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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Finney, Andrews
Fire growth simulation is the modeling of fire spread and behavior across landscapes with heterogeneous fuels, weather, and topography. FARSITE is a computer program designed to simulate fire growth using existing models of fire behavior found in BEHAVE (Andrews 1986) and in the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greene, Shilling, Compton
[First paragraph] Prescribed fire is coming to be recognized as a quantitative factor in natural-resource research, but our inability to control environmental and fire-related variables in natural fires has been a major impediment to interpreting research data. To help remove…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Prescribed fire planners working in the boreal mixedwood slash of the Northern Clay Belt Region face some unique problems not associated with other drier sites in Ontario. At times, poor fuel continuity and poor drainage can be major impediments to fire spread. Guidelines for…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hawkes
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Agee, Huff
Goals for vegetation management in wilderness areas have been difficult to define. Managing for natural vegetation is confounded because 'natural' is not uniquely defined and past interruption of natural processes, particularly fire, has caused ecosystem changes that may be…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
González-Cabán, McKetta
Economically sound decisions on fuel treatment require knowledge of treatment costs. Fuel treatment costs derived using an economic cost concept on two National Forests were found to be higher than reported by accounting methods. Costs are sufficiently high and variable to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartos
From the text...'Bartos and Campbell (1998) have identified five risk factors to help resource managers prioritize critical areas in need of treatment. If any of these factors exist, it is incumbent on the manager to consider treatment - particularly if their objective is to…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hawkes
From the text ... 'In the past, fire suppression was seen as a standard method for dealing with forest fires. Today, foresters view fire as an essential instrument of forest regeneration, contributing to a greater diversity of flora and fauna. 'Fire plays a natural role and we'…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Forest species regeneration and management options in the Melajo Nature Reserve, Trinidad and Tobago
Tropical moist forests are declining rapidly world-wide. Reforestation efforts in Trinidad have generally been insufficient and focused on non-native species. Some of these species (e.g. Pinus caribaea), however, appear ecologically inappropriate but have been used extensively…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Flannigan, Wotton, Suffling
The predicted increase in climate warming will have profound impacts on forest ecosystems and landscapes in Canada because of increased temperature, and altered disturbance regimes. Climate change is predicted to be variable within Canada, and to cause considerable weather…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This article outlines the flexible semi-empirical philosophy used throughout six decades of fire research by the Canadian Forest Service, culminating in the development of the Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System. It then describes the principles involved when spread rate and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feller
The influence of seedbed (undisturbed forest floor, burned forest floor, and mineral soil), light (closed forest, open forest, and clearcut), and competing vegetation (present, not present) on germination and initial seedling survival and growth of subalpine fir (Abies…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Engelmark, Hofgaard, Arnborg
We present results from repeated analyses (1962, 1993) of a permanent plot established in 1947, combined with retrospective stand age structure data, in an old Pinus sylvestris stand in Muddus National Park, northern Sweden. The study points towards a successional pathway…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catling, Brownell
Vascular plants recorded within 50 one metre square quadrats in 1997 in an area cut and burned 37 years earlier revealed an unusually high species diversity with 87 native vascular plant species, which is roughly twice as high as that recorded in various open areas of alvars…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williamson, Agee
Poster abstract...Riparian vegetation is often assumed to be less flammable than upland vegetation in evaluations of fire hazard in the eastern Cascades and Blue Mountains. However, the complex multi-layered structure and high proportion of fire-sensitive species within riparian…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wattenberg
From the text...'Independent observers who know the status of the park today say that the rosy picture presented by the National Park Service and by ecologists quoted in this article is not accurate.'
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavoie, Sirois
From 1980- 1989, fires burned 32 440 km² of boreal forest, 200 km south of the forest-tundra border in northern Quebec, Canada. An assessment of the impact of fire on tree population densities was carried out by comparing the number of Pinus banksiana and Picea mariana in 83…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foster, Knight, Franklin
We review and compare well-studied examples of five large, infrequent disturbances (LIDs)--fire, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, and floods--in terms of the physical processes involved, the damage patterns they create in forested landscapes, and the potential impacts…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS