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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Post-fire regeneration of Prunus serotina and P. virginiana in a southern Ontario oak savanna [abstract]

Morber, Miyanishi
Canopy closure by trees such as Prunus serotina and p. virginiana is presently threatening the survival of the herbaceous component of an oak savanna in Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario. Prescribed burning has recently been instituted in an attempt to open up the canopy to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prediction errors in wildland fire situation analyses

Donovan, Noordijk
From the text ... 'Wildfires consume budgets and put the heat on fire managers to justify and control suppression costs. ...We used data from the 2002 fire season to determine how WFSA-predicted outcomes compared to actual outcomes. ...Fire managers often underestimated the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Relationships of fire ecology and avian communities in North America

Saab, Kotliar, Block
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reforms on prescribed fire laws reduce liability burdens on landowners

Sun
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Federal forest fire policy in the United States

Stephens, Ruth
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire, forest health, and biodiversity: a summary of the Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium of the National Commission on Science and Sustainable Forestry

Christensen
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Biomass burning emissions: a review of models using remote-sensing data

Palacios-Orueta, Chuvieco, Parra, Carmona-Moreno
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The adaptive capacity of forest management to changing fire regimes in the boreal forest of Quebec

Le Goff, Leduc, Bergeron, Flannigan
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Responses of diversity and invasibility to burning in a northern oak savanna

MacDougall
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rekindling native fires

Levy
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire and forest meteorology -- Preface

Brown, Ferguson, Flannigan
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The effects of hazardous fuel reduction treatment on the amount of bark beetle-caused tree mortality in Sierra Nevada, USA

Fettig
The Healthy Forest Restoration Act (H. R. 1904) allows for increases in hazardous fuel reduction activities throughout much of the western USA. Our laboratory is currently conducting several studies to determine the short and long‐term implications to forest health of prescribed…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Minimum Acceptable Visibility table

The Minimum Acceptable Visibility (MAV) table was originally provided by the California Highway Patrol in response to an inquiry  relative to acceptable highway visibility reduction caused by smoke. The table was included in chapter two of the 1991 edition of the National Park…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Latest developments in crown fire behavior prediction

Alexander
Powerpoint presentation given at the Joint Session of 19th Annual Interior West Fire Council Conference & 6th American Meteorological Society Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, Oct. 25-27, 2005, Canmore, AB.
Year: 2005
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Impacts of fire on bird populations in a fescue prairie

Pylypec
Breeding bird populations were monitored for three years after an October prescribed burn in a fescue grassland near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Breeding populations of 12 species were recorded on a 12.9 ha burned plot and an adjacent 5.6 ha unburned plot, each with similar…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Elk, Cervus elaphus, habitat use related to prescribed fire, Tuchodi River, British Columbia

Peck, Peek
Prescribed fire has traditionally been used to create and maintain Elk habitat in the Tuchodi River area of northeastern British Columbia. Elk use of post fire vegetation was examined. Elk wintered primarily on younger postburn vegetation dominated by grasses or shrubs, except…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Greater Yellowstone's future: ecosystem management in a wilderness environment

Keiter, Boyce
From the text: 'In this concluding chapter, therefore, we try to put these Greater Yellowstone developments in perspective. We begin by identifying the principal conflicts involved in this transition to an ecosystem-based management policy in Greater Yellowstone. Next, we…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Listing of tribes that have documented use of fire by author and date of publication

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rocky Mountains, southwest, Gulf States, Texas, and Great Plains/prairies references

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The boreal forest references including Alaska, interior and northern Canada and Vancouver Island

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

General North America references

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting and managing fuel consumption in the interior west

Brown, Reinhardt
Equations for predicting duff and large woody fuel (7.6+ cm) consumption are summarized. Dependent variables are duff depth reduction, percentage duff depth reduction, percentage mineral soil, large fuel diameter reduction, and percentage large fuel reduction. Opportunities to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lightning flashes from a prescribed fire induced cloud

Latham
A prescribed fire was ignited near Chapleau, western Ontario, Canada, on the afternoon of August 10, 1989. The fire, covering approximately 400 ha, burned vigorously over a period of 3 hours, from 1400 to 1700 EDT, generating a plume cloud structure including a portion…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Above- and below-ground vegetation recovery in recently clearcut and burned sites dominated by Gaultheria shallon in coastal British Columbia

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

Responses of ground-foraging ant communities to three experimental fire regimes in a savanna forest of tropical Australia

Andersen
Ants were sampled using pitfall traps in two replicate 1 ha plots of each of three experimental fire treatments (annually burned, biennially burned, and unburned for over 14 years) in a eucalypt-dominated savanna of tropical northern Australia. The ant fauna was extremely…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS