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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
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Ramseur
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bennett
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brotak, Reifsnyder
Fifty-two major wildland fires in the eastern half of the United States were analyzed to determine the synoptic situations involved. At the surface, 3/4 of the fires were found near frontal areas. The vast majority of fires were associated with the eastern portion of small…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodley
From the text ... 'The Canadian Parks Service has a fire management policy that is best described as evolving. The development history of the fire policy and current practices have been reviewed by other authors (Lopoukhine, 1993; Westhaver, 1992; Day and others, 1988, Van…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'The 1988 fire season showed us much about the importance of basing decisions on fire regimes and their associated fire behavior characteristics. Although our policies are necessarily broad, we are learnng that implementation of programs must be based on the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
van Wagtendonk
To trully allow fires to play their natural role in wilderness ecosystems, it is sometimes necessary to have large fires of long duration. Large fires are ecologically significant events that drive many other ecosystem processes. However, these fires pose significant management…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Silverman
From the text ... 'Fire prevention starts with education and planning. It means developing a broader understanding of wilderness and national park areas -- why they exist, how they're different, their scientific values, the way their management philosophies differ from those of…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mutch
Since 1972, prescribed natural fire plans have been developed and implemented for several of the larger wildernesses in the country like the Frank Church-River of No Return, Teton, Selway-Bitterroot, Bob Marshall, Scapegoat, Absaroka-Beartooth, Gila, and Boundary Waters Canoe…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kilgore, Nichols
From the text ... 'In this paper we will review those changes [the National Park Service made after the Yellowstone fires of 1988 in the way fire policies had previously been implemented] to determine what impacts they have had during the past four years on prescribed fire…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christensen
From the text ... 'In recognizing that fire is critical to sustained ecosystem function, it is also important to achnowledge that fire cannot itself be the goal or endpoint of management. Rather, we must identify and set objectives for the key ecosystem elements and processes…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacLean, Wein
From the Introduction ... ''Dry matter distribution has been examined in a variety of forest ecosystems in the last few years. Information provided in such studies is valuable for a number of uses, such as evaluating the effects of whole-tree utilization, in quantitative…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Telfer
[no description entered]
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Henderson, Statz
This bibliography provides 841 literature citations pertinent to the effects of fire and its prescribed use on the ecosystems and species of Wisconsin and the upper Midwest. Three separate subject indexes are provided: one for general topics, one for species (165 headings), and…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Flannigan
Although an increasing frequency of forest fires has been suggested as a consequence of global warming, there are no empirical data that have shown climatically driven increases in fire frequency since the warming that has followed the end of the 'Little Ice Age' (~1850). In…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen, MacDonald
Ring-width chronologies from three white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) and two jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) sites in the boreal forest of northern Alberta were constructed to determine whether they could provide proxy records of monthly weather, summer fire weather,…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nelson
From the Summary ... 'Fire, whether wild or controlled, has been shown to benefit big game in a variety of ways. Following fire, understory vegetation usually reestablishes more luxuriant than before, often increasing carrying capacity for big game several-fold. In addition, new…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Smathers
From the text ... 'The primary objective of this study is to develop fire policy recommendations for the management of Lava Beds National Monument which will aid in the restoration and preservation of 'pristine' conditions by natural means.Before this objective can be met,…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sellers, Despain
From the text ... 'Over 1,900,000 acres (770,000 ha) of Yellowstone Park are managed as wilderness. The administrative policy for the management of natural areas of the National Park system such as Yellowstone clearly stated in 1970 The presence or absence of natural fire within…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lyon, Stickney
From the Summary and Conclusions ... 'Forest succession in the Northern Rocky Mountains is not an autogenic process in which initial seral plants modify the site to their own exclusion and permit the establishment of interseral and eventually climax species. Rather, succession…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Habeck
From the Conclusions and Summary ... 'The vegetation within the SBW represents a generally typical array of forest communities of the sort found in much of northern Idaho and western Montana. For tens of thousands of years the flora in this region has evolved in the presence of…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ahlstrand
From the text... 'Although the National Park Service has been largely successful in operating park lands for the enjoyment of the public. preservation attempts have oftentimes impaired these natural areas by bringing about unplanned and undesired changes in the ecosystems (Stone…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nickey
A computer simulation model of lightning fire discoveries has been developed by analyzing historical records of lightning fire occurrences. The model is being tested by using reports of lightning fires from four national forests. Results to date suggest that statistical…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kilgore
[no description entered]
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klukas
[no description entered]
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dieterich
[no description entered]
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS