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From the text ... 'As we move forward and as we put more prescribed fire across the nation, there are going to be things like smoke incidents, there will be accidents, there will be loss of structures. And, yes, there will even be loss of life. The future of prescribed fire…
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Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, education, health factors, public information, fire management, land management, smoke management
The Florida Forest Service works to provide a level of fire management that reduces threats to life and property, forests and other related at-risk wildland resources, while promoting natural resource management through the use of prescribed fire.
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, bibliographies, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire management planning, fire protection, Firewise, Florida, pine, public information, range management, wildfires
Recent growth in the frequency and severity of US wildfires has led to more wildfire smoke and increased public exposure to harmful air pollutants. Populations exposed to wildfire smoke experience a variety of negative health impacts, imposing economic costs on society. However…
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, wildfires, health factors, health costs, benefit transfer, BenMAP Community Edition, California wildfires, southern California, forecasting system, economic cost, smoke exposure, verification, mortality, cities
The worldwide 'wildfire' problem is headlined by the loss of human lives and homes, but it applies generally to any adverse effects of unplanned fires, as events or regimes, on a wide range of environmental, social, and economic assets. The problem is complex and contingent,…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire, Economics, Fuels, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire control, fire damage (property), fire intensity, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firebrands, flame length, lightning caused fires, prescribed fires (escaped), rate of spread, wildfires, air quality, mortality, species diversity (plants), succession, fire management, forest management, fuel management, smoke management, adaptation, asset, biodiversity, disaster, fire management, fire regime, human fatality, policy
The impact of major gaseous and particulate pollutants emitted by the wildfire of October 2003 on ambient air quality and health of San Diego residents before, during, and after the fire are analyzed using data available from the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire case histories, wildfires, air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, gases, health factors, ozone, particulates, pollution, southern California, fire management, forest management
From the text ... '..., in today's world with imcreasing populations, and more people living in the wildland urban interface, prescribed burn practitioners must put more emphasis on smoke management. If we don't manage our smoke and the resulting negative impacts, then the…
Person:
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: heat, smoke behavior, air temperature, humidity, precipitation, public information, storms, wind, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, land management, smoke management
We estimate fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations daily using MODIS satellite observations of aerosol optical depth (AOD) for a major biomass burning event around Moscow during summer 2010. Evaluation of MODIS AOD with the Moscow AERONET site supports a MODIS-AOD error…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Intelligence, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfires, aerosols, air quality, particulates, remote sensing, statistical analysis, Russia, Europe, fire management, MODIS, PM2.5, Moscow wildfires, aerosol optical depth
Air quality forecasts generated with chemical transport models can provide valuable information about the potential impacts of fires on pollutant levels. However, significant uncertainties are associated with fire-related emission estimates as well as their distribution on…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, particulates, Georgia, fire management, smoke management, urban habitats, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, air quality, PM2.5, sensitivity analysis
Much of the recent work in reducing wildland fire danger has occurred in the western and southeastern United States. However, high-risk areas do exist at the wildland-urban interface areas in the Northeast and very little work has been done to understand the fire management…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, firebreaks, National Fire Plan, wildfires, air quality, cutting, public information, thinning, Massachusetts, New England, fire management, forest management, pine barrens, homeowner perceptions-wildland fire risk, fire hazard reduction strategies
In recent decades, the frequency of wildland fire incidents near residential areas has decreased but the number of acres burned has increased, in large part due to changes in forest management methods and further human encroachment in forested regions. There is much debate about…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire size, surface fires, wildfires, air quality, ash, char, particulates, pH, sampling, soot, Texas, fire management, forest management, asbestos, forest fire, metals, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, residential buildings, wood ash, residential areas, hydrocarbons
Background: A study of the impacts on respiratory health of the 2007 wildland fires in and around San Diego County, California is presented. This study helps to address the impact of fire emissions on human health by modeling the exposure potential of proximate populations to…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Occurrence, Models, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: catastrophic fires, fire case histories, wildfires, air quality, Foehn winds, health factors, southern California, fire management, forest management, smoke management, wildland fire, particulate matter emissions, syndromic surveillance, generalized additive modeling, air quality, respiratory health, San Diego County
Changing climatic conditions are influencing large wildfire frequency, a globally widespread disturbance that affects both human and natural systems. Understanding how climate change, population growth, and development patterns will affect the area burned by and emissions from…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire frequency, fire size, wildfires, air quality, climate change, population density, fire management, forest management
California has a long history of fire science and an even longer history of extensive fire, both natural and human in origin. Today, California is also the epicenter of increasing wildfire disasters, yielding calls for solutions to what has been termed the “wicked problem” of…
Person: Cobian-Iñiguez, Gollner, Kolden
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California
Keywords: fire science, Indigenous knowledge, WiFIRE, burned area, disaster, ecosystem services, fire suppression costs, fire suppression effects, climate change, fire exclusion, mitigation, fire management
The Fire Continuum Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Fire Ecology and the International Association of Wildland Fire, was designed to cover both the biophysical and human dimensions aspects of fire along the fire continuum. This proceedings includes many of topics…
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Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: wildfires, bushfires, wildland fire
The Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, is exploring options to modernize 19 land management plans in the Bioregional Assessment (BioA) area (figures Intro-1 and Intro-2). The 19 plans include all those in the Northwest Forest Plan amendment (NWFP) and two other…
Person:
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: wildfires, air quality, climate change, fire management, fuel management, disturbance, resilience, fire severity, fire frequency, fuels management
Wildland fire incident management activities create an ideal environment for the transmission of infectious diseases: high-density living and working conditions, lack of access to and use of soap and sanitizers, and a transient workforce. These and other environmental and…
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: infectious disease, COVID-19
Sustainable fire management has eluded all industrial societies. Given the growing number and magnitude of wildfire events, prescribed fire is being increasingly promoted as the key to reducing wildfire risk. However, smoke from prescribed fires can adversely affect public…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: fire management, fuels management, wildfires, mechanical thinning, fire breaks, air pollution, public health, air quality regulations, British Columbia, Canada, Tasmania, Australia
Using data from the St. Luke's site in Meridian, ID (near Boise) during 2006-2017 and a 2017 summer intensive campaign, we investigate enhancements in ozone (O3) during wildfire events in an urban area. We calculate a wildfire criterion based on the National Oceanic and…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: Idaho, wildfires, biomass burning, PAN - peroxyacetyl nitrate, GAM - generalized additive model, ozone, enhancement ratio
The Minimum Acceptable Visibility (MAV) table was originally provided by the California Highway Patrol in response to an inquiry relative to acceptable highway visibility reduction caused by smoke. The table was included in chapter two of the 1991 edition of the National Park…
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire smoke, roads, road corridor, road, smoke effects, smoke-induced fog, superfog, smoke
The Smoke Science Plan (SSP) was built upon personal interviews and an extensive web-based needs identification with scientists, fire managers, and air quality managers using online questionnaires (Riebau and Fox 2010a, 2010b). It is structured around four themes, which are…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, model validation, climate change, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program
The capacity of wildland fire science and technology in Canada is not keeping pace with the growing complexity of wildland fire. Fire seasons are becoming longer, fire events are becoming more severe, and experts predict that the area burned on an annual basis could double by…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, public safety, fire science, wildland fire, Indigenous knowledge, fire management, resilience, fire research
Wildfires are increasing in prevalence and intensity and emit large quantities of persistent organic and inorganic pollutants. Recent fires have caused elevated concerns that residual pollutants in indoor environments pose a long‐term health hazard to residents; however, to date…
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Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: Alberta, Canada, PAH - polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, wildfires, trace elements, pollution, arsenic, pollutants, health impacts
Wildfires create significant smoke impacts to communities near and downwind of the wildfire events. This webinar will provide a discussion on ways to prevent wildfire smoke exposures, including both residential strategies (including air filtration units) as well as community…
Person: Ward
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, health effects, wildfires, mental health, air quality, air pollution, indoor air quality
The National Association of State Foresters (NASF) and the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils (CPFC) worked collaboratively to produce the 2018 National Prescribed Fire Use Survey Report. Since 2012, this report has been compiled every three years, and is unique among fire…
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Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Prescribed Fire, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire survey, fire policy, fire use
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2014 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: research needs