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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.
Person:
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…
Person:
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…
Person:
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.
Person:
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.
Person:
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

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

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

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…
Person:
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…
Person:
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

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

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…
Person:
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

The decision process involved in developing any plan to manage a prescribed natural fire must consider several divergent resource and management goals. In many cases, these fires may be projected to be, and eventually become, large and long-duration events. The exact final fire…
Person:
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Mapping, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, land management, private lands, rate of spread, recreation, wilderness areas, wildfires

Fire managers use prescribed fire and some wildfires to meet resource management objectives, like restoring and maintaining ecological processes, watershed function, and wildlife habitat, as well as to reduce fuels and mitigate the risk of severe wildfires. However, public…
Person:
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Safety, Social Science, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke impacts, air quality, remote sensing, human dimensions of wildland fire, wildfires, fire management, public perception, WFAQRP - Wildland Fire Air Quality Response Program, ARA - Air Resource Advisor

With evidence of increasing wildfire risks in wildland-urban interface zones in the U.S. West and elsewhere, understanding intended evacuation behavior is a growing issue for community planners. This research investigates intended evacuation behavior due to wildfire risks, using…
Person:
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: distribution, fire damage (property), fire hazard reduction, fire injuries (humans), fire management, fire suppression, forest management, fuel accumulation, Mexico, national forests, New Mexico, population density, public information, statistical analysis, wildfires, evacuation, wildfire

Central to public health risk communication is understanding the perspectives and shared values among individuals who need the information. Using the responses from a Smoke Sense citizen science project, we examined perspectives on the issue of wildfire smoke as a health risk in…
Person:
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: wildfires, Smoke Sense, citizen science, risk communication, mobile applications, health risk, air quality, community engagement, human health