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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Uncertainty in surface-fire history: the case of ponderosa pine forests in the western United States
Present understanding of fire ecology in forests subject to surface fires is based on fire-scar evidence. We present theory and empirical results that suggest that fire-history data have uncertainties and biases when used to estimate the population mean fire interval (FI) or…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Hjerpe, Hedenas, Elmqvist
In 1990 and 1991, Samoa was struck by two cyclones, Ofa and Val. In the Tafua Rain Forest Preserve on the island of Savai*i, one part of the forest also burned after the first cyclone. Here we report on patterns of regeneration and changes in tree species composition in the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Snow
From the text... 'The U.S. Forest Service, surveying the wake of the fire, began making plans to re-seed the scorched areas, and to use a relatively new technique known as hydromulching as the best way to rehabilitate problem locations such as steep slopes and other erosion-…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Finn
From the text ... 'The safety of our firefighters is paramount, and the best tool we can give them is accurate information, conveyed clearly and on time.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
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
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
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
Mangan
From the text ... 'At the beginning of the 20th century, equipment development for wildland firefighting was an informal, backyard affair. Farmers, ranchers, and loggers developed equipment for their specific needs, often sharing their best ideas with neighbors. After 1905, when…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
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
Putnam
From the text, 'The central theme discussed is the use of the psychological technique of mindfulness to promote clear thinking under stressful, risky conditions. Clear thinking enhances safety by improving all our actions: self-awareness, situational awareness, risk analysis,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Bond, Midgley
Many woody plants can resprout and many ecosystems are dominated by resprouters. They persist in situ through disturbance events such as fire, flooding or wind storms. However, the importance of 'persistence' in plant demography has been neglected in favour of 'recruitment.'…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sawyer, Knox, Donart, Petersen
Cholla cactus may serve as an emergency feedstuff for livestock when forage availability is low. A study was conducted at the Corona Range and Livestock Research Center to evaluate the nutritive quality of cholla cactus (Opuntia imbricata) after spine removal. Six samples were…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tharme, Green, Baines, Bainbridge, O'Brien
1. Breeding birds, vegetation and moorland management were surveyed in 320 1-km squares on 122 estates in upland areas of eastern Scotland and northern England where red grouse shooting is a widespread land use. We assessed whether population densities of 11 species of breeding…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
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
Thompson, Witte, Hudson, Guo, Herman, Fujiwara
New methods for retrieving tropospheric ozone column depth and absorbing aerosol (smoke and dust) from the Earth Probe—Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (EP/TOMS) are used to follow pollution and to determine interannual variability and trends. During intense fires over Indonesia…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Young, Clements
The decade of the 1920s was somewhat of a paradox for range science. A. W. Sampson published 3 books that were widely used as text for higher education classes in range management. The United States Department of Agriculture. Forest Service expanded their mandate to manage…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Natural fire frequency for the eastern Canadian boreal forest: consequences for sustainable forestry
Given that fire is the most important disturbance of the boreal forest, climatically induced changes in fire frequency (i.e., area burnt per year) can have important consequences on the resulting forest mosaic age-class distribution and composition. Using archives and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huggard, Arsenault
From the text... 'Reed and Johnson (1999) responded to our previous paper (Huggard and Arsenault 1999) in which we point out a mistake that has been made in some analyses of fire frequency, primarily in studies from western Canada. The mistake arises from using a reverse…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mah, Tackaberry, Egger, Massicotte
Morphological and molecular (polymerase chain reaction — restriction fragment length polymorphism) methods were used to assess ectomycorrhiza (ECM) diversity in naturally regenerating and planted Picea engelmannii Parry ex Engelm. x Picea glauca (Moench) Voss seedlings in two…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS