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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Ramseur
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bennett
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brotak, Reifsnyder
Fifty-two major wildland fires in the eastern half of the United States were analyzed to determine the synoptic situations involved. At the surface, 3/4 of the fires were found near frontal areas. The vast majority of fires were associated with the eastern portion of small…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heyerdahl, Lertzman, Wong
Historical fire severity is poorly characterized for dry forests in the interior west of North America. We inferred a multicentury history of fire severity from tree rings in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca (Beissn.) Franco) - ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacLean, Wein
From the Introduction ... ''Dry matter distribution has been examined in a variety of forest ecosystems in the last few years. Information provided in such studies is valuable for a number of uses, such as evaluating the effects of whole-tree utilization, in quantitative…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haecker
From the Summary ... 'Exposure of a historic structure or object to fire, regardless of the temperature that is generated, does not necessarily equate with destroying its value as a cultural resource. For instance, a low-temperature prescribed fire that burns over a trash…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deal
From Lithic Artifacts and Fire ... 'Artifacts made of stone are generally the best preserved of all material types in the archaeological record, often providing the only evidence of where people lived and worked in the past. Despite its durability, stone can be affected by fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rocha, Loranty, Higuera, Mack, Hu, Jones, Breen, Rastetter, Goetz, Shaver
Recent large and frequent fires above the Alaskan arctic circle have forced a reassessment of the ecological and climatological importance of fire in arctic tundra ecosystems. Here we provide a general overview of the occurrence, distribution, and ecological and climate…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrier, Johnson
We used an information-theoretic model comparison approach to investigate the influence of forest stand attributes resulting from wildfire on the occupancy of winter habitats by barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) in the Northwest Territories, Canada. We used…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Johnstone
Widespread climate change is expected to lead to altered patterns of disturbance, thereby driving future ecosystem change. This interaction, which is often poorly recognized or understood, may be particularly important in the sub-arctic due to rapid climate change and frequent…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan, Koerner
From the Conclusions ... 'Fires have impacted cultures for millennia and fire will continue to impact contemporary cultures as well as the remnants of past cultures. The challenge is to manage vagetation/fuels to minimize damage to contemporary cultures as well as the cultural…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan, Koerner, Lee, Siefkin
From the text ... 'This volume is intended to be used as a reference for both cultural resource specialists and fire managers during their planning processes. The intended audience includes resource and fire managers employed by public, tribal, and private land management…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rude, Jones
From the Conclusions ... 'Experimental studies focus mainly on the visual impacts of fire on potsherds. Fire effects on analytical properties of ceramics are less understood. Smoke blackening of sherds located at the ground surface is the most common fire effect noted. The…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nelson
From the Summary ... 'Fire, whether wild or controlled, has been shown to benefit big game in a variety of ways. Following fire, understory vegetation usually reestablishes more luxuriant than before, often increasing carrying capacity for big game several-fold. In addition, new…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Smathers
From the text ... 'The primary objective of this study is to develop fire policy recommendations for the management of Lava Beds National Monument which will aid in the restoration and preservation of 'pristine' conditions by natural means.Before this objective can be met,…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sellers, Despain
From the text ... 'Over 1,900,000 acres (770,000 ha) of Yellowstone Park are managed as wilderness. The administrative policy for the management of natural areas of the National Park system such as Yellowstone clearly stated in 1970 The presence or absence of natural fire within…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lyon, Stickney
From the Summary and Conclusions ... 'Forest succession in the Northern Rocky Mountains is not an autogenic process in which initial seral plants modify the site to their own exclusion and permit the establishment of interseral and eventually climax species. Rather, succession…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Habeck
From the Conclusions and Summary ... 'The vegetation within the SBW represents a generally typical array of forest communities of the sort found in much of northern Idaho and western Montana. For tens of thousands of years the flora in this region has evolved in the presence of…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ahlstrand
From the text... 'Although the National Park Service has been largely successful in operating park lands for the enjoyment of the public. preservation attempts have oftentimes impaired these natural areas by bringing about unplanned and undesired changes in the ecosystems (Stone…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nickey
A computer simulation model of lightning fire discoveries has been developed by analyzing historical records of lightning fire occurrences. The model is being tested by using reports of lightning fires from four national forests. Results to date suggest that statistical…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kilgore
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klukas
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dieterich
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keeley
Introduction: Pinus is a diverse genus of trees widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Understanding pine life history is critical to both conservation and fire management. Objectives: Here I lay out the different pathways of pine life history adaptation and a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The genus Pinus orginated 150 million years ago in the Mesozoic Era, when high fire activity was a likely driver of the evolutionary divergence for this group of conifers. In the Annals of Forest Science, USGS ecologist Jon Keeley has reviewed the evolution of pine life history…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES