program to monitor the behavior and environmental impact of prescribed fires. Air, soil and ash samples were collected at the burn sites and analyzed for chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (CDD) and dibenzofurans (CDF). Preliminary results indicated that larger air sample volumes were required....
In this study, prescribed burning (i.e., burn every 3 years in spring over 7 years) was applied to shift the plant community composition toward a native-dominated prairie, which was expected to support target native butterfly assemblages. The results of this study showed a positive effect of...
We further simulate a set of prescribed burn scenarios and find that controlled burning interventions in northern California and the Pacific Northwest could have reduced the population‐weighted smoke exposure across the western United States by 21 μg/m3 in September 2020, while doing so in all ...
(MACA) are available at:https://www.climatologylab.org/maca.html. New data created as part of this analysis, including gridded RxDay counts and documents describing all real-world burn plans used in defining the RxDay composite metric, are publicly archived on Zenodo and can be accessed at...
Other instruments sampled smoke through tubes and duct work in laboratory spaces located around the burn chamber (Photo: CSL scientistJessica Gilman). FireLab Publications Emissions Emissions from fires begin with the high-temperature pyrolytic breakdown of cellulose, hemi-cellulose, and other biomass ma...
Thus, only no-burn days were considered to limit burning. Analysis Our first objective, which was to document the nature and effects of the burns, was met by describing the operational and environmental conditions under which the burns were conducted. Basic weather and fuel moisture data are ...
Burn leverage was interpreted as the slope of the equation relating wildfire incidence and past fire incidence, multiplied by the time period (Boer and others 2009; Price and Bradstock 2011). The burn leverage estimates were compared with those calculated from the output of the BehavePlus fire ...
This PR is located on university grounds and used for education purposes in various environmental ecology courses. Field samples were collected before the prescribed fire (T0) and one week (T1), four weeks (T4), and ten weeks (T10) post-burn. We measured soil characteristics including pH, ...
These environmental variables were selected based on parameters relevant to determining the burn window for prescribed fires, specifically wind speed, maximum vapor pressure deficit (VPD), maximum temperature, and precipitation, which contribute to escape events (Baijnath-Rodino et al. 2022). Multi-...
The aim of these practices is to (a) reduce any impact on ground-nesting birds, (b) leave some areas unburned (Anon, 2011), (c) ensure burn sizes are relatively small, and (d) ensure that burning practice conforms to agreed rotation lengths. Adherence to these criteria provides an ...