Forest and Rangeland Management Initiative. Prescribed fire is a tool for land managers to address wildfire…
Person: Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, legal liability, land management, wildfires, smoke management, exceptional event, smoke management plan
Wildland fire emissions degrade air quality and visibility, having adverse economic, health and visibility impacts at large spatial scales globally. Air quality regulations can constrain the goals of landscape resilience and management of fire-dependent ecosystems. Here, we…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Australia, air quality, regulatory policy, smoke management, fire management, health impacts, visibility
Roger Ottmar, Research Forester with the USFS Pacific Northwest Fire & Environmental Research Applications Team, gave a talk on air quality, wildfire smoke components and smoke impacts on human health with an eye to how air quality regulations may impact prescribed burn…
Person: Ottmar
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: firefighter health, air quality, public health, visibility, PM - particulate matter, pollutants, CO - carbon monoxide, ozone, water vapor, transportation safety, NAAQS - National Ambient Air Quality Standards, smoke management, smoke exposure
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently finalized updates to the 2007 Exceptional Event Rule. This webinar will explore those updates, why changes were made and examine ways in which they may affect fire in the Great Plains, including prescribed fire in areas like the…
Person: Watson
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: exceptional event, air quality, EER - Exceptional Event Rule, Flint Hills, smoke management, BSMP - Basic Smoke Management Practices, Kansas, Oklahoma, tallgrass prairie, invasive species, eastern redcedar, cattle, smoke management plan, fire return interval, burn interval
Across leading environmental challenges-fire management, climate change, deforestation - there is growing awareness of the need to better account for diverse stakeholder perceptions across complex, multi-level governance arrangements. Perceptions often condition behavior,…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire management, deforestation, peat fires, C - carbon, Indonesia, policy, Q method, haze, conservation, transboundary governance, tropical peatlands, climate change, transboundary haze, management, consequences, biodiversity, agriculture, dynamics, services