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Project ID: 08-1-3-03

Year: 2008

Date Started: 10/01/2008

Date Completed: 10/28/2011

Title: Predicting Prescribed and Wildland Fire Smoke, Emissions, and Fire Characteristics in Deep Organic Soils

Project Proposal Abstract: The management of prescribed and wildland fire on federal, state, and private lands with deep organic soils pose critical challenges for ecosystem management, smoke dispersion, and the protection of private property and human life. Several regions in the US contain significant areas of deep organic soils, the boreal forests of Alaska and the northeastern US, the peat bogs in the glaciated northeast and Great Lakes, and the pocosins in the southeastern and Gulf coasts. We propose to characterize fuel and fire effects in two representative states with deep organic soils, Virginia and North Carolina. Study areas will include the Great Dismal Swamp, Alligator River, and Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuges, the Croatan National Forest, and The Nature Conservancy's Green Swamp Preserve. The proposed project objectives are to: (1) Determine the relationships between meteorology, soil characteristics, litter/duff moisture, micro-topography, and fire behavior in the ignition, flaming, smoldering, and extinction combustion stages; (2) Quantify pre- and post-burn below- and above-ground biomass to determine fuel characteristics and consumption for fine and coarse woody material, shrub, herbs, litter, and duff; (3) Characterize photochemically/radiatively important trace gases during combustion stages of prescribed and wildland fires; and (4) Provide land manager with decision support tools for managing prescribed and wildland fire and assessing ground fire risk on deep organic soils.

Principal Investigator: Robert A. Mickler

Agency/Organization: Alion Science & Technology Corp.

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Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Christopher Geron	EPA-Environmental Protection Agency	National Risk Management Research Laboratory
Co-Principal Investigator	Miriam L. Rorig	Forest Service	PNW-Pacific Northwest Research Station
Federal Cooperator	Susan L. Wilder	FWS-Fish and Wildlife Service	Region 4-Southeast Regional Office

Project Locations

Consortium

Level	State	Agency	Unit
STATE	NC	FS	Croatan National Forest
STATE	VA	FWS	Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
STATE	NC	FED	Other Federal Lands
STATE	NC	FWS	Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge

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