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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): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, distribution, Europe, Finland, fire management, forest management, health factors, particulates, pollution, precipitation, radiation, remote sensing, sampling, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, urban habitats, wildfires, wind, long-range transport, wildfire smoke, mass size distribution, chemical analysis, source analysis, biomass combustion markers

This article reports an analysis of mail-in questionnaires of policy participants in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The results show all stakeholder affiliations are concerned about the severity of fire risk relative to other important issue areas in the Basin, support thinning trees to…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, education, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, forest management, private lands, public information, recreation, statistical analysis, thinning, trees, water quality, wildfires, policy participants, Lake Tahoe Basin, environmental management, forest resources, forestry, natural resources, natural resource management

A modeling framework has been developed to examine the spatial and temporal aspects of biomass burning emissions from southern African savanna fires. The complexity of the fire emissions processes is described using a spatially and temporally explicit model that integrates…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass burning, fuel loading, fuel moisture, air quality, cover, gases, remote sensing, statistical analysis, Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Africa, fire management, forest management, fuel management, grasslands, savannas, African savannas, biomass burning, OVOC - oxygenated volatile organic compounds, seasonal trace gas emissions, sensitivity analysis

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

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

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

The Rocky Mountain Research Station is one of six regional units that make up the USDA Forest Service Research and Development organization-the most extensive natural resources research organization in the world. We maintain 12 field laboratories throughout a 14-state territory…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, 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

Focus groups were used to gauge tolerance of smoke from broadcast prescribed forest burning in the wildland-urban interface of the northern Inland West. Focus group participants worked through issues surrounding prescribed burning as a management tool to determine if the origin…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: focus groups, air quality, broadcast burning, coniferous forests, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel management, Native Americans, public information, rural communities, smoke management, wildfires

Large-scale, recurrent fires in Indonesia in recent decades have caused widespread deforestation and transformation of peatlands, and have contributed to substantial smoke haze and greenhouse-gas pollution. In some areas, local community use of fire for livelihood needs could be…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Indonesia, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fishing, livelihoods, peatlands, turtles, agriculture, community ecology, deforestation, drought, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire size, fish, fuel loading, GIS - geographic information system, grasslands, grasslike plants, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, hydrology, natural areas management, overstory, plant growth, population density, post-fire recovery, rate of spread, regeneration, remote sensing, scrub, shrublands, soils, vegetation surveys

Wildfires create damages in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) that total hundreds of millions of dollars annually in the United States. Understanding how fires are produced in built-up areas near and within fire prone landscapes requires evaluating and quantifying the roles…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: econometrics, air quality, risk analysis, wildfires, production functions, burning permits, catastrophic fires, climatology, computer program, drought, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fire damage, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injury, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire protection, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, flame length, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, fuel types, GIS - geographic information system, human caused fires, ignition, incendiary fires, landscape ecology, lightning caused fires, Nyssa aquatica, population density, population ecology, private lands, public information, riparian habitats, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, slash, statistical analysis, swamps, Taxodium distichum, US Forest Service, wetlands

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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Intelligence, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Eastern, Southern, International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, Canada, C - carbon, chemical compounds, chemistry, distribution, fire case histories, fire management, forest management, GIS, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Ontario, particulates, Pennsylvania, pollution, Quebec, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, wildfires, receptor models, potential source contribution function, PM2.5, long-range transport, forest fire, biomass burning, PSCF (Potential Source Contribution Function) ANALYSIS, smoke plume, TEOM - Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance, PHILADELPHIA

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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, backfires, biomass, C - carbon, fire intensity, fire management, fuel loading, gases, headfires, photography, radiation, range management, remote sensing, savannas, smoke behavior, statistical analysis, wildfires, C - carbon, global emission budgets, intensity, radiative energy, FLI (Fire Line Intensity)

The accuracy of wildfire air pollutant emission estimates was assessed by comparing observations of carbon monoxide (CO) and particulate matter (PM) concentrations in wildfire plumes to predictions of CO and PM concentrations, based on emission estimates and air quality models.…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Intelligence, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, coniferous forests, eastern Texas, fire case histories, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fuel loading, fuel management, light, ozone, particulates, population density, smoke effects, smoke management, Texas, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildfires, wildfire inventory, wildfire emissions, emissions inventory, emissions modeling, TexAQS, photochemical modeling, CAMx, plume rise, plumes

In Sept. 2003, a prescribed burn on the Uinta National Forest escaped, costing nearly $3 million to extinguish while choking Utah cities with smoke for a week. When the incident drew harsh criticism from local officials and news media, fire managers worried that prescribed…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: social acceptance, Uinta National Forest, disturbance, education, fire case histories, property damage, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, logging, national forests, natural areas management, escaped prescribed fires, public information, sampling, statistical analysis, thinning, Utah, vegetation surveys, wildfires, wildland fuels

The production of residual white ash patches within wildfires represents near-complete combustion of the available fuel and releases a considerable quantity of gases to the atmosphere. These patches are generally produced from combustion of large downed woody debris (LDWD) such…
Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: C - carbon, remote sensing, burned area, savannas, Africa, DWD - downed woody debris, white ash, Fraxinus americana, Botswana, air quality, ash, biomass, combustion, experimental fire, fire management, fuel loading, gases, ignition, litter, national parks, particulates, range management, snags, South Africa, statistical analysis, surface fires, wildfires, woody fuels, Zambia