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Particulate matter (PM) is a major primary pollutant emitted during wildland fires that has the potential to pose significant health risks to individuals/communities who live and work in areas impacted by smoke events. Limiting exposure is the…
Author(s): Russell W. Long, Shawn P. Urbanski, Emily Lincoln, Maribel Colón, Surender Kaushik, Jonathan Krug, Robert Vanderpool, Matthew S. Landis
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Prescribed fire is a useful tool for building resilient landscapes in fire-prone areas across the globe. In the western U.S., prescribed fire is employed by federal, state, and Tribal land managers and planned during particular meteorological and…
Author(s): Christopher Bone, Courtney Shultz, Heidi Huber-Stearns, Jason Kelley, Emma Cunnin
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Background: Due to anthropogenic climate change and historic fire suppression, wildfire frequency and severity are increasing across the western United States. Whereas the indirect effects of fire on wildlife via habitat change are well studied,…
Author(s): J. Ayars, Robbie L. Emmet, Sarah B. Bassing, Olivia Sanderfoot, Sierra Raby, Alexandra Karambelas, Eric James, Ravan Ahmadov, Beth Gardner
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The behaviour of wildland fires and the dispersion of smoke from those fires can be strongly influenced by atmospheric turbulent flow. The science to support that assertion has developed and evolved over the past 100+ years, with contributions from…
Author(s): Warren Heilman
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