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High resolution fire weather models

A computerized fire weather model coupled with a synoptic model is a powerful means of describing the weather part of the fire environment.
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, ash, fire danger rating, GIS - geographic information system, GPS - global positioning system, smoke behavior, wilderness fire management, wildfires

Prescribed fire as a social issue

Prescribed fire as a social issue becomes automatically an ecological, political, and economic issue. Any issue that affects us socially we take to the political arena, and its final resolution will involve the costs of different avenues to resolving the issue. Unfortunately,…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: conservation, education, European settlement, fire control, fire exclusion, fire suppression, human caused fires, prehistoric fires, public information, wilderness fire management

Does the absence of sediment charcoal provide substantial evidence against the fire and oak hypothesis

Drs James Clark and Daniel Royall (1996) have recently discussed in this journal the evidence from sediment charcoal for fire regimes across a longitudinal gradient of northern hardwood-conifer forests in the north-eastern United States and southern Ontario. One of the study…
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence
Region(s): Eastern, International
Keywords: Acer rubrum, Acer saccharinum, agriculture, air quality, Canada, Chamaecyparis thyoides, charcoal, European settlement, Fagus grandifolia, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire sensitive plants, forest management, Fraxinus americana, hardwood forests, histories, Native Americans, New York, Ontario, overstory, paleoecology, Picea, Pinus resinosa, Quercus, slash and burn, soils, surface fires, understory vegetation