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Fire behavior video from the 2006 Orleans Complex recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Six Rivers National Forest, California, Humboldt County, light wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, unmanaged fuels, 2006 Orleans Complex / Somes Fire
Fire behavior video from the 2006 Orleans Complex recorded by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) in coordination with collection of fuels, vegetation, fire behavior, and fire effects data. The FBAT website (see below) provides links to reports on each fire ("Reports and…
Person:
Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California
Keywords: Six Rivers National Forest, California, Humboldt County, light wind, low rate of spread, surface fire, moderate severity fire, unburned, burnout operation, unmanaged fuels, 2006 Orleans Complex / Somes Fire
From the text ... 'Once fires are established on the western portion of the Klamath National Forest, the pattern becomes a long-term commitment of resources, overhead teams, and expenditures.... When it comes to what to do with the Wooley Fire, there is no shortage of issues and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: fire case histories, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, health factors, ignition, national forests, northern California, public information, rate of spread, smoke effects, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildfires, wildlife habitat management
From the text ... 'A coordinated, interagency effort is required to ensure that fire use programs are implemented in a professional and competent manner.... Fire management is as much a philosophy and attitude toward the land as it is an action program.'
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, land management, public information, smoke management, wildfires
From the text ... 'Early prescribed natural fire efforts were tacitly supported, limited in extent, and carried out under close scrutiny.... Wildland fire use has moved beyond the confines of remote, inaccessible areas. It is expanding across an increasing variety of land use…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, invasive species, land use, national parks, post fire recovery, prescribed fires (chance ignition), private lands, public information, smoke management, wildfires
From the text ... 'One of the challenges for all smoke dispersion and impact models is to characterize the accuracy of their prediction of smoke trajectories, concentration of pollutants, and duration of impacts.... Understanding the needs and requirements of the model users is…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, Georgia, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, wildfires
From the text ... 'To mitigate and reduce downstream smoke complaints, clients in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere have used BlueSky and BlueSky-RAINS on prescribed burns for go/no-go decisions and timing.... Failure to meet air quality obligations can lead to more stringent…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky, Fire Consortia for the Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke (FCAMMS), fire management, forest management, fuel management, GIS, smoke behavior, smoke management, wind
From the text... 'The three physiographic regions of the Southeast, all have their own unique requirements for the use of prescribed fire.... Smoke from the fire, a seemingly harmless element, has become as important and as potentially dangerous as the fire itself.... Fire in…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, Armillaria mellea, artificial regeneration, bark, coastal plain, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, firing techniques, forest management, grasses, grazing, hardwood forests, herbaceous vegetation, ignition, liability, livestock, mosaic, mowing, national forests, Piedmont, pine forests, Pinus echinata, Pinus palustris, plant diseases, prescribed fires (escaped), regeneration, riparian habitats, Scirrhia acicola, wildlife habitat management
From the text.... 'The Apache National Forest, like many southwestern forests situated on the Colorado Plateau, has significant fuel hazard problems.... Our objective is to compile a catalog of proven prescriptions to burn any given site in the pine type.... It is important to…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Colorado, coniferous forests, diameter classes, duff, fire control, fire management, firefighting personnel, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, humidity, ignition, mortality, national forests, scorch, season of fire, slash, sloping terrain, smoke management, temperature, thinning, wind
From the text (p.28) ... 'Landowners have been using fire as a land management tool for centuries. It's a great tool that produces multiple benefits, such as site preparation for reforestation, hardwood control in pine stands, wildfire hazard reduction, improved wildlife habitat…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Alabama, burning permits, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel loading, land management, litter, private lands, reforestation, salvage, smoke management, threatened and endangered species, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
Repeated sequences of digitised and geo-referenced historical aerial photography provide a powerful means of understanding landscape change. We use this method to demonstrate a landscape wide expansion of closed forest (42% increase in total coverage) in the Australian monsoon…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, Australia, carbon dioxide, competition, distribution, drainage, ecosystem dynamics, elevation, fire protection, flammability, forest edges, forest management, GIS, grasses, habitat suitability, landscape ecology, Northern Territory of Australia, photography, savannas, statistical analysis, trees, aerial photography, historical ecology, Indigenous fire-use, generalised linear modelling, geographic information systems, landscape ecology, vegetation dynamics
Bushfires can cause widespread air pollution through the emission of high levels of toxic air contaminants that affect the health of surrounding communities. This review of studies that have evaluated the health impacts of bushfires in North America, Australia and South-East…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: air quality, Alberta, Asia, Australia, brush fires, Canada, CO - carbon monoxide, Colorado, diseases, fire management, fire size, health factors, mortality, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, smoke management, Southeast Asia, toxicity, wildfires, atmospheric chemistry, bushfire, community health, particles, toxins
Over the last century, fire exclusion in the forests of the Sierra Nevada has allowed surface fuels to accumulate and has led to increased tree density. Stand composition has also been altered as shade tolerant tree species crowd out shade intolerant species. To restore forest…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Abies concolor, air quality, bark, Calocedrus decurrens, char, coniferous forests, Cornus nuttallii, Dendroctonus ponderosae, Dendroctonus valens, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, insects, Ips, moisture, mortality, Nevada, old growth forests, phenology, pine, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, population density, Quercus kelloggii, Scolytus ventralis, scorch, season of fire, Sierra Nevada, size classes, statistical analysis, surface fuels, trees, Abies spp., Pinus, Dendroctonus, Scolytus, bark beetle
From the introduction: Let me emphasize that I only claim to speak with authority about the task of restoring fire to the National Forests. Private landowners have their own special problems in using prescribed fire, size of forest tracts, lack of expertise, etc. Before we can…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: eastern forests, fire management, historic fire use, public education, oak forests, prescribed fire program, catastrophic fires, education, fire frequency, fire size, forest management, grasslands, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, Native Americans, public information, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Before using a fluid dynamics physically based wildfire model to study wildfire, validation is necessary and model results need to be systematically and objectively analyzed and compared to real fires, which requires suitable data sets. Observational data from the Meteotron…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire plumes, FDS - Fire Dynamics Simulator, Clark coupled model, Meteotron experiment , fire management, fire models, statistical analysis, temperature
Habitat loss, fragmentation, and declining habitat quality have created an extinction debt in boreal forests, which could be partly reversed by deliberately improving the habitat quality in managed areas outside reserves. We studied the effects of green-tree retention and…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, Coleoptera, controlled burning, Finland, habitat quality, residual trees, threatened species, tree retention, beetles, Alnus incana, Betula, conservation, decay, fire injuries (plants), fire management, forest management, fragmentation, heat effects, insects, invertebrates, logging, mortality, old-growth forest, Picea abies, Pinus, Pinus sylvestris, population density, Populus tremula, smoke effects, snags, species diversity, trapping
Wildland fires in Canada burn an average of2.8 million hectares of forest annually. In years of extreme forest fire activity total carbon emissions from wildland fires approach levels similar to industrial carbon emissions. Quantifying annual wildland fire carbon emissions is…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fuel consumption, forest carbon, BORFIRE
The Research and Development (R&D) arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service works at the forefront of science to improve the health and use of our Nation's forests and grasslands. Research has been part of the Forest Service mission since the agency's…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, 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
During 2005, the USDA Forest Service celebrated its Centennial, recognizing 100 years of successfully caring for the land and serving people. The Rocky Mountain Research Station has been, and continues to be, an integral part of the Forest Service mission, dating back to the…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: Forest Service, research, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Resilience against fire disturbance of Mediterranean vegetation has been frequently described. However, fire regimes change due to abandonment of local land use practices and climatic change. Thus, it is useful to know the importance of fire-specific and unspecific mechanisms…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: disturbance, regeneration, succession, fire adaptations, germination, Spain, seeder, Cistaceae, ash, char, coniferous forests, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, fire management, firebreak, forest management, heat, land use, logging, mountains, Mediterranean habitats, Pinus halepensis, post-fire recovery, seed germination, Quercus coccifera , seeds, site treatments, smoke effects, sprouting, Stipa tenacissima, wood
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire weather
Cuban Parrots (Amazona leucocephala) on the island of Great Abaco in the Bahamas forage and nest in native pine forests. The population is unique in that the birds nest in limestone solution holes on the forest floor. Bahamian pine forests are fire-dependent with a frequent…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: birds, cavity nesting birds, Bahamas, backing fire, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, forage, fuel loading, ignition, lightning caused fires, low intensity burns, national parks, nesting, nongame birds, nutrient cycling, particulates, pine forests, Pinus caribaea, surface fires, temperature, wildlife food habits, wildlife habitat management
Fire and harvesting are important disturbances in the boreal forest, driving net biome production. Measurements of net ecosystem production (NEP) over mature forest stands have been made from flux towers for about a decade at the Boreal Ecosystem Research and Monitoring Sites (…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, carbon flux, disturbance, age classes, energy flow, water balance, Saskatchewan, C - carbon, deciduous forests, diameter classes, ecosystem dynamics, energy, evapotranspiration, forest management, logging, size classes, soil moisture, soil temperature, water, wildfires
Nine measures of atmospheric surface moisture are tested for statistical relationships with fire size and number of fires using data from the Great Lakes region of the United States. The measures include relative humidity, water vapor mixing ratio, mixing ratio deficit, vapor…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire danger, fire weather, humidity
Accurate forecasting of regional weather is an important aspect of modern fire and smoke management. Fire weather impacts prescribed burn decisions, allocation of firefighting resources, and fire-fighters safety. Regional weather forecasts are currently produced by 3-D numerical…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, FORFLUX, MM5 - Mesoscale Model generation 5