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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Beckage, Platt, Gross
Savanna models that are based on recurrent disturbances such as fire result in nonequilibrium savannas, but these models rarely incorporate vegetation feedbacks on fire frequency or include more than two states (grasses and trees). We develop a disturbance model that includes…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Yazzie
Anyone who has not lived in 'Indian country' cannot understand just how extensively the United States government and its laws affect Native Americans and their natural resource management. These effects are sobering, and touch upon sensitive issues that all Native Americans hold…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Torres-Rojo, Magana-Torres, Ramirez-Fuentes
A description is made of a long run forest fire danger index. The index is based on the principle that forest fires follow a self-organized critical behavior, which establishes that under a wide variety of circumstances, forest fires maintain an exponential relationship over…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mason, Baker, Cram, Boren, Fernald, VanLeeuwen
The ability of mechanical fuel reduction treatments to mitigate severe fire behavior in dry mixed conifer forests is of interest to land managers as well as the public. We compared fuel loads and indices of crown fire potential to test treatment effectiveness following…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

James, Fortin, Fall, Kneeshaw, Messier
Forest age structure and its spatial arrangement are important elements of sustainable forestry because of their effects on biodiversity and timber availability. Forest management objectives that include specific forest age structure may not be easily attained due to constraints…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Cyr, Gauthier, Bergeron
Despite the recognized importance of fire in North American boreal forests, the relative importance of stochastic and determinist portions of intra-regional spatial variability in fire frequency is still poorly understood. The first objective of this study is to identify sources…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Cram, Baker, Fernald, Madrid, Rummer
Increasing densities of small diameter trees have changed ecological processes and negatively impacted conservation of soil and water resources in western forests. Thinning treatments are commonplace to reduce stein density and potential fire hazard. We evaluated the impacts of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Binkley, Sisk, Chambers, Springer, Block
Classic ecological concepts and forestry language regarding old growth are not well suited to frequent-fire landscapes. In frequent-fire, old-growth landscapes, there is a symbiotic relationship between the trees, the understory graminoids, and fire that results in a healthy…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Shlisky, Hickey, Bragg
Altered fire regimes are a serious threat to biodiversity in almost every major habitat type on earth. Threats to the restoration and maintenance of intact fire regimes (e.g., federal and state fire policies, land use, social values, global plant dispersal, governmental cultures…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Le Goff, Flannigan, Bergeron, Girardin
The synchrony of regional fire regime shifts across the Quebec boreal forest, eastern Canada, suggests that regional fire regimes are influenced by large-scale climate variability. The present study investigated the relationship of the forest-age distribution, reflecting the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kay
It is now widely acknowledged that frequent, low-intensity fires once structured many plant communities. Despite an abundance of ethnographic evidence, however, as well as a growing body of ecological data, many professionals still tend to minimize the importance of aboriginal…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bragg
The tallgrass prairie (Andropogon-Panicum) of central North America and the spinifex (Triodia) grasslands of the Gibson Desert of central Western Australia differ substantially in many ways, including in their responses to fire, but are similar in that both confirm the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Alexander
From the text ... 'No single fuel load may be acceptable for a large administrative area. Herein lies the dilemma of setting fuel load standards. Establishing standards would permit the setting of clear objectives for residue management and provide benchmarks with which to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lavoie, Pellerin
In this study, we reconstructed the long-term fire history of a set of ombrotrophic peatlands (bogs) located in a temperate region of southern Quebec (Bas-Saint-Laurent). Past and recent fire-free intervals (time interval between two consecutive fires) were compared using…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bergeron, Drapeau, Gauthier, Lecomte
Several concepts are at the basis of forest ecosystem management, but a relative consensus exists around the idea of a forest management approach that is based on natural disturbances and forest dynamics. This type of approach aims to reproduce the main attributes of natural…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kerby, Fuhlendorf, Engle
Fire and grazing are ecological processes that frequently interact to modify landscape patterns of vegetation. There is empirical and theoretical evidence that response of herbivores to heterogeneity is scale-dependent however the relationship between fire and scale of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Dube
Literature shows that at a global scale, fire activity increased from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present. There is incremental evidence indicating that climate defines the regional boundary conditions for fire. Human influence on ignitions depends on climate and has, since…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Klenner, Walton
We used the TELSA forest landscape model to examine the long-term consequences of applying different forest management scenarios on indicators of wildlife habitat, understory productivity, crown fuel hazard, timber yield and treatment costs. The study area was a dry forest…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wotton
Understanding and being able to predict forest fire occurrence, fire growth and fire intensity are important aspects of forest fire management. In Canada fire management agencies use the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) to help predict these elements of forest…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

McCarty, Korontzi, Justice, Loboda
Burning crop residue before and/or after harvest is a common farming practice however; there is no baseline estimate for cropland burned area in the contiguous U.S. (CONUS). We present the results of a study, using five years of remotely sensed satellite data to map the location…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Martin
An algorithm for wildfire occurrence is introduced for incorporation into a numerical model of drainage basin evolution. Within the model, fire return intervals are determined using a stochastic rule set and fire sizes are assigned according to a pareto distribution. A Weibull…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Garet, Pothier, Bouchard
Yield curves are traditionally constructed with mean age of dominant trees as the temporal variable. However. When tree longevity is shorter than the average period of time between two successive disturbances. Mean age of dominant trees becomes a doubtful temporal variable in…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Belleau, Bergeron, Leduc, Gauthier, Fall
It is now recognized that in the Canadian boreal forest, timber harvesting activities have replaced wildfires as the main stand-replacing disturbance. Differences in landscape patterns derived from these two sources of disturbance have, however, raised concerns that the way…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vanderwel, Malcolm, Smith
There are pronounced differences in the processes that act to determine the type and amount of standing and downed coarse woody debris present under partial harvesting versus other noncatastrophic disturbances. To evaluate long-term differences in snag and downed woody debris (…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Perera, Dalziel, Buse, Routledge
Knowledge of postfire residuals in boreal forest landscapes is increasingly important for ecological applications and forest management. While many studies provide useful insight, knowledge of stand-scale postfire residual occurrence and variability remains fragmented and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS