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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Finney, Andrews
Fire growth simulation is the modeling of fire spread and behavior across landscapes with heterogeneous fuels, weather, and topography. FARSITE is a computer program designed to simulate fire growth using existing models of fire behavior found in BEHAVE (Andrews 1986) and in the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
The Waring Mountains Wildfire of 1988 burned 209,366 acres (84,727 ha) of the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge in NW Alaska, transecting the migration route of the Western Arctic Caribou herd. This study was undertaken to describe and follow the response of the vegetation after…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Musser
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Year: 1947
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
The author reemphasizes the intimate relationship between forest protection and timber growing. He points out that protection should not be divorced functionally or administratively from the overall job of forest management© Society of American Foresters, Bethesda, MD. Abstract…
Year: 1947
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartos
From the text...'Bartos and Campbell (1998) have identified five risk factors to help resource managers prioritize critical areas in need of treatment. If any of these factors exist, it is incumbent on the manager to consider treatment - particularly if their objective is to…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stuart
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hawkes
From the text ... 'In the past, fire suppression was seen as a standard method for dealing with forest fires. Today, foresters view fire as an essential instrument of forest regeneration, contributing to a greater diversity of flora and fauna. 'Fire plays a natural role and we'…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Staddon, Duchesne, Trevors
Acid phosphatase, alkaline phosphatase and arylsulfatase activities were determined from organic and mineral soils of a jack pine (Pinus banksiana L.) community 4 years after clear-cutting alone, clear-cutting followed by prescribed burning and clear-cutting followed by…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Flannigan, Wotton, Suffling
The predicted increase in climate warming will have profound impacts on forest ecosystems and landscapes in Canada because of increased temperature, and altered disturbance regimes. Climate change is predicted to be variable within Canada, and to cause considerable weather…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch, Corey, Martell
An expert judgment elicitation methodology was developed and used to encode subjective assessments of fire crew effectiveness from experienced initial attack crew leaders. During structured individual interviews, experts from four Canadian forest fire management agencies…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This article outlines the flexible semi-empirical philosophy used throughout six decades of fire research by the Canadian Forest Service, culminating in the development of the Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System. It then describes the principles involved when spread rate and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feller
The influence of seedbed (undisturbed forest floor, burned forest floor, and mineral soil), light (closed forest, open forest, and clearcut), and competing vegetation (present, not present) on germination and initial seedling survival and growth of subalpine fir (Abies…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Makarim, Arbai, Deddy, Brady
The report describes the 1997 land and forest fires in Indonesia, reviews of the control measures put in place and evaluates the national coordination efforts taken to combat the fires as the dry period extended toward what became a serious drought. A key finding is that…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The need to understand both the role of wildland fire as an ecosystem process and the appropriate use of fire as a management tool has been recognized for years. Historically fire has played an important role in many ecosystems by removing fuel accumulations,…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Engelmark, Hofgaard, Arnborg
We present results from repeated analyses (1962, 1993) of a permanent plot established in 1947, combined with retrospective stand age structure data, in an old Pinus sylvestris stand in Muddus National Park, northern Sweden. The study points towards a successional pathway…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catling, Brownell
Vascular plants recorded within 50 one metre square quadrats in 1997 in an area cut and burned 37 years earlier revealed an unusually high species diversity with 87 native vascular plant species, which is roughly twice as high as that recorded in various open areas of alvars…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Valiente-Banuet, Flores-Hernández, Verdu, Dávila
A comparative study between an unburned evergreen sclerophyllous vegetation located in south-central Mexico under a wet-summer climate, with mediterranean regions was conducted in order to re-analyze vegetation and plant characters claimed to converge under mediterranean…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown
From the text...'FOFEM 4.0-A First Order Fire Effects Model-is a computer program developed to meet the needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text...'Our program is built on cost-effectiveness and safety. Yet, despite larger protection budgets, bigger and better tools, and sophisticated fire-danger prediction systems, wildfire losses are higher now than at any time in the past half century. Despite personal…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt, Hardy
Poster abstract...A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM was designed for application to most areas of the United States. First order fire effects are the immediate or direct results of a…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parker, Kessler
Abstract only...'We have conducted a three-year investigation of the habitat relationships of forest birds and mammals that inhabit the Sub-boreal Spruce Plateau (SBSmk1) of central British Columbia. Our study was designed to test assumptions and practices of British Columbia's…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
Abstract only:..'In the middle of July, 1997, I had the opportunity to present my views on 'Wildfire Management' to the House Agriculture Committee. On my return to Missoula one of my graduate students came running into my office waving a set of new fire management definitions…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wattenberg
From the text...'Independent observers who know the status of the park today say that the rosy picture presented by the National Park Service and by ecologists quoted in this article is not accurate.'
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS