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From the Summary...'Managing smoke in ways that prevent serious impact to sensitive areas from single burns or multiple burns occurring simultaneously requires knowledge of the weather conditions that will affect smoke emissions, trajectories, and dispersion. Not only is it…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, biomass, cover, lakes, moisture, sloping terrain, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, storms, temperature, topography, weather observations, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind
From the text...'Whether you are concerned with particulate matter, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, or hydrocarbons, all smoke components from wildland fires are generated from the incomplete combustion of fuel. The amount of smoke produced can be derived from knowledge of area…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, Artemisia, bibliographies, broadcast burning, carbon, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, Ceanothus, chaparral, combustion, computer programs, coniferous forests, conifers, fuel loading, fuel models, hardwoods, health factors, heat, heat effects, hydrocarbons, Juniperus, logging, national parks, particulates, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, Pseudotsuga menziesii, rural communities, slash, smoke behavior, smoke management, Tsuga, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text...'Federal agencies are subject to certain laws and requirements that are not necessarily applicable to states or private entities in the same manner or at all. Federal agencies are required to do long-range planning for management of the lands they manage through…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, 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, burning permits, CO - carbon monoxide, forest management, fuel management, land management, national forests, particulates, recreation, smoke behavior, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management
From the Conclusions...'Because smoke from fire can cause negative effects to public health and welfare, air quality protection regulations must be understood and followed by responsible fire managers. Likewise, air quality regulators need an understanding of how and when fire…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, Arizona, CO - carbon monoxide, Colorado, education, fire management, Florida, fuel loading, fuel management, health factors, Idaho, land use, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, national parks, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, ozone, pollution, public information, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management
From the text...'Evidence to date suggests that fireline workers exceed recommended exposure limits during prescribed burns and wildfires less than 10 percent of the time (Reinhardt and others 2000; Reinhardt and Ottmar 2000). The concept that few fireline personnel spend a…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: CO - carbon monoxide, firefighting personnel, health factors, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text...'In summary, the enormous wildland/urban interface and dense road network located in a region where up to six million acres of wildlands per year are subject to prescribed fire combine to make problem smoke the foremost land management-related air quality problem…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, coastal plain, cover type, fire frequency, Florida, Georgia, GIS, Piedmont, pine forests, plant growth, precipitation, roads, rural communities, season of fire, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, South Carolina, topography, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wind
From the text...'In summary, the physics of light extinction in the atmosphere coupled with the chemical composition and physical size distribution of particles in wildland fire smoke combine to make fire (especially in the West) an important contributor to visibility impairment…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, distribution, light, Montana, national parks, particulates, physics, recreation, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management
From the text...'This section discusses the effects of air pollution, especially particulate matter, on human health and morbidity. Wildland fire smoke is discussed as one type of air pollution that can be harmful to public health.'
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, education, health factors, Montana, pollution, public information, smoke management, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text...'Advanced smoke management programs evaluate individual and multiple burns; coordinate all prescribed fire activities in an area; consider cross-boundary (landscape) impacts; and weigh decisions about fires against possible health, visibility, and nuisance…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, burning permits, education, fuel management, health factors, liability, national parks, natural resource legislation, public information, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text...'In this and the following section (2.2 - The Smoke Management Imperative), we outline both ecological and societal aspects of wildland and prescribed fire. We review the historical role and extent of fire and the effects of settlement and land use changes. The…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Southern
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, cover type conversion, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire regimes, habitat conversion, health factors, land use, light, natural resource legislation, pine forests, public information, smoke management, succession, wilderness fire management, wildfires
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, health factors, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
The results of a survey of fire management officials concerning historical and projected prescribed burning activity in the South is reported. Prescribed burning programs on USDA Forest Service and private and state-owned lands are described in terms of area burned by ownership…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, Arkansas, coastal plain, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, Georgia, grazing, liability, light burning, Louisiana, low intensity burns, mammals, Mississippi, multiple resource management, national forests, nongame birds, Oklahoma, pine forests, Pinus, prescribed fires (escaped), private lands, public information, reforestation, slash, smoke management, South Carolina, spot fires, surface fires, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, Virginia, wildlife habitat management
Other than land clearing for urban development (Wear and others 1998) no disturbance is more common in southern forests than fire. The pervasive role of fire predates human activity in the South (Komarek 1964, 1974)), and humans magnified that role. Repeating patterns of fire…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern, International
Keywords: agriculture, Aimophila aestivalis, backing fires, broadcast burning, Carya, Chamaecyparis thyoides, coastal plain, Colinus virginianus, coniferous forests, cover, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, European settlement, fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire suppression, flank fires, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, ground fires, hardwood forests, headfires, histories, insects, litter, logging, Meleagris gallopavo, Native Americans, Picoides borealis, Piedmont, pine forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus echinata, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, Pinus pungens, Pinus rigida, Pinus serotina, Pinus taeda, Pinus virginiana, plant communities, plant diseases, presettlement fires, Quercus, rate of spread, serotiny, site treatments, smoke management, soil moisture, succession, surface fires, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, vulnerable species or communities, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest, International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air quality, Arizona, Australia, biomass, chemistry, decay, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, energy, erosion, fire adaptations (plants), fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire sensitive plants, grasslands, grazing, humidity, hunting, ignition, lightning caused fires, litter, mineral soils, minerals, nutrient cycling, overstory, perennial plants, plant communities, pollution, post fire recovery, predation, presettlement vegetation, rangelands, savannas, soils, species diversity (plants), water, wildfires, woody plants
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: community ecology, conservation, cover type conversion, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fuel loading, genetics, herbaceous vegetation, herbivory, Icaricia, insects, introduced species, invasive species, invertebrates, Lepidoptera, Lupinus, Lupinus sulphureus, mowing, native species (animals), native species (plants), Oregon, plant communities, pollination, population ecology, prairies, range management, season of fire, seeds, site treatments, smoke management, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), weed control, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, woody plants
From the text ... 'Some things we don't ever want to see again: a crew going down toward a control road and encountering such a black wall of flame and smoke across the trail that they had to turn around and go back to a very inappropriate place where they had to take a stand.…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Planning, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: Arizona, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, hardwood forests, national forests, pine forests, Washington, wildfires
From the text ... 'On the Dude Fire Staff Ride tomorrow, we will retrace the steps of people who were under pressure. Some of those people handled pressure well. Some didn't. For a richer understanding of the Dude Fire, we should focus on what happens when people are overcome by…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Safety, Weather
Region(s): Great Basin, Southwest
Keywords: Arizona, fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire injuries (humans), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, hardwood forests, pine forests, rate of spread, smoke effects, Washington, wildfires
Tropical peatlands are one of the largest near-surface reserves of terrestrial organic carbon, and hence their stability has important implications for climate change. In their natural state, lowland tropical peatlands support a luxuriant growth or peat swamp forest overlying…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, Borneo, carbon, catastrophic fires, clearcutting, combustion, distribution, drainage, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO - El Nino Southern Oscillation, fire injuries (plants), GIS - geographic information system, GPS - global positioning system, grasslands, Indonesia, Kalimantan, land use, landscape ecology, logging, mosaic, peat, peatlands, post fire recovery, remote sensing, shrublands, Southeast Asia, swamps, tropical forests, wildfires
Biomass combustion is an important primary source of particles with adsorbed biomarker compounds in the global atmosphere. The introduction of natural product organic compounds into smoke occurs primarily by direct volatilization/steam stripping and by thermal alteration based…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, cellulose, chemical compounds, chemistry, combustion, coniferous forests, conifers, hardwood forests, heat effects, hydrocarbons, Larix, lignin, organic matter, particulates, peat, Picea, pine forests, Pinus, pollution, potash, K - potassium, Pseudotsuga, recreation related fires, smoke effects, smoke management, soot, statistical analysis, temperature, Tsuga mertensiana, volatilization, wildfires, woody plants
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, biomass, cellulose, combustion, coniferous forests, conifers, extractives, fire management, human caused fires, Larix, litter, organic matter, particulates, Picea, Pinus elliottii, Pinus elliottii densa, pollution, Pseudotsuga, recreation, recreation related fires, resins, smoke effects, smoke management, statistical analysis, wood, wood chemistry, wood properties
Black carbon (BC) may be a major component of riverine carbon exported to the ocean, but its flux from large rivers is unknown. Furthermore, the global distribution of BC between natural and anthropogenic sources remains uncertain. We have determined BC concentrations in…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Economics
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aerosols, air quality, Arkansas, biomass, carbon, combustion, distribution, drainage, hydrocarbons, Louisiana, Mississippi, peat fires, rivers, runoff, sedimentation, soil management, soils, vegetation surveys, water, water quality, watershed management, watersheds
From the text...'Fire is a natural ecological process; it controls insects and disease and is necessary for natural succession of plant communities. Foliage, litter, and herbaceous matter are typically the predominant fuel components consumed in many prescribed and wildfire…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest, Southern
Keywords: Acer, aerosols, air quality, Aristida stricta, biomass, chemical compounds, combustion, cones, crowns, fire intensity, fire management, Florida, foliage, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, hardwood forests, health factors, hydrocarbons, insects, lignin, litter, mortality, needles, North Carolina, Oregon, organic matter, particulates, pH, pine forests, Pinus palustris, Pinus ponderosa, Pinus taeda, plant communities, Quercus, Sabal palmetto, sampling, slash, smoke management, soil organic matter, statistical analysis, succession, surface fires, Tsuga heterophylla, understory vegetation, wildfires, woody fuels
From the text...'Preservation of rare species and communities is a noble conservation goal, but it has two unfortunate drawbacks: it promotes a piecemeal approach to preservation, and it frequently results in species or communities being ignored until they become endangered. The…
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: bibliographies, conservation, cover type conversion, drainage, education, everglades, fire management, Florida, fragmentation, grazing, habitat conversion, hammocks, herbicides, invasive species, Lake Wales Ridge, land management, liability, mowing, multiple resource management, natural areas management, scrub, smoke management, Wales, water, wetlands, wilderness areas
The longleaf pine ecosystem is one of the most biologically diverse in North America, supporting hundreds of plant and animal species. Because of its timber and many non-timber benefits, there is strong interest among forestry professionals, conservation groups, and the public…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Models, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: aesthetics, carbon, carbon dioxide, cavity nesting birds, coastal plain, conservation, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, forest management, climate change, habitat conversion, land use, logging, longleaf pine, natural resource legislation, nutrient cycling, old growth forests, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, Pinus palustris, plant communities, plantations, private lands, rural communities, slash, slash pine, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), wildlife habitat management
Shallow soil cores from 56 localities along the crest of the Colorado Front Range were processed by water flotation and wet sieving, then examined for wood charcoal and charred conifer-needle fragments. Charred particles were largest and most numerous in samples from the…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies spp., age classes, archaeological sites, carbon, char, charcoal, Colorado, conifers, crown fires, ecotones, elevation, forest management, litter, montane forests, mosaic, needles, overstory, particulates, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus flexilis, Populus tremuloides, remote sensing, sampling, soils, subalpine forests, surface fires, tundra, vegetation surveys, water, wildfires, wind, wood