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Aerial ignition for backburning

An aerial ignition system using and incendiary device and a helicopter can be used to backburn a large area safely and completely. The system was used to backburn 4,800 acres and helped bring under control a large fire in February 1986. The system and the conditions under which…
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerial ignition, Australia, Australian Capital Territory, backfires, convection, crown fires, eucalyptus, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, flammability, humidity, ignition, incendiary fires, rate of spread, sclerophyll forests, spot fires, temperature, topography, wind

Biomass consumption and smoke production by prehistoric and modern forest fires in western Washington

Wild and prescribed fires currently burn about 20,100 ha per year in Washington west of the Cascade Crest: prehistoric wildfires burned an estimated 19,200 ha per year. Modern burning consumes 38 g/m²/yr of fuel; the estimated prehistoric rate was 35 g/m²/yr over a 50-percent…
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: prehistoric fires, smoke production, fuel consumption, western Washington, Abies amabilis, aerial ignition, air quality, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, elevation, evergreens, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire regimes, fire weather, foliage, forest types, heavy fuels, lightning caused fires, litter, logging, multiple resource management, national parks, natural resource management, Picea sitchensis, population density, prehistoric fires, season of fire, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, Thuja plicata, Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, understory vegetation, wildfires