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Heavy smoke from forest fires in the Amazon was observed to reduce cloud droplet size and so delay the onset of precipitation from 1.5 kilometers above cloud base in pristine clouds to more than 5 kilometers in polluted clouds and more than 7 kilometers in pyro-clouds.…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Amazon, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, Brazil, chemical compounds, deforestation, fire management, GIS, particulates, pollution, precipitation, remote sensing, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, South America, storms, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, biomass, catastrophic fires, combustion, European settlement, fire case histories, fire control, fire equipment, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, land use, landscape ecology, national forests, national parks, private lands, wilderness fire management, wildfires

Biomass burning constitutes a major contribution to global emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, greenhouse gases and aerosols. Furthermore, biomass burning has an impact on health, transport, the environment and land use. Vegetation fires are certainly not…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: aerosols, Africa, air quality, Asia, biomass, Canada, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, Central America, ecosystem dynamics, Europe, fire frequency, fire management, human caused fires, Italy, land use, CH4 - methane, natural areas management, nutrient cycling, Portugal, remote sensing, Russia, season of fire, statistical analysis, United Kingdom, vegetation surveys, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Economics
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Asia, fire management, firebrands, grasslands, grazing, humidity, hunting, livestock, pollution, population density, remote sensing, roads, season of fire, smoke management, Thailand, urban habitats, watershed management, watersheds, wildfires, managing smoke, fire calendar, causes of fires, fire laws, conflict resolution, Village Watershed Networks, fire management and monitonng

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Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, burning permits, catastrophic fires, crown fires, education, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, health factors, landscape ecology, liability, logging, population density, post fire recovery, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, recreation, riparian habitats, sedimentation, slash, smoke effects, smoke management, soil erosion, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), stand characteristics, statistical analysis, streamflow, thinning, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel types, Healthy Forests Initiative, logging, national forests, overstory, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, season of fire, surface fuels, thinning, US Forest Service, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Colorado, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire size, fire suppression, floods, forest management, forest products, health factors, liability, logging, multiple resource management, national forests, Pinus ponderosa, post fire recovery, recreation related fires, season of fire, sedimentation, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, soil erosion, soils, statistical analysis, storms, US Forest Service, water quality, water repellent soils, watersheds, wildfires

The intentional use of fire adjacent to urban areas is much more difficult than burning in more rural areas. Numerous modifications in planning and execution are required. This paper describes some of the adjustments Florida fire managers have learned to make, most of which will…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: convection, education, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire protection, Florida, foam, ignition, liability, public information, rural communities, smoke behavior, smoke management, suppression

The Fire Monitoring, Mapping and Modelling System (Fire M3) is an initiative of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) and the Canadian Forest Service (CFS), both agencies of Natural Resources Canada. The goals of Fire M3 are to use low-resolution satellite imagery to…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: biomass, boreal forests, Canada, C - carbon, catastrophic fires, computer programs, distribution, fire control, fire danger rating, fire size, GIS - geographic information system, habitat types, Ontario, Quebec, remote sensing, Saskatchewan, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, boreal forest, fire monitoring, hotspots

Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, has a landscape fire management target to maintain or restore 50% of the long-term average fire cycle. Because the park experiences frequent lightning fires it has adopted a strategy to use both management-ignited prescribed burns and…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, British Columbia, Canada, droughts, fire case histories, fire control, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel loading, fuel moisture, landscape ecology, lightning, lightning caused fires, mountains, national parks, Picea engelmannii, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus contorta, prescribed fires (chance ignition), rate of spread, roads, season of fire, sloping terrain, smoke management, subalpine forests, wilderness fire management, British Columbia, fire management, fire restoration, Kootenay National Park, lightning fire, national parks

From the text ... 'Knowing the current status of the historical fire regimes is critical for land management planning. ...Over the past century, forested area with low-severity fire potential has declined by more than 80 percent. ...During the presettlement era, stands in the…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa, age classes, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, fire case histories, fire frequency, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire scar analysis, forest management, land management, Montana, montane forests, mortality, mosaic, Native Americans, Oregon, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, post fire recovery, presettlement fires, Pseudotsuga menziesii, statistical analysis, subalpine forests, surface fires, Thuja plicata, trees, Tsuga heterophylla, understory vegetation, Utah, vegetation surveys, Washington, wildfires, Wyoming

From the text ... 'Wildfires have had a high impact on Botswana's environment, destroying both forest and rangeland resources. ...Prescribed burning is practiced in State forest reserves, national parks, and game reserves to reduce highly flammable fine fuels on the forest floor…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, arid regions, Baikiaea, Botswana, conservation, crown fires, deserts, ecosystem dynamics, education, environmental impact analysis, fine fuels, fire control, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire frequency, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire management, fire size, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, flammability, fuel loading, grasses, ground fires, heat, human caused fires, humidity, hunting, landscape ecology, leaves, litter, logging, mortality, national parks, precipitation, public information, riparian habitats, runoff, savannas, season of fire, smoke effects, soil erosion, soil nutrients, state forests, surface fires, temperature, topography, Washington, water, wildfires, wind

From the text ... ''It will be a long time before those woods, more relentless than the waters, give up their dead.' -- C.E.Robinson, 1872 ...The drought was mild compared to the times leading up to other historically great fires in the Midwest. ...Surface fires scorched tree…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, 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: Acer, air quality, air temperature, Arizona, bark, Betula, blowups, bogs, Canada, catastrophic fires, Colorado, combustion, coniferous forests, convection, crown fires, crown scorch, crowns, Cupressaceae, dead fuels, deciduous forests, droughts, duff, education, energy, evergreens, Fagus grandifolia, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire danger rating, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire growth, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire sensitive plants, fire whirls, firebrands, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, flammability, forage, forest fragmentation, forest products, Fraxinus, fuel appraisal, fuel management, gases, heat, human caused fires, humidity, ignition, Illinois, leaves, lightning caused fires, logging, Maine, Michigan, mineral soils, Minnesota, mortality, mosaic, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New England, old growth forests, Ontario, overstory, Picea, Picea glauca, Picea mariana, Pinus banksiana, Pinus resinosa, Pinus strobus, precipitation, presettlement fires, public information, Quercus, radiation, rate of spread, rivers, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, snags, soils, spontaneous combustion, spot fires, stand characteristics, storms, surface fires, surface fuels, temperature, topography, Ulmus, understory vegetation, vortices, Washington, water, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, Wisconsin, wood, woody fuels

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Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics, Mapping, Planning
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Asia, croplands, cutting, deforestation, ENSO, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, forest products, GIS, grasslands, human caused fires, incendiary fires, Indonesia, land use, land use planning, landscape ecology, logging, mineral soils, mosaic, plantations, remote sensing, roads, shrublands, site treatments, slash, Sumatra, tropical forests, wildfires, LAND PREPARATION, TRANSMIGRATION SETTLEMENTS

Better understanding is needed of what makes educational efforts most effective in increasing public support for wildfire management and mitigation efforts. Results of a mail survey of homeowners in Incline Village, Nevada, indicate that personalized contact is key in the…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: defensible space, public acceptance, education, Nevada, public attitudes, wildfire, homeowner perceptions, information sources, property damage, fire damage, fire damage protection, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire damage (property), fire intensity, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, light burning, escaped prescribed fires, smoke effects, surface fires, aesthetics, health factors, logging, partial cutting, population density, private lands, public information, thinning, Abies concolor, fire management planning, fuel management, land use, wildlife habitat management, coniferous forests

The problem of eye safety in lidar-assisted wildland fire detection and investigation is considered as a problem of reduction of the hazard range within which the laser beam is dangerous for direct eye exposure. The dependence of this hazard range on the lidar characteristics is…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: remote sensing, Portugal, Gestosa, Europe, field experimental fires, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, wilderness fire management, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, Brazil, C - carbon, deforestation, digital data collection, ecotones, fire frequency, fire regimes, fire sensitive plants, grasslands, grazing, human caused fires, land use, landscape ecology, Oregon, overstory, rainforests, remote sensing, South America, tropical forests, CLOSED CANAPY

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Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: aerosols, age classes, agriculture, air quality, Amazon, biomass, Brazil, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, cover type, deforestation, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, gases, grasslands, ignition, land use, livestock, national forests, range management, rangelands, regeneration, remote sensing, slash, South America, statistical analysis

Fire has been a significant ecosystem process in the Southeast for thousands of years. It kept slash pine in the wetter parts of the flatwoods pine forests historically. Today, when slash pine covers a much larger landscape, fire still plays an integral role in its management.…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, browse, burning permits, cavity nesting birds, Colinus virginianus, cover, crown scorch, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, flatwoods, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, GIS, Gopherus polyphemus, hydrology, insects, invasive species, liability, longleaf pine, mammals, mortality, N - nitrogen, nutrients, old growth forests, pH, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus elliottii densa, Pinus palustris, plant diseases, plant growth, plantations, post fire recovery, public information, regeneration, remote sensing, reptiles, shrubs, slash, slash pine, smoke management, soil nutrients, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), Ursus americanus floridanus, vegetation surveys, water quality, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wildlife habitat management

Fire performs many beneficial ecosystem functions in dry forests and rangelands across much of North America. In the last century, however, the role of fire has been dramatically altered by numerous anthropogenic factors acting as root causes of the current fire crisis,…
Person:
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire management, ecological integrity, fire restoration, public lands, wildfire policy, age classes, bibliography, catastrophic fires, climatology, coniferous forests, conservation, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, fire management planning, fire regimes, forest fragmentation, forest types, fragmentation, fuel accumulation, fuel management, grazing, introduced species, invasive species, landscape ecology, livestock, logging, natural resource legislation, old growth forest, plant communities, post-fire recovery, public information, riparian habitats, roads, salvage, animal species diversity, plant species diversity, succession, suppression, thinning, weed control, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife refuges