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Several boreal insect species respond to smoke and heat generated by forest fires and use recent burns to reproduce in high numbers. Some of these species are rare or uncommon in undisturbed forests, and the contribution of recently burned habitats to their population dynamics…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Models, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: age classes, boreal forests, Canada, conservation, distribution, fire adaptations (animals), fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, habitat suitability, heat, insects, logging, population density, Quebec, reproduction, salvage, snags, statistical analysis, suppression, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, wood, boreal forest, forest fire, habitat connectivity, population dynamics, pyrophilous insects
From the text ... 'Providing nationwide leadership in the development, testing, analysis, standardization, and evaluation of equipment, materials, and procedures for the protection and management of national forests and grasslands is the mission of the Forest Service Technology…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Logistics, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, grasslands, invasive species, national forests, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires
Of Georgia's 37 million acres, 24.8 million acres are forestland. On an average, 1.2 million acres are prescribed burned each year. Georgia faces two main challenges with their prescribed fire program, air quality and urban sprawl. These two will make it more difficult to obtain…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, BlueSky, education, fire management, fire protection, Florida, forest management, fuel management, Georgia, public information, smoke management, Tall Timbers Research Station
From the text ... 'The regional is characterized by continental climate with extreme fire seasons affecting forest and steppe ecosystems.'
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: Afghanistan, Asia, boreal forests, CO - carbon monoxide, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest fragmentation, forest management, climate change, grasslands, human caused fires, Kazakhstan, lightning caused fires, Mongolia, Russia, wildfires
In this study, we used fire count datasets derived from Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) satellite to characterize spatial patterns in fire occurrences across highly diverse geographical, vegetation and topographic gradients in the Indian region. For characterizing the…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, agriculture, air quality, Asia, biomass burning, cropland fires, deciduous forests, ecosystem dynamics, elevation, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel moisture, GIS, grasslands, ignition, India, montane forests, particulates, precipitation, rate of spread, remote sensing, savannas, slash, slash and burn, statistical analysis, tropical forests, vegetation surveys, wildfires, fires, spatial patterns, point pattern analysis, vegetation fires, India
Background: Air pollution in Darwin, Northern Australia, is dominated by smoke from seasonal fires in the surrounding savanna that burn during the dry season from April to November. Our aim was to study the association between particulate matter less than or equal to 10 microns…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: aborigines, air quality, Australia, diseases, fire hazard reduction, fire management, health factors, Northern Territory of Australia, particulates, pollution, savannas, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke management, vegetation surveys, wildfires
The National Weather Service Fire Weather Program provides weather forecasting and meteorological support services to state and federal wildland fire management agencies. An Intergovernmental Fire Weather User's Summit, sponsored by the National Weather Service (NWS) and the…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, education, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire management, fire suppression, land management, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
Created through the Wildfire Disaster Recovery Act of 1989 (PL 101-286), in response to the destructive western fire season of 1987 and the Yellowstone fires of 1988, the Commission was asked to consider the environmental and economic effects of disastrous wildfires through…
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: 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, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, arid regions, biomass, catastrophic fires, chaparral, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire case histories, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, forest products, fuel accumulation, fuel management, general interest, hardwood forests, histories, Idaho, land management, land use, liability, logging, mosaic, natural resource legislation, Nevada, nongame birds, Oncorhynchus, Oregon, pine forests, Pinus ponderosa, public information, rangelands, small mammals, smoke management, Strix occidentalis, thinning, threatened and endangered species (animals), understory vegetation, watershed management, West Virginia, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Acer glabrum, air quality, Amelanchier, catastrophic fires, cavity nesting birds, Colorado, cover type conversion, cutting, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel moisture, herbicides, Larix occidentalis, lightning caused fires, logging, mammals, mosaic, Oregon, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, public information, Purshia tridentata, season of fire, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, site treatments, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, threatened and endangered species (plants), understory vegetation, Washington, wildfires
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Asia, catastrophic fires, China, coniferous forests, cutting, dead fuels, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire injuries (humans), fire protection, fire size, Georgia, human caused fires, ignition, lightning caused fires, logging, mortality, radiation, rate of spread, remote sensing, smoke behavior, temperature, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
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Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: bacteria, bark, carbon dioxide, chemistry, combustion, deciduous forests, fire growth, fire retardants, fire suppression, flammability, forest management, fuel arrangement, fuel inventory, fuel loading, fuel management, fungi, Georgia, heat, ignition, leaves, litter, logging, microorganisms, moisture, national forests, needles, Oregon, organic matter, private lands, public information, remote sensing, slash, soil moisture, soil organic matter, spontaneous combustion, temperature, wood, woody fuels, spontaneous ignition, forest residue, wood chips, slash, CHIP PILE, SAWDUST
The performance of internal combustion engines used in fire fighting equipment can be affected by the fireground ambient conditions. Both gasoline (SI) and diesel (CI) engines can suffer significant power losses due to high temperatures and reduced oxygen in the intake air…
Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: forest fire, fireground, bushfire, fire engines, internal combustion engine
ANNOTATION: This paper looks into the carbon sequestering abilities of forests and finds that policies currently in place promote avoidable carbon releases and discourage actions that would actually increase long-term carbon storage. When stand-replacing catastrophic fires move…
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: forest management, carbon storage, CO2 - carbon dioxide, carbon offsets, Abies spp., biomass, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, fire case histories, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, low intensity burns, climate change, Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, population density, Douglas-fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii, thinning, wildfires
Resolving environmental impacts caused by the wildland–urban interface (WUI) expansion such as wildlife habitat fragmentation, or increased fire risk entails an accurate delineating of WUI boundary and its dynamics prediction. This study identified WUIs throughout the 11 states…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, Alabama, Arkansas, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire suppression, Florida, fragmentation, Kentucky, Georgia, land management, landscape ecology, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, population density, remote sensing, rural communities, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, South Carolina, statistical analysis, Tennessee, urban habitats, vegetation surveys, Virginia, water quality, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Planning, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Abies concolor, air quality, C - carbon, coniferous forests, crown fires, crowns, distribution, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, energy, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire injuries (humans), fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire protection, fire regimes, fuel appraisal, fuel management, Georgia, grasslands, hardwoods, herbaceous vegetation, ignition, landscape ecology, light, logging, mortality, national forests, overstory, physics, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus radiata, Pinus sabiniana, private lands, Quercus agrifolia, Quercus douglasii, statistical analysis, surface fires, US Forest Service, Umbellularia californica, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, fire management, landscapes, decision analysis, fire perimeter, SHORT INTERVAL FIRE-ADAPTED FOREST SYSTEMS, FOUNTAIN FIRE, SHASTA COUNTY, CA, Oakland-Berkeley Hills Fire