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The Objective of this Prescribed Burning Guide: To help resource managers plan and execute prescribed burns in Southern forests by: Explaining the reasons for prescribed burning. · Emphasizing the environmental effectsl · Explaining the importance of weather in prescribed…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerial ignition, aesthetics, air quality, arthropods, backing fires, competition, erosion, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, firing techniques, flank fires, Florida, forage, fuel moisture, hardwoods, headfires, heat effects, humidity, insects, livestock, manuals, pine forests, plant diseases, plant growth, precipitation, runoff, season of fire, site treatments, smoke management, soil nutrients, soils, temperature, wildlife habitat management, wind

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Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, bacteria, bibliographies, Erwinia herbicola, leaves, plant growth, Pseudomonas syringae, seedlings, smoke effects, statistical analysis, toxicity, Triticum sativum, wildfires, Zea mays

The motion of a strong line thermal in an unstratified atmosphere is modeled to estimate a bound for its capability to life firebrand particles. It is found that the maximum height of a viable firebrand is roughly proportional to the square root of thermal strength. The…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire control, fire management, firebrands, ignition, particulates, site treatments, smoke management, spot fires, temperature, wildfires, wind

From the Summary ... 'Control burning activities within Everglades National Park have expanded notably within the last year and a half. Prior to that time such activities were confined strictly to the pinelands habitat of the Park. The control burn program is now being broadened…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, brush, Casuarina equisetifolia, Conocarpus erectus, everglades, experimental fires, field experimental fires, fire adaptations, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, Florida, forbs, forest types, grasses, habitat types, hardwood hammocks, hardwoods, herbaceous vegetation, hydrology, introduced species, invasive species, Laguncularia racemosa, landscape ecology, marshes, national parks, natural areas management, Panicum, peatlands, pine, Pinus elliottii densa, pollution, post fire recovery, prairies, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, Rhizophora mangle, roads, sampling, season of fire, shrubs, soils, south Florida, Spartina, Sporobolus, succession, succulents, swamps, wetlands, wind, woody plants

From the text ... 'The ponderosa pine-grassland is characterized by the occurrence and distribution of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa. It is widely spread covering some 36 million acres from the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia to Durango, Mexico, and from Nebraska to the…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, aesthetics, air quality, Andropogon scoparius, Arizona, British Columbia, Calamagrostis rubescens, Canada, Chamaebatia foliolosa, coniferous forests, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, Elymus, European settlement, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire scar analysis, fire suppression, flammability, forage, forest management, forest types, fuel management, gases, grasses, grasslands, grazing, habitat types, herbaceous vegetation, landscape ecology, livestock, Mexico, Montana, montane forests, Muhlenbergia, multiple resource management, national parks, Native Americans, Nebraska, needles, openings, pine, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, public information, Purshia tridentata, recreation, regeneration, reproduction, South Dakota, succession, surface fires, understory vegetation, water, wildlife

Fire management specialists in the southeastern United States needing guides for predicting or assessing particulate matter emission factors, emission rates, and heat release rate can use the models presented in this paper for making these predictions as a function of flame…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, Florida, forest management, fuel types, Georgia, headfires, heat, Ilex glabra, particulates, pine forests, plantations, rate of spread, Serenoa repens, smoke management, statistical analysis

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Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: artificial regeneration, backfires, burning intervals, cutting, diseases, fire equipment, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, firing techniques, flame length, flank fires, forest management, hardwoods, headfires, humidity, Louisiana, pine forests, plantations, precipitation, season of fire, site treatments, sloping terrain, smoke management, spot fires, statistical analysis, wildlife habitat management, wind

To burn or not to burn? That is the question--or is it? If we have forests, we'll have fuels. If we do not control the buildup of fuels one way or the other, we'll have fires and many of them will be bad. We'll have them as a result of either man's action or nature's lightning.…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, coastal plain, combustion, crown scorch, disturbance, environmental impact analysis, fire control, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel types, gases, hardwoods, hydrocarbons, light burning, lightning, low intensity burns, mortality, multiple resource management, national forests, particulates, pine forests, plant growth, pollution, sedimentation, seedlings, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, South Carolina, sprouting, understory vegetation, wildfires

Fuel consumption and performance results of four mechanical harvesting systems were determined in burned and unburned sugarcane in Florida. Harvester fuel consumption per gross tonne of cane averaged 112% higher in unburned cnae than in burned cane. More important, cane recovery…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biomass, croplands, cutting, distribution, fire exclusion, Florida, fuel loading, fuel management, histories, litter, population density, sampling, site treatments, statistical analysis

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Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, backfires, crown fires, fire case histories, fire control, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, firebreaks, flank fires, forage, forest edges, ground fires, headfires, humus, invasive species, land management, landscape ecology, mineral soils, mortality, multiple resource management, pine forests, Pinus taeda, rate of spread, runoff, seedlings, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, soil management, spot fires, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, water, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

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Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, cutting, fire management, fuel accumulation, fuel arrangement, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, logging, particulates, site treatments, smoke management, statistical analysis

Goals and objectives outlined in the Clean Air Act of 1977 are in conflict with land management practices that utilize control or prescribed burns to maintain a healthy ecosystem. Specifically, smoke emissions from burn areas can significantly and adversely affect the visual air…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, land management, landscape ecology, national parks, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, pollution, K - potassium, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness fire management

'The Canadian Forest Fire Research Institute recently developed a functionally foolproof rate-of-fire spread timer; it costs about $10 to make.'
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire management, fuel accumulation, Ontario, rate of spread

Site preparation and hazard-reduction burns are common. Under selected fuel and weather conditions, these prescribed fires can do their job without dirtying the air.
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, blowups, catastrophic fires, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire suppression, forest management, general interest, Georgia, plant diseases, pollution, range management, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

Wildland managers in the South use prescribed burning to reduce dangerous fuels, control understory hardwoods, combat disease, facilitate pine regeneration, and improve wildlife habitat. Burning techniques are highly developed, and prescribed burners believe they can use fire…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Fuels, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: backfires, competition, education, fire hazard reduction, firing techniques, forest management, hardwoods, headfires, logging, multiple resource management, pine forests, plant diseases, public information, regeneration, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, understory vegetation, wilderness fire management, wildlife, wildlife habitat management

Prescribed burning is an effective tool widely used in forest management. Several strategies are employed to minimize pollution from prescribed fire, including systems to avoid polluting sensitive areas or to ensure adequate dilution between the source and the receptors. Success…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emission reduction, pollution

Results of aerial measurements in plumes from large urban areas, petroleum refineries, automotive-painting operations, fossil-fuel power plants, and controlled burning of forest slash are presented. Field monitoring studies occurred during summer months between 1974 and 1980 and…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California, Eastern, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: plumes, pollutants, photochemical ozone formation

Source strength is defined as the rate of release of an emission into the atmosphere from a specified process. In this paper, source-strength modeling of emissions of particulate matter from prescribed fires is discussed from three perspectives: 1) unit area (per m2), 2) unit…
Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, source strength model

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Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, education, fire hazard reduction, forest management, fuel accumulation, fungi, litter, organic matter, pine forests, Pinus palustris, pollution, smoke management, soils, succession, surface fires, water

The increasing use of prescribed fire in forest management and the continuing burning of agricultural crop residues creates problems in air pollution. More information is needed on yields of pollutant gases and particulates and how these emissions might be altered by varying…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, agriculture, air quality, backfires, broadcast burning, croplands, decay, field experimental fires, fire hazard reduction, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, headfires, hydrocarbons, ignition, laboratory fires, moisture, particulates, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, sampling, Sequoiadendron giganteum , temperature

Spontaneous combustion is thought to be a cause of many of the fires which occur in areas such as peat bogs or dry snags. The theories of spontaneous heating are presented, along with a discussion of possible ignition mechanisms in both wood-chip and hay fires. The physical…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: bacteria, bibliographies, bogs, Canada, chemistry, combustion, decay, flammability, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, heat, humidity, ignition, peat fires, snags, soils, statistical analysis, temperature, woody fuels

In an effort to gain a better understanding of the mechanics involved in the formation of vortices in buoyancy driven flows, an analysis on the stability of the laminar free convection, due to a line source of heat with ambient shear, was performed by numerical solution of a…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: combustion, convection, distribution, disturbance, elevation, fire management, fire whirls, heat, smoke management, statistical analysis, vortices

I have reviewed, but briefly, the extremely abundant literature on coal formation with reference to the occurrence, development, and characteristics of fossil charcoal, 'fusain.' The findings in petrology, the science of coal formation and development, show that fusain, a fossil…
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ash, charcoal, combustion, ecology, ferns, fire regimes, Florida, fossils, lightning, mosses, Nyssa sylvatica, paleoecology, particulates, pine, prehistoric fires, spontaneous combustion, Taxodium distichum, wildfires, woody plants

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Person:
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire, meteorology

Low intensity forest and grassland fires create airborne particulates and charcoal which act as environmental cleansing agents. The morphological integrity of plant material which remains after burning creates a natural filter with varied porosity.
Person:
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Actinocladum, air quality, Andropogon glomeratus, Aristida stricta, ash, Avena sativa, bark, C - carbon, char, charcoal, Florida, Georgia, grass fires, grasslands, low intensity burns, Magnolia, needles, Oryza sativa, particulates, Paspalum notatum, Pennisetum, photography, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus glabra, Pinus palustris, Quercus nigra, Quercus rubra, smoke behavior, smoke management, snags, soils, Sorghum halepense, wildfires, Zea mays