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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kayll
Through a review of literature, the essential role of fire in the boreal forest as a natural regulatory agent of composition and succession is discussed in terms of plants, soils, and animals. In natural, long-term cycles, the incidence of lightning-started fires on a particular…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cushwa
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jarvis, Tucker
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cramer
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ward
From the text ... 'The Delta Marsh lies in south-central Manitoba, 75 miles north of the U.S. border. It is within the eastern edge of the Aspen Parkland, between the Great Plains of central North America and the coniferous forests of the Pre-cambrian Shield.The Delta Marsh…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chrosciewicz
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
A study was made of the fuel complex in 70-year old lodgepole pine stands in west-central Alberta to facilitate measurement and prediction of weight-and-size distribution of fuel components. Results showed that the weight of the entire fuel complex increased with increasing…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae, Lynham, Frech
The alarming loss of forested areas containing red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) and eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) in eastern Canada is a situation that must be addressed promptly by changing management approaches. Since the ecological role of fire in the regeneration and…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cicerone
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Angelstam
Summary (p.499-500) ... 'Fire is an important natural and anthropogenic factor in the dynamics of the boreal forest system. The ecological and environmental impacts of boreal fires depend on fire weather, fuel availability, fire behavior and history of stand development (…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mallik, Roberts
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The National Weather Service Fire Weather Program provides weather forecasting and meteorological support services to state and federal wildland fire management agencies. An Intergovernmental Fire Weather User's Summit, sponsored by the National Weather Service (NWS) and the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grilz, Romo
Bromus inermis Leyss (smooth brome) is an invasive perennial grass in Fescue Prairie in North America. Prescribed burning is a potential method of controlling this exotic, but its responses to burning in this grassland are not known. This study was conducted to determine the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pitman, Adjei
Most grasslands have developed under burning, and the dominant grasses are tolerant of burning (Roberts 1979; Hodgkinson 1986). Roberts (1979) suggested that burning provided advantages to grasses over desirable pasture legumes, whereas Pressland (1982) considered that native…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prevost
A greenhouse experiment was conducted to assess the effects of scalping and burning the Kalmia litter of an acidic peaty soil on (i) germination and early growth of black spruce, (ii) the nutrient status of the soil surface (0-5 cm), and ( iii ) nutrient leaching. Burning of the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) has defoliated the balsam fir (Abies balsamea) component of many eastern North American forests, resulting in widespread mortality of these trees. Consequently, managers have become concerned about the potential for severe forest fires…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Wells
From the text... 'One of the potential problems with the use of prescribed burning in the past has been the lack of any systematic investigation into the ecological effects of this forest management practice on the ecosystem. In 1991, the planning process to address this issue…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner
This note outlines the objectives and problems of prescribed burning as a tool of forest management. The importance of a number of weather factors is discussed and suggestions are presented for provision of effective weather guidance to forest officers concerned with this…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, Walker
From the text... 'It has long been recognized in forestry that minor vegetation leafing out on the forest floor in the early spring retards the advance of surface fires. This experiment was designed to provide some general understanding of this effect. The work was done in the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Oliver, Knapp, Everett
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Canadian/United States cooperative mass fire behavior and atmospheric environmental impact study
Over the past four years scientists have cooperatively monitored fire behavior and smoke chemistry, on a number of large prescribed fires in the Province of Ontario. Primary cooperating agencies include Forestry Canada, the United States Forest Service, the National Aeronautics…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radke, Ward
Planning prescribed fires for optimal periods which results in emissions reduction is an extremely useful air quality management technique. New information suggests that one more useful tool in smoke management may involve using the capacity of the atmosphere to remove smoke…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Molenkamp, Bradley
The OCTET modeling system has been designed to simulate the atmospheric dynamics, microphysics and scavenging above hypothetical large city fires with energy release rates on the order of 10-100kW/m2 over areas of tens to hundreds of square kilometers. It simulates the three-…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
Electric field measurements, combined with lightning location data, demonstrate that the plume clouds from large fires can be charged and can generate lightning discharges. The results of measurements made on a prescribed burn show that the charge distribution is a positive…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Banta, Olivier, Holloway
The Doppler lidar of NOAA/ERL's Wave Propagation Laboratory (WPL) observed a prescribed forest fire that was ignited in the township of Battersby, Ontario, Canada, on 12 August 1988. During the first hour of the fire the lidar saw the smoke column rise nearly straight up to a…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS