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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, Australia, carbon dioxide, chemistry, fire hazard reduction, fuel accumulation, fuel types, gases, hydrocarbons, light, ozone, pollution, sampling, season of fire, statistical analysis, swamps, western Australia, wildfires, wind
From the text: 'In my opinion, professional foresters should be working much harder to get the facts across on prescribed burning because if we don't I feel forest management could suffer from restrictive rules or laws, both at the State and Federal level. There are still some…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: conservation, education, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, hardwoods, invasive species, liability, pine forests, public information, smoke management, Smokey Bear program
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Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: chaparral, fire equipment, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire protection, fuel appraisal, fuel management, fuel models, fuel types, logging, site treatments, smoke management
From the text: 'Basically this paper covers the information contained in the first part of Chapter 6. 'How to Manage Smoke' of the SOUTHERN FORESTRY SMOKE MANAGEMENT GUIDEBOOK. The chapter presents a logic sequence that guides the user through a series of decisions designed to…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, cover, fire protection, forest management, fuel types, grasses, Ilex glabra, litter, logging, needles, overstory, pine forests, Pinus, pollution, Serenoa repens, smoke management, wind
From the text: 'An introduction to the information needed and the procedure that should be followed to properly manage smoke from the prescription burning of forest fuel is presented. The information has been excerpted from Chapter VI of the Southern Forestry Smoke Management…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, fire protection, particulates, pine forests, pollution, smoke management
From the text: ' Without question, the majority of the state forestry organizations have assumed a prominent role in the control of air pollution from forestry burning. On the whole, the states are facing up to the problem realistically with planned programs that demonstrate to…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, education, fire protection, forest management, human caused fires, land management, natural resource legislation, pollution, public information, smoke management, Virginia, weather observations
From the text: 'The Federal Clean Air Act states '...that the prevention and control of air pollution at its source is the primary responsibility of states and local governments..,' In order to fulfill this responsiility the various states and a number of local governments have…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, burning permits, fire protection, forest management, forest products, Georgia, health factors, land use, multiple resource management, natural resource legislation, pollution, rural communities, smoke management, urban habitats
From the text: 'After working in both air quality management and fuel management for the past two years, I am convinced that the two programs are compatible. We, as fire managers, should look upon air quality objectives and standards in the same light that we work with water…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire management, fire protection, fuel management, health factors, light, multiple resource management, national parks, natural resource legislation, pollution, smoke management, water, water quality, wilderness areas
From the text: 'My prediction is that it will be necessary, for smoke management purposes, to go to complete regulation by State Forestry Agencies of all prescribed burning in order to save this critical forestry practice in the near future. I can assure you that none of the…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire protection, prescribed fires (escaped), smoke management, wildfires
From the summary ... 'Prescribed burning can be done with few adverse effects on air quality by employing recently developed smoke management techniques. Professionals who plan and direct prescribed burning activities try to avoid causing public inconvenience due to smoke.…
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Economics, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, Alabama, Appalachian Mountains, arthropods, bibliographies, biogeography, burning permits, Carya, climax vegetation, coastal plain, competition, distribution, energy, fire hazard reduction, Florida, Fomes annosus, forest management, fuel management, Georgia, health factors, humus, insects, Kentucky, light burning, litter, livestock, Louisiana, mineral soils, Mississippi, natural resource legislation, North Carolina, Nyssa, organic matter, particulates, Piedmont, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus taeda, plant diseases, prairies, Quercus, range management, reforestation, regeneration, site treatments, sloping terrain, smoke management, South Carolina, succession, Taxodium, Tennessee, Texas, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, biomass, CO - carbon monoxide, combustion, environmental impact analysis, fire management, gases, human caused fires, Iowa, leaves, litter, particulates, pollution, population ecology, sampling, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis
Forest managers are seeking ways to manage smoke from their prescribed burns. Why? How much management is needed for an intermittent source of emissions occurring only once every three to five years? Isn't wood smoke good smoke? These and other questions must be faced.
Person:
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, forest management, general interest, particulates, smoke management, wood