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Seed burial in nylon mesh bags over a 2-year period was used to examine seed longevity patterns in 12 shrub and two graminoid species in fire-prone habitats around Sydney, south-eastern Australia. Most species released a large fraction of their annual seed-crop in a dormant…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: Acacia spp., Adenostoma, Arctostaphylos, artificial regeneration, Australia, birds, Ceanothus, char, competition, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire sensitive plants, grasslands, Grevillea, heat, insects, landscape ecology, Persoonia, population density, population ecology, post fire recovery, predation, regeneration, resprouting, seed dispersal, seed dormancy, seed germination, seed production, seeds, shrublands, soils, South Africa

Prescribed fire was tested as a potential tool for site preparation and for reducing fire hazard after clearcut logging in dark coniferous forests in Siberia. Experimental burns were conducted on 8 sites to evaluate the practicality of fire use and effects of prescribed fires on…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, artificial regeneration, Asia, BEHAVE, boreal forests, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, coniferous forests, disturbance, experimental areas, experimental fires, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, hydrocarbons, logging, low intensity burns, CH4 - methane, Pinus sylvestris, post fire recovery, rate of spread, regeneration, Russia, sampling, Siberia, slash, surface fires, wind, woody fuels

The results of a survey concerning National Forest System prescribed burning activity and costs from 1985 to 1995 are examined. Ninety-five of one hundred and fourteen national forests responded. Acreage burned and costs for conducting burns are reported for four types of…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, arthropods, brush, burning permits, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, game birds, grasses, grasslands, grazing, hardwood forests, ignition, insects, liability, logging, national forests, natural resource legislation, nongame birds, pine forests, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, range management, rangelands, reforestation, slash, slash and burn, smoke management, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

From the text...'To date, however, there has been limited documentation of field applications where smoke or charred wood have been used to increase the success of a planting. This makes it difficult to quantify the effectiveness of these methods as well as the species-specific…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Great Basin, International
Keywords: Africa, annual plants, Asteraceae, Australia, chaparral, charring, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fynbos, heat effects, heathlands, perennial plants, scrub, seed dormancy, seed germination, shrublands, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, South Africa, South America, Wisconsin, wood

We characterized the historical, current, and future wildland fire smoke emissions on National Forests and Grasslands of the western United States. This information provided a basis for summary interpretations included in the U.S. Forest Service report "Protecting People and…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire regimes, forest types, grasslands, national forests, prescribed fires (chance ignition), rangelands, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires

The management of fire in wilderness requires the balancing of mandates to both preserve natural conditions and minimize the impacts of human activities. Created to preserve and protect lands "in their natural condition”, the 1964 Wilderness Act also requires that wilderness be…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Colorado, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel management, herbaceous vegetation, histories, ignition, natural resource legislation, presettlement fires, smoke effects, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires

From Web Document, Executive Summary... ' Premise This strategy is based on the premise that sustainable resources are predicated on healthy, resilient ecosystems. In fire-adapted ecosystems, some measure of fire use - at appropriate intensity, frequency, and time of year -…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Arizona, arthropods, catastrophic fires, coastal forests, Colorado, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, diseases, disturbance, droughts, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, fishes, flammability, floods, Florida, forest management, forest types, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, grasslands, health factors, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, light burning, logging, Montana, multiple resource management, national forests, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, rangelands, recreation, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, species diversity, stand characteristics, streamflow, Texas, threatened and endangered species, topography, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, Utah, Washington, water quality, watersheds, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, Wyoming

From the text ... 'Removing American Indians from the land effectively ended wildland burning practices that had lasted for millennia. ...The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management together administer several hundred million acres of grassland and other grazing land where…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, artificial regeneration, clearcutting, cover type conversion, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, floods, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, grasslands, grazing, health factors, hydrology, land management, liability, lightning caused fires, logging, low intensity burns, mosaic, national forests, Native Americans, old growth forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, plant growth, prairies, presettlement vegetation, savannas, season of fire, shrublands, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, soil nutrients, succession, thinning, US Forest Service, vegetation surveys, Washington, wilderness fire management, wildlife habitat management

The goal of this report is to analyze whether or not prescribed fire could be used to regain the meadow perimeter of Donegan Prairie. A secondary issue of protecting late successional habitat in surrounding old growth timber from high intensity fire also will be addressed. If…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: BEHAVE, FOFEM - First Order Fire Effects Model, FVS - Forest Vegetation Simulator, economic analysis, fuels reduction, Oregon, Umpqua National Forest, meadow restoration

Tropical forest conversion, shifting cultivation and clearing of secondary vegetation make significant contributions to global emissions of greenhouse gases today, and have the potential for large additional emissions in future decades. Globally, an estimated 3.1 x 109 t of…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Amazon, biomass, Brazil, burning intervals, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, charcoal, combustion, decomposition, deforestation, fire frequency, fire management, forest management, gases, climate change, greenhouse gases, habitat conversion, human caused fires, land use, CH4 - methane, Netherlands, savannas, second growth forests, soils, South America, tropical forests

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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia gerrardii, Acacia karroo, Acacia nigrescens, Acacia nilotica, Africa, Aristida, Australia, biomass, Brachiaria, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, combustion, competition, Cymbopogon, deforestation, Digitaria, Eragrostis, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire suppression, fuel loading, grasslands, grazing, Heteropogon contortus, human caused fires, Loudetia, particulates, savannas, season of fire, soil organic matter, soil organisms, soils, surface fuels, topography, tropical regions, weeds, woody plants, Zimbabwe, soil, organic carbon, C-13, savannas, carbon cycle, fires

Forest ecosystems are enormously important to mankind. They not only supply wood, foods, medicines, waxes, oils, gums, resins and tannins, but they also regulate climate, hydrology, mineral cycling, soil erosion, and cleansing of air and water. A variety of natural and human-…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Eastern, Southern, International
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Acer saccharum, agriculture, air quality, arthropods, ash, Asia, Asimina, Australia, Betula alleghaniensis, bibliographies, Canada, Carya cordiformis, cover type conversion, deforestation, diseases, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, erosion, fire injuries (plants), fire management, floods, forest management, climate change, habitat conversion, hardwood forests, heat, human caused fires, hydrology, Ilex glabra, insects, Korea, land use, mortality, New Zealand, N - nitrogen, Ontario, photosynthesis, Picea mariana, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus elliottii, Pinus halepensis, Pinus palustris, Pinus radiata, Pinus resinosa, Pinus rigida, Pinus taeda, plant diseases, plant growth, plantations, pollution, Populus tremuloides, post fire recovery, precipitation, Quercus rubra, Quercus stellata, resins, Rhus typhina, runoff, seed germination, slash and burn, soil erosion, soils, species diversity (plants), succession, temperature, thinning, trees, tropical forests, understory vegetation, water, water quality, wildfires, wind, Wisconsin, wood, woody plants, acid rain, agroforestry, biocide, biodiversity, deforestation, ecosystem, flooding, forest decline, genetic engineering, global warming, greenhouse gas, plantations, natural forests, nitrogen saturation, phytotron, pollution, remote sensing, salinity, soil compaction, slash-and-burn agriculture