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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Keeley
Mortality patterns are diverse for chaparral shrubs under periods > 100 years without fire. Ceanothus often suffer the highest mortality under extended fire-free conditions and this is best interpreted as density dependent thinning rather than senescence. Intraspecific…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
De Grandpre, Gagnon
The changes observed in the composition and abundance of shrubs, herbs and mosses were investigated following fire in the southern boreal forest of the Abitibi region, Quebec. Ten plots of 100m2 were sampled at each of eight sites varying in age from 26 to 230 years after fire (…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This paper looks first at the kind of forest fire statistics that are currently available in Canada. The main statistics are number of fires area burned, causes, and control costs. Good inventory data on burned areas are not available. The recent rising trend in national burned…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mohr
Text: 'This pocket size field guide contains techniques that can be used either during the burn or soon after completing the burn. They give some indication whether or not desired fire affects, as addressed by the plan's objectives and constraints, are being accomplished or were…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen, Ryan
Text: 'The organic mantle of the forest floor acts as a barrier to heat transport down into the mineral soil. This study compares the temperatures experienced in a surrogate mineral soil (sand) with and without an organic mantle (peat moss) covering the mineral soil. Different…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harrington
The text: 'Gambel oak is frequently found as a highly competitive understory species in southwestern ponderosa pine stands. When the pine is removed, either by harvesting or wildfires, this sprouting oak species flourishes, making pine reestablishments very difficult. Prescribed…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
DeByle
From the text: 'Aspen is seral on most sites. It colonizes and dominates burns, clearcuts, and other disturbed locations. Maximum aspen biomass is attained between 50 and 100 years after stand establishment. Sometimes later, between 200 and 400 years, the aspen is often replaced…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the Final Remarks...'Designing fire prescriptions to meet today's demand for skill and professionalism requires an orderly planning process. At the start of this process, fire objectives must be derived from land managment objectives and specifically stated in terms of what…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Messier, Kimmins
Above-and below-ground vegetation recovery was assessed 2,4 and 8 years after logging and burning on an age sequence of sites dominated by salal (Gaultheria shallon Pursh) on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The total above-ground vegetation biomass quadrupled from…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Biging, Wensel
A method of photographing and digitizing radial growth on section rounds from destructively sampled trees for stem analysis was developed and compared in accuracy against hand measurements on those same rounds. Results indicated a high degree of correlation between photographic…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brennan
My purpose in this paper is to outline a research and management manifesto for the northern bobwhite in the 1990's. My objectives are to (1) describe the probable causes for the northern bobwhite population decline, (2) outline the research agenda that will be required to solve…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine, Wakimoto
The acceleration phase of a forest fire, from ignition to the equilibrium rate of spread, is perhaps the most important phase of fire behavior because often it represents the only time period in which suppression efforts could be effective. A series of experimental fires in a…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parker
Prescribed burning of chaparral is a common management practice that produces variable results in vegetation recovery. Conditions during prescribed burns can differ greatly from those the plants historically experienced and much of the observed variation in chaparral response…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ross, Smith, O'Brien
Stand ages and fire scars were used to piece together the histories of stand-replacing conflagrations and noncatastrophic fires, respectively, in a 1500-hectare area east of Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada. The overall distribution of stand ages in the study area indicates a…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White, Fenton
The western national parks managed by the Canadian Parks Service (CPS) are dominated by fire dependent forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and trembling aspen. Values at risk and high-intensity fire regimes limit the acceptability of unscheduled (lightning and unplanned man)…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keiter, Boyce
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
Fire is used in land management because it helps to solve the problems of the land manager. Fire is presently used extensively to reduce fire hazard, prepare sites for forest regeneration, and improve range and wildlife habitat. Fire has great potential for other uses such as…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron
In order to characterize the fires regime of the southern boreal forest and to understand the way in which landscape and fire regime interact, a detailed study of fire history was undertaken in two adjacent contrasting landscapes in northwestern Quebec. The fire history for the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson, Bond
The question of which factors limit the occurrence of a plant species to a particular site is addressed by considering 53 cases in which the distribution of pines (Pinus species: Pinaceae) has changed in the last century. We consider expansions of pines in and adjacent to their…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, Tankersley
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Seastedt
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ball, Guertin
FIREMAP is a model for simulating surface fire spread through heterogeneous fuels and over non-uniform terrain. The model was constructed using PROMAP, a language which allows dynamic spatial models to be constructed using raster GIS data bases. The GIS system is used to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viney
Models describing the moisture content of forest fuels are an integral component of most fire behaviour prediction systems. In this paper, models of all aspects of moisture change in fine, dead, surface litter are examined and reviewed. Included are models describing the changes…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hansen, Spies, Swanson, Ohmann
In this article, we review patterns of disturbance succession in natural forests in the Coastal Northwest and compare structure and composition across an age gradient of unmanaged stands. Stand and landscape patterns in managed forests are then examined and compared with those…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES