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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Stuart
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brennan
I assessed the current, broad-scale status of populations, research, and management for 6 species of quail in the U.S., and used this information as an introduction, background, and justification for a national strategic planning effort for quail management and research. Long-…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Forest species regeneration and management options in the Melajo Nature Reserve, Trinidad and Tobago
Tropical moist forests are declining rapidly world-wide. Reforestation efforts in Trinidad have generally been insufficient and focused on non-native species. Some of these species (e.g. Pinus caribaea), however, appear ecologically inappropriate but have been used extensively…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text...'Our program is built on cost-effectiveness and safety. Yet, despite larger protection budgets, bigger and better tools, and sophisticated fire-danger prediction systems, wildfire losses are higher now than at any time in the past half century. Despite personal…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hardy, Smith
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) is a computerized encyclopedia that summarizes the general ecology and effects of fire on more than 1,000 plant and animal species and plant communities. These 'summaries' synthesize current information in an easy-to-use format and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavoie, Sirois
From 1980- 1989, fires burned 32 440 km² of boreal forest, 200 km south of the forest-tundra border in northern Quebec, Canada. An assessment of the impact of fire on tree population densities was carried out by comparing the number of Pinus banksiana and Picea mariana in 83…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brose, Van Lear, Keyser
Regenerating oak stands on productive upland sites is widely recognized by foresters as a major problem in hardwood management. Recent research indicates that oak regeneration is more resistant to surface fires than its primary competitors on these sites if burning occurs 3 to 5…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stapanian, Sundberg, Baumgardner, Liston
A probability-based sampling scheme was used to survey plant species composition in forests of 16 states in seven geopolitical regions of the United States (California. Colorado, Minnesota, and parts of the Pacific Northwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast) in 1994. The…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parsons, Landres
The restoration of natural fire to wilderness ecosystems poses a significant challenge to the federal land management agencies. The U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service have conducted progressive prescribed…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jacobs
Decades of fire suppression have produced unnatural levels of fuel accumulation and created unprecedented wildfire hazards on National Park Service (NPS) lands. This problem has made reintroduction of fire into ecosystems a long-term NPS management goal. Using both prescribed…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fiedler, Arno, Harrington
Elimination of the historic pattern of frequent low-intensity fires in Inland West ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)-fir (Abies spp. and Pseudotsuga menziesii) forests has contributed to major ecological disruptions. Today most stands contain thickets of small trees (often firs)…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whitlock
Pollen records from northern Grand Teton National Park, the Pinyon Peak Highlands, and southern Yellowstone National Park were examined to study the pattern of reforestation and climatic change following late-Pinedale Glaciation. The vegetational reconstruction was aided by…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wade
Although many resource professionals believe that periodic fire is necessary to the health of fire-adapted ecosystems, prescribed fire exists only because society allows it. Society has given fire managers the authority to determine if, when, and how prescribed burning takes…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hopkins, Miyanishi
Prescribed burning is being used at Pinery Provincial Park in southern Ontario to restore an oak savanna community which has been changing into a closed oak woodland due to a past policy of fire suppression and conifer reforestation. Quercus muehlenbergii, a shade-intolerant…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dickmann, Rollinger
The exclusion of fire from ecosystems to which it was a frequent visitor has produced profound alterations in historic ecological conditions; therefore, fire must be an integral component of ecosystem management. That was the overwhelming message conveyed by speakers at the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arno
The fire ecology of Scandinavian forests and its management implications have many parallels to forests of the American West. As in the United States, the policy of fire exclusion has yielded to a broader understanding of fire ecology, and both silviculture and prescribed fire…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Leenhouts
ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery, and ecological fire regime…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Weber, Stocks
The boreal forest is the largest forest region in Canada, occupying approximately 315 million ha. Within this forest region the long-term average annual area burned is 1.3 million ha, with extreme fire years being common, and covering up to 7 million ha in a single fire season.…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Paré, Van Cleve
Nutrient content and biomass of aboveground annual production, and nutrient content of total aboveground biomass, of 14-year-old assemblages of plants developing on harvested white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) sites were estimated by vegetation harvesting and compared…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tsvetkov, Prokushkin, Sorokin, Kaverzina, Sorokina, Tsvetkova
The impact of surface fires on the thermal and trophic conditions of forest soils is studied in burnt areas of larch (Larix gmelinii) forest in the northern taiga zone of central Siberia. The duration of the regeneration period on burnt areas is also examined and viability of…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lynham, Wickware, Mason
In 1975 and 1976, an experimental burning programme was conducted in an immature stand of boreal jack pine (Pinus banksiana) growing on level, granitic outwash sands in northern Ontario, Canada. Nine 0.4-ha plots were burned under a range of fire weather conditions and sampling…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landhausser, Wein
A fire of unusually great severity (deep burning) burned across the forest-tundra ecotone near Inuvik, Northwest Territories from August 8 to 18, 1968. Burned-unburned paired study sites around the fire perimeter, which had been established in both tundra and forest-tundra in…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeBano, Neary, Ffolliott
A comprehensive exploration of the effects of fires - in forests and other environments - on soils, watersheds, vegetation, air and cultural resources.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Auclair, Carter
Since 1977, the extent of forest wildfires in the boreal and western regions of North America increased by 6 to 9x over long-term trends, and an estimated 132x106 ha of temperate and boreal forest burned across the northern hemisphere. Emissions during and after burning may have…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS