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Perceptions of prescribed burning in a local forest community in Victoria, Australia

The general perceptions of prescribed burning were elicited from forest users for an area that has been subject to this form of land management for at least 20 years. The largest group consisted of local residents living in and around the Wombat State Forest…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): International
Keywords: Australia, community ecology, conservation, education, fire hazard reduction, fire management, forest management, land management, public information, season of fire, state forests, statistical analysis, Victoria, wildfires, Wombat State Forest, fuel reduction burning, planned fire, wildfire, land management, community

Using focus groups to involve citizens in resource management - investigating perceptions of smoke as a barrier to prescribed forest burning

Participants in a series of focus groups discussed how their tolerance for smoke varied by the source of the smoke and found their opinions changing as they talked with other participants. Even those opposed to smoke from agricultural burning eventually found…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Prescribed Fire, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: defensible space, education, social acceptance, wildfire management, focus groups, fuels treatments

Wildfire air pollution and daily mortality in a large urban area

Unusual air pollution episodes, such as when smoke from wildfires covers a large urban area, can be used to attempt to detect associations between short-term increases in particulate matter (PM) concentrations and subsequent mortality without relying on the sophisticated…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Models
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: aerosols, CO - carbon monoxide, Colorado, cover, health factors, mortality, particulates, pollution, smoke effects, wildfires, wind, air pollution, mortality, particulate matter, forest fires, cardiovascular disease

No heat-stimulated germination found in herbaceous species from burned subtropical grassland

Fire has been shown to stimulate seed germination in a number of fire-prone ecosystems, mainly in Mediterranean type shrublands and, though not exclusively, in hardseeded species. Stimulation by heat, or by chemical constituents of charred wood and smoke, have been identified as…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Occurrence, Fuels
Region(s): International
Keywords: adaptation, Andropogon lateralis, Asteraceae, Brazil, Cyperaceae, ecosystem dynamics, Elionurus, Eryngium, fire adaptations (plants), fire frequency, fire intensity, fire management, forbs, germination, grasses, grasslands, heat, heat effects, herbaceous vegetation, Mediterranean habitats, Poaceae, range management, seed dormancy, seed germination, seeds, shrublands, smoke effects, South America, temperature, wood, germination, grasslands, heat shock, southern Brazil

Post-fire germination: the effect of smoke on seeds of selected species from the central Mediterranean basin

In regions with a Mediterranean-type climate wildfires are a frequent occurrence: in such environments fire tolerant/favoured species are frequently encountered. In the Mediterranean basin, many species of fire prone habitats are resprouters while others are…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: chaparral, fynbos, Juniperus spp., Mediterranean basin, post-fire germination, kwongan, matorral

Tree mortality from fire and bark beetles following early and late season prescribed fires in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest

Over the last century, fire exclusion in the forests of the Sierra Nevada has allowed surface fuels to accumulate and has led to increased tree density. Stand composition has also been altered as shade tolerant tree species crowd out shade intolerant species. To…
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
Keywords: Abies concolor, air quality, bark, Calocedrus decurrens, char, coniferous forests, Cornus nuttallii, Dendroctonus ponderosae, Dendroctonus valens, fire exclusion, fire intensity, fire management, firing techniques, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel moisture, insects, Ips, moisture, mortality, Nevada, old growth forests, phenology, pine, Pinus jeffreyi, Pinus lambertiana, Pinus ponderosa, plant diseases, population density, Quercus kelloggii, Scolytus ventralis, scorch, season of fire, Sierra Nevada, size classes, statistical analysis, surface fuels, trees, Abies spp., Pinus, Dendroctonus, Scolytus, bark beetle