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From the text...'Two studies recently looked at differences in impacts on National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and visibility from wildland fires (prescribed fire and wildfire). The First Study: was part of the analysis for the Columbia River Basin (CRB) Environmental…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, coniferous forests, fire management, fuel appraisal, fuel management, land management, Oregon, particulates, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, shrublands, smoke management, vegetation surveys, Washington, wildfires, wildlife

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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Adenostoma, air quality, amphibians, biogeography, Ceanothus, chaparral, coastal vegetation, community ecology, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, grasslands, mammals, Mediterranean habitats, nongame birds, post fire recovery, reptiles, sclerophyll vegetation, small mammals, southern California, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), succession, wading birds, wildfires

From the text ... 'Forest rangers and residents are trying to promote the benefits of using more prescribed burns to control wildfires throughout the state.... Every landowner wants to do more controlled burns, but they have tied our hands with regulations.'
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: coniferous forests, droughts, fire control, fire injuries (animals), fire management, fire suppression (aerial), forest management, lightning caused fires, north Florida, prescribed fires (escaped), St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, wildfires

From the text...'The wildfires of 1998 brought another harsh reminder to the people of Florida of the power of natural hazards to destroy property, threaten safety, and cause untold human hardship. Overall, after the firestorm was finally extinguished, the event had caused one…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Chile, coastal forests, education, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire suppression, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, fuel management, histories, land management, logging, natural resource legislation, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, post fire recovery, public information, scrub, shrublands, smoke management, statistical analysis, tropical forests, US Forest Service, wildfires

Combustion products of burning vegetation can increase seed germination of many species of fire-prone plant communities. We tested the influence of heating sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata Nutt.) subcanopy soil, aqueous extracts of artificially burned soil, and sagebrush smoke on…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Achnatherum, Artemisia tridentata, Bromus tectorum, combustion, Festuca idahoensis, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, germination, grass fires, grasses, grasslands, heat effects, Idaho, leaves, Nevada, plant communities, plant growth, Purshia tridentata, range management, rangelands, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, Sierra Nevada, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature

From the text...'FOFEM 4.0-A First Order Fire Effects Model-is a computer program developed to meet the needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, fuel moisture, logging, mortality, post fire recovery, smoke management, wildfires

Poster abstract...A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM was designed for application to most areas of the United States. First order fire effects are the immediate or direct results of a…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, cover, cover type, duff, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire management, fuel models, land management, mineral soils, mortality, Oregon, smoke effects, Washington, wildfires, wildlife, woody fuels

From the text...'Conditions contributing to Florida's firestorms are similar to problems plaguing Montana forests. Scenes of devastation underscore the need to better manage forests.'
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, education, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, Montana, public information, smoke effects, wildfires

Investigations of the ecological, atmospheric chemical, and climatic impacts of contemporary fires in tropical vegetation have received increasing attention during the last 10 years. Little is known, however, about the impacts of climate changes on tropical vegetation and…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, Andropogon virginicus, bibliographies, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, Central America, cover type conversion, deforestation, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, evapotranspiration, evergreens, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, fragmentation, fuel loading, climate change, grasses, Hakea sericea, human caused fires, Imperata, India, Indonesia, introduced species, invasive species, land management, land use, lightning, lightning caused fires, Melaleuca quinquenervia, Mexico, montane forests, Pennisetum, Pinus, plant communities, Poa, post-fire recovery, precipitation, savannas, South America, Southeast Asia, species diversity (plants), storms, temperature, tropical forests, tropical regions, wildfires

From the text...'If you are not using a Public Information Officer on your prescribed burn projects, you should consider doing so. A PIO will provide a valuable service. As you scramble to get the needed resources, equipment and weather data, they can concentrate on informing…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, education, fire management, pH, public information

For the first 35 years of the Florida State Park System, fire was vigorously suppressed on state park lands. During that time, hardwoods encroached into pinelands and grasslands, and fuel loads reached dangerously high levels. During 1970, Tall Timbers Research Station Director…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida, cover type conversion, education, evolution, fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, grasslands, habitat conversion, hardwoods, human caused fires, hydrology, invasive species, Komarek, E.V., Sr., land management, landscape ecology, liability, lightning, natural resource legislation, north Florida, pine forests, pine, Pinus palustris, plant communities, public information, range management, Sapium sebiferum, season of fire, smoke management, south Florida, state forests, state parks, Sus scrofa, Tall Timbers Research Station, wetlands, wildfires

This paper describes fire characteristics and the immediate effects of a prescribed, high-intensity burn on a 12.2 hectare portion of a stand of Ocala sand pine scrub. The fire team on the Seminole District, Ocala National Forest used the BEHAVE fire model to predict the…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Andropogon, backfires, catastrophic fires, Cladonia, crown fires, crowns, evergreens, fire intensity, fire management, firebreaks, Florida, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Galactia, headfires, humidity, lichens, light, litter, Lyonia ferruginea, mineral soils, moisture, national forests, needles, Ocala National Forest, overstory, Pinus clausa, Quercus chapmanii, Quercus geminata, Quercus laevis, Quercus myrtifolia, Rhynchospora megalocarpa, Sabal etonia, scrub, Serenoa repens, smoke management, snags, temperature, trees, understory vegetation, wind

From the Introduction...'The wildlands of Dade County, including pine rocklands, and coastal and freshwater marshes, are an endangered resource; only 4 percent of the original extent of pine rocklands remain outside Everglades National Park. Metro Dade County Departments of…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, burning permits, conservation, education, everglades, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, Florida, forest management, fuel management, land management, liability, marshes, marshlands, multiple resource management, national parks, natural resource legislation, pine forests, public information, recreation, rocky habitats, smoke management, south Florida, state parks, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), urban habitats, vulnerable species or communities, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife

From the Abstract...'Over the last eight years Miami-Dade County DERM has been trying to organize and increase the use of prescribed fire. Two years ago, at the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Initiative, talk focused around pine rockland endangered species. After much…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, education, fire management, firebreaks, Florida, herbicides, liability, natural areas management, pine forests, private lands, public information, rocky habitats, smoke management, south Florida, wilderness fire management, wildfires

From the Abstract...'The park has been using prescribed fire to manage slash pine savannas since 1958 when it started the first prescribed fire program in the National Park Service, and it continues to be the primary resource management tool. Prescribed fire operations have…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: everglades, fire exclusion, fire injuries (plants), fire management, flank fires, fuel loading, grasses, hammocks, hardwood forests, hardwood hammocks, headfires, introduced species, mortality, Pinus elliottii densa, savannas, scorch, season of fire, slash, slash pine, smoke management, south Florida, species diversity, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants)

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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, Europe, Finland, fire case histories, fire exclusion, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, national forests, national parks, rural communities, Russia, suppression, wilderness fire management, wildfires

Soil CO2 flux (JCO2) was measured at midday over a 2-yr period in undisturbed tallgrass prairie (Konza Prairie, Kansas, USA) to quantify seasonal and annual budgets, to evaluate temperature and moisture as determinants of soil CO2 flux, and to assess the effect of a common land…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Andropogon gerardii, grazing, land management, soil respiration, tallgrass prairie, grasslands, Kansas, Konza Prairie, soil CO2 flux, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, Bison bison, burning intervals, CO2 - carbon dioxide, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, experimental fire, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, histories, land use, moisture, natural areas management, organic matter, prairie, range management, season of fire, soil moisture, soil temperature, soils, Sorghastrum nutans, statistical analysis, temperature, topography, tropical forest, water

This policy statement has been prepared in response to plans by some Federal, tribal and State wildland owners/managers to significantly increase the use of wildland and prescribed fires to achieve resource benefits in the wildlands. Many wildland ecosystems are considered to…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, air pollution, smoke management, visibility, smoke management plan, air quality management

I am going to talk about the agency I work for and our workload here in Southern Arizona. We are working with private ranchers on non federal land, to get fire back on those ecosystems, and mesh it with grazing management. One of the biggest problems confronting us is to use…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: Arizona, livestock, private lands, fire reintroduction, ranching, agriculture, air quality, conservation, deserts, drought, ecosystem dynamics, fine fuels, fire management, fire size, grasses, grasslands, grazing, plant communities, range management, smoke management, soil conservation

Burning of slashed tropical forests and pastures is among the most significant global sources of atmospheric emissions, yet the composition of the fuels and fires that creates these emissions is not well characterized. As part of the Smoke, Clouds, and Radiation-Brazil (SCAR-B)…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: aboveground biomass, tropical forest, Brazil, pasture, canopy fire

ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery, and ecological fire regime…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire regimes, climate change, emission estimates, biomass burning, pre-industrial conditions, Adenostoma, agriculture, biomass, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chaparral, coastal plain, Appalachian Mountains, coniferous forests, cropland fires, croplands, deserts, ecotones, ecology, everglades, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire regimes, fuel loading, fuel models, grasslands, grazing, habitat types, Juniperus, land use, landscape ecology, logging, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus ponderosa, pocosins, prairie, presettlement fires, Prosopis, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus, remote sensing, rural communities, savannas, scrub, shrub fuels, shrublands, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

Little information is available on how shifts in forest composition and structure over time resulting from natural succession, disturbance, and human intervention have changed landscapes with respect to fuel build-up, wildfire and prescribed fire smoke production, and…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: crown fire, forest structure, fuel loading, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, forest composition, vegetation patterns, smoke production, interior Columbia River basin

The rate and magnitude of emissions from prescribed burns and wildfires in wildland areas throughout the world are related to biomass consumption, which is controlled by total biomass, fuel moisture, fuel distribution (fuel size and arrangement), and ignition pattern.…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: heat release rate, biomass consumption, biomass emissions, EPM - Emissions Production Model, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Oregon, Washington, Amazon, Brazil, biomass burning, smoke production

Proceedings from the 2nd Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: biomass emissions, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, smoke management, biomass burning

Combustion products of burning vegetation can increase seed germination of many species of fire-prone plant communities. We tested the influence of heating sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) subcanopy soil, aqueous extracts of artificially burned soil, and sagebrush smoke on…
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): California
Keywords: biomass, grasses, greenhouse effect, seed germination, soil heating, seedlings, mineral content, emergence