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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ascher, Alexander
This videotape production (1987, 18 min) offers an overview of the co-operative experimental burning project being conducted at Big Fish Lake in northcentral Alberta since 1984 by Forestry Canada and the Alberta Forest Service (AFS).
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eleftheridis, Tsalikidis
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keddy
Assembly rules provide one possible unifying framework for community ecology. Given a species pool, and measured traits for each species, the objective is to specify which traits (and therefore which subset of species) will occur in a particular environment. Because the problem…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartford, Frandsen
Fire effects on aplant community, soil, and air are not apparent when judged only by surface fire intensity. The fire severity or fire impact can be described by the temperatures reached within the forest floor and the duration of heating experienced in the vegetation, forest…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Titus, Woodard, Johnson
[no description entered]
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The purpose of this document is to provide technical information on prescribed burning. It does so in two ways. One, it provides background information useful in determining reasonably available control measures (RACM) and best available control measures (BACM)…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bradley
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) is a computer-based, menu-driven encyclopedia of fire effects and general ecological information for plant species, wildlife species, and plant communities. It provides interpreted, summarized information in an easy-to-use format and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, McRae, Lynham, Hartley
This photo-series was designed to present photographs and a detailed inventory of fuels for important stands in the Boreal and Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Forest Regions of Ontario. Over the last 20 years, an experimental burning program conducted by Forestry Canada, Ontario…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor
Recreation is of increasing importance in forest environments. Fire has both short-term effects, trail closures, smoke impacts; and long-term effects, residual 'scars,' potential hazards, on forest recreation. The general public is gaining sophistication in understanding forest…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lachowski, Rodman, Shovic
The 1988 fires created a lot of changes in land cover in Greater Yellowstone Area, an area of several million acres administered by the Park Service, Forest Service and other Federal, State and private owners. Remotely sensed data, such as aerial photography and imagery…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ffolliott
Fire, either as a natural occurrence or a management tool, can have beneficial effects on the environment, and its use offers opportunities for reducing fuel loads, disposing of slash, preparing seedbeds, thinning stands, increasing herbaceous plant production, increasing…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daniel
Obstacles to public acceptance of prescribed fire include misunderstanding of fire in forest ecosystems, concerned risk to life and property and assumed adverse effects on scenic and recreation values. Increased appreciation of the ecological, safety (fuel reduction) and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
The public outcry about the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park and adjacent natural forests, coupled with concern among natural resource managers, convinced the Secretaries of the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to establish the Fire Management Policy Review Team in…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw
The program RXWINDOW is intended to help fire managers develop prescription windows based on desired fire behavior. It is the fifth program in the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system. It reverses calculations found elsewhere in BEHAVE. In RXWINDOW, the user…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson
Major revisions to Rothermel's fire spread equations include the propagating flux ratio, reaction velocity, and moisture damping coefficient. The reaction intensity is of the flames alone and specifically excludes energy derived from burning char whether or not it lies in the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Taylor
Present uses of prescribed fire in Canada are reviewed. Fire has been a natural component of many forested North American landscapes for millennia, making it an obvious choice as an effective forest management tool. It can be used in harmony with known fire adaptations of…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Canham, Denslow, Platt, Runkle, Spies, White
Light regimes beneath closed canopies and tree-fall gaps are compared for five temperate and tropical forests using fish-eye photography of intact forest canopies and a model for calculating light penetration through idealized gaps. Beneath intact canopies, analyses of canopy…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Branhagen
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schonewald-Cox, Buechner, Sauvajot, Wilcox
Protecting biodiversity on public lands is difficult, requiring the management of a complex array of factors. This is especially true when the ecosystems in question are affected by, or extend onto, lands outside the boundries of the protected area. In this article we review…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Desponts, Payette
The northernmost jack pine populations in northern Quebec are located at the boreal forest - forest tundra boundary, along the Grande riviere de la Baleine, where they colonize the sandy terraces affected by recurrent fires. The reent fire history in the study area, are deduced…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blackwell, Feller, Trowbridge
The ecological effects of different treatments used to convert dense Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm. stands into young P. contorta plantations are determined. The treatments used were felling the trees with a bulldozer and either broadcast burning the slash or bulldozing…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mohr
The traditional notion that all fires need to be put out immediately is no longer the only approach to fire management. Rather, land managers are challenged to make situation-specific decisions with each fire start. There are situations when the decision involves suppression…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rasker
In the Greater Yellowstone area there is a perceived controversy between conservation efforts and economic well-being. This controversy is fueled by misconceptions about the economy and the role played by public lands in the region. In this paper three commonly held myths are…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS