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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Devries, Armstrong
Periodic treatment of established stands of dense nesting cover (DNC) is a recommended practice to maintain cover quality, but little information exists on the magnitude and duration of treatment effects on nesting waterfowl. During 1998-2001, we examined the effect of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomson, Rose
Introduction: Environmental contaminants are groups of unwanted, ubiquitous chemicals, found in food via weathering of the earth's crust, combustion (natural or anthropogenic), industrial uses or as unwanted bi-products of manufacturing processes. Evidence suggests that the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blackwell, Green, Hedberg
In 1992 the Greater Vancouver Water District began an extensive ecological inventory of its three watersheds (53,600 ha) that serve as the drinking water source for the Greater Vancouver Region. The focus of the inventory was to provide watershed managers with a better…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blackwell, Green, Hedberg, Ohlson
In 1992 the Greater Vancouver Water District began an extensive ecological inventory of its three watersheds (53,600 ha) that serve as the drinking water source for the Greater Vancouver Region. The focus of the inventory, which integrates physical and ecological information,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harkins, Morgan, Neuenschwander, Chrisman, Zack, Jacobson, Grant, Sampson
The Idaho Panhandle National Forests (IPNF), in partnership with the University of Idaho, the Fire Sciences Laboratory, and The Sampson Group, developed a Geographic Information System (GIS) based wildfire hazard-risk assessment. The assessment was completed for the North Zone…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell, Last, Campbell, Clare, McAndrews
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dudley, DeLoach, Lovich, Carruthers
From the text...'the goals of this paper are to describe briefly the nature of impacts that saltcedar has to riparian ecosystems and how human impacts relate to this invasion, to review our expectations for a biological control program to augment traditional control efforts, to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mullen
The Cerro Grande has been called the biggest fire in New Mexico history. The Cerro Grande blaze raged across the hillsides above Los Alamos National Laboratory, then, driven by high winds, the fire raced through the Laboratory and the Los Alamos town site. The fire destroyed…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Edwards, Bigelow, Finney, Eisner
We investigated whether techniques developed to evaluate qualitative lake-level changes in the temperate zone can be used in sub-arctic and arctic Alaska. We focused on aquatic pollen records and sediment properties (loss-on-ignition and magnetic susceptibility) from centrally-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liljedahl
The wetlands in the Arctic Coastal Plain, Northern Alaska, support a multitude of wildlife and natural resources that depend upon the abundance of water. Observations and climate model simulations show that surface air temperature over the Alaskan arctic coast has risen in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
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 managing fire in an…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
France, Steedman, Lehmann, Peters
It has been recently suggested that droughts induced by climate warming reduce the catchment export of colour-forming, and therefore, UV-B protective, DOC to boreal lakes, which in turn may influence the health of resident biota. We determined that the concentration of DOC in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Sheridan, Lane, Nyman, Haydon
Wildfires burn extensive forest areas around the world each year. In many locations, fire-prone forest catchments are utilised for the supply of potable water to small communities up to large cities. Following wildfire, increased erosion rates and changes to runoff generation…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke
This paper discusses the overall effects fire has on the carbon budget of boreal forests. Studies on using the boreal forest as a means to sequester carbon have not adequately accounted for these effects. Among other approaches, it has been suggested that suppression of fire in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Caldwell, Canavan, Bloom
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Enache, Prairie
Biogeochemical effects of fire events were analysed in a small humic kettle lake. Lac Francis (claybelt area. Abitibi, northwestern Quebec), using diatom-based quantitative inference models developed to reconstruct past pH. total phosphorus, and dissolved organic carbon in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell, Flannigan
From the Introduction ... 'This chapter reviews the record of past and present North American boreal fire regimes at various time scales and how the relate to both climate and vegetation. From this review, we draw some possible conclusions regarding possible future fire regimes…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garcia, Carignan
We measured total Hg and stable isotopes (d13C and d15N) in northern pike (Esox lucius) from 19 Boreal Shield lakes with undisturbed, logged, or burned watersheds. Average Hg level in standard 560-mm northern pike, on a dry weight basis, was significantly higher in logged lakes…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carignan, D'Arcy, Lamontagne
Water quality was monitored in Boreal Shield lakes for 3 years following their simultaneous impact by clearcut logging or wildfire. Seventeen similar undisturbed lakes served as references. Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and the light attenuation coefficient (PAR) were up to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clinton, Vose, Knoepp, Elliott
Southern Appalachian forests are undergoing considerable change due to altered disturbance regimes. For example, fire exclusion has had a major impact on the structure and function of pine/hardwood ecosystems. Recently, fire has been used in a variety of applications; 1) stand-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS