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This Smoke Management Plan (SMP) is based on Section VI “Smoke Management Programs” of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (U.S.EPA) “Interim Air Quality Policy on Wildland and Prescribed Fires” (April 23, 1998). According to this policy, the purpose of a SMP is to…
Person:
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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Idaho Administrative Code covering rules for the control of air pollution.
Note: This URL starts the reader off on page 125, the pages that cover prescribed fires are pages 125 adn 126.
Person:
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Northern Rockies
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The intent of the Montana/Idaho Airshed Group smoke management program is to minimize or prevent smoke impacts while using fire to accomplish land management objectives. The Group‟s Operating Guide identifies the responsibilities of member regulatory agencies as well as those of…
Person:
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Northern Rockies
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The objective of the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality’s (DEQ’s) 2022 ambient air quality monitoring annual network plan is to determine whether the state’s ambient air quality monitoring network is achieving its monitoring objectives and identify any needed…
Person:
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Northern Rockies
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Georgia Environmental Protection Divisions (EPD) information page describing open burning rules.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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Prescribed Fire Smoke Management Plan information page from Georgia's Environmental Protection Division (EPD).
This includes links to:
Regional Haze State Implementation Plan
Georgia's Smoke Management Plan
Related links
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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Delaware informtion on burn application, permitting, restrictions, and other detail.
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Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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Delaware’s Visibility State Implementation Plan (SIP) Revision revised August 2022.
Agricultural and Forestry BSMPs and Smoke Management Programs are addressed in section 8.9.
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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General page on Air Quality Planning for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
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Information page on permits for larger projects. The page also contains a smoke management program guide and background.
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
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This document is for you if you are, or work for, a fire management officer (FMO) and are new to the job, or just new to Colorado. It’s for you also if you want to know about how the Colorado smoke management program functions administratively.The document addresses three …
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Year:
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
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Smoke management program manual that provides an overview for fire management officers, including site inspection expectations and "big league" burn programs.
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Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
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From the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Air Quaility Commission. Regulation number 9 on open burning, prescribed fire, and permitting. 5 CCR 1001-11
Person:
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
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Smoke Management Programs and burn decisions for California, linked and listed by individual air districts.
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): California
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The purposes of the Arkansas Voluntary Smoke Management Guidelines (guidelines) are to assure adherence to air quality regulations and to manage smoke from prescribed fire so the smoke’s impact on people will be acceptable.
These guidelines will allow the prescribed fire manager…
Person:
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords:
Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) Smoke Management Program information page.
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southwest
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Burned areas in the western US have increased ten-fold since 1980s, which are attributable to multiple factors, including increasing heat, changing precipitation patterns, and extended drought. To better understand how these factors contribute to large fire emissions (gridded…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: PM2.5, machine learning, large fires
In 2016, unprecedented intense wildfires burned over 150,000 acres in the southern Appalachian Mountains in the United States. Smoke from these fires greatly impacted the region and exposure to this smoke was significant. A bidirectional case-crossover design was applied to…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: North Carolina, smoke exposure, public health, Appalachian Mountains, PM2.5, health effects, wildfire smoke
Smoke is one of the fire-related cues that can alter vegetation communities’ compositions, by promoting or excluding different plant species. For over 30 years, smoke-derived compounds have been a hot topic in plant and crop physiology. Research in this field was initiated in…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: butenolide, karrikins, seed germination, plant ecology, crop physiology, plant development and life-history traits, swailing, vegetation restoration
In the wake of increasingly frequent bushfires emerging as a threat to wildlife worldwide, koalas have notably been the most rescued species in Australia. However, our understanding of burns and their severity in koalas is limited; hence, this study investigated the…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, bushfire, histopathology, koalas, Phascolarctidae, wildfires
Climate change-related extreme weather events have manifested in the western United States as warmer and drier conditions with an increased risk of wildfires. Honeybees, essential for crop pollination in California, are at the center of these extreme weather events. We…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Weather
Region(s): California
Keywords: AQI - Air Quality Index, Apis mellifera, Nosema ceranae, heat shock proteins, temperature stress, vitellogenin, honey bees
In Canada, Indigenous populations are disproportionately threatened by wildfire smoke and the associated adverse health impacts. This paper presents the results of a narrative review of 51 academic and related resources which explored protective action decision making during…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, wildfires, air quality, wildfire protective actions, public health, Indigenous
Background: Air quality deteriorates significantly during wildfire events, which poses a risk for the health of affected human populations. The Mediterranean Basin was strongly impacted by wildfires during the 2021 fire season, particularly in Greece.
Aims: This work aims at…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: Greece, atmospheric pollution, CO - carbon monoxide, human health, O3 - ozone, PM - particulate matter, wildfire emissions, air quality
Background: Smouldering wildfires emit large amounts of carbon, toxic gases and particulate matter (PM), posing health and environmental hazards. It is challenging to conduct field measurements on wildfire emissions, and available instruments are limited by high cost and low…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, health, analysers, PM - particulate matter, peat fires, peatlands, pollution, smoldering, toxic gases, wildfires
The most extreme manifestation of a fire–weather interaction is the formation of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) thunderstorms, triggered by super-heated updrafts, which can eject smoke at altitudes exceeding 20 Km. In this study, we investigated climate-related impacts from the most…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: pyroCb, global climate models, stratosphere