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The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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An analysis of the western redcedar-grand fir forest communities in the Selway-Bitteroot wilderness, with special emphasis on fuel accumulations and fire potential

Habeck
[no description entered]
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of fire return rates on traversability of lodgepole pine forests for mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) and the use of patch metrics to estimate traversability

Barclay, Li, Benson, Taylor, Shore
Monte-Carlo simulation was used to examine the effects of fire return rates on the equilibrium age structure of a one-million-hectare lodgepole pine forest (Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm. ex S. Wats.; Pinaceae) and yielded a mosaic of ages over the one million hectares…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Methyl mercury concentrations in macroinvertebrates and fish from burned and undisturbed lakes on the Boreal Plain

Allen, Prepas, Gabos, Strachan, Zhang
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The response of conifer and broad-leaved trees and shrubs to wildfire and clearcut logging in the boreal forests of central labrador

Simon, Schwab
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Habitat distribution of birds wintering in Central Andros, the Bahamas: implications for management

Currie, Wunderle, Ewert, Anderson, Davis, Turner
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Endemic vascular plants of the Interior Highlands, U.S.A

Zollner, MacRoberts, MacRoberts, Ladd
We evaluate the 36 endemic vascular plants of the Interior Highlands of Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Most of the endemic flora of the region are herbaceous perennials, although nearly a quarter of the endemic plant taxa are annuals. An analysis of the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Responses of diversity and invasibility to burning in a northern oak savanna

MacDougall
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

White spruce stringers in a fire-patterned landscape in interior Alaska

Quirk, Sykes
In a south-facing subbasin of Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, several mature white spruce stringers, apparent relics of extensive stands that have escaped fires, were studied.Tree-ring investigations show that the mature spruce stringers have remained fire…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Principles of fire ecology and fire management in relation to the Alaskan environment

Komarek
Fire ecology is discussed in relation to basic ecological processes; the characteristics of the fire environment are reviewed. Lightning and lightning storms are considered as the primary natural cause of fires in nature. The nature of fire and its relationship to plants,…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Afterburn

Kearns
From the text (p. 26) ... 'Wildfire has destroyed forests across the West. Help is needed to restore the life-giving 'natural capital' they provide. ... Wildfires are changing the landscape across the country and often not for the better. A long-standing policy of putting out…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rekindling native fires

Levy
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sensitivity of tree growth to the atmospheric vertical profile in the Boreal Plains of Manitoba, Canada

Girardin, Tardif
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The response of mammals to forest fire and timber harvest in the North American boreal forest

Fisher, Wilkinson
1. This paper reviews and compares the effects of forest fire and timber harvest on mammalian abundance and diversity, throughout successional time in the boreal forest of North America. 2. Temporal trends in mammal abundance and diversity are generally similar for both…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Alaska Interagency Fire Research Needs September 2005

The following list of research topics was generated by agencies within AWFCG during 2005.  The topics were ranked originally by the AWFCG Fire Research and Development Committee (FRDAC) and finally by the AWFCG members.  Ranking was as follows:  3= high, 2 = medium, 1= low (or H…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Developing fuel models for the Anchorage wildland-urban interface using a forest inventory

Cheyette
I inventoried the forests of the Anchorage wildland-urban interface and created a hierarchical classification of twenty forest types differentiated according to tree species, tree and basal area densities and degree of spruce bark beetle mortality. The inventory included the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The habitat requirements of sage grouse and the role of fire in management

Klebenow
From the text ... 'Sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus Bonaparte), due to their dependence upon sagebrush-grassland habitat for food and cover, are limited in distribution to the range type dominated by sagebrush, principally big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) but also its…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire ecology in ponderosa pine-grassland

Biswell
From the text ... 'The ponderosa pine-grassland is characterized by the occurrence and distribution of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa. It is widely spread covering some 36 million acres from the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia to Durango, Mexico, and from Nebraska to the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The ecology of the rocky heathlands of western Nova Scotia

Strang
From the text ... 'At the request of the Provincial government, an ecological examination was carried out between 1966 and 1968, to determine whether afforestation would be practical. The soil and vegetation of the heathlands were examined in detail and compared with adjacent…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Aerial seeding after wildfire in central Newfoundland

Richardson
Conclusions: 'The results of this study show that black spruce and jack pine can be established successfully by broadcast seeding from the air on fresh to moist sites on a severely burned cutover area in central Newfoundland. The seeding equipment used proved satisfactory. The…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reduced planting cost - a prescribed fire benefit

Vyse, Muraro
The effect of broadcast slash burning on the cost of planting a recently logged area of over—mature coastal hemlock—balsam—cedar forest was examined. Planting output and costs were measured before and after burning the same area. Three planting methods were used: bareroot/…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Listing of tribes that have documented use of fire by author and date of publication

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rocky Mountains, southwest, Gulf States, Texas, and Great Plains/prairies references

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The boreal forest references including Alaska, interior and northern Canada and Vancouver Island

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

General North America references

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Some geographic implications of water-repellent soils

Foggin, DeBano
This paper describes the nature of water repellency, factors causing repellency, and geographic implications of findings from recent studies.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS