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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Parisien, Parks, Krawchuk, Flannigan, Bowman, Moritz
In the boreal forest of North America, as in any fire-prone biome, three environmental factors must coincide for a wildfire to occur: an ignition source, flammable vegetation, and weather that is conducive to fire. Despite recent advances, the relative importance of these…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lewis, Hudak, Ottmar, Robichaud, Lentile, Hood, Cronan, Morgan
Wildfire is a major forest disturbance in interior Alaska that can both directly and indirectly alter ecological processes. We used a combination of pre- and post-fire forest floor depths and post-fire ground cover assessments measured in the field, and high-resolution airborne…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnstone, Rupp, Olson, Verbyla
Much of the boreal forest in western North America and Alaska experiences frequent, stand-replacing wildfires. Secondary succession after fire initiates most forest stands and variations in fire characteristics can have strong effects on pathways of succession. Variations in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hyde, Smith, Ottmar, Alvarado, Morgan
Coarse woody debris serves many functions in forest ecosystem processes and has important implications for fire management as it affects air quality, soil heating and carbon budgets when it combusts. There is relatively little research evaluating the physical properties relating…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hood
The report synthesizes the literature and current state of knowledge pertaining to reintroducing fire in stands where it has been excluded for long periods and the impact of these introductory fires on overstory tree injury and mortality. Only forested ecosystems in the United…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Glick
From the text ... 'Welcome to the new era of 'megafires,' which rage with such intensity that no human force can put them out. Their main causes, climate change and fire suppression, are fueling a heated debate about how to stop them.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Calkin, Ager, Gilbertson-Day, Scott, Finney, Schrader-Patton, Quigley, Strittholt, Kaiden
This report was designed to meet three broad goals: (1) evaluate wildfire hazard on Federal lands; (2) develop information useful in prioritizing where fuels treatments and mitigation measures might be proposed to address significant fire hazard and risk; and (3) develop risk-…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Amorim
The validation of the Aerial Drop Model consisted of the comparison of computed ground patterns with experimental data from a set of real-scale drop tests using water and a wide range of fire retardant viscosities. Results were analyzed in terms of pattern length and area. A…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Amorim
The efficiency of the aerial drop of firefighting agents (water and retardants) is extremely dependent on pilot skills in dealing with complex atmospheric conditions, mostly because on-board systems for computer-assisted drops have not yet been used operationally. Hence,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smith
From the text ... 'State foresters provide leadership in building community capacity to manage forest resources, promoting accountability and efficiency, addressing threats to forests, and promoting the role of forests in the environmental and economic health of the nation.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Romo, Gross
Fescue Prairie is one of the most threatened ecosystems in Canada, and burning is essential for conserving remnants of this grassland. Burning is a key process in the natural disturbance regime, but its effect on the soil seed bank in Fescue Prairie is poorly understood. We…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller, Davidson-Hunt, Peters
In this paper, we present how elders of Pikangikum First Nation in northwestern Ontario have drawn upon their knowledge and values associated with fire to engage in fire management planning for 1.3 million hectares of their traditional boreal forest territory. Over a period of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodley
From the text ... 'The Canadian Parks Service has a fire management policy that is best described as evolving. The development history of the fire policy and current practices have been reviewed by other authors (Lopoukhine, 1993; Westhaver, 1992; Day and others, 1988, Van…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vanderwel, Malcolm, Smith
There are pronounced differences in the processes that act to determine the type and amount of standing and downed coarse woody debris present under partial harvesting versus other noncatastrophic disturbances. To evaluate long-term differences in snag and downed woody debris (…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Zouhar, Sutherland, Brooks
From the text (p.293) ... 'This volume synthesizes scientific information about interactions between fire and nonnative invasive plant in wildlands of the united States. If the subject were clear and simple, this volume would be short; obviously, it is not. Relationships between…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Silverman
From the text ... 'Fire prevention starts with education and planning. It means developing a broader understanding of wilderness and national park areas -- why they exist, how they're different, their scientific values, the way their management philosophies differ from those of…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins
LANDFIRE is a 5-year, multipartner project producing consistent and comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, wildland fuel, fire regimes and ecological departure from historical conditions across the United States. It is a shared project between the wildland fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
Editorial comment ... 'In this wide-ranging essay, Stephen Pyne, the preeminent historian of wildfire around the world, explores the past, present, and future of the term 'wildland-urban interface' and the policies regarding fire in that setting. He argues that, while we need to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Limerick
Editorial comment ... 'It will take more than mere science to deal with the wildland-urban interface issue, argues the author. In addition, what is needed are the 'skills, talents, and approaches' of historians and the long perspective that history offers. What historians bring…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LaSalle
From the text ... 'If we can change people's perceptions about fire we will significantly reduce the political pressure placed on our leaders to spend money where it isn't needed, leaving impacts in wilderness that clearly display the effects of man's activities.'
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kilgore, Nichols
From the text ... 'In this paper we will review those changes [the National Park Service made after the Yellowstone fires of 1988 in the way fire policies had previously been implemented] to determine what impacts they have had during the past four years on prescribed fire…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jolly
The challenge for resource managers is to understand and appreciate the wilderness resource. We must embrace a philosophy that allows natural fire to play its natural role, within social and political realities. As we alter the natural processes, we alter the very essence of…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jarvis
From the Conclusions ... 'Thus, innovative partnerships, cooperative land management among agnecies, and application of ecological principles to management, all steeped in the churning cauldron of politics, and leavened with public education, are the future vision.'
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferry
From the text ... 'The objective of this series of presentations is to look forward, and listen as the speakers share with us their perspectives on 'Visions of the Future' regarding fire in wilderness and park management.'
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cyr, Gauthier, Bergeron, Carcaillet
Fire is fundamental to the natural dynamics of the North American boreal forest. It is therefore often suggested that the impacts of anthropogenic disturbances (e.g. logging) on a managed landscape are attenuated if the patterns and processes created by these events resemble…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS