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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

Type

Topic

Year

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Prescribed burning of a festuca-stipa grassland

Bailey, Anderson
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Use of fire to manage grasslands of the Great Plains: Central and southern Great Plains and adjacent forests

Wright
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Use of fire to manage grasslands of the Great Plains: Northern Great Plains and adjacent forests

Bailey
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The use of prescribed fire in the management of lodgepole pine

Muraro
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Silvicultural uses of fire in midwestern Canada

Chrosciewicz
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire behavior in natural forest stands

Quintilio
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Annual burning and vegetation in the aspen parkland of east central Alberta

Anderson
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Report of the Wilderness Research Foundation on the operations of the Quetico-Superior Wilderness Research Center for the period 1976-1978

Ahlgren
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bibliography on the effects of prescribed burning and mammal and waterfowl utilization of wetlands: annotated literature search with selected abstracts

Rutkosky
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The effect of burning on the germination and development of the maquis plants [abstract]

Harif
From the text...'The effect of burning on the germination and development of maquis plants allows the separation of the plants into two divisions: (1) plants like oak and Pistacia which have no store of seeds in the soil from former years. The fire destroys the seeds on these…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed burning background document and technical information document for prescribed burning best available control measures

From the text...'The purpose of this document is to provide technical information on prescribed burning. It does so in two ways. One, it provides background information useful in determining reasonably available control measures (RACM) and best available control measures (BACM)…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire research at the Petawawa Forest Experiment Station: the integration of fire behavior and forest ecology for management purposes

Methven
From the text:'In conclusion I would like to emphasize that the use to which fire ecology work is to be put must be kept in mind, namely to predict postfire vegetation development for an ecologic-economic input into fire and land management decision-making. This cannot be done…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The use of historical fire weather data for prescribed burn planning

Martell
An interactive computer program that can be used to analyse historical fire weather data and determine how frequently specific prescribed burn fire weather prescriptions have occured in the past is described. The Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada.…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Diversity relationships between two levels of vegetation management at 1-year after silvicultural treatment [abstract]

Edwards
In May 1990, a test of two levels of site preparation were implemented on a lower Piedmont site. The two silvicultural treatments were: 1 ) a spotgun application of the herbicide Velpar L and 2) brown and burn procedure. Seven 100 ft. x 2 ft. transects were located within each…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation and soil seed bank of successional stages in tropical lowland deciduous forest

Rico-Gray, Garcia-Franco
We studied vegetation structure and soil seed bank composition in different successional stages of secondary lowland tropical deciduous forest in Yucatan, Mexico. The Series of study sites includes: slashed (S), slashed-and-burned (SB), and regenerating for 1, 6, 10, 15, 30, 40…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The use of prescribed fire in the management of Canada's forested lands

Weber, Taylor
Present uses of prescribed fire in Canada are reviewed. Fire has been a natural component of many forested North American landscapes for millennia, making it an obvious choice as an effective forest management tool. It can be used in harmony with known fire adaptations of…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Legal considerations of prescribed burning programs

Dietz
Most western state laws pertaining to prescribed burning do not specifically deal with range rehabilitation. Prescribed burns require a burning permit issued by the State Forester, or his equivalent, prior to ignition during closed fire seasons. Air quality standards have been…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicted erosion rates for forest management activities in the Southeast

Dissmeyer, Stump
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effect of burning on the productivity of saltgrass [abstract]

Cabrera-Perez, Garcia-Moya, Romero-Manzanares
Saltgrass cover the bed lake of Texcoco, Mexico. Spring burning is practiced to promote growth and to improve forage quality. To test the effect of burning on productivity an expriment with two treatments, burning and control with three replications was established. Monthly…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Conversion of dense lodgepole pine stands in west-central British Columbia into young lodgepole pine plantations using prescribed fire. 1. Biomass consumption during burning treatments

Blackwell, Feller, Trowbridge
The ecological effects of different treatments used to convert dense Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm. stands into young P. contorta plantations are determined. The treatments used were felling the trees with a bulldozer and either broadcast burning the slash or bulldozing…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Natural fire regimes and fire management--foundations for direction

Sando
'Natural resource management is an important activity in our society. The conservation and current environmental movements have emphasized the importance of sound management of natural resources. While there may be significant potential gains for production of our renewable…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Calibration and field testing of passive flame height sensors

Finney, Martin
The concept of a passive flame height sensor involves thin strings permeated with fire retardant or solder which record heights of flame contact. Both types of sensors were calibrated during 12 experimental test fires with respect to flame heights measured on video tape. Three…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in forest fire smoke

McMahon, Tsoukalas
The occurrence of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in the combustion products of carbonaceous fuels is a well known phenomenon. Several PAW are known to be carcinogenic in animals. Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) is the most well-known and studied compound of those classified by the…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Some trace gas emissions from North America biomass fires with an assessment of regional and global fluxes from biomass burning

Laursen, Hobbs, Radke, Rasmussen
Emission factors for several trace gases were determined using airborne measurements from 13 biomass fires in North America. Emissions of methane (CH4), nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHC), hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3) were found to be positively correlated with the ratio of…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Planning and evaluating prescribed fires--a standard procedure

Fischer
Provides a standard format and checklist to guide the land manager through the important steps for prescribed hurning. Describes the kind of information necded to prepare fire prescriptions and burning plans. Identifies the elements of a fire prescriptlon, a burning plan, and a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES