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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, fire management, forest management, national forests, national parks, post fire recovery, public information, regeneration, wildfires, Yellowstone National Park

From introduction: The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires of 1988 were, in the words of National Park Service (NPS) publications, the most significant ecological event in the history of the national parks (NPS 1988). Their political consequences may be as far-reaching as their…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, community ecology, conservation, dendrochronology, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, European settlement, fire equipment, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, grasslands, human caused fires, Idaho, land management, Leopold, Aldo, lightning caused fires, mammals, Montana, mortality, mosaic, mountains, national forests, national parks, Native Americans, natural areas management, old growth forests, plant communities, post fire recovery, predation, prehistoric fires, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, season of fire, small mammals, smoke effects, soil erosion, species diversity (animals), state forests, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife management, wildlife refuges, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: aerial ignition, arthropods, backfires, catastrophic fires, community ecology, cones, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire danger rating, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (animals), fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firebreaks, fuel accumulation, grasslands, human caused fires, insects, land management, landscape ecology, Montana, national forests, Pinus contorta, plant communities, post fire recovery, precipitation, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, recreation, reproduction, rural communities, senescence, serotiny, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: ash, catastrophic fires, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firebrands, fuel accumulation, fuel types, human caused fires, land management, Leopold, Aldo, multiple resource management, national parks, natural resource legislation, old growth forests, pine forests, Pinus contorta, post fire recovery, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, wilderness areas, wildfires, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Abies concolor, arthropods, ash, backfires, burning intervals, catastrophic fires, Cervus canadensis, community ecology, computer programs, cones, crown fires, Dendroctonus ponderosae, Dendroica kirtlandii, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, fertilizers, fire control, fire equipment, fire frequency, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire regimes, fire resistant plants, fire sensitive plants, fire suppression, firebreaks, fishes, flammability, flowering, forage, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel types, grasses, grasslands, grazing, ground fires, human caused fires, Idaho, insects, light burning, lightning caused fires, livestock, low intensity burns, Michigan, moisture, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, natural resource legislation, nongame birds, Odocoileus hemionus, pine forests, pine, Pinus contorta, population density, post fire recovery, precipitation, predators, prescribed fires (chance ignition), public information, rate of spread, recreation, regeneration, roots, season of fire, Sequoiadendron giganteum , Sialia currucoides, small mammals, smoke behavior, smoke effects, Smokey Bear program, soils, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), surface fires, threatened and endangered species (animals), trees, water, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, wildlife openings, wind, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, computer programs, land management, particulates, smoke management

[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Alces alces, Bison bison, catastrophic fires, Cervus canadensis, cover, Felis concolor, forage, general interest, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, mammals, mortality, national parks, nongame birds, Odocoileus, Ovis canadensis, Pandion halioetus, Picoides arcticus, predation, raptors, small mammals, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), Ursus americanus, Ursus arctos, wildlife, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants, Yellowstone National Park

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Weather
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: catastrophic fires, fire danger rating, fire size, fuel moisture, Idaho, Montana, rate of spread, smoke behavior, topography, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, CO - carbon monoxide, chemistry, fire management, fire suppression, fuel types, gases, particulates, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires, wood, wood chemistry

From the text...'FOFEM 4.0-A First Order Fire Effects Model-is a computer program developed to meet the needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, fuel moisture, logging, mortality, post fire recovery, smoke management, wildfires

Poster abstract...A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM was designed for application to most areas of the United States. First order fire effects are the immediate or direct results of a…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: computer programs, cover, cover type, duff, ecosystem dynamics, fire danger rating, fire management, fuel models, land management, mineral soils, mortality, Oregon, smoke effects, Washington, wildfires, wildlife, woody fuels

From the text...'If you are not using a Public Information Officer on your prescribed burn projects, you should consider doing so. A PIO will provide a valuable service. As you scramble to get the needed resources, equipment and weather data, they can concentrate on informing…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, education, fire management, pH, public information

In the United States, prescribed burning of wildlands is practiced on over 2 million hectares of land each year. Based on our survey conducted in 1989, approximately 70, 20, and 10% of this burning occurs in the Southeast, Pacific Northwest, and Rocky Mountain regions,…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, chemical elements, dead fuels, duff, ecosystem dynamics, forest management, fuel appraisal, fuel loading, litter, live fuels, particulates, Pinus elliottii, season of fire, smoke effects, smoke managementtoxicity, wildlife habitat management

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Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, Abies magnifica, air quality, ash, biomass, chemical elements, coniferous forests, fungi, land management, mountains, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, Pinus strobus, plant physiology, post fire recovery, roots, seed germination, seedlings, soils, statistical analysis, wildfires, Wyoming

From the Abstract: 'Fire managers face various problems, including: A. Classic urban interface issues. 1. Endangerment of private property, especially structures. 2. Air quality and smoke management. 3. Loss of cost-effectiveness by managing fire on extremely small parcels. B.…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, education, fire management, Florida, fragmentation, introduced species, Pinus, public information, rocky habitats, smoke management, south Florida, wildlife

From the text: 'Prescribed burning is one of the most effective management techniques available to forest managers in the South. With more intensive management of the Southern forest, its use continues to grow each year. However, because of the increasing population, expansion…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Weather, Economics
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: agriculture, Alabama, Arkansas, burning permits, croplands, fire injuries (humans), fire management, Florida, forest management, Georgia, health factors, liability, logging, Louisiana, North Carolina, pine forests, roads, site treatments, slash, smoke management, South Carolina, wind

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Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: ecosystem dynamics, Europe, Finland, fire case histories, fire exclusion, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, national forests, national parks, rural communities, Russia, suppression, wilderness fire management, wildfires

From the Executive Summary (p.iv) ... 'A coordinated program of research on the 1988 fires should be intiated immediately. The essential ingredients for such a program include an ecosystem approach to provide conceptual integration and operational coordination of many individual…
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, amphibians, arthropods, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, community ecology, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire intensity, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, grasslands, hydrology, Idaho, insects, landscape ecology, Lepidoptera, logging, Montana, national forests, national parks, nongame birds, nutrient cycling, pine forests, Pinus contorta, plant communities, public information, range management, recreation, remote sensing, reptiles, runoff, small mammals, soil nutrients, soils, species diversity (plants), streams, succession, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, vulnerable species or communities, water, water quality, watersheds, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: catastrophic fires, cones, coniferous forests, disturbance, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, fire injuries (animals), fire regimes, fuel moisture, human caused fires, Idaho, lightning caused fires, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, nongame birds, old growth forests, old growth vegetation, openings, Pandion halioetus, pine forests, Pinus palustris, post fire recovery, predation, public information, raptors, seeds, serotiny, small mammals, smoke behavior, smoke effects, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), waterfowl, wildfires, wildlife food habits, wildlife food plants, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park

[no description entered]
Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air quality, Australia, bibliographies, biomass, boreal forests, Canada, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, deforestation, distribution, Europe, fire regimes, fuel loading, fuel types, gases, climate change, habitat types, land use, remote sensing, savannas, slash and burn, statistical analysis, tropical forests, understory vegetation, wildfires

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Logistics, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fire equipment, fire management, firing techniques, grasslands, manuals, Minnesota, Montana, mopping up, North Dakota, smoke management, South Dakota, tallgrass prairies, Wisconsin, Wyoming

Soil CO2 flux (JCO2) was measured at midday over a 2-yr period in undisturbed tallgrass prairie (Konza Prairie, Kansas, USA) to quantify seasonal and annual budgets, to evaluate temperature and moisture as determinants of soil CO2 flux, and to assess the effect of a common land…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Andropogon gerardii, grazing, land management, soil respiration, tallgrass prairie, grasslands, Kansas, Konza Prairie, soil CO2 flux, biogeochemical cycles, biomass, Bison bison, burning intervals, CO2 - carbon dioxide, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, experimental fire, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, histories, land use, moisture, natural areas management, organic matter, prairie, range management, season of fire, soil moisture, soil temperature, soils, Sorghastrum nutans, statistical analysis, temperature, topography, tropical forest, water

This policy statement has been prepared in response to plans by some Federal, tribal and State wildland owners/managers to significantly increase the use of wildland and prescribed fires to achieve resource benefits in the wildlands. Many wildland ecosystems are considered to…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Outreach, 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, fire management, air pollution, smoke management, visibility, smoke management plan, air quality management

ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery, and ecological fire regime…
Person:
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire regimes, climate change, emission estimates, biomass burning, pre-industrial conditions, Adenostoma, agriculture, biomass, carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, chaparral, coastal plain, Appalachian Mountains, coniferous forests, cropland fires, croplands, deserts, ecotones, ecology, everglades, fire danger rating, fire frequency, fire regimes, fuel loading, fuel models, grasslands, grazing, habitat types, Juniperus, land use, landscape ecology, logging, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, Pinus clausa, Pinus ponderosa, pocosins, prairie, presettlement fires, Prosopis, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus, remote sensing, rural communities, savannas, scrub, shrub fuels, shrublands, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife habitat management

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Person:
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Planning, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, prescribed fire planning, slash burning, air resource management