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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Integrating forest inventory, growth and yield, and computer visualization into a landscape management system

McCarter
The Lanscape Management System (LMS) is an evolving Microsoft Windows™ application that integrates forest inventory information, spatial information, growth models, computer visualization software, and analysis software into a landscape-level analysis tool. This paper presents…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Urban-wildland interface management: the integration of fire and ecosystem management

Nickles
[no description entered]
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Snowpack characteristics following wildfire on a simulated transport corridor and adjacent subarctic forest, Tulita, NWT, Canada

Kershaw
[no description entered]
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Improved calibration of a large fuel burnout model

Albini, Reinhardt
[no description entered]
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire suppression in threatened, endangered, and sensitive species habitats

Sheppard, Farnsworth
Fire has been a global disturbance agent for thousands of years. As an ecological process that helped shape the floral and faunal communities of western North America, fire also maintained the health and diversity of forest until European settlers arrived. Since presettlement,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fire as a luminal environment

Mejer
Building on insights provided by Beck (1988), Pyne (1982) and others, the paper views wildland fire as an event revealing a social and scientific field in which basic dilemmas that separate nature and culture, environmental autonomy and human intervention, and the certainty of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Long term effects of repeated burning on understory containing rare vegetation communities

Lord
A probabilistic model is offered for tracing the fate of vegetation communities in fire-prone lands that are subjected to regular fuel reduction burning. The model is based on the semi-Markov process (an extension of Markov chain modelling). The inputs necessary for the semi-…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The role of fire in sustaining northern goshawk habitat in Rocky Mountain forests

Graham, Jain, Reynolds, Boyce
The northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), is a northern latitude, forest dwelling raptor. In the Western United States, goshawks live in most forests, including those dominated by western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.), lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl.ex.Loud.)…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation, environmental characteristics and ideas on the maintenance of alvars in the Bruce Peninsula, Canada

Schaefer, Larson
Despite international recognition that alvar habitats are important reservoirs of biodiversity, they remain little studied in North America. In this paper, the results are reported on an investigation of alvars in the central portion of their known distribution on this continent…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prediction of forest fires with Poisson models

Mandallaz, Ye
This paper presents a general statistical methodology for the prediction of forest ftres in the context of Poisson models. It also gives quantitative and qualitative tools for the assessment of different models, as well as some decision theoretical and cost considerations. Case…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Temporal fire disturbance patterns on a forest landscape

Li, Ter-Mikaelian, Perera
Potential temporal fire disturbance patterns on a forest landscape were investigated using a fire regime model with four different fire probability functions: (I)forest age-independent; (2) hyperbolic increase with forest age; (3) sigmoid increase with age; and (4) linear…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Efficient group decision making in workshop settings

Schmoldt, Peterson
Public land managers must treat multiple values coincidentally in time and space, which requires the participation of multiple resource specialists and consideration of diverse clientele interests in the decision process. This implies decision making that includes multiple…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire regime in the boreal forest and the idea of suppression and fuel buildup

Johnson, Miyanishi, Bridge
From the text...'The explanation often given for the large wildfires that have burned each year in North America in the last two decades is that fire suppression after the 1950s produced a buildup of fuel and changed the landscape-age mosaic (e.g., Gayton 1998; Smalley et al.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reproductive success of Lewis's Woodpecker in burned pine and cottonwood riparian forests

Saab, Vierling
Lewis*s Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) has been characterized as a "burn specialist” because of its preference for nesting within burned pine forests. No prior study, however, has demonstrated the relative importance of crown-burned forests to this woodpecker species by examining…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Types and attributes of old-growth forests in Alberta, Canada

Timoney
This first approximation assessment of old-growth forests in Alberta, Canada, presents tabular summaries of selected old-growth attributes and elucidates some themes of old-growth forest development, structure, function, distribution, and conservation status. Forest types…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fire use in roadless areas: restoring ecosystems and rewilding landscapes

Ingalsbee
From the text ... 'In May 2000, the Forest Service released a proposal to protect roadless areas on the national forests and grasslands from degradation through future roadbuilding. The Roadless Area Conservation Draft Environmental Impact Statement, coupled with an unusually…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Managing the impact of wildfires on communities and the environment: a report to the President in response to the wildfires of 2000 [Executive summary]

Executive Summary: On August 8, 2000, President Clinton asked Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to prepare a report that recommends how best to respond to this year*s severe fires, reduce the impacts of these wildland fires on rural…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A National Fire Plan for future land health (including, Forest service principles for implementing the National Fire Plan)

Dombeck
From the text ... 'We can postpone the inevitible blazes, but-as the 2000 fire season showed-not indefinitely...' ... 'The relative severity of the 2000 fire season mobilized public opinion behind a large-scale program to reduce the fire hazard in our western forests. On…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fighting fire without fire: biomass removal as a prelude to prescribed fire: biomass removal: pros and cons

Jolley
From the text ... 'Reducing heavy fuel buildups in the Western United States will require the use of every available tool, including biomass removal.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Issues in reducing costs on large wildland fires

Mangan
From the text ... 'Every year, hundreds of aircraft and tens of thousands of firefighters are needed to suppress wildland fires in the United States, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reducing fire suppression costs: a national priority

Brown
From the text ... 'Since the 1980's, there has been a disturbing rise in both total suppression costs and the cost per acre burned.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Catastrophic wildfire and number of populations as factors influencing risk of extinction for Gila trout (Oncorhynchus gilae)

Brown, Echelle, Propst, Brooks, Fisher
We used the computer program RAMAS to explore the sensitivity of an extinction-risk model for the Gila trout (Oncorhynchus gibe) to management of wildfires and number of populations of the species. The Gila trout is an endangered salmonid presently restricted to very few…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Incite: burning money

Williams
From the text... 'The press and politicians called fire season 2000 'a natural disaster.' The fires were natural, but the 'disaster' was how much the United States spent to fight them.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tropical logging and human invasions

Laurance
The simple truth is that, unless hunting pressure is severe, most wildlife populations can persist in logged forests, although their abundances may be reduced for considerable periods (Johns 1997; Fimbel et al. 2000). Few forest species can survive, however, in the mosaic of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Role of vegetation and weather on fire behavior in the Canadian mixedwood boreal forest using two fire behavior prediction systems

Hély, Flannigan, Bergeron, McRae
Spring and summer simulations were carried out using the Canadian Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) and U.S. BEHAVE systems to study the role of vegetation and weather on fire behavior in the mixedwood boreal forest. Stands at Lake Duparquet (Quebec, Canada) were characterized as…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS