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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Richardson
The Bureau of Land Management in Alaska allocates fire control resources during critical situations according to a plan that considers resource values, fire danger, and numbers of men committed to fires. Values were assigned by resource managers according to a standard point…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Douglas
The application of weather modification techniques as a fire control tool was field tested in Alaska during the summers of 1969 and 1970. The 1969 trial was primarily exploratory. Data gathered indicated clouds or cloud-systems exist in interior Alaska which are amenable to…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Swift
A short history of the fire weather service is presented with a report on progress made under the 'Federal Plan for a National Fire Weather Service.' The highlights of the plan and its application to the requirements of forest and range management interests in Alaska are…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prasil
The National Park Service has studied certain areas and intends to continually study other Parks to determine whether or not natural fires will be allowed to burn. It is understood by the Service where natural fires will cause a threat to other land agencies, State or Federal,…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heinselman
The primeval conifer forests of North America, with their associated deciduous components, were largely fire-dependent ecosystems. Fire was a key environmental factor in controlling succession, species composition, and age structure of these forests. An almost universal policy…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney
This paper discusses some of the historical aspects of wildfires in interior Alaska with particular reference to the period from 1940 to the present. Several speculations are made on the basis of recent records relative to fire impact or effects. The need to obtain quantitative…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Hendrickson
From the text ... 'We do not today countenance or use fire everywhere in the national park system....The National Park Service has the obligation to continue to seek to inform the American people on the significance of fire.' © 1972, Tall Timbers Research, Inc. Abstract…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dix, Swan
Eighty-nine upland forest stands were selected to cover the ranges of tree species composition, stand ages, understory composition, and site in the area. The role of each tree species as a pioneer, transient, or self-maintaining component of the forest was determined from the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
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
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
Scotter
From the text ... 'The Canadian Wildlife Service's intensive caribou research program included an evaluation of the effects of fire on four key upland wintering areas within the taiga. Some primary objectives were: (1) to determine the portion of burned winter range and whether…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rowe
From the text ... 'In this paper I want to review certain aspects of the fire ecology of the spruces, chiefly white spruce, in the boreal forest area from the prairie provinces to the North West Territories, Yukon, and adjacent Alaska.'
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reifsnyder
From the text ... 'One area where great strides can be made is in the climatology of fire weather and its application to fire planning. Recent advances have been made in application of climatology to agriculture, and many of the same principles can be applied to forest fire…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cayford
From the Discussion ... 'It has been shown that a number of research foresters have investigated the use of prescribed burning as a technique for regenerating cut-over jack pine stands and, in general, results have been very promising. However, it has also been shown that…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sackett
Sampling the forest floor to determine litter weight is a tedious,time-consuming job. A new device has been designed and tested at the Southern Forest Fire Laboratory that eliminates many of the past sampling problams. The sampler has been fabricated in two sizes (6- and 12-inch…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pierovich
Fire management demands that we (1) mke the best use of whatis known to us, (2) add to our knowledge, (3) assess the possibilites andd the probabilities offuture events, (4) obtain meaningful pulic choices.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Travis, Elsner, Kourtz
From the Introduction: 'The description of this package is divided into two sections namely, the fuel type boundary section and the terrain contouring section. Each section is divided further into four subsections describing: (a) the procedure for setting up and use of the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the text:'The goal of research on the behaviour of forest fires is presumably to be able to predict with reasonable assurance how a fire will behave in any stated weather and forest fuel. This goal does not, of course, have an absolute form since the prediction of forest…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ribe
From the text: 'A multi-stage sampling scheme (1) was developed and tested for puckerbrush species in 1971. To compare and contrast this destructive sampling procedure with dimensional analysis, a regrssion analysis technique (2), it was necessary to obtain data on 11…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
From the conclusion:'As previously mentioned, the results of this study cannot be applied in the field. A great deal of additional work will be needed before application is possible. This study does show, however, that a systems dynamics approach is well suited to analyzing the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the introduction:'The Forest Fire Research Institute of the Canadian Forestry Service has on file publications, records, and data covering much of the early forest research undertaken in Canada. This collection, with some publications dating back to 1909, is unique and much…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vogl
Fire is essential to the health of many plant and animal communities. nonetheless, Smokey the Bear and his human allies, relying more on pyrophobia than reason, continue to stamp it out indiscriminately.
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS