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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wilcove, Rothstein, Dubow, Phillips, Losos
From the text (p. 247)...'Alteration of ecosystem processes is increasingly being recognized as a significant threat to biodiversity. Disruption of fire regimes, for example, affects 14% of listed species. About half of these species are threatened by fire suppression, and the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Landres, Brunson, Merigliano, Sydoriak, Morton
This paper summarizes a dialogue session that focused on two concepts that strongly influence nearly all wilderness management: wildness and naturalness. The origin and value of these concepts are discussed, as well as the dilemma and irony that arises when wilderness managers…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kloor
New data on how North American forests looked centuries ago are fueling a debate on what ecologists should aim for when restoring ailing ecosystems.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vance, Edminster, Covington, Blake
This volume is divided into three sections: (1) Ecological, Biological, and Physical Science; (2) Social and Cultural; and (3) Economics and Utilization. Effective ecological restoration requires a combination of science and management. The authors of the first section…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parsons
Despite clear legislative and policy direction to preserve natural conditions in wilderness, the maintenance of fire as a natural process has proven to be a significant challenge to federal land managers. As of 1998, only 88 of the 596 designated wilderness areas in the United…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Englin, Boxall, Hauer
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latta, Sondreal, Brown
Little is known about habitat use by the endemic Hispaniolan White-winged crossbill (Loxia leucoptera megaplaga), in part because of its small population size and wandering tendencies; before this study only a single nest had been described for the species, From 1996 to 1999 we…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li
To reconstruct a natural fire regime it is necessary to estimate the historical fire cycle when human influence was less evident. This can be accomplished through the construction of a fire-origin map. The dynamic fire regime is a result of interactions among forest ecosystem…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hunter, Ludolph
Archaeological and historical evidence on status of northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) in southern Ontario prior to European settlement is not clear. The bird was documented on the Essex and Kent County prairies at the time of European settlement in the early 1700's.Early…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potts
Aware of the time lag that frequently exists between declines in biodiversity and effective conservation to correct and reverse the declines, I examine some reasons behind this problem. Experience with species as diverse as the shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) and grey partridge…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Norris
From the text...'In the early decades of the twentieth century, the astronomer Andrew Douglass noted that trees growing in a particular area, which are exposed to the same sequence of wet and dry growing seasons, typically share the same pattern of variation in the width of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dudley, DeLoach, Lovich, Carruthers
From the text...'the goals of this paper are to describe briefly the nature of impacts that saltcedar has to riparian ecosystems and how human impacts relate to this invasion, to review our expectations for a biological control program to augment traditional control efforts, to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maina, Howe
We explore the implications of an often overlooked fact in community restoration: most species, in real or synthetic communities, are infrequent or rare, a phenomenon we call 'inherent rarity.' Whether from long-term interactions of many factors affecting birth, death, and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clubine
Clubine discusses the best seasons to conduct burns in order to increase the quality of warm-season grasses, reduce woody plant species and cool-season grasses, and improve growth and reproduction. He recommends occasional burns in summer (July-August), fall (October-November),…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Covington, Moore, Fulé
The central concern in ecological restoration is reversing the degradation of ecosystems by restoring the structure and function of ecosystems to approximate those conditions present before degradation began. In many frequent-fire ecosystems, degradation can be traced to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moser
From the Preface ... 'Fire's impact upon the land, atmosphere, and global environment have been apparently more pronounced and more anxiety-causing to the public. The suppression of fire has caused harm to some ecosystems, either through elimination of fire-dependent species or…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martinson, Omi
Historic fire regimes are widely advocated as guides for the reintroduction of natural fire processes into North American wildlands. However, the fire history of most sites is unknown. Current fire regime constructs provide generalized information for some vegetation types, but…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
Little is known about spatial and temporal variability in fire frequencies at landscape scales (1,000s to I 00,000s of ha), or about the factors that determine the spatial patterns of fir., frequency at these scales. Historical archives of wildfire perimeters (fire atlases) are…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirami, Hann
We characterized the historical, current, and future wildland fire smoke emissions on National Forests and Grasslands of the western United States. This information provided a basis for summary interpretations included in the U.S. Forest Service report "Protecting People and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flores, Omi
Fire can be used not only to protect forest ecosystems but also as a restoration tool. However, a successful application of fire requires knowing in advance the potential fire behavior (e.g., rate of spread and intensity). Without this information adverse effects could result…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Allen, Falk, Hoffman, Klingel, Morgan, Savage, Schulke, Stacey, Suckling, Swetnam
This paper outlines a broad and flexible framework for ecological restoration of Southwestern ponderosa pine forests, supporting a diverse range of scientifically viable restoration approaches. Ponderosa pine forests in the region have been radically altered by human uses,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hann, Hilbruner
We predicted future fire regime and ecosystem conditions on National Forests and Grasslands of the western United States for inclusion in the U.S. Forest Service report "Protecting People and Sustaining Resources in Fire-Adapted Ecosystems, A Cohesive Strategy” (Laverty et al.…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grace, Smith, Collins, Grace, Stohlgren
Temperate grasslands are currently among the most threatened ecosystems in the world. In North America, their widespread use for agriculture and livestock grazing, in addition to the effects of urbanization and other human activities, have led to dramatic losses in the extent…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brooks, Pyke
Two very different vegetation types characterize the deserts of North America. Shrublands are typical of the Great Basin, Mojave, and Sonoran deserts. Perennial grasslands are most prevalent in the Chihuahuan Desert. Historically, fires were generally infrequent in shrublands…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Caratti, Hann, Long, Menakis
National Forest and Grassland fire management has historically emphasized wildfire suppression and provided prescribed fire and fuel management support to other resources. Many fire management fuel treatments often occurred in a fragmented pattern because prescribed fire…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS