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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Patel, Rapport
An effective approach to increase forest health is to identify and validate a suite of indicators for monitoring forest conditions. We sought indicators of impacts due to deer browsing. prescribed burn, visitor use, and trails on understory plants beside trails in an oak-pine…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron
In order to test whether changes in forest composition observed while sampling portions of the landscape originating from different fires may be explained by stand-level processes, I reconstructed species and stand dynamics for mesic sites in the mixedboreal forests of Quebec.…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schmoldt, Peterson
Group decision making is becoming increasingly important in natural resource management and associated scientific applications, because multiple values are treated coincidentally in time and space, multiple resource specialists are needed, and multiple stakeholders must be…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cleaves, Haines, Martinez
The results of a survey concerning National Forest System prescribed burning activity and costs from 1985-1995 are examined. Ninety-five (83%) of 114 National Forests responded. Number of hectares burned and costs for conducting burns are reported for 4 types of prescribed fire…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cole
Today's prescribed fire program manager is confronted with an increasingly complex dilemma. On the one hand, the science, knowledge, and commitment of managers regarding the role of prescribed fire across the landscape have grown appreciatively, only to be tempered by societal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zedaker
Herbicides have been added to silvicultural treatments involving fire for nearly 50 years and, for some objectives, can even substitute for a prescribed burn. Herbicides and/or fire create changes in the effects of silvicultural treatments at individual plant, forest community,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sheppard
Fire has been a global disturbance agent for thousands of years. As an ecological process that helped shape the floral and faunal communities of western North America, fire also maintained the health and diversity of forests until European settlers arrived. Since that time,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Covington, Moore, Fulé
The central concern in ecological restoration is reversing the degradation of ecosystems by restoring the structure and function of ecosystems to approximate those conditions present before degradation began. In many frequent-fire ecosystems, degradation can be traced to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moser
From the Preface ... 'Fire's impact upon the land, atmosphere, and global environment have been apparently more pronounced and more anxiety-causing to the public. The suppression of fire has caused harm to some ecosystems, either through elimination of fire-dependent species or…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Payette, Bhiry, Delwaide, Simard
The lichen woodland is one of the most important forest ecosystems in North America. dominating the central part of the boreal forest. The southernmost lichen woodland is paradoxically in the heart of the southern boreal forest. This distribution prompted this study aiming to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larocque, Bergeron, Campbell, Bradshaw
Succession after fire has mainly been studied by chronosequence, which does not allow study of pre- and post-fire communities at the same site. By using palynology and anthracology. we recovered vegetation communities and fire histories through time on islands of Duparquet Lake…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Aubin, Beaudet, Messier
This study was conducted in six different forest types in Abitibi. Que., (i) to identify the factors that most influence understory light transmission in the southern boreal forest and (ii) to develop light extinction coefficients (k), which could be used to simulate light…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'Fire shelter training has for years stressed the importance of deploying fire shelters where there is no direct flame contact. However, the results of recent tests by the Missoula Technology and Development Center, a part of the USDA Forest Service's Fire and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
An 80-foot-square plot in a red pine plantation was burned at extreme fire danger as part of a study of fire behavior and effect. When the wind reversed its direction, the original slow-moving back-fire changed within a few minutes to a fast-spreading crown fire. The transition…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schmidtling, Hipkins, Carroll
From the text...'The present study examines geographic patterns of allozyme variation in longleaf and loblolly pines to provide evidence for the location of Pleistocene refugia for the two species.... It is proposed that the continuous linear decrease in allozyme variation in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCullough
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simoneit, Rogge, Lang, Jaffe
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carcaillet, Richard
Postglacial fire history has been reconstructed for eastern Canada from charcoal-influx anomalies from 30 sites taken. from a lacustrine charcoal database. The reconstruction exhibits coherent patterns of fire occurrence in space and time. The early Holocene is characterized by…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Muraro
Variations of fuel moisture and related parameters attributable to degree of slope were studied by establishing fire weather stations on six land surfaces of the same elevation and aspect but varying from 0 to 62 per cent in steepness. Mean maximum daily temperature was found to…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Muraro
The frequency and weight distributions of branch litter under lodgepole pine stands and the relation between weight of fuel and surface area were investigated using 1/10,000-acre circular plots. A graph is presented from which total surface area in the square feet for certain…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
A study of the effects of exposure (aspect and slope angle) and natural shade on the moisture content of Douglas fir logging slash indicates that, throughout most of the fire season, such effects are not great enough to be of practical significance in slash hazard rating. In the…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Duchesne, Hawkes
From the text...'Major forest types include those where aspen, eastern white and red pine stands, and jack pine stands are found either as fire-maintained seral types or exceptionally as climax stands (see table 3-1 for FRES, Kuchler, and SAF cover type designations). This…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller
From the text... 'Fire is a key ecological process within most ecosystems in the United States and Canada. An understanding of factors controlling the initial response of vegetation to fire is essential to its management. Fire effects on plants can vary significantly among fires…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
At the request of public and private wildland fire managers who recognized a need to assimilate current fire effects knowledge, we produced this state-of-the-art integrated series of documents relevant to management of ecosystems. The series covers our technical understanding of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Larsen
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS