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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, smoke management
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, smoke management
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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: fuel management, smoke management
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, fine fuels, fire frequency, fire management, fuel loading, gases, particulates, remote sensing, smoke management, biomass burning emissions modeling, remote sensing, fuel consumption
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, boreal forests, Canada, deciduous forests, ecosystem dynamics, evolution, fire regimes, forest management, genetics, Glaucomys volans, climate change, Great Lakes, greenhouse gases, Ontario, Picea engelmannii, Populus balsamifera, Populus tremuloides, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), subalpine forests, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, Tsuga mertensiana, tundra, wetlands, climate change, ecodiversity, forest, ecosystem diversity, species diversity, genetic diversity, ECOSYSTEM HIERARCHY, ECOLOGICAL LAND CLASSIFICATION TERMINOLOGY, ALPINE ECOSYSTEMS, aspen parkland
Smoke from both prescribed fires and wildfires can, under certain meteorological conditions, become entrapped within shallow layers of air near the ground at night and get carried to unexpected destinations as a combination of weather systems push air through interlocking ridge-…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Alabama, coastal plain, computer programs, drainage, elevation, field experimental fires, fire management, fire size, Florida, Georgia, land management, light, Maryland, North Carolina, particulates, Piedmont, smoke behavior, smoke management, South Carolina, statistical analysis, temperature, Virginia, wildfires, wind
Combustion of woody material produces and releases water, but the effects of this water on the atmospheric circulation created by a wildfire are rarely recognized, let alone understood. This paper presents observational data and basic physical arguments to support the hypothesis…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Arizona, Canada, combustion, convection, evapotranspiration, fire management, flame length, Florida, fuel moisture, heat, Idaho, Michigan, military lands, Minnesota, moisture, Montana, New York, North Carolina, Ontario, smoke management, South Carolina, statistical analysis, temperature, Washington, water, wildfires, wood chemistry
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, combustion, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, fuel appraisal, fuel management, GIS, season of fire, smoke management, wildfires
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies balsamea, Betula papyrifera, boreal forests, buds, Canada, carbon dioxide, Choristoneura fumiferana, coniferous forests, dendrochronology, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ecotones, evergreens, fire danger rating, fire intensity, foliage, forest management, histories, insects, Larix laricina, Malacosoma, Manitoba, needles, phenology, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, plant diseases, plant growth, Populus balsamifera, Populus tremuloides, prairies, precipitation, Pristiphora erichsonii, size classes, soil moisture, statistical analysis, temperature, vegetation surveys, wildfires, xeric soils
The regional nature of several important air pollutants, which include acids, ozone, particulate matter, mercury, and persistent organics (POPs), is widely recognized by researchers and decision makers. Such pollutants are transported regionally over scales from about 100 to a…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Climate
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke effects, air quality, climate change, Hg - mercury, ozone, particulates, pollution, smoke management, ozone, particulates, Hg - mercury, POPs
From the text...'The telephone survey of 675 rural and suburban residents of North and Central Florida provides some very useful direction for the development of the Fire Education Toolkit program. Key messages that have been identified by extension agents and home landscaping…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, burning intervals, burning permits, central Florida, education, fire control, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire injuries (animals), flammability, Florida, forest management, grasslands, grazing, health factors, human caused fires, land use, landscape ecology, liability, lightning caused fires, natural areas management, north Florida, pine forests, Pinus, public information, rural communities, sampling, shrublands, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, swamps, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass, Canada, droughts, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Indonesia, land use, litter, Malaysia, pollution, remote sensing, smoke effects, spot fires, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires, fire management, tropical forest management, vegetation fires, forest fires, land fires, hotspots, fire detection
From the text ... 'Prescribed burning is a significant source of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the southeastern United States. However, limited data exist on the emission characteristics from this source. Various organic and inorganic compounds both in the gas and particle…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, chemical compounds, chemistry, coniferous forests, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, gases, Georgia, military lands, nongame birds, particulates, Picoides borealis, pine forests, smoke management, soil organisms, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildfires, wood, Fort Benning, FORT GORDON, levoglucosan, POC - Particulate Organic compound, VOC - volatile organic compounds
Biologicaily rich savannas and woodlands dominated by Pinus palustris once dominated the southeastern U.S. landscape. With European settlement, fire suppression, and landscape fragmentation, this ecosystem has been reduced in area by 97%. Half of remnant forests are not burned…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: Acer rubrum, Alabama, Carya pallida, Carya tomentosa, char, combustion, community ecology, competition, coniferous forests, conservation, disturbance, duff, ecosystem dynamics, European settlement, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, Georgia, Liquidambar styraciflua, litter, longleaf pine, Louisiana, Magnolia grandiflora, military lands, mineral soils, mortality, mycorrhiza, national forests, native species (plants), natural areas management, north Florida, Nyssa sylvatica, organic matter, overstory, pine, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus elliottii densa, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plant communities, plant physiology, population density, population ecology, post fire recovery, Prunus serotina, Quercus geminata, Quercus hemisphaerica, Quercus incana, Quercus laevis, Quercus margaretta, Quercus marilandica, Quercus nigra, roots, savannas, scorch, smoke effects, South Carolina, stand characteristics, state parks, suppression, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, wildfires, ecological restoration, fire suppression, longleaf pine, smoldering duff combustion, fire reintroduction
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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies balsamea, adaptation, age classes, arachnids, arthropods, boreal forests, Calathus ingratus, Canada, Carabidae, Cladium, clearcutting, Coleoptera, community ecology, coniferous forests, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, forest management, grasslands, ground cover, habitat suitability, habitat types, habits and behavior, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, histories, insects, invertebrates, Kalmia angustifolia , landscape ecology, Larix laricina, Ledum groenlandicum, lichen moss fuels, lichens, logging, mortality, mosses, Picea mariana, population density, population ecology, Quebec, regeneration, reproduction, soils, statistical analysis, temperature, trapping, understory vegetation, Vaccinium, wildfires, xeric soils, boreal forest, community response, disturbance, forest fire, ground beetles, logging, fire-prone landscapes, PTEROSTICHUS BREVICORNIS
From the text ... 'The August 2004 issue of the Canadian Journal of forest Research (volume 34[8]) is devoted to a special topic: 'The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in Canada's Northwest Territories: Advancing the Science of Fire Behaviour.' Running from…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Models, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, charcoal, crown fires, experimental fires, fire management, firefighting personnel, forest management, fuel types, histories, Northwest Territories, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, regeneration, sedimentation, Tall Timbers Research Station, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: burning intervals, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire regimes, fungi, germination, grasses, microorganisms, needles, pine, Pinus radiata, plant communities, post fire recovery, seedlings, smoke behavior, smoke effects, wildfires
Forest-fire policy of U.S. federal agencies has evolved from the use of small patrols in newly created National Parks to diverse policy initiatives and institutional arrangements that affect millions of hectares of forests. Even with large expenditures and substantial…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire hazard, fire suppression, fuel management, forest policy, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, conservation, dead fuels, duff, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental assessment, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire size, forest management, fuel types, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, litter, National Fire Plan, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, Pinus contorta, lodgepole pine, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, public information, shrubs, smoke management, surface fires, thinning, threatened and endangered species, US Forest Service, vulnerable species or communities, wilderness fire management, woody fuels, wildfires, wildlife refuges
C4 photosynthesis had a mid-Tertiary origin that was tied to declining atmospheric CO2, but C4-dominated grasslands did not appear until late Tertiary. According to the 'CO2-threshold' model, these C4 grasslands owe their origin to a further late Miocene decline in CO2 that gave…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: grasslands, photosynthesis, savannas, woodland, miocene, paleosols, biomass, CO2 - carbon dioxide, charcoal, deserts, distribution, disturbance, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fuel loading, fuel moisture, light, lightning caused fires, mesic soils, paleoecology, plant communities, population density, precipitation, range management, temperature, xeric soils, wildfires
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the NASA Earth Observing System Terra and Aqua satellites provides global fire observations of unprecedented quality. This paper presents spatial and temporal distributions of active fires from 2001 and 2002, the…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: diurnal cycle, land cover, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, time series, satellite remote sensing, annual cycle, global fire activity, North America, South America, Africa, agriculture, Asia, Australia, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, evergreens, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, forest management, gases, climate change, grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, natural areas management, population density, remote sensing, season of fire, savannas, shrublands, temperature, urban habitats, vegetation surveys, wetlands, wildfires
Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has always been large in scale. The depth and breadth of the research conducted here, however, may surprise even many who are engaged in it. Our research programs have a wide geographical and temporal scope, an…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Forest Service, research, research accomplishment report
Sections 111 and 112 of the Clean Air Act relative to the control of particulates are evaluated. Section 111 provides the promulgation of standards for hazardous pollutants which reflect the best systems of emission reduction. Section 112 defines national emission standards for…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, particulates, Clean Air Act, PM - particulate matter
The advancement of technology relating to particulate emission is pointed out as a significant aspect of this nation's air pollution control efforts. Important factors include the ability of particulates: to cause poor visibility, to constitute a health hazard, to act as…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Clean Air Act, air pollutants, public health, particulate emissions, fine particulates
This document summarizes a study to evaluate the feasibility of using the Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM) to assist in implementing four Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP) policies on fire, described below. This report provides the Fire Emissions Joint Forum (FEJF) with…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FETM - Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, FFE-FVS - Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator, SIMPPLLE - SIMulating Vegetative Patterns and Processes at Landscape scaLEs, VDDT - Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool, landscape model
Diseases caused by fungi - Diseases caused by Oomycota - Bacterial diseases - Viral diseases - Diseases caused by nematodes - Plant-pathogenic algae and plants - Declines, environmental damage, and unexplained growth abnormalities - Restoration of sapwood and bark after injury…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: shrubs, trees, diseases