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A literature synthesis on public perceptions and tolerance of smoke. Topics explored include personal values and beliefs about smoke, beliefs about the controllability of fire and smoke, agency trust, individual characteristics related to…
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: public, public perception, tolerance, perceptions
Module 2 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
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Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: attitudes, community, public, tolerance, trust, values, perceptions
Smoke from wildland fire presents a serious and growing concern. Mirroring global trends in recent decades, many areas of the US are experiencing increasing wildfire size, severity, and frequency. The health hazard of smoke from wildland fire has been well-documented (see…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: public perceptions, wildfire, managed fire, public tolerance of smoke, literature review, public health, manager perceptions, NWFSC - Northwest Fire Science Consortium
[from the text] Land managers and officials need to understand the diverse public opinions toward smoke from wildland fires; however, a very limited amount of research has been conducted on this topic. Hence, land and fire managers are largely uncertain about society's…
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Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: escaped fire, public perception, trust, public health, public attitudes
Module 1 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
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Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: attitudes, community, public, tolerance, trust, perceptions
This project examines how communication programs and fire and fuels-related community partnerships influence public perceptions of smoke management across multiple regions. Using a case study design, we will compare communities where smoke (from wildfire or…
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Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: preparedness, public perceptions, community participation
This study will examine citizens' knowledge of and perceptions about smoke management and associated communication strategies before and after exposure to a smoke event and/or communication event that addresses smoke. This study is an expansion of a larger multi…
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Year: 2014
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: public opinion, survey, public perceptions
Module 3 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
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Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: attitudes, community, public, tolerance, trust, values, perceptions
Module 4 of 4 relating to smoke and public attitudes.
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Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: attitudes, community, public, tolerance, trust, values, perceptions
This webinar touched on stakeholder values and perceptions of restoration. It included a presentation by University of Wyoming professor Jessica Clement about methods for garnering public feedback and incorporating it into decisions. We also learned about two…
Person: Clement, Blades, Alldredge
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): Eastern, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: public opinion, values, public perceptions
The NWCG Smoke Committee (SmoC) hosted this webinar on June 28, 2011. Four presentations and a discussion period examined public perception and messaging about smoke and fire. The webinar was a key initial step in developing needed messaging about wildland fire…
Person: McCaffrey, McCarthy, Hall, Olsen
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: public opinion, wildland fire, public perception, smoke impacts, smoke management, smoke messaging
Characterizing public tolerance of smoke from wildland fires in communities across the United States
Little is known about public tolerance of smoke from wildland fires. By combining data from two household surveys, we sought to determine whether tolerance of smoke from wildland fires varies with its origin or managerial rationale, to describe…
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Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: forest management, public health, tolerance, public acceptance, wildfires, survey, fire suppression, lightning caused fires, Oregon, South Carolina, Montana, Idaho, Texas, Louisiana, air quality, health factors, slash, thinning, fire management, smoke management, smoke effects
Data from three separate but related surveys address the linkages between recreation and public perception of attitudes toward fire management. Recreation ranks high among alternative forest resource uses and is a serious concern vis-a-vis fire effects. Public…
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, catastrophic fires, education, fire injuries (animals), fire injuries (plants), fire management, fire suppression, forest management, grazing, human caused fires, lightning caused fires, livestock, low intensity burns, multiple resource management, national forests, natural resource legislation, pollution, public information, recreation, runoff, soil erosion, trees, wildlife food plants
Much of the recent work in reducing wildland fire danger has occurred in the western and southeastern United States. However, high-risk areas do exist at the wildland-urban interface areas in the Northeast and very little work has been done to understand the fire management…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire hazard reduction, firebreaks, National Fire Plan, wildfires, air quality, cutting, public information, thinning, Massachusetts, New England, fire management, forest management, pine barrens, homeowner perceptions-wildland fire risk, fire hazard reduction strategies
This study is an integrated economic assessment of alternative fuels treatments. We examine ecological, economic and financial aspects of alternative fuels treatments paying particular attention to market and non-market costs and benefits, property damage, smoke, air quality,…
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Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: fuel treatments, ecological impacts, public perception
Over the past twenty years, risk communication researchers and practitioners have learned some lessons, often at considerable personal price. For the most part, the mistakes that they have made have been natural, even intelligent ones. As a result, the same pitfalls may tempt…
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: environment, risk communication, risk management, risk perception
A presentation recorded at the Restoring the West Conference 2015: Restoration and Fire in the Interior West.
Person: Olsen
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: public perceptions, PM2.5, air quality
Wildland fires have increased in extent and severity in recent years. At the same time, the number of people living in harm's way has increased dramatically. This has not only resulted in more people and private property potentially at risk from future fire events, but also an…
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Hazard and Risk, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke management, public perceptions, social acceptability
Prescribed fire can be an important tool in the successful management of many invasive plants. This two-part webinar series will focus on the invasive plant Phragmites australis. Prescribed fire is often recommended as part of an integrated management regime. However, large…
Person: Osterland
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: fire management, fuel loading, fuel moisture, Michigan, burn plans, public perception, smoke management, Phragmites, Phragmites australis
As part of a Joint Fire Science Program project, a team of social scientists reviewed existing fire social science literature to develop a targeted synthesis of scientific knowledge on the following questions: 1. What is the public's understanding of fire's role in the ecosystem…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: public acceptance, mitigation, fuels treatments, information sources, responsibility, geographic variation
Maintaining appropriate fire return intervals for fully functioning ecosystems can be difficult for a variety of reasons. Laws and regulations can place limitations on both the timing and extent of prescribed burning. In this webinar, Dr. Wonkka will present an overview of the…
Person: Wonkka
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: right to burn, landowner perceptions, liability, negligence, fire management, air quality
Presentation discussing challenges in communication during smoke events. Dr. Garbe discussed the importance of local response, and experience, as well as keeping flexible messaging and keeping the message "new" across fire seasons.
Person: Garbe
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Safety
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, public information, public perception, health effects, public health, biomass burning
The Smoke and Emissions Portal is the result of collaborative efforts between the National Wildfire Coordinating Group's (NWCG) Smoke Committee, The University of Idaho, and the Fire Research and Management Exchange System (FRAMES). This site is divided into three areas:…
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Year:
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: air quality, FRAMES - Fire Research and Management Exchange System, NWCG - National Wildfire Coordinating Group, fire emissions, air pollutants, SmoC - NWCG Smoke Committee
Following a survey of forest homeowners in rural Michigan to assess the value of reducing the risk of damage from wildfires at the wildland-urban interface, focus-group discussions were conducted with a subset of survey participants to learn about their perceptions…
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Models, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Eastern
Keywords: aesthetics, air quality, brush, catastrophic fires, coniferous forests, Dendroica kirtlandii, education, fire adaptations (animals), fire adaptations (plants), fire case histories, fire control, fire damage (property), fire damage protection, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire protection, fire suppression, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, ignition, landscape ecology, Michigan, nongame birds, Pinus banksiana, private lands, public information, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, wilderness fire management, wildfires, fire management, fire risk assessment, focus groups, Mack Lake Fire
From the text ... '..., in today's world with imcreasing populations, and more people living in the wildland urban interface, prescribed burn practitioners must put more emphasis on smoke management. If we don't manage our smoke and the resulting negative impacts, then the…
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: heat, smoke behavior, air temperature, humidity, precipitation, public information, storms, wind, ecosystem dynamics, fire management, land management, smoke management