SFE Webinar: A Prescribed Burners Guide to the Fire and Smoke Map
SFE Webinar: A Prescribed Burners Guide to the Fire and Smoke Map
Learn how to use the Fire and Smoke Map to improve your smoke management.
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A webinar with the USDA Forest Service, US EPA, University of Florida IFAS, and the Southern Fire Exchange.
Presenters:
Pete Lahm, USDA Forest Service
Sim Larkin, Ph.D., USDA Forest Service
Rick Gillam, EPA Region 4
Webinar Description:
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Prescribed burners can efficiently utilize the EPA Fire and Smoke Map to enhance their burning practices. The map provides real-time information on fire and smoke conditions across different regions. Burners can use it to assess the current air quality and regional smoke movement. By incorporating this information, prescribed burners can strategically plan and time their burns to minimize the impact on air quality and public health. The map allows them to make informed decisions, ensuring safer and more effective prescribed burns while supporting compliance with environmental regulations. Following the presentations there will be time for audience Q&A with the speakers.
Originally recorded January 2024.
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Hosted By:
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David Godwin, Southern Fire Exchange, University of Florida IFAS
Links and Resources:
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AirNow.Gov
https://www.airnow.gov
AirNow.Gov Wildfires
https://www.airnow.gov/wildfires/
Fire and Smoke Map:
https://fire.airnow.gov/
2020 National Emissions Inventory Technical Support Document: Fires
https://www.epa.gov/system/files/docu...
NWCG Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed Fire: https://www.nwcg.gov/publications/420-2
Smoke Management Guidebook for Prescribed Burning in the Southern Region:
https://southernfireexchange.org/smok...
Basic Smoke Management Practices: https://efotg.sc.egov.usda.gov/refere...
Basic Smoke Management Practices (SFE Fact Sheet): https://eadn-wc02-7111601.nxedge.io/w...
Where there’s fire, there’s smoke: Air quality and prescribed burning in Florida (UF/IFAS Fact Sheet): https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication...
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