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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: Abies spp., air quality, Arizona, biomass, catastrophic fires, Colorado, coniferous forests, crown fires, crowns, disturbance, education, environmental impact analysis, environmental impact statements, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (plants), fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, forest management, fuel breaks, fuel management, fuel types, general interest, grasses, herbaceous vegetation, human caused fires, landscape ecology, logging, low intensity burns, Montana, mortality, mosaic, national forests, national parks, New Mexico, old growth forests, Oregon, overstory, partial cutting, Picea engelmannii, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, roads, second growth forests, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, site treatments, size classes, slash, surface fuels, thinning, US Forest Service, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires, Wyoming, Yellowstone National Park
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, International
Keywords: British Columbia, Canada, catastrophic fires, coastal forests, community ecology, coniferous forests, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fine fuels, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forest management, fuel management, fuel moisture, general interest, grazing, Great Plains, histories, landscape ecology, lightning caused fires, livestock, logging, Mexico, national forests, national parks, native species (animals), native species (plants), Nebraska, old growth forests, Oregon, Picea engelmannii, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus engelmannii, Pinus ponderosa, prescribed fires (chance ignition), Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, roads, Sequoia sempervirens, Sequoiadendron giganteum , smoke effects, South Dakota, thinning, Tsuga heterophylla, Washington, wilderness areas, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text ... 'For decades, foresters have been setting fires at least every two years in the Wade Tract. Instead of destroying the forest, the low-intensity flames that sweep through the tract trigger lush growth, fostering a biological diversity rivaling that of a tropical…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Aimophila aestivalis, Aristida stricta, competition, fire case histories, fire damage (property), fire dependent species, fire frequency, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, Georgia, hardwoods, land management, lightning caused fires, litter, low intensity burns, mowing, nongame birds, north Florida, Picoides borealis, pine forests, Pinus palustris, prescribed fires (escaped), public information, site treatments, soil nutrients, south Georgia, species diversity (plants), Stoddard, H.L., Tall Timbers Research Station, vegetation surveys, Wade Tract, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
See how prescribed fire is used in designed landscapes. Even when used in designed applications, many of our southern, fire-adapted native plants require fire to achieve their full health and vigor. Post-fire plant responses also create an interesting and valuable ecological…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Andropogon, Aristida stricta, burning permits, carnivorous plants, Chrysopsis, community ecology, Eleocharis, fire adaptations (plants), fire control, fire dependent species, fire intensity, fire management, grasses, grasslands, health factors, landscape ecology, native species (plants), North Carolina, Panicum virgatum, Pityopsis, plant ecology, public information, recreation, Sarracenia, smoke management, Sorghastrum nutans, wildlife
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire equipment, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, forest management, general interest, landscape ecology, liability, logging, National Fire Plan, national forests, national parks, Native Americans, natural resource legislation, presettlement fires, presettlement vegetation, private lands, public information, roads, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke management, statistical analysis, thinning, US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the test...'Federal and state forestry agencies, seduced by the mobility of fire-spotting aircraft and the cost-effectiveness of satellites and electronic sensors, stopped staffing most of the more than 8,200 lookouts scattered across the United States. Some especially…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Northwest
Keywords: education, fire control, fire hazard reduction, fire management, hardwood forests, national forests, New Jersey, northern California, Oregon, pine forests, public information, southern California, US Forest Service, Washington, wildfires
Land managers in Florida rely on prescribed fire to prepare sites for regeneration, improve wildlife habitats, reduce vegetative competition, facilitate timber management activities, and mitigate wildfire risk. More than one million acres of land is scheduled for prescribed fire…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: competition, disturbance, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, Florida, forest fragmentation, forest management, forest types, fragmentation, GIS, grasslands, hardwood forests, ignition, incendiary fires, land management, light, lightning caused fires, logging, Nyssa aquatica, pine forests, Pinus elliottii, population density, population ecology, prescribed fires (chance ignition), private lands, public information, regeneration, roads, rural communities, site treatments, stand characteristics, Taxodium distichum, trees, wetlands, wilderness fire management, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
The Hayman Fire is discussed. USDA Forest Service employee Merrill Kauffman is interviewed. 'NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Transcript: Online Focus' Transcript is coverage of Colorado wildfires, July 1 & 2, 2002. See PBS website, for the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer TV program,…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: catastrophic fires, Colorado, conservation, crown fires, education, fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire size, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, hardwood forests, liability, natural resource legislation, pine forests, public information, rate of spread, smoke management, Smokey Bear program, thinning, US Forest Service, web page, wildfires
From the text...'It was my observation then that local residents demonstrated little interest in fuel hazard reduction near their homes unless a fire had ocurred recently and nearby. Sadly, as a member of the Berkely Fire Safety Commission from 1992 to 2001, I found that the…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air quality, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, fuel appraisal, smoke effects, wildfires
From the Introduction ... "A 1985 survey by the Soil Conservation Service indicated that eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) and ashe juniper (I. ashei) had invaded almost 1.5 million acres in Oklahoma by 1950 and 3.5 million acres by 1985 (Snook 1985). The invasion of…
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aviation, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Logistics, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern, Southwest
Keywords: aerial ignition, air quality, bottomland hardwoods, catastrophic fires, conservation, croplands, decomposition, distribution, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, forage, fuel accumulation, grasslands, grazing, Great Plains, habitat conversion, hardwood forests, herbicides, introduced species, invasive species, Juniperus, Juniperus ashei, Juniperus monosperma, Juniperus pinchotii, Juniperus scopulorum, Juniperus virginiana, land use, livestock, native species (plants), Oklahoma, orchids, plant communities, population ecology, Populus deltoides, Quercus marilandica, Quercus stellata, range management, rangelands, riparian habitats, rivers, site treatments, soil conservation, species diversity (plants), tallgrass prairies, threatened and endangered species (animals), threatened and endangered species (plants), understory vegetation, urban habitats, Vireo atricapillus, Virginiana, water quality, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
From the Conclusion...'Fire is only one issue in the wildland-urban interface, but it attracts attention. The challenges associated with managing wildland fire in the interface - interagency communication, growth management, fire-dependent ecological systems, Federal-State-local…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: Acer, air quality, bibliographies, catastrophic fires, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, Georgia, grazing, hardwood forests, herbicides, histories, incendiary fires, land use, landscape ecology, liability, lightning caused fires, Mississippi, mowing, pine forests, Pinus palustris, post fire recovery, public information, Quercus, roads, rural communities, smoke behavior, Texas, thinning, urban habitats, wilderness fire management
From the text...''Values at stake' is the principle upon which fire safety is based. In the U.S., the highest values at stake are human life and private property, in that order. In wildfire suppression once the values of human life and private property are secure, generally the…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: education, fire damage protection, fire equipment, fire management, fire suppression, firefighting personnel, flammability, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, general interest, Georgia, hardwood forests, Louisiana, marshlands, pine forests, plantations, pollution, public information, smoke management, streams, suppression, threatened and endangered species, water, water quality, wildfires
Landuse change from forest to urban/suburban at the wildland-urban interface between 1992 and 1997 was assessed relative to increasing fire risk for the eastern U.S. We modeled forest-to-urban expansion using two regional-scale databases. A scaled metric of forest fragmentation…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern, Southern
Keywords: cover, cover type conversion, evolution, fire danger rating, fire management, forest fragmentation, fragmentation, fuel loading, GIS, habitat conversion, hardwood forests, land use, pine forests, roads, rural communities, smoke management, statistical analysis, urban habitats, wilderness fire management
Forest fuels reduction has the best chance of success if managers understand the factors that influence public acceptance of fuel management. This article reports an analysis of focus group interviews with wildland-urban interface residents at sites selected to provide variation…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: environmental management, forest management, forest, public relations, fuel management, air quality, catastrophic fires, education, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire regimes, fire suppression, hardwood forest, land use, pine forests, escaped prescribed fires, public information, smoke effects
The purpose of this study is to address socio-economic impacts of smoke produced by fuel reduction and restoration projects in the Flagstaff wildland-urban interface. The use of prescribed fire in the wildland-urban interface will produce smoke. The presence of smoke in the air…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southwest
Keywords: fire management
Fuel reduction has the best chance of success if managers understand the factors that influence public acceptance of fuel management sufficiently to provide effective responses to the questions, objections, and concerns of wildland-urban interface (WUI) homeowners. This study's…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Mapping, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Southern
Keywords: public opinion, aesthetics, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire damage (property), fire frequency, fire hazard, fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (humans), fire management planning, fire protection, fire suppression, firebreak, flammability, Florida, forest management, fuel management, geography, GIS - geographic information system, health factors, human caused fires, hunting, JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program, Lake States, land management, landscape ecology, lightning caused fires, logging, Michigan, mowing, national forests, natural resource legislation, pine forests, pine hardwood forests, private lands, public information, recreation, regulations, sampling, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, site treatments, smoke effects, state forests, statistical analysis, trees, understory vegetation, wildlife habitat management, wildfires
From the text...'fire management cannot be the same in the interface as in rural areas. In the South, a vast majority of land is privately owned. A dense road network in the interface provides many firebreaks; but it also brings people into forests. In the West, on the other…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, bibliographies, C - carbon, carbon dioxide, catastrophic fires, conservation, conservation easements, Dendroctonus frontalis, ecosystem dynamics, education, erosion, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire danger rating, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire suppression, firebreaks, firefighting personnel, firing techniques, Florida, forest management, forest products, fuel accumulation, fuel appraisal, Georgia, climate change, health factors, ignition, insects, land management, land use, liability, lightning, logging, national forests, natural resource legislation, pine forests, Pinus, plant diseases, Porthetria dispar, private lands, public information, recreation, roads, runoff, smoke management, suppression, urban habitats, Virginia, water, water quality, wildfires, wildlife, wildlife habitat management
Shaped by fire for thousands of years, the forests of the western United States are as adapted to periodic fires as they are to the region's soils and climate. Our widespread practice of ignoring the vital role of fire is costly in both ecological and economic terms, with…
Person:
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, 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, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: fire management, fire regimes, forest management, fire use, forest regeneration, habitat, soil processes, air quality, catastrophic fires, combustion, coniferous forests, erosion, fire adaptations, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire hazard reduction, fire scar analysis, fire suppression, fuel breaks, fuel management, O - oxygen, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, plant communities, post-fire recovery, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Quercus garryana, riparian habitats, Sequoia sempervirens, soil nutrients, soils, wildfires