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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Fire in boreal ecosystems of Eurasia: first results of the Bor Forest Island fire experiment, Fire Research Campaign Asia-North

Angelstam
Summary (p.499-500) ... 'Fire is an important natural and anthropogenic factor in the dynamics of the boreal forest system. The ecological and environmental impacts of boreal fires depend on fire weather, fuel availability, fire behavior and history of stand development (…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The impact of fire on timber supply in Ontario

Martell
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Report of the National Commission on wildfire disasters: presented recently to Secretaries Babbitt and Espy, its message is clear: without aggressive, proactive wildland management programs begun now, the worst is yet to come

Created through the Wildfire Disaster Recovery Act of 1989 (PL 101-286), in response to the destructive western fire season of 1987 and the Yellowstone fires of 1988, the Commission was asked to consider the environmental and economic effects of disastrous wildfires through…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Maintaining focus: an introduction to anthropogenic fire

Pyne
The capture of fire by the genus Homo changed forever the natural history of the Earth. Even today fire appears at the core of many popular scenarios for an environmental apocalypse. Yet the larger history of fire - the varied ways human society have sought to use and control…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire climate analysis of the United States historical climatology network data

Meisner, Fujioka
The United States Historical Climatology Network (HCN) database was compiled by the National Climatic Data Center in response to a compelling interest in climate change. The database contains monthly temperature and precipitation data for approxiamtely 1200 stations in the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Monthly outlooks for fire-weather elements in the continental United States

Klein, Whistler
This paper describes a system for preparing monthly outlooks for fire-weather elements in the United States. The system is based on multiple regression equations that specify monthly mean anomalies of precipitation, temperature, dewpoint, and wind speed from concurrent anomalies…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Low-level temperature, moisture, and wind profiles preceding major wildland fires

Brotak
Representative soundings from 74 major wildland fires in the United States were analyzed to determine if characteristic temperature, moisture, and wind patterns were discernable prior to the occurrence of extreme fire behavior. In a previous study, OO UTC soundings were used to…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Duff consumption from prescribed fire in the U.S. and Canada: a broadly based empirical approach

Reinhardt, Keane, Brown, Turner
Objectives of this study were to test existing prediction equations for duff depth reduction, percentage of duff consumed, and mineral soil exposure to determine the limits of their applicability, and to develop if possible broadly based prediction equations for use throughout…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Development of an initial attack preparedness system for Manitoba

Hirsch
The 1989 fire season was the most severe in 71-years of recorded fire history in Manitoba. A total of 1147 fires burned 3.28 million ha and cost over $63 million (CDN) to suppress. The events of 1989 resulted in the development and implementation of a new Initial Attack…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Life after logging

Galbraith
Life after logging is the title and message in a series of photographic displays produced by the Canadian Forest Service's Pacific Forest Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, that have been creating a stir throughout North America and in parts of Europe and Asia. Relying on…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Influence of patch size and shape on post-fire succession on the Yellowstone plateau [abstract]

Turner, Romme, Gardner, Hargrove
The 1988 Yellowstone fires provided a unique opportunity to examine how the geometry of fire created patches affects plant reestablishment. We initiated studies in 1990 in small (1 ha), moderate (74-200 ha), and large (480-3968 ha) crown-fire patches in each of 3 areas.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Early summer prescribed fire in northern Ontario

Archibald, Luke, Coneybeare
'Burning earlier in the season may reduce the need for pre-burn vegetation management treatments (e.g. herbicide application) on some sites...Burning in late spring to take advantage of low green-up levels may result in greater rates of fire spread and allow for reduced…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Ecological perspective: linking ecology, GIS, and remote sensing to ecosystem management

Allen
'The heightened recognition within the research community of the ecological linkages between Local sites and larger spatial scales has spawned increasing calls for more holistic management of landscapes (Noss 1983, Harris 1984, Risser 1985, Norse et al 1986, Agee and Johnson…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Then Dodge saw it

Maclean
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A case for fire behavior case studies

Thomas
'Documentation and analysis for fire behavior events should become a standard practice with Fire Behavior Analysts, and not 'a nice to do project'. The FBA has a responsibility bfore leaving a fire to tabulate pertinent data and to write a report that summarizesthe key factors…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Unprepared for the worst case scenario

Gleason
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Snow deposition by shelterbelts as a means of reducing fire potential

Litvina, Takle
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire and forest health southwestern region

Moody, Buchanan, Melcher, Wistrand
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Ignition probabilities for simulated people-caused fires in British Columbia's lodgepole pine and white spruce-subalpine fir

Lawson, Armitage, Dalrymple
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Upper-air snyoptic patterns associated with regional fire-weather episodes

Heilman, Eenigenburg, Main
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Controlling fuel treatment costs in the National Park Service

Omi, Rideout, Stone, Botti
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Potential impacts of global climate changes on wildfire activity in the USA

Qu, Omi
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Classification of spruce beetle hazard in Lutz spruce (Picea x lutzii Little) stands on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Reynolds, Holsten
Stand data from Lutz spruce (Picea × lutzii Little) forest types occurring on the Kenai Peninsula were analyzed by tree-based classification to develop a decision tree for classifying spruce beetle (Dendroctonus Rufipennis Kirby.) hazard. Model development and validation data…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bibliography of wildfire case histories and studies

Alexander
The importance of case histories and/or studies of wildfire have been highlighted by fire control, fire research, and fire weather personnel (e..g., Turner et al. 1961; Luke and McArthur 1978). Chandler (1976) notes that 'Time and time again case histories have proven their…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Climate and vegetation in northeastern Alaska 18,000 yr B.P.- present

Edwards, Barker
Changing abundances of taxa in the pollen record of northeastern Alaska contain a climate signal and may be compared with GCM simulations of paleo climates. Cold, dry conditions indicated by full-glacial pollen spectra are in broad agreement with model simulations. Successive…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES