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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, laboratory fires, litter, needles, nitrogen, nutrient cycling, nutrients, particulates, pine, Pinus palustris, South Carolina, volatilization
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Models, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, smoke management
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: air quality, smoke management
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel management, smoke management
The Missoula Equipment Development Center (MEDC) monitored firefighters' exposure to carbon monoxide on two wildfires in CY 1974. On one fire most of the firefighters were exposed to levels of carbon monoxide (CO) higher than those permitted by the proposed standard that the…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: carbon, CO - carbon monoxide, fire management, fire suppression, forest management, Idaho, smoke effects, smoke management, wildfires
From the introduction ... 'This report describes and presents the results of four groups of experiments designed to obtain information on some facets of N2 fixation. The objectives of these experiments were to: (1) Determine N2 fixation potential for a number of Coastal Plain…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: bacteria, chemical compounds, coastal forests, coastal plain, energy, fertilization, fertilizers, fire exclusion, fire management, gases, litter, minerals, moisture, nitrogen, nitrogen fixation, North Carolina, nutrients, phosphorus, Pinus elliottii, Pinus taeda, plantations, sampling, savannas, season of fire, site treatments, soil management, soil moisture, soil organisms, soils, South Carolina, statistical analysis, swamps
Pollutant production due to the combustion of forest slash material has been determined from measurements obtained for controlled field burns. Temporal and spatial concentrations of CO2 and total particulate were measured during flights of an instrumented aircraft through the…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Northern Rockies
Keywords: air quality, carbon, clearcutting, combustion, coniferous forests, duff, fire management, fuel inventory, fuel management, fuel moisture, fuel types, hydrogen, laboratory fires, Larix occidentalis, logging, moisture, Montana, needles, nitrogen, particulates, pollution, Pseudotsuga menziesii, sampling, slash, smoke management, statistical analysis, US Forest Service
A study of the relation of daily levels of air pollution and mortality in New York City for the ten year period 1963-1972 has recently been completed. This study, which will be published shortly, confirms our preliminary finding reported at the June 1974 Denver meeting of the…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: air quality, energy, gases, mortality, New York, particulates, pollution, SO2 - sulfur dioxide, temperature
The rate of rise of the convection columns above experimental fires depends on the rate of average atmospheric temperature lapse in the lower 1,000 meters. The type of fuels used in these fires will probably produce a mass fire if the burning area is 27 plus or minus 2 hectares…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: air temperature, convection, energy, experimental fires, field experimental fires, fire size, fuel management, fuel types, ignition, Juniperus osteosperma, light, Nevada, photography, Pinus, smoke behavior, smoke effects, smoke management, temperature, wind
Losses to the atmosphere of our nutrient elements, phosphorus (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), and magnesium (Mg), caused by slash burning a logged-over mixed forest coupe in the Florentine Valley in Tasmania, were estimated by weighing and sampling the slash on marked plots…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: air quality, ash, Australia, biomass, calcium, chemical elements, duff, ecosystem dynamics, fire intensity, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel types, grasses, heathlands, leaching, litter, logging, magnesium, nutrients, phosphorus, plant nutrients, K - potassium, regeneration, sampling, slash, slash and burn, Tasmania, temperature, volatilization, wood
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Social Science
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, aesthetics, air quality, coniferous forests, education, fire suppression, fishes, forest management, grazing, hunting, hydrology, logging, national forests, pine forests, Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa, pollution, Pseudotsuga menziesii, public information, recreation, runoff, sedimentation, streams, understory vegetation, Washington, water quality, watershed management, wildlife
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: clearcutting, logging, pine forests, Pinus contorta, smoke behavior, wind, Wyoming
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: burning intervals, ecosystem dynamics, fire frequency, fire regimes, fungi, germination, grasses, microorganisms, needles, pine, Pinus radiata, plant communities, post fire recovery, seedlings, smoke behavior, smoke effects, wildfires
Pollutants sampled during the burning of 30 lb ponderosa pine fuel beds yielded emission factors for CO, hydrocarbon gases, and particulate matter of 146, 8.4, and 9.1 lb/ton of fuel, respectively. When similar beds were treated with diammonium phosphate flame retardant, these…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California
Keywords: Pinus ponderosa, ponderosa pine, PM - particulate matter, slash burning, pollutants, flame retardants, air quality, combustion, fire intensity, fire management, forest management, gases, humidity, laboratory fires, CH4 - methane, mopping up, national forests, phosphate, pine forests, slash, wildfires
Sections 111 and 112 of the Clean Air Act relative to the control of particulates are evaluated. Section 111 provides the promulgation of standards for hazardous pollutants which reflect the best systems of emission reduction. Section 112 defines national emission standards for…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, particulates, Clean Air Act, PM - particulate matter
The body of information presented in this paper is directed to those interested in assessing emission rates and concentration levels from agriculture burning, and/or those interested in simulation techniques. This paper describes a source-oriented air pollution monitoring…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): Hawaii
Keywords: agricultural burning, air pollution, emission rate, ambient pollution levels
The advancement of technology relating to particulate emission is pointed out as a significant aspect of this nation's air pollution control efforts. Important factors include the ability of particulates: to cause poor visibility, to constitute a health hazard, to act as…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: Clean Air Act, air pollutants, public health, particulate emissions, fine particulates
Particulate emissions are the most objectionable atmospheric contaminant from forest burning. Little is known of the particulate sizes, and this research was done under laboratory conditions to obtain particle size information. Comments are made concerning techniques for future…
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: particulates, air pollution, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, slash disposal
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Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Fire Ecology, Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: education, fire control, fire exclusion, fire suppression, forest management, land management, land use, multiple resource management, national forests, national parks, nutrient cycling, public information, smoke management, Smokey Bear program, wilderness fire management
Comprises 80 references to papers and publications related specifically to fire management of wilderness areas in the USA. An index is given to 11 general subject categories.
Person:
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: bibliography, fire management, fuels management, fire operations, fire management plan, fire regimes, forest management, national forests, national parks, public information, smoke management, wilderness fire management