NWCG Interagency Smoke Committee (SmoC)
Managing smoke is part of wildland fire management. Protecting human life is the foremost priority in all aspects of wildland fire management, including smoke, while protecting natural resources and personal property are secondary priorities.will have a brief description of what the article is about.
Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS)
The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) is a national system for rating the risk of forest fires in Canada. The system predicts fire weather, fire occurrence, and fire behavior.
Wisconsin Smoke Management Plan
Smoke Management Best Management Practices for Prescribed Burns
NWCG Smoke and Emissions Portal
"The Emissions and Smoke Portal brings together information, documents, websites, and training materials on smoke management and air quality. The information provided here reflects the efforts of the NWCG Smoke Committee to provide interagency leadership, coordination, and integration of air resources and fire management objectives to support overall land management goals.”
Kansas Flint Hills Smoke Management
“This site provides a single location for land managers conducting prescribed burns in the Flint Hills to obtain information and access tools to assist them in making burn decisions.”
Illinois Smoke Management Plan
“This Smoke Management Plan (SMP) is based on Section VI “Smoke Management Programs” of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (U.S.EPA) “Interim Air Quality Policy on Wildland and Prescribed Fires” (April 23, 1998). According to this policy, the purpose of a SMP is to mitigate the nuisance and public safety hazards posed by smoke intrusions into populated areas (including on roadways and at airports); prevent deterioration of air quality and National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) violations; and address visibility impacts in mandatory Federal Class I Areas.”
Iowa Smoke Management
“Managing smoke produced by prescribed fires has, in recent years, become a critical consideration when planning a prescribed fire event. In some situations, planning for smoke management may be more complicated than planning for the prescribed fire itself. Considerations such as human and animal health and safety, air pollution, and reduced visibilities must be taken into careful account when planning even a small, routine prescribed burn.”
Minnesota Smoke Management Plan
“The purposes of SMPs are to mitigate the nuisance and public safety hazards (e.g. on roadways and at airports) posed by smoke intrusions into populated areas, prevent deterioration of air quality and National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) violations, and address visibility impacts in federal mandatory Class I areas.”
Prescribed Fire in Michigan – Best Management Practices
“This paper is intended to increase the comfort level of the reader regarding prescribed burning. This paper is targeted toward land managers and interested individuals in both the public and private sector, particularly those with an interest in but limited experience with prescribed burning.”
A Prescription for Fire: A Look at the Benefits of Prescribed Burning
A brochure covering the benefits of prescribed burning.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) – a short guide for wildland firefighters
A guide to using personal protective equipment to help avoid personal injuries.
Prescribed Burn Handbook
“Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MN DNR) policies and procedures relating to prescribed burning are contained in Operational Order 47, Prescribed Burning. The MN DNR Prescribed Burn Handbook is intended to supplement the policy found in the Operational Order 47 with specific instructions, forms, examples, and tools the fire or resource manager can use.”
Iowa State Extension and Outreach Brochures
A series of five brochures published in 2012 that cover different elements of using prescribed fire as a land management tool.
Behave7 Fire Modeling System
“The Behave fire modeling system is a computer program that is used to predict fire behavior in multiple situations.”
Standard fire behavior fuel models: a comprehensive set for use with Rothermel’s surface fire spread model
“This report describes a new set of standard fire behavior fuel models for use with Rothermel’s surface fire spread model and the relationship of the new set to the original set of 13 fire behavior fuel models.”
Aids to Determining Fuel Models for Estimating Fire Behavior
“This report presents photographic examples, tabulations, and a similarity chart to assist fire behavior officers, fuel management specialists, and other field personnel in selecting a fuel model appropriate for a specific field situation.”
Fire Effects Information System (FEIS)
FEIS summarizes and synthesizes research about living organisms in the United States—their biology, ecology, and relationship to fire.
Invasive Plant Control Database
Information was collected from both scientific literature and expert opinions and summarized by the Midwest Invasive Plant Network (MIPN), in partnership with the Mark Renz lab from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
FRAMES –- The Fire Research And Management Exchange System
FRAMES provides a systematic method of exchanging information and transferring technology between wildland fire researchers, managers, and other stakeholders in order to make wildland fire documents, data, tools, and other resources easy to find and use.
Joint Fire Science Program Research
Search research results, digests, briefs, and synthesis from JFSP.
Treesearch
This online system searches for publications by Research and Development scientists in the US Forest Service. All Treesearch publications were written or produced by Forest Service personnel and are in the public domain.