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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Laterra, Solbrig
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the Introduction ... 'To help address the many challenges created by the 2000 fire season, leadership in the Northern (Region One) and Intermountain (Region Four) Regions combined their efforts through a post-fire strategy. This strategy seeks to promote open communication…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Petruzzello, Chludzinski, Reed, Woods
This study describes the effects of strenuous live-fire fire fighting drills and 90 min of recovery on hematological and psychological variables. Eleven fire fighters performed three trials of fire fighting tasks in a training structure that contained live fires. Plasma volume…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timoney, Lee
Economic growth is frequently touted as a cure for environmental ills, particularly for those in Third World countries. Here we examine that paradigm in a case study of Alberta, Canada, a wealthy, resource-rich province within a wealthy nation. Through provincial-scale datasets…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Estill, Cruzan
A database of the county distribution of rare vascular plant species endemic to the southeastern United States was compiled in order to review geographic trends. A total of 482 species representing 246 genera in 95 families were identified as rare southeastern endemics. The…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balasubramanian, Victor, Chun
The results of chemical analyses of precipitation samples collected in Singapore between August 1997 and July 1998 are presented. Major inorganic and organic ions were determined in 169 rain samples collected using an automated wet-only sampler. The daily sample pH values ranged…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neary, Gottfried
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams, Tolle
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Law
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nickles
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shepard
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kershaw
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sulyma, Coxson
Pine-lichen woodlands in north-central British Columbia show a long period of successional development where reindeer lichens (Cladina spp.) dominate plant cover at the forest floor surface. However, in mid- to late-successional stands lichen cover is replaced in a mosaic of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simberloff
A plethora of new concepts for managing production forests so as to preserve biodiversity have found their way into management procedures without much testing to make them most effective. The general framework for a new approach has, in most regions, been ecosystem management,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) was a major project of Canadian Forest Service fire research carried out in collaboration with the Government of the Northwest Territories’ Forest Management Division near the community of Fort Providence from 1995-2001.…
Year: 2001
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Here, in one concise book, is the essential story of fire. Noted environmental historian Stephen J. Pyne describes the evolution of fire through prehistoric and historic times down to the present, examining contemporary attitudes from a long-range, informed perspective. Fire: A…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
The thrilling story of the most important firefighting efforts in the last 100 years as told by fire expert Stephen Pyne. Pyne relates the similarities between the vast fires of summer 2000 with the Great Fires of 1910 that swept across the northwest, destroying towns, killing…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sorbel
The Kenai Lake Fire burned north of Kenai Lake on the Seward Ranger District of the Chugach National Forest from June 25 through July 8, 2001. The fire’s size was approximately 3260 acres. This assessment uses the FireFamily+ and RERAP (Rare Event Risk Assessment Process)…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Matthews
From the text... 'This year's catastrophic wilfires have finally ended. A new tree-planting initiative helps communities heal the landscape.' 'In 2001, Global ReLeaf will plant at least 300,000 trees in seven fire restoration projects.' A list of these seven projects follows.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Romo, Grilz, Redmann, Driver
The impacts of autumn or spring burning on Symphoricarpos occidentalis were studied in Fescue Prairie in central Saskatchewan. Symphoricarpos density increased two- to three-fold over preburn density in the 1st 2 growing seasons following a burn. Individual shoot weights were…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Suffling
Studies of anticipated effects of global warming tend to concentrate on the physiological limits of individual organisms, and imputed modifications to biome distributions expresed as climax ecosystems. Changes in distributions of individual species and of tree species…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weihs, Small
We develop a simple analytical model to estimate the thickness of a smoke layer formed by a plume of a large area fire and to account for crosswinds. We take advantage of the dominant flow features in the upper part of the rising plume and in the smoke layer far from the plume…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taplin
We correct the variance for the rate of spread of a fire through a non-homogeneous fuel as described in Catchpole et al. (1989, Ecol. Modelling, 48: 101-112). The spatial dependence of the fuel types can greatly influence this variance; a phenomenon not expressed by the analysis…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
This report offers findings and recommendations that address the threat of wildfires in forest and range ecosystems. The report is based on information gathered by the National Commision on Wildfire Disasters and is intended for policymakers at the federal, state, and local…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS