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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Komarek
From the text ... 'Some thirty-odd years ago, Aldo Leopold (1933) defined game management as '. . . the art of making land produce sustained annual crops of wild game for recreational use.' Recently, after a bibliographical journey through the pages of the Journal of Wildlife…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maini, Horton
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Adams
The results of controlled burning on cut-over jack pine sites in southeastern Manitoba can be summarized as follows: (1) The fire hazard resulting from jack pine slash was eliminated on all the areas burned. (2) On most areas a good proportion of the organic material was removed…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnston, van Kooten
In an effort to reduce CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning, renewable energy policies incentivize use of forest biomass as an energy source. Many governments have assumed (legislated) the carbon flux from burning biomass to be neutral because biomass growth sequesters CO2.…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rabin, Magi, Shevliakova, Pacala
The global extent of agriculture demands a thorough understanding of the ways it impacts the Earth system through the modification of both the physical and biological characteristics of the landscape as well as through emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols. People use fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alba, Skálová, McGregor, D'Antonio, Pyšek
Questions: Wildfire is a natural disturbance that shapes vegetation characteristics worldwide, while prescribed fire is increasingly used to modify vegetation composition and structure. Due to invasion of many ecosystems by exotic species, a concern of land managers is whether…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Massman
Increased use of prescribed fire by land managers and the increasing likelihood of wildfires due to climate change require an improved modeling capability of extreme heating of soils during fires. This issue is addressed here by developing and testing the soil (heat-moisture-…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williams
From the text...'A fire-control problem of major proportions in B.C., as in many other areas, results from hazardous accumulations of logging slash. The basic question is whether it is wiser to give cut-over areas added protection and tolerate the increased hazards introduced by…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Walker, Wiant
From the text 'Shortleaf pine occurs with loblolly pine throughout most of the upper Coastal Plain of the mid-South and Southeast. It is found infrequently with other southern pines where these are predominant in the lower Coastal Plain, and it may occur pure in the Coastal…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
A series of three 4—acre plots in a jack pine cut over were burned at three degrees of fire hazard. The weather, fire behaviour, and effects are reported, and a general conclusion drawn by others was confirmed: slash hazard is reduced by any running fire, but certain desired…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
It is generally recognized that logging slash, by increasing the concentration of forest fuels, creates a high forest fire hazard. The most severe fire hazard is found on clearcuts where fuels are usually continuous and exposed to the dessicating effects of prevailing weather…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bruner
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beaufait
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
In a period of great ecological and socioeconomic change, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service recognizes the critical importance of restoration to fulfilling its mission to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the Nation’s forests and grasslands to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bixby, Cooper, Gresswell, Brown, Dahm, Dwire
Fire is a prevalent feature of many landscapes and has numerous and complex effects on geological, hydrological, ecological, and economic systems. In some regions, the frequency and intensity of wildfire have increased in recent years and are projected to escalate with predicted…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Melvin
Prescribed fire activity is complex and poorly understood when evaluated at a national scale. Most often fire complexity is defined by scale, frequency, season, and location in the context of local and state laws and local community acceptance. In an effort to gain better…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wonkka, Rogers, Kreuter
Resistance to the use of prescribed fire is strong among many private land managers despite the advantages it offers for maintaining fire-adapted ecosystems. Even managers who are aware of the benefits of using prescribed fire as a management tool avoid using it, citing…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Middlemis-Brown
Recent research by Twidwell and colleagues evaluated the risks of various land management tools used in the private sector, with a focus on the relative risks of prescribed fire. The authors concluded that prescribed fire carried less fatality risk than other land management…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Rorig, Drury
Weather forecasts can help identify environmental conditions conducive to prescribed burning or to increased fire danger. These conditions are important components of fire management tools such as fire ignition potential maps, fire danger rating systems, fire behavior…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Twidwell, Wonkka, Sindelar, Weir
Fire is widely recognized as a critical ecological and evolutionary driver that needs to be at the forefront of land management actions if conservation targets are to be met. However, the prevailing view is that prescribed fire is riskier than other land management techniques.…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kovalev, Petkov, Wold, Urbanski, Hao
Lidar-data processing techniques are analyzed, which allow determining smoke-plume heights and their dynamics and can be helpful for the improvement of smoke dispersion and air quality models. The data processing algorithms considered in the paper are based on the analysis of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Horel, Brown
Software was developed to evaluate National Weather Service (NWS) spot forecasts. Fire management officials request spot forecasts from the NWS to provide detailed guidance as to atmospheric conditions in the vicinity of planned prescribed burns as well as wildfires that do not…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seielstad
The idea that more wildfires should be allowed to burn for resource benefit is widespread in federal fire management in the United States and the research community is heavily invested in strategies, tools, data, and information to provide decision-making support for these fires…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ingalsbee
Past fire exclusion policies and fire suppression actions have led to a historic "fire deficit" on public wildlands. These sociocultural actions have led to unprecedented environmental changes that have created conditions conducive to more frequent large-scale wildfires.…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES