From the text:'Among Forest Service activities, prescribed burning, slash disposal and forest fires present the greatest potential for polluting the air. But at this time we do not know what kind of pollution it is, how dangerous it is, how much...
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This study was established to determine: (1) the effect of a prescribed burn during the spring and summer seasons on wildlife habitat with particular emphasis on bobwhite quail food plants, and (2) the relation between various site and stand factors of...
Person: Cushwa
Year: 1967
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
A devestating conflagration occurred in the scenic hills above the cities of Oakland and Berkeley, California, on October 20, 1991. burning embers carried by high winds from the perimeter of a small but growing duff fire ignited overgrown vegetation...
Person: Teague
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
This guide provides direction for planning and managing smoke from prescribed fires to achieve air quality requirements through improved smoke management practices. The Guide applies to all prescribed fires, those started by managers or by nature...
Person: Patten
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The purpose of this document is to provide technical information on prescribed burning. It does so in two ways. One, it provides background information useful in determining reasonably available control measures (RACM) and best...
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
To demonstrate the usefulness of active remote-sensing systems in observing forest fire behavior, we studied two fires, one using a 3.2-cm-wavelength Doppler radar, and one more extensively, using Doppler lidar. both instrumentS observed the kinematics...
Person: Banta, Olivier, Holloway, Kropfli, Bartram, Cupp, Post
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Person: Cahoon, Stocks, Levine, Cofer, O'Neill
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Occupational safety and health concerns have been raised in a number of southern states by workers conducting prescribed burns on forest lands treated with herbicides. Modeling assessments coupled with laboratory experiments have shown that the risk of...
Person: McMahon, Bush
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'Prescribed Burning Act of 1990 ... A blue-ribbon committee translated these prescribed burning concerns into proposed legislation that was introduced into the 1990 legislative session. Representative Frances L. "Chance”...
Person: Brenner, Wade
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Airborne studies of smoke from the Kuwait oil fires were carried out in the spring of 1991 when 4.6 million barrels of oil were burning per day. Emissions of sulfur dioxide were 57% of that from electric utilities in the United States; emissions of...
Person: Hobbs, Radke
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS