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An inventory of particulate matter and air toxic emissions from prescribed fires in the USA for 1989
This report documents a prescribed fire emissions inventory developed using consistent methodology for each of the 50 states of the USA for calendar year 1989. Emissions of particulate matter, selected toxic compounds, and a few other carbon-containing compounds are estimated.…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: emissions inventory, particulate matter, fuel complexes, toxic compounds, emission factors
From the text...'Big gaps still exist in the understanding of fire ecology, especially the seasonal aspects. Fire can have profoundly different effects on soil, plants and animals depending on when it occurs. Oftentimes the most ecological gain comes from burning during the…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Weather, Fire Ecology, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: backfires, catastrophic fires, cones, coniferous forests, crown fires, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire adaptations (plants), fire equipment, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire suppression, firing techniques, flatwoods, Florida, forest management, general interest, grasslands, headfires, invasive species, land management, liability, mopping up, Native Americans, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, pine forests, Pinus banksiana, Pinus contorta, public information, Sequoiadendron giganteum , smoke effects, surface fires, Tall Timbers Research Station, tallgrass prairies, topography, vegetation surveys
An average of 350 fire weather special Forecast Requests are prepared each year by the fire weather forecasters in the National Weather Service Forecast Office (WSFO) in Denver. Up to 650 of these spot forecasts may be prepared during a severe fire season. Spot forecasts are…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: Colorado, fire danger rating, fire management, fuel moisture, humidity, ignition, precipitation, smoke management, temperature, wildfires, wind
Mechanized full-tree logging is the preferred harvesting system in Northeastern Ontario. These operations typically involve roadside delimbing, producing large quantities of slash at roadsides and landings. Slash pile burning involves gathering the slash into concentrated areas…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, 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: artificial regeneration, biomass, Canada, combustion, duff, fine fuels, fire danger rating, fire equipment, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire suppression, firing techniques, flammability, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel arrangement, fuel management, fuel moisture, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, hunting, ignition, lightning caused fires, logging, Ontario, rate of spread, recreation, regeneration, season of fire, seeds, shrubs, site treatments, slash, smoke management, wildfires, wind
Periodic fires are a natural phenomenon in fynbos, which is the dominant vegetation type in the Cape floristic region. Fire-stimulated germination has been reported for a number of fynbos species. The promotion of seed germination in the fynbos fire ephemeral, Syncarpha vestita…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Adenostoma fasciculatum, Africa, Asteraceae, chaparral, charring, experimental fires, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fynbos, germination, grasses, leaves, lightning caused fires, Passerina vulgaris, sclerophyll vegetation, season of fire, seed dormancy, seed germination, seedlings, serotiny, smoke effects, soils, South Africa, statistical analysis, succession, Syncarpha vestita, Themeda triandra, wood, woody plants
Traditionally, in the Southwest, ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) red slash has not been treated with fire to meet resource objectives until all slash has fully cured, usually a 2-to-4-year wait. Waiting for slash to cure is still the widespread practice on most forests in the…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: crown scorch, duff, fine fuels, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel models, fuel moisture, heavy fuels, logging, mopping up, multiple resource management, national forests, New Mexico, Pinus ponderosa, precipitation, resprouting, site treatments, slash, smoke management
Lantana montevidensis Briq. is an endemic species of the brazilian <> (savannah) that usually flowers abundantly after burning of the vegetation. Several possible effects of fire on the induction of flowering in this species were tested with no significant result. It seems…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, ash, Brazil, burning intervals, chemistry, cutting, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, flowering, gases, herbicides, Imperata brasiliensis, laboratory fires, Lantana, light, nutrients, pH, reproduction, savannas, soil moisture, soil nutrients, South America, temperature
In A. capitata the protracted juvenile phase, the longevity of plants and their effective vegetative fire regeneration, are all possibly adaptively linked to poor sexual reproduction. After a fire-free period of more than ten years, averages of only 4.7 and 0.4 seedlings per…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, arthropods, Audouinia capitata, distribution, field experimental fires, fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire regimes, flowering, fuel loading, fynbos, germination, insects, mortality, plant growth, post fire recovery, regeneration, reproduction, resprouting, roots, season of fire, seed germination, seedlings, seeds, senescence, smoke effects, soil moisture, soil temperature, South Africa, sprouting, wildfires
From the text: 'Driven by fierce Santa Ana winds, 14 major brush fires ravaged L.A.'s suburbs, burning 152,000 acres and hundreds of homes. The disaster pushed firefighters to the limit and compounded the state's ecological and social troubles.'
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Social Science, Weather, Economics, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: backfires, blowups, brush, brush fires, catastrophic fires, chaparral, droughts, fire control, fire equipment, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, flammability, fuel accumulation, general interest, grasses, incendiary fires, precipitation, rate of spread, scrub, season of fire, smoke effects, southern California, wildfires, wind
A fire growth model, FARSITE (Fire ARea SImulator) is under development for simulating the spread and behavior of prescribed natural fires. The models uses a technique for wave propagation to expand surface fire fronts in 2 dimensions. Points defining the outer edge of a surface…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Mapping, Models, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: air quality, coniferous forests, crown fires, duff, fire case histories, fire growth, fire management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, fuel types, Georgia, GIS, landscape ecology, moisture, Oregon, rate of spread, spot fires, statistical analysis, surface fires, surface fuels, topography, weather observations, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wind, woody fuels, Huygen's Principle
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, forest health assessment, vegetation patterns, eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, historical vegetation, insect and disease hazard
The looming possibility of global warming raises legitimate concerns for the future of the forest resource in Canada. While evidence of a global warming trend is not conclusive at this time, governments would be wise to anticipate, and begin planning for, such an eventuality.…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: Canada, climate change, global warming, air temperature, Alberta, arthropods, biogeography, biomass, boreal forests, British Columbia, CO2 - carbon dioxide, CO - carbon monoxide, climatology, disturbance, drought, ecosystem dynamics, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, fire management planning, fire suppression, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, gases, grasslands, hydrocarbons, insects, landscape ecology, lightning, logging, Manitoba, CH4 - methane, microclimate, Ontario, O3 - ozone, physics, plant diseases, precipitation, Quebec, recreation, Saskatchewan, season of fire, soil moisture, soil nutrients, soil temperature, temperate forests, tundra, wildfires, wind
Burning has been a traditional component of land clearing operations to eliminate unwanted debris from fields. Burning under the proper conditions can be a cost efficient method of debris removal, and provides nutrient release into the soil. Burning, however, carries with it the…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: fire, fuels management, hazardous fuels, suppression, community impacts, smoke impact
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels
Region(s): Unknown
Keywords: vegetation fires
The boreal forests of Russia play a prominent role in the global carbon cycle and the flux of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Large areas of Russian forest burn annually, and contributions to the net flux of carbon to the atmosphere may be significant. Forest fire emissions…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Models, Weather
Region(s): International
Keywords: boreal forest, carbon budget, carbon emissions, climate change, Russia, biomass burning, air quality, arthropods, bibliographies, biogeography, biomass, C - carbon, CO2 - carbon dioxide, climax vegetation, crown fires, decay, distribution, disturbance, drought, fire control, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, forest types, fuel loading, gases, human caused fires, insects, Larix spp., nutrient cycling, overstory, Pinus spp., post-fire recovery, Siberia, soils, succession, temperate forests, understory vegetation, wildfires
A field study on grass field burning was conducted in the Willamette Valley of Oregon during the summer of 1965. Approximately 230,000 acres of grass field are burned in the valley during August and September. Serious air pollution problems result from this burning. The purposes…
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, air temperature, arthropods, ash, combustion, croplands, decomposition, distribution, experimental fires, fuel management, fuel moisture, grass fires, grasses, grasslands, humidity, insects, land management, Lolium, moisture, N - nitrogen, Oregon, organic matter, particulates, plant diseases, pollution, slash and burn, soil moisture, temperature, wind
'With reference to 'Holiday Highlands Prescribed Burn' (by Peggy Lantz, FN Winter '92), I fail to understand what was accomplished. Why do we need to 'open up the canopy' by removing trees that are already established and performing their function of providing wildlife food and…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aristida stricta, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, central Florida, energy, fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire suppression, Florida, fuel management, gases, general interest, Gopherus polyphemus, hardwood hammocks, heat, human caused fires, humus, lightning caused fires, logging, nutrients, organic matter, overstory, O - oxygen, Pinus palustris, Pituophis melanoleucus, plant nutrients, plantations, pollution, Quercus, sandhills, seedlings, soil organic matter, succession, trees, wildlife, wildlife food plants, wildlife habitat management, wildlife refuges, wood
These questions arise not as a local phenomenon but on a world scale which is seldom appreciated. Fire regimes prevail not only over huge areas in south-central Africa and Brazil, but also extend through North Africa--in the Sudan Zone especially--and no doubt also occur in the…
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Weather, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, air temperature, Australia, biomass, Brazil, Burma, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, distribution, fire dependent species, fire regimes, climate change, grasslands, hunting, India, pacific ocean, precipitation, savannas, season of fire, smoke effects, soil moisture, temperature, Thailand, Zambia