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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

Focus groups were used to gauge tolerance of smoke from broadcast prescribed forest burning in the wildland-urban interface of the northern Inland West. Focus group participants worked through issues surrounding prescribed burning as a management tool to…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: focus groups, air quality, broadcast burning, coniferous forests, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, fuel management, Native Americans, public information, rural communities, smoke management, wildfires

From the Summary (p.525) ... '• This paper is the first global study of the extent to which fire determines global vegetation patterns by preventing ecosystems from achieving the potential height, biomass and dominant functional types expected under the ambient climate (climate…
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Models, Mapping
Region(s): International
Keywords: Africa, agriculture, Australia, biogeography, biomass, Brazil, carbon, carbon dioxide, coniferous forests, cover, deciduous forests, deserts, distribution, dominance (ecology), ecosystem dynamics, evergreens, evolution, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire regimes, forest management, Ghana, grasses, grasslands, habitat types, land use, mineral soils, nitrogen, savannas, shrublands, shrubs, South Africa, South America, species diversity (plants), tundra, vegetation surveys, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe, climate-vegetation relationships, dynamic global vegetation models, global biomes, plant biogeography, SCGVM(Sheffield Dynamic Global Vegetation Model), FIRE-CONTROLLED vs CLIMATE-CONTROLLED GLOBAL BIOME, Kruger National Park, aboveground net woody biomass, REGIONAL BIOME, GLOBAL BIOME SIMULATIONS, LONG-TERM FIRE-EXCLUSION STUDIES IN SAVANNAS, WOODED GRASSLANDS, ORIGIN OF FIRE-DEPENDENT BIOMES