The success of a fire use program is in large part dependent on a solid foundation set in clear and concise planning. The planning process results in specific goals and measurable objectives for fire application, provides a means of setting priorities...
Alaska Reference Database
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Person: Hardy, Ottmar, Peterson, Core, Seamon, Leuschen, Wade, Seamon
Created Year: 2001
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
As discussed in the introduction to this section, fire serves an important ecological role in the boreal forest, especially in those processes controlling the exchange of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases with the atmosphere. One of the key...
Person: Kasischke, Stocks, Kasischke, O'Neill, French, Bourgeau-Chavez
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Most presettlement Canadian and Alaskan boreal forests and Rocky Mountain subalpine forests had lightning fire regimes of large-scale crown fires and high-intensity surface fires, causing total stand replacement on fire rotations (or cycles) to 50 to...
Person: Mooney, Bonnicksen, Christensen, Lotan, Reiners, Heinselman
Created Year: 1981
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Abies-dominated forests have a relatively low fire hazard when compared with vegetation types dominated by Pinus or Picea species. Although large quantities of fuel are present, the humid climate of Abies-dominated areas reduces the probability of fire...
Person: Wein, MacLean, Furyaev, Wein, MacLean
Created Year: 1983
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This chapter presents a broader, more fundamental view of the ecological principles and shifting fire regimes described in the previous chapters that have important implications for ecosystem management. Also included are strategies and approaches for...
Person: Brown, Smith, Brown
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wildfires have been and currently are an important factor in the northern ecosystems of all circumpolar countries. Historical accounts of fires are general and often provide few quantitative data; therefore, we must rely on more recent data from the...
Person: Wein, MacLean, Barney, Stocks
Created Year: 1983
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This text provides a comprehensive resource for studying the fundamentals of fire behavior, its ecological effects, and its cultural and institutional framework. It presents the fundamental physics and chemistry of fire, fire behavior, wildland fuels,...
Person: Pyne, Andrews, Laven
Created Year: 1996
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Major forest types that are characterized by nonlethal understory fire regimes include those where ponderosa pine or Jeffrey pine has been a major component either as a fire-maintained seral type or as the self-perpetuating climax (table 5-1). This...
Person: Brown, Smith, Arno
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
A book based on a conference of the same name held 22-24 October, 1979 at the University of New Brunswick. There are 15 chapters, including an introduction by the editors. The remaining 14 chapters are divided into 5 sections: Past and present fire...
Person: Wein, MacLean
Created Year: 1983
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fires affect animals mainly through effects on their habitat. Fires often cause short-term increases in wildlife foods that contribute to increases in populations of some animals. These increases are moderated by the animals' ability to thrive in...
Person: Smith, Smith, Schreiner, Telfer, Hooper, Huff, Lyon
Created Year: 2000
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS