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Managing the wildland-urban interface in the northeast: perceptions of fire risk and hazard reduction strategies

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

Managing smoke at the wildland-urban interface

When prescribed burning is conducted at the wildland-urban interface (WUI), the smoke that is produced can sometimes inconvenience people, but it can also cause more serious health and safety problems. The public is unlikely to continue to tolerate the use of…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: fire management, smoke management, smoke screening

Airborne and ground-based measurements of fire and biogenic emissions during the 2004 Amazonian dry season

Volatile organic compounds (VOC) are key species in atmospheric chemistry because of their reactivity and roles as pollutants, precursors to ozone (O3, an air toxic and greenhouse gas), and as greenhouse gases themselves. Fine carbonaceous particles also have important…
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): International
Keywords: deforestation, FERA - Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team, Amazon, Brazil, biomass burning, VOC - volatile organic carbon, TROFFEE - Tropical Forest and Fire Emissions Experiment, RWD - residual woody debris

Development and Demonstration of Smoke Plume, Fire Emissions, and Pre-and Post-Prescribed Fire Fuel Models on North Carolina Coastal Plain Forest Ecosystems

Use of prescribed fire is an important forest management activity in the southern region with ~2,000,000 acres burned in 17,733 prescribed fires during the first 10 months of 2003 and an additional ~255,000 acres burned by 14,359 wildfires. Fire is used to remove logging slash…
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Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Models, Prescribed Fire, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: BlueSky Modeling Framework, BlueSkyRAINS, FARSITE - Fire Area Simulator, FCCS - Fuel Characteristic Classification System, fuel loading, North Carolina, DWD - downed woody debris