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The Manual includes information on the organization's standard operating procedures, requirements, and guidelines regarding fire management. It also outlines the necessary steps for developing and maintaining a succesful fire management program. The Manual is a dynamic document…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, conservation, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, health factors, liability, manuals, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires
Vegetation fires emit a number of air pollutants, thus impacting air quality at local, regional and global scales. One such pollutant is the particulate matter (PM) that is known to trigger adverse health effects. In this study, the CALPUFF/CALMET/MM5 modeling system is employed…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Arizona, Colorado, cropland fires, fire management, fire size, firing techniques, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Mexico, particulates, pollution, range management, rate of spread, remote sensing, wind, agricultural fire, PM - particulate matter, plume dispersion, CALPUFF, CALMET, MM5
Fire is one of the key disturbances affecting trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forest ecosystems within western Canadian wildlands, including Elk Island National Park in central Alberta, Canada. Although prescribed fire is a tool available to modify aspen forests, a…
Person:
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Alberta, Canada, combustion, coniferous forests, disturbance, droughts, duff, ecosystem dynamics, experimental fires, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, fuel moisture, ground fires, ignition, moisture, national parks, plant communities, plant growth, Populus, Populus tremuloides, rate of spread, sampling, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, FWI - Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System, ground fire, subsurface fire
From the text ... 'This article updates the uses of the fire severity index called the Haines Index (HI). We discuss the original intended use of HI, its current operational use, some ways that users have modified it, and different aspects of HI that researchers are examining to…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: convection, fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, flame length, fuel moisture, ignition, rate of spread, smoke behavior, temperature, Washington, wildfires, wind
From the text (p.32) ... 'When prescribed fire is part of the ecological management plan, most native plants bloom earlier and longer, produce more seed, and generally thrive. The reasons are easy to see. the dead plant material is reduced to mineral-rich ask, which provides…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: ash, backfires, ecosystem dynamics, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, flank fires, forest management, grasslands, headfires, invasive species, leaves, lightning caused fires, litter, native species (plants), nutrients, post fire recovery, range management, regeneration, seed production, smoke management, wildfires, Wisconsin
The main purpose of this paper is to present a fire behaviour system, developed to estimate fire progression, smoke dispersion and visibility impairment, at a local scale, and to evaluate its performance by comparing results with measurements from the Gestosa 2004 experimental…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Europe, fire growth, fire management, fire size, particulates, pollution, Portugal, rate of spread, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, topography, wildfires
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire equipment, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, general interest, landscape ecology, liability, logging, National Fire Plan, national forests, national parks, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, private lands, public information, roads, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, thinning, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
This paper describes the Oklahoma Fire Danger Model, an operational fire danger rating system for the state of Oklahoma (USA) developed through joint efforts of Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma, and the Fire Sciences Laboratory of the USDA Forest Service in…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: adaptation, fire danger rating, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, land management, live fuels, moisture, Montana, Oklahoma, pine hardwood forests, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke management, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text ... 'On the Dude Fire Staff Ride tomorrow, we will retrace the steps of people who were under pressure. Some of those people handled pressure well. Some didn't. For a richer understanding of the Dude Fire, we should focus on what happens when people are overcome by…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: Arizona, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, hardwood forests, pine forests, rate of spread, smoke effects, Washington, wildfires
From the text...''Values at stake' is the principle upon which fire safety is based. In the U.S., the highest values at stake are human life and private property, in that order. In wildfire suppression once the values of human life and private property are secure, generally the…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: education, fire damage protection, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flammability, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, general interest, Georgia, hardwood forests, Louisiana, marshlands, pine forests, plantations, pollution, public information, smoke management, streams, suppression, threatened and endangered species, water, water quality, wildfires
The authors present a finite-difference numerical model of heat flow within a horizontal section of a tree stem. Processes included in the model are solar radiative heating, infrared emission and absorption, convective heat exchange between tree surface and the atmosphere, and…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: stem heating, finite-difference numerical model , solar radiative heating, tree stem heat flow
Fire is the dominant disturbance in forest ecosystems across Canada and Alaska, and has important implications for forest ecosystems, terrestrial carbon dioxide emissions and the forestry industry. Large fire activity had increased in Canadian and Alaskan forests during the last…
Person:
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, fire, drought, carbon dioxide, computer program, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire size, flammability, forest management, moisture, season of fire, wildfires
The research and development (R&D) arm of the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with approximately 550 researchers in a range of biological, physical, and social science fields, seeks to better understand and describe the complex mechanisms at work in…
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Year: 2007
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
Fire scientists in the United States began exploring the relationships of fire-danger and hazard with weather, fuel moisture, and ignition probabilities as early as 1916. Many of the relationships identified then persist today in the form of our National Fire-Danger-Rating…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: NFDRS - National Fire Danger Rating System, vegetation, United States, satellite-derived maps, Priest River Experiment Station, weather maps, climatology, coniferous forests, dead fuels, drought, duff, evolution, experimental areas, fire control, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire management planning, fuel moisture, GIS - geographic information system, Idaho, ignition, moisture, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, precipitation, rate of spread, sloping terrain, smoke effects, statistical analysis, succession, wind, woody fuels, wildfires
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server. The Internet server allows maps of ventilation…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Mapping, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: database, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, fire weather data, mixing height, ventilation index, wind speed
We have simulated the dynamical evolution of the plume from a prescribed biomass fire, using the active tracer high-resolution atmospheric model (ATHAM). Initialization parameters were set to reflect the conditions during the fire. The model results are compared with airborne…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: biomass burning, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, SCAR-C Smoke, Cloud, and Radiation-C experiment, aerosol transport, aerosol optical properties
The Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science (ESFS) synthesizes volumes of scientific knowledge about fire science in the southern United States. ESFS delivers grounded information to field practitioners and the general public with viewer-navigated text, photos, graphics, plus a…
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Year: 2002
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: bibliography, ESFS - Encyclopedia of Southern Fire Science
The present paper proposes an original approach to estimate gaseous and particulate emissions from boreal forest fires based on the Canadian Forest Fire Behaviour Prediction ( FBP) System. The FBP System permits calculation of fuel consumption and rate of spread for individual…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, distribution, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire management, forest management, gases, greenhouse gases, headfires, organic matter, particulates, precipitation, Quebec, rate of spread, smoke management, statistical analysis, temperature, wildfires, air quality, black carbon, climate change, greenhouse gas, particulate matter
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Canada, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, coniferous forests, conifers, deciduous forests, disturbance, fire growth, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firebreaks, forest management, fuel accumulation, gases, health factors, human caused fires, land use, lightning, lightning caused fires, CH4 - methane, wildfires, C - carbon, climate change, Kyoto Protocol, fire suppression and biodiversity
From the text (pp.6-7) ... 'Another [reason periodic low-intensity fires have ceased to provide forest and land maintenance] is the culture of fire suppression in America deliberately created in the early 20th century to promote a shift to intensive forestry and away from…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Hazard and Risk, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: age classes, air quality, artificial regeneration, backing fires, burning intervals, burning permits, C - carbon, competition, cover, crown scorch, duff, education, FEIS, fine fuels, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel moisture, hardwood forests, herbaceous vegetation, herbicides, ignition, land use, liability, light, litter, livestock, logging, mineral soils, mortality, N - nitrogen, north Florida, nutrient cycling, pine forests, pine, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus taeda, plant growth, population density, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, site treatments, slash, soil leaching, stand characteristics, suppression, Tall Timbers Research Station, thinning, trees, understory vegetation, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management, wind, woody fuels
In support of Canada's National Forest Carbon Monitoring, Accounting and Reporting System, a project was initiated to develop and test procedures for estimating direct carbon emissions from fires. The Canadian Wildland Fire Information System (CWFIS) provides the infrastructure…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forests, Canada, fuel consumption, remote sensing, carbon emissions, Boreal Fire Effects Model, Canada's National Forest Carbon Monitoring, Accounting and Reporting System, CWFIS - Canadian Wildland Fire Information System, air quality, biomass, C - carbon, coniferous forests, dead fuels, decomposition, disturbance, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, foliage, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, heavy fuels, litter, mortality, organic matter, population density, rate of spread, snags, wildfires
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, biomass, Cascades Range, catastrophic fires, combustion, competition, coniferous forests, convection, crown fires, decay, duff, fine fuels, fire case histories, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire resistant plants, fire whirls, foliage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, general interest, Great Plains, ground fires, heat, heat effects, human caused fires, Idaho, ignition, insects, lightning caused fires, litter, Montana, mortality, mosaic, overstory, O - oxygen, Picea engelmannii, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, plant growth, prairies, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus, resprouting, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, slash, stand characteristics, surface fires, topography, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, woody fuels