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Logging slash on 73 clearcuts in the western larch/Douglas-fir forest of western Montana was broadcast burned over a wide range of environmental conditions. A broad array of fire intensities and effects was achieved. A severe wildfire was also evaluated and compared to the…
Person:
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: Douglas-fir, fire management, Pseudotsuga menziesii, clearcutting, larch, Larix spp., Abies lasiocarpa, Abies grandis, aesthetics, air quality, Arnica latifolia, ash, bibliographies, broadcast burning, Calamagrostis rubescens, calcium, catastrophic fires, cavity nesting birds, chemistry, Clintonia, competition, coniferous forests, decay, dominance, drought, duff, Epilobium angustifolium, erosion, Eutamias ruficaudus, fine fuels, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel moisture, ground cover, herbaceous vegetation, Larix occidentalis, light, logging, low intensity burns, magnesium, Microtus longicaudus, mineral soil, Montana, N - nitrogen, nutrient cycling, nutrients, old growth forest, organic matter, Peromyscus maniculatus, pH, phosphorus, Picea engelmannii, Pinus ponderosa, plant growth, population density, post-fire recovery, K - potassium, precipitation, raptors, rate of spread, regeneration, runoff, season of fire, sedimentation, seed dispersal, seed germination, seed production, seedlings, seeds, shrubs, slash, small mammals, smoke behavior, smoke management, sodium, soil erosion, soil nutrients, soil organic matter, soil permeability, soils, statistical analysis, succession, Thuja plicata, Vaccinium globulare, volatilization, water, water repellent soils, watershed management, watersheds, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wildlife habitat management, Xerophyllum tenax

Climate change in the western United States has increased the frequency of extreme fire weather events and is projected to increase the area burned by wildfire in the coming decades. This changing fire regime, coupled with increased high-severity fire risk from a legacy of fire…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: climate change, C - carbon, air quality, forest management, wildfires, thinning, Sierra Nevada, Abies magnifica, carbon sequestration, Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project, Dinkey Creek, fire emission, forest management, LANDIS-II, mixed-conifer, Pinus ponderosa, wildfire, fuel reduction treatments, mixed-conifer forest, Lake Tahoe Basin, climate change, wildfire risk, landscape, dynamics

Forest managers are challenged with meeting numerous demands that often include wildlife habitat and carbon (C) sequestration. We used a probabilistic framework of wildfire occurrence to (1) estimate the potential for fuel treatments to reduce fire risk and hazard across the…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: forest management, C - carbon, wildfires, air quality, California spotted owl, Strix occidentalis occidentalis, ArcFuels, forest thinning, wildfire emissions, Ponderosa pine forests, mixed-conifer forest, Sierra Nevada, risk analysis, crown fire, fire severity

Forest fires are very common in tropical region during February May months and are known to have significant impact on ecosystem dynamics. Moreover, aerosols emitted from these burning activities significantly modulate the Earth's radiation budget. In present study, we…
Person:
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, C - carbon, air quality, Himalayas, forest fire, biomass burning, black carbon, organic carbon, Surface Darkening, Himalayas, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Data Assimilation System, black carbon emissions, Era-Interim, Premonsoon Season, model simulations, light absorption, Temperature Data, Tibetan Plateau, climate change

Wildfires have an important role in the ecological process affecting ecosystems at multiple spatial scales. MCD64A1 500 m burned area product is used in this study to document trends of fire events from 2001 to 2019. The research aims to analyze the trend of burned areas in the…
Person:
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Iran, land cover, MODIS - Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, remote sensing, wildfires, burned area, climate change, slope, air pollution, fire trends

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Person:
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, biomass, burning intervals, burning permits, C - carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, clearcutting, computer programs, conifers, decay, diameter classes, duff, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, firing techniques, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel inventory, fuel models, fuel moisture, fuel types, gases, hardwoods, herbicides, humus, ignition, logging, moisture, multiple resource management, national forests, Oregon, organic soils, particulates, pine, post fire recovery, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, season of fire, slash, slash and burn, smoke management, statistical analysis, Tsuga heterophylla, Washington, woody fuels

Climate, vegetation, and fire are interrelated so that any change in one will affect the others. Increases in greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, are expected to increase average surface temperatures and alter precipitation patterns. These changes will alter numerous…
Person:
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, biogeography, biomass, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, chemistry, community ecology, competition, coniferous forests, deserts, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire regimes, fuel types, gases, climate change, nutrient cycling, particulates, pine forests, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, plant communities, plant growth, population ecology, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, radiation, rainforests, season of fire, shrublands, slash and burn, species diversity (plants), temperature, water, wildfires

Alaska, the great northern frontier of America, is being reshaped by climate change. While rising temperatures are altering its character and landscape, they are also bringing the ravages of wildfires. In the past 60 years, Alaska has warmed more than twice as fast as the rest…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: climate change, C - carbon, area burned, fire season length

In this paper, we analyze the current and future status of forests in Ukraine and Belarus that were contaminated after the nuclear disaster in 1986. Using several models, together with remote-sensing data and observations, we studied how climate change in these forests may…
Person:
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire regimes, litter, carbon stock, Chernobyl, climate change, fire risk, Ukraine, Belarus, Cesium-137, redistribution, biomass burning, crown fires, fire intensity, wildfires, C - carbon, cover, distribution, drought, radiation, mortality, remote sensing, snags, fire management, forest management

The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (FERA) of the Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, is an interdisciplinary team of scientists that conduct primary research on wildland fire and provide decision support for fire hazard and smoke management.…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FEPS - Fire Emissions Production Simulator, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, Natural Fuels Photo Series, Consume 3.0, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Digital Photo Series, fire management, air quality, C - carbon, fire hazard reduction, fire size, fuel management, fuel types, photography, population density, smoke management, surface fires, vegetation surveys, wildfires

In Florida, natural communities require periodic fires for maintenance of their ecological integrity. Because of public concerns, wildfires can no longer be allowed to perform this mandatory function so prescribed burning is essential to manage these plant and animal communities…
Person:
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Florida, aesthetics, allelopathy, biogeography, burning permits, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, climatology, community ecology, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, European settlement, fire control, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (humans), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire protection, fire suppression, firing techniques, flame length, flatwoods, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, fuel types, herbaceous vegetation, humidity, ignition, incendiary fires, insects, land management, landscape ecology, liability, Native Americans, natural areas management, natural resource legislation, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus palustris, plant communities, plant diseases, population density, post-fire recovery, escaped prescribed fires, private lands, public information, rate of spread, reforestation, scrub, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, state forests, state parks, temperature, US Forest Service, vegetation surveys, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind

From the text... 'To understand and predict wildland fire behavior, it is necessary to enlarge analogies drawn from confined fires and to create models for the components of the fire environment, such as fuels and weather, and for the mechanics of fire propagation. Wildland fire…
Person:
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Great Basin, Northwest, Southern, International
Keywords: backfires, blowups, catastrophic fires, char, chemistry, combustion, convection, crown fires, decomposition, droughts, duff, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire size, fire whirls, flame length, flammability, floods, forest types, fuel loading, fuel moisture, grasses, ground fires, heat, heat effects, histories, human caused fires, hydrology, ignition, India, Komarek, E.V., Sr., landscape ecology, live fuels, military lands, national forests, New England, nutrients, O - oxygen, physics, private lands, rivers, sloping terrain, spot fires, statistical analysis, topography, US Forest Service, understory vegetation, water, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildland fuels, wind, woody fuels, conduction, firestorm, LAWSUITS, MYTHOLOGY, pitch, pyrolysis, thermodynamics

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Person:
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass, Brachypodium ramosum, crown fires, crowns, dead fuels, Europe, fine fuels, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire whirls, France, fuel breaks, fuel management, fuel moisture, gases, ignition, Mediterranean habitats, needles, overstory, O - oxygen, Pinus halepensis, population density, Quercus coccifera , radiation, rate of spread, shrubs, size classes, sloping terrain, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, temperature, vortices, wildfires, wind, forest fire spread

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Person:
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

The mass burning rates of several polymer systems, including polycarbonates, polysystrenes, polyethylenes, and wood were determined for steady-state combustion in an apparatus similar to that constructed at Factory Mutual Research. The work was undetaken to determine the…
Person:
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: burning intervals, char, chemical elements, combustion, fire control, flammability, gases, heat, Michigan, O - oxygen, wood

Shaped by fire for thousands of years, the forests of the western United States are as adapted to periodic fires as they are to the region's soils and climate. Our widespread practice of ignoring the vital role of fire is costly in both ecological and economic terms, with…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: fire management, fire regimes, forest management, fire use, forest regeneration, habitat, soil processes, air quality, catastrophic fires, combustion, coniferous forests, erosion, fire adaptations, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire scar analysis, fire suppression, fuel breaks, fuel management, O - oxygen, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, plant communities, post-fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus garryana, riparian habitats, Sequoia sempervirens, soil nutrients, soils, wildfires