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From the text: 'Since the program began actual field operations in October, 1981, almost a million acres have been brought under vegetation management plans. About 160,000 acres have been burned to date, despite two of the wettest winters and springs in 90 years (1981/82 and…
Person:
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, brush, environmental impact analysis, fire equipment, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, forage, ignition, private lands, runoff, soil erosion, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildlife refuges

Prescribed fire is accepted as an integral part of managing various ecosystems. Natural fire has played a dominant role in these everchanging ecosystems and is essential to the maintenance of some. Increasing demands on our forests, scenic and natural areas, wildlife areas, and…
Person:
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, backing fires, Chamaedaphne calyculata, duff, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, headfires, ignition, litter, Minnesota, pH, Picea mariana, scorch, soil nutrients, statistical analysis, watersheds, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management

From the Conclusions ... 'The coordination of the helitorch operations, such as support services, unit ignition procedures, and timing, is of a critical nature. It is imperative that a smooth flow of effort be immediately established and maintained throughout a burn. Oversights…
Person:
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerial ignition, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, firing techniques, fuel management, fuel types, ignition, rate of spread, smoke management

This report discusses the potential usefulness of thermal infrared sensors onboard NOAA polar-orbiting satelites for detecting fires. In particular, the 3.8-micron channel is sensitive to high temperature sources such as fires. This paper will demonstrate how the 3.8-micron…
Person:
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, Arizona, coastal forests, coastal plain, computer programs, experimental fires, fire danger rating, fire management, fire size, hardwood forests, heat, Idaho, lightning, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Piedmont, pine forests, remote sensing, season of fire, slash, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, Texas, tundra, Utah, Washington

From the text 'Fire has had an important place in the development of Southern forests. It has been particularly important in the perpetuation of the pine forests of the Coastal Plain, as well as many other pine areas. Nevertheless, the destructive effects of fire are better…
Person:
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, backfires, brush, coastal plain, crown scorch, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, firebreaks, firing techniques, flank fires, Fomes annosus, forest management, fuel management, Georgia, germination, hardwood forests, hardwoods, headfires, humidity, lightning, litter, logging, openings, pine forests, pine, Pinus, plant diseases, rate of spread, regeneration, Scirrhia acicola, season of fire, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, species diversity (plants), temperature, thinning, trees, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, wind, wood

From the text...'Although forest burning is prescribed widely across the United States, it is most commonly practiced in the Northwestern and the Southern United States. In 1978, approximately 37 million metric tons of forest fuels on all forest ownerships were burned by…
Person:
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Andropogon, backing fires, chemical compounds, duff, experimental fires, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, headfires, humidity, laboratory fires, leaves, litter, moisture, needles, particulates, pine hardwood forests, Pinus elliottii, pollution, Sabal palmetto, sampling, Serenoa repens, slash, soils, statistical analysis, temperature, understory vegetation, wind

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Person:
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Economics
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, Borneo, catastrophic fires, clearcutting, droughts, ENSO, fire case histories, fire injuries (plants), Idaho, ignition, Indonesia, litter, logging, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, mortality, Oregon, partial cutting, rainforests, rate of spread, remote sensing, slash, slash and burn, smoke effects, topography, tropical forests, Washington, wildlife food plants

Our primary objective was to measure the reduction in emissions produced from burning incrementally smaller amounts of residues on units where the timber had been harvested. Improvements in air quality can be achieved through increased utilization of residues, but it is only…
Person:
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: air quality, Oregon, residues, broadcast burning, logging, particulates, slash, fire management, forest management

Thermogravimetry (TG) was applied to forest fuel as a microcombustion technique to study emissions by evolved gas analysis (EGA). Emission rates for carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), and total hydrocarbons (THC) for both combustion and pyrolysis processes were…
Person:
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: slash pine, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, emission rate, thermogravimetry, evolved gas analysis, air quality, C - carbon, chemical compounds, combustion, fuel types, gases, heat, hydrocarbons, laboratory fires, microclimate, needles, O - oxygen, Pinus elliottii, statistical analysis, volatilization, wood properties

Absorption properties of smokes from laboratory fires that represent prescription hums in the Southern states have been quantified to relate variations in measured absorption parameters to variation in fire conditions and to estimate emission factors for elemental carbon.…
Person:
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: combustion, absorption, aerosol absorption, aerosol radiative effects, optical properties, PM - particulate matter, smoke properties, visibility, forest fires, aerosols, C - carbon, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, flame length, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, laboratory fires, particulates, pine forests, Pinus, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildfires