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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Learning About the Enemy

Video about the 1982 Porter Lake experimental burning.
Year: 1982
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

A report on the second year of the Tintamarre Marsh fire ecology study

[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Control of depth to permafrost and soil temperature by the forest floor in black spruce/feathermoss communities

Dyrness
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Plant population dynamics under varying fire regimes

Bradstock
The effects of variations in fire intensity, frequency, and seasonality on the dynamics of four dry sclerophyll species, Banksia ericifolia, Petrophile fucifolia, B. serrata, Isopogon anemonifolius, are being investigated. These species have canopy-retained seedbanks enclosed in…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest fire history in the central Yukon

Johnson, Strang
A study of 59 sites in the Central Yukon showed no strong correlation between plant community and time since burning, the post-fire seral communities being both site and fire-specific. Fire intervals were 33, 69, 57 and 62 years in the South Ogilvie, North Ogilvie, Eagle Plains…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Use of M-4 fuel thickener in prescribed burning

Melton, Marsalis
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicting prescribed burning costs of wildlife habitat management

Jackson, Flowers, Loveless, Schuster
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The ecological effects of slashburning with particular reference to British Columbia: a literature review

Feller
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Management of seasonally flooded impoundments for wildlife

Frederickson, Taylor
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire ecology: United States and southern Canada

Wright, Bailey
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forestry in Sweden and Finland: its applicability to interior Alaska

Gasbarro
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Response of free-burning fires to nonsteady wind

Albini
A speculative, phenomenological model is formulated for the time-varying intensity and spread rate of a free-burning fire under the influence of nonsteady wind. The model is linearized by approximations and explicit solutions derived for the amplitude response of spread rate and…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire in America: a cultural history of wildland and rural fire

Pyne
From the book jacket...'From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Stephen J. Pyne's narrative explores the efforts of sucessive American cultures to master this forbidding kind of fire and to use it to shape the landscape. He draws not only on academic experience…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed fire monitoring and evaluation guide

From the text...'The purpose of this guide is to assist in the operational monitoring and evaluation of prescribed fires. A common approach to monitoring and evaluation will enable prescribed fire managers and resource specialists in different organizations and areas to share…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A time for burning: traditional Indian uses of fire in the western Canadian boreal forest

Lewis
From the text: 'With respect to traditional uses of fire, the Indians of northern Alberta exhibited a clear understanding of both what was happening as well as why things happened. They exhibited full understanding of systemic, relational effects of burning in their discussions…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Evaluating potential tree mortality from prescribed burning

Ryan
Prescribed burning is increasingly being used under standing timber for site preparation and fuels management. Managers need guidelines for determining species and individual tree characteristics that are potentially capable of incurring minimal injury from a fire treatment. A…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Developing fire and silvicultural prescriptions for site preparation, an example

Bunnell, Christophersen
The burning prescription is an integral part of the silvicultural prescription. Writing these prescriptions for site preparation objectives involves close coordination between the fire manager and silviculturist. A negotiating period during the sale planning process is necessary…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire wolves and Smokey Bears: a history of fire prevention

Pyne
From the text... 'The outcome of the Southern Forestry Education Campaign was much less devisive. To begin with, its subject was not the internal distribution of agency funds but the promotion of fire protection as a concept. Nor was it concerned with the question of transient…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Our pappies burned the woods: a fire history of the south

Pyne
From the text... 'But with the advent of fire protection in the South, game birds decreased much as pasturage had and as grouse populations had in Britain. The vegetative ensemble that sustained maximum populations gave way to roughage and woods. By 1923 hunting plantations in…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Our Grandfather Fire: fire and the American Indian

Pyne
From the text... 'It is often assumed that the American Indian was incapable of greatly modifying his environment and that he would not have been much interested in doing so if he did have the capabilities. In fact, he possessed both the tool and the will to use it. That tool…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed fire impacts on recreational wildlands: A status review and assessment of research needs

Omi, Laven
The existing literature on wildland fire is assessed in terms of both the biological and social impacts of prescription fire on recreational wildlands. Gaps in the literature are noted and future areas of needed research are suggested, with particular emphasis on the Rocky…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Probability model for analyzing fire management alternatives: theory and structure

Bratten
A theoretical probability model has been developed for analyzing program alternatives in fire management. It includes submodels or modules for predicting probabilities of fire behavior, fire occurrence, fire suppression, effects of fire on land resources, and financial effects…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Classifying wildfire causes in the USDA Forest Service: problems and alternatives

Donoghue
Discusses problems associated with fire-cause data on USDA Forest Service wildfire reports, traces the historical development of wildfire-cause categories, and presents the pros and cons of retaining current wildfire-cause reporting systems or adopting new systems.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Comparative structural/functional features in conifer forests of Yosemite and Glacier National Parks, USA

Parker
Structural/functional characteristics of the vegetative cover are used to provide common attributes for comparing vegetation patterns in Yosemite National Park, California, in the central Sierra Nevada, and Glacier National Park, Montana, in the northern Rocky Mountains.…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The ursine gladhander

Heinrichs
[no description entered]
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS