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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
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada
During summer 1969, fires burned 86,000 acres of the Kenai National Moose Range, south-central Alaska; two fires accounted for 99 percent of the burned area. Suppression efforts involved nearly 5,000 men; 135 miles of catline were constructed, and 822,000 gallons of retardant…
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: effectiveness, rehabilitation methods, artificial regeneration, browse, fertilization, fire case histories, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (animals), fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firebreak, forest management, light, mammals, mortality, national forests, post-fire recovery, regeneration, recreation, site treatments, rivers, small mammals, snags, statistical analysis, suppression, US Forest Service, trees, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
The Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT) is a vegetation simulation model developed to examine the impacts of a variety of landscape scale disturbances on vegetation succession and development. It assumes that the ecosystem exists in a discrete number of states, and…
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire frequency, VDDT - Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool, vegetation, Yosemite National Park, Abies magnifica, age classes, Calocedrus, catastrophic fires, computer program, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire weather, forest management, fuel breaks, fuel loading, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, montane forests, national forests, overstory, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus monticola, Pinus ponderosa, population density, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus chrysolepis, Quercus wislizenii, recreation, site treatments, subalpine forests, succession, threatened and endangered species, Tsuga mertensiana, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildland fires
Other than land clearing for urban development (Wear and others 1998), no disturbance is more common in southern forests than fire. The pervasive role of fire predates human activity in the South (Komarek 1964, 1974), and humans magnified that role. Repeating patterns of fire…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords:
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…
Person:
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
In this section we outline both ecological and societal aspects of wildland and prescribed fire. We review the historical role and extent of fire and the effects of settlement and land use changes. The influence of fire exclusion policies on historical disturbance processes is…
Person:
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality
Boreal fires have immediate effects on regional carbon budgets by emitting CO2 into the atmosphere at the time of burning, but they also have legacy effects by initiating a long-term carbon sink during post-fire vegetation recovery. Quantifying these different effects on the…
Person:
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: wildfires, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, boreal forests, Global Vegetation Model, climate change, Interior Alaska, burned area, forest, dynamics, regime, 20th Century, temperature
Fire frequency, extent, and size exhibit a strong linkage with climate conditions and play a vital role in the climate system. Previous studies have shown that the frequency of large fires in the western United States increased significantly since the mid-1980s due to climate…
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Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire frequency, fire intensity, fire size, wildfires, C - carbon, climate change, remote sensing, fire management, forest management, smoke management, burned area, Remote-Sensed Burn Severity, climate change, combustion completeness, Normalized Burn Ratio, Pyrogenic Carbon Emissions, Canadian boreal forest, Black Spruce Forests, Gulf-of-Mexico, ecosystem carbon, terrestrial ecosystems, Temporal Patterns, Mississippi River, Landsat Imagery
Climate projections show Australia becoming significantly warmer during the 21st century, and precipitation decreasing over much of the continent. Such changes are conventionally considered to increase wildfire risk. Nevertheless, we show that burnt area increases in southern…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire adaptations (plants), fire regimes, fire size, wildfires, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, climate change, litter, vegetation surveys, Australia, fire management, forest management, carbon cycle, fire regimes, Co2 Fertilization, water use efficiency, dynamic vegetation modeling, future environmental changes
[1] Wildfire is a common occurrence in ecosystems of northern high latitudes, and changes in the fire regime of this region have consequences for carbon feedbacks to the climate system. To improve our understanding of how wildfire influences carbon dynamics of this region, we…
Person:
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Alaska, Eastern, Northern Rockies, Northwest, International
Keywords: fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, disturbance, Asia, Europe, Canada, fire management, boreal forests
Hypotheses of global wildfires following the Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) boundary impact are supported by high concentrations of elemental carbon (3.6 mg cm-2) and soot (1.8 mg cm-2) in DSDP Site 465, which was located several thousand kilometers from potential continental sources…
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, paleoecology, particulates, soot, pacific ocean, fire management, smoke management, Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, soot, Impact, extinctions
A series of wildfires broke out in Western Russia starting in late July of 2010. Harmful particulates and gases released into the local Russian atmosphere have been reported, as have possible negative consequences for the global atmosphere. In this study, an extremely hazy area…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fire damage (property), wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, gases, ozone, particulates, remote sensing, Russia, Asia, Europe, fire management
We estimated forest area and carbon changes in the conterminous United States using a remote sensing based land cover change map, forest fire data from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program, and forest growth and harvest data from the USDA Forest Service, Forest…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire History, Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire intensity, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, cover, FIA, forest products, greenhouse gases, remote sensing, snags, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, forest management, carbon in harvested wood, forest area, harvest, greenhouse gas inventory, land cover change, wildfire emissions
The ratios of observed organic carbon (OC) to elemental carbon (EC) from the rural sites of the IMPROVE network are analyzed for the 5-year period from 2000 to 2004. Among these years, nationwide OC/EC peaks are observed most consistently in the summer of 2002. Several potential…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: biomass burning, season of fire, aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, particulates, fire management, OC, EC ratio, SUMMER BURNING, SOA, model evaluation
Forests sequester carbon from the atmosphere, and in so doing can mitigate the effects of climate change. Fire is a natural disturbance process in many forest systems that releases carbon back to the atmosphere. In dry temperate forests, fires historically burned with greater…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California, Eastern, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: combustion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel loading, wildfires, air quality, C - carbon, decomposition, drainage, forestation, climate change, mortality, plant growth, plant nutrients, population density, reforestation, soil nutrients, thinning, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, fire management, forest management, land management, grasslands, shrublands, carbon stability, fire severity, fuels management
Research activities focused on estimating the direct emissions of carbon from wildland fires across North America are reviewed as part of the North American Carbon Program disturbance synthesis. A comparison of methods to estimate the loss of carbon from the terrestrial…
Person:
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: fire case histories, fire hazard reduction, fire size, fuel moisture, fuel loading, fuel types, wildfires, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, disturbance, duff, remote sensing, Saskatchewan, Canada, Oregon, Mexico, fire management, forest management, fuel management, boreal forests, chaparral, coniferous forests, shrublands
The impact of Canadian forest fires in Quebec on May 31, 2010 on PM2.5, carbonaceous species, and atmospheric mercury species was observed at three rural sites in northern New York. The results were compared with previous studies during a 2002 Quebec forest fire episode. MODIS…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, fire case histories, fire management, forest management, Hg - mercury, New York, particulates, pollution, Quebec, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires
Submicron particles were collected from June to September 2008 in La Jolla, California to investigate the composition and sources of atmospheric aerosol in an anthropogenically-influenced coastal site. Factor analysis of aerosol mass spectrometry (AMS) and Fourier transform…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: aerosols, biomass, biomass burning, brush, C - carbon, combustion, fire case histories, fire management, fuel management, hydrocarbons, lightning, lightning caused fires, northern California, particulates, sampling, S - sulfur, wildfires, wood, Organic carbon particles, Ketone, biomass burning, Organic functional groups
From the Foreword ... 'This conference proceedings is also the best evidence of a grand, energetic conversation that the fires of 1988 launched. Among these many voices you will hear a tale much more complex than the saga of 1988 first revealed. It takes time to stand back far…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, Canada, C - carbon, charcoal, crown scorch, education, fire case histories, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, flame length, fuel management, fuel types, insects, landscape ecology, Mexico, mortality, national parks, nutrient cycling, overstory, public information, remote sensing, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
Area burned is one of four primary parameters necessary for estimating biomass burning emissions, and it is a parameter than remains illusive, particularly if we include all area burned. In this report, we compare the intensive 2002 ground-based data for the western United…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, biomass, biomass burning, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, Colorado, ENSO, fire case histories, fire management, fire size, forest management, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, private lands, range management, rangelands, remote sensing, savannas, season of fire, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, wildfires, Wyoming
Studies of restoration ecology are well established for northern peatlands, but at an early stage for tropical peatlands. Extensive peatland areas in Southeast Asia have been degraded through deforestation, drainage and fire, leading to on- and off-site environmental and socio-…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, Borneo, C - carbon, community ecology, cover, deforestation, diameter classes, drainage, droughts, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire scar analysis, fire size, forbs, greenhouse gases, hydrology, Indonesia, Kalimantan, land use, moisture, peat, peatlands, population density, regeneration, savannas, seedlings, Southeast Asia, succession, tropical regions, vegetation surveys, water, watershed management, watersheds, wildfires, tropical peatland, restoration ecology, peatland degradation, land cover change, hydrology, greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable livelihoods
Natural fires annually decimate up to 1% of the forested area in the boreal region of Quebec, and represent a major structuring force in the region, creating a mosaic of watersheds characterized by large variations in vegetation structure and composition. Here, we investigate…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Betula papyrifera, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, drainage, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, lakes, mosaic, nutrient cycling, nutrients, organic matter, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, Populus tremuloides, Populus trichocarpa, Quebec, succession, water, watershed management, watersheds, wildfires, boreal, carbon dioxide flux, forest fire, lakes, organic carbon, plankton respiration, watershed
Bushfire fighting is a hazardous occupation and control strategies are generally in place to minimize the hazards. However, little is known regarding firefighters' exposure to bushfire smoke, which is a complex mixture of toxic gases and particles. In Australia, during the…
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Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, chemical compounds, cover, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, fuel moisture, gases, health factors, hydrocarbons, ignition, Northern Territory of Australia, particulates, pollution, season of fire, smoke management, southern Australia, spot fires, statistical analysis, suppression, Tasmania, topography, toxicity, vegetation surveys, Victoria, wildfires, bushfire, respirable particles, respiratory irritants, personal exposure, health
On the basis of burned area, biomass density, burn efficiency and emission factor, annual emissions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from wildfires in China are estimated for the period from 1950 to 2005. During that period, 7.8 x 106 and 7.5 x 106 Mg of biomass are…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Asia, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, C - carbon, China, cover, fire management, grasslands, hydrocarbons, Japan, Mongolia, Russia, savannas, season of fire, smoke management, wildfires, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, wildfires, emission, outflow