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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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When the press yelled 'Fire!'

Reid
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The fires and fire policy

Schullery
From introduction: The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires of 1988 were, in the words of National Park Service (NPS) publications, the most significant ecological event in the history of the national parks (NPS 1988). Their political consequences may be as far-reaching as their…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Use of posters for interpreting fire behavior and danger research

Alexander, de Groot, Hirsch, Lanoville
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lodgepole pine and white spruce crown fuel weights predicted from height and crown width

Johnson, Woodward, Titus
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Response of radio-collared moose to a large burn in central Alaska

Gasaway, DuBois, Boertje, Reed, Simpson
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Recent fire history of the northern Quebec biomes

Payette, Morneau, Sirois, Desponts
The recent fire history of northern Quebec biomes (54 000 km2), including the northern Boreal Forest, the southern and northern Forest—Tundra, and the Shrub Tundra, was documented by examining size and dates of 20th century wildfires using tree ring techniques. Results showed…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest succession and fire history in the southern boreal forest, Quebec [abstract]

Dansereau, Bergeron
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Special report: the incineration of Yellowstone

Williams
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Pronghorn use of recently burned mixed prairie in Alberta

Courtney
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting fire potential

Rios
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Postfire black spruce establishment in subarctic and boreal Quebec

Sirois, Payette
Forest regeneration in areas burned during the 1950s in northern Quebec was studied along topographic and climatic gradients, from the northern Boreal Forest to the northern Forest-Tundra. Regenerated plant communities are mostly dominated by Cladina mitis in well-drained…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting the spread of disturbance across heterogeneous landscapes

Turner, Gardner, Dale, O'Neill
The expected pattern of disturbance propagation across a landscape was studied by using simple landscape models derived from percolation theory. The spread of disturbance was simulated as a function of the proportion of the landscape occupied by the disturbance-prone habitat and…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Insights from paleoecology on global change [abstract]

Davis
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Drought, fires, and large mammals

Singer, Schreier, Oppenheim, Garton
[Excerpt] At the time of the 1988 drought and fires in Yellowstone, studies of the northern range were reevaluating the success of the natural [elk] regulation experiment. Extensive burning in 1988 occurred on five out of the seven elk summer ranges. All four of the elk winter…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The use of notary deeds to estimate the changes in the composition of the 19th century forest, in Haut-Saint-Laurent, Quebec

Bouchard, Dyrda, Bergeron, Meilleur
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Measuring boreal forest fragmentation after fire: which configuration metrics are best?

Wang, Hamann, Cumming
Studying changes to the shape, size, and arrangement of patches of forest habitat remains a challenge in the field of landscape ecology. A major issue is that most landscape pattern metrics measure both the amount of habitat as well as habitat configuration. To obtain…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

FSPro analysis documents for Alaska

Document with links to FSPro analysis documents related to Alaska from the 2012 Fire Modeling Workshop
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Geographic information systems: providing information for wildland fire planning

Hamilton, Salazar, Palmer
Controlling wildfires within the wildland/urban interface has proven to be the most complex challenge facing wildland fire agencies. Although program improvements to increase the efficiency of interface suppression efforts have been suggested, the availability of information…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Ecological consequences of the 1988 fires in the Greater Yellowstone area: Final Report: The Greater Yellowstone Postfire Ecological Assessment Workshop

Christensen, Agee, Brussard, Hughes, Knight, Minshall, Peek, Pyne, Swanson, Wells, Thomas, Williams, Wright
From the Executive Summary (p.iv) ... 'A coordinated program of research on the 1988 fires should be intiated immediately. The essential ingredients for such a program include an ecosystem approach to provide conceptual integration and operational coordination of many individual…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

On uncertainty in the computation of global emissions from biomass burning

Robinson
[no description entered]
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fire assessment tool user's guide 2.2

Tirmenstein, Long, Heward
The Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT) is a custom ArcMap toolbar that provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software, FlamMap3 algorithms (Finney 2006) and First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) algorithms (Reinhardt 2003) to produce predicted fire behavior and fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wildland fire occurrence and behavior analysis in the year 2000 and beyond

Alexander, Andrews
From the introduction: The purpose of the Symposium on Wildland Fire 2000 was to examine the 'possible, preferred, and probable status of wildland fire management and research in the year 2000 and beyond' (David and Martin 1987). A half-day 'futuring' session was an integral…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2005-07

Potter
Wildland fire represents an important ecological mechanism in many forest ecosystems. It shapes the distributions of species, maintains the structure and function of fire-prone communities, and is a significant evolutionary force (Bond and Keeley 2005). At the same time, fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2001-08

Potter
Wildland fire represents an important ecological mechanism in many forest ecosystems. It shapes the distributions of species, maintains the structure and function of fire-prone communities, and is a significant evolutionary force (Bond and Keeley 2005). At the same time, fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Monitoring Trends and Burn Severity (MTBS): monitoring wildfire activity for the past quarter century using Landsat data

Finco, Quayle, Zhang, Lecker, Megown, Brewer
The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) project is mapping the extent, size, and severity of all large fires greater than 1,000 acres in the west and 500 acres in the east over the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, and Hawaii. In 2012 the project reached a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES