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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Mapping, Models
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, algae, Cladium jamaicense, cover type, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire size, Florida, fuel types, grasslands, laboratory fires, leaves, marshlands, moisture, organic matter, organic soils, peat fires, peatlands, pine forests, post fire recovery, prairies, precipitation, scrub, season of fire, size classes, south Florida, statistical analysis, Taxodium, vegetation surveys, water, wetlands, wind
From the text ... 'In the southern United States, we have learned to use fire as an effective, inexpensive tool for applying specific management treatments to our forests. Hazard or rough reduction is the principal use of prescribed fire, but seedbed and site preparation,…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, backfires, combustion, fire hazard reduction, fuel management, Georgia, headfires, laboratory fires, litter, Pinus taeda, plantations, smoke behavior, smoke management, wildfires, wildlife
Prescribed burning has become an indispensable tool of forest management in the South. It is a scientific prescription designed to cure ailments of the forest - ailments that include undesirable fuel accumulations, the encroachment of unwanted species, unattractive wildlife…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, burning intervals, competition, cover, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel accumulation, gases, ground cover, land use, light burning, minerals, multiple resource management, nutrient cycling, pine forests, smoke effects, smoke management, soil organic matter, understory vegetation, wildlife
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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Cascades Range, coniferous forests, elevation, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, firing techniques, forest management, fuel management, fuel moisture, logging, mountains, Oregon, pine forests, rural communities, season of fire, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, topography, Washington, wind
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Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: air quality, bark, catastrophic fires, charcoal, climax vegetation, cones, coniferous forests, decay, disturbance, energy, field experimental fires, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel management, gases, ignition, Larix occidentalis, litter, logging, Montana, mosaic, multiple resource management, organic matter, particulates, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, reproduction, sampling, serotiny, smoke behavior, smoke management, succession, wilderness areas, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
Prescribed burning produces particulate and gaseous air pollutants in relatively small amounts over the course of an entire year. However, on any given day, the pollutants resulting from prescribed burning may constitute a major fraction of the local or regional air pollution…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, backfires, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, environmental impact analysis, fire management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, gases, hydrocarbons, particulates, pollution, rate of spread, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, wildfires, wind
In preparing for this symposium, discussion inevitably turned to the many facets of wildfire in the subarctic which should be considered - material, philosophical, economic. Is fire detrimental to the environment? 'Are the practices which you employ in controlling wildfires (…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Logistics, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, International
Keywords: boreal forest, Canada, ecology, natural resources, wildlife, smoke effects, rehabilitation, revegetation, taiga, Yukon, air quality, burning permits, Calamagrostis, community ecology, ecosystem dynamics, fire control, Eriophorum vaginatum, fire management, fire management planning, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flowering, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, land use, litter, Native Americans, particulates, plant communities, plant growth, pollution, roots, seedlings, soil moisture, tundra, waterfowl, wildlife habitat management, wildfires, woody plants
From the text... 'The 'Soiling Potential' technique for evaluating fossil fuel combustion plumes in quantitative units is explained by examples and test results. The technique may serve as a valuable tool in emission inventory programs since it is a reproducible method for…
Person:
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, ash, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, chemistry, combustion, fuel management, gases, Ohio, particulates, pollution, smoke behavior, statistical analysis