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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Swanston
[no description entered]
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae, Lynham, Frech
The alarming loss of forested areas containing red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) and eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) in eastern Canada is a situation that must be addressed promptly by changing management approaches. Since the ecological role of fire in the regeneration and…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cicerone
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Angelstam
Summary (p.499-500) ... 'Fire is an important natural and anthropogenic factor in the dynamics of the boreal forest system. The ecological and environmental impacts of boreal fires depend on fire weather, fuel availability, fire behavior and history of stand development (…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prasil
The National Park Service has studied certain areas and intends to continually study other Parks to determine whether or not natural fires will be allowed to burn. It is understood by the Service where natural fires will cause a threat to other land agencies, State or Federal,…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mallik, Roberts
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The National Weather Service Fire Weather Program provides weather forecasting and meteorological support services to state and federal wildland fire management agencies. An Intergovernmental Fire Weather User's Summit, sponsored by the National Weather Service (NWS) and the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grilz, Romo
Bromus inermis Leyss (smooth brome) is an invasive perennial grass in Fescue Prairie in North America. Prescribed burning is a potential method of controlling this exotic, but its responses to burning in this grassland are not known. This study was conducted to determine the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Strang
From the text ... 'At the request of the Provincial government, an ecological examination was carried out between 1966 and 1968, to determine whether afforestation would be practical. The soil and vegetation of the heathlands were examined in detail and compared with adjacent…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reifsnyder
From the text ... 'One area where great strides can be made is in the climatology of fire weather and its application to fire planning. Recent advances have been made in application of climatology to agriculture, and many of the same principles can be applied to forest fire…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cayford
From the Discussion ... 'It has been shown that a number of research foresters have investigated the use of prescribed burning as a technique for regenerating cut-over jack pine stands and, in general, results have been very promising. However, it has also been shown that…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pitman, Adjei
Most grasslands have developed under burning, and the dominant grasses are tolerant of burning (Roberts 1979; Hodgkinson 1986). Roberts (1979) suggested that burning provided advantages to grasses over desirable pasture legumes, whereas Pressland (1982) considered that native…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prevost
A greenhouse experiment was conducted to assess the effects of scalping and burning the Kalmia litter of an acidic peaty soil on (i) germination and early growth of black spruce, (ii) the nutrient status of the soil surface (0-5 cm), and ( iii ) nutrient leaching. Burning of the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) has defoliated the balsam fir (Abies balsamea) component of many eastern North American forests, resulting in widespread mortality of these trees. Consequently, managers have become concerned about the potential for severe forest fires…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murray, Northcutt, Countryman
[no description entered]
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Methven
The effect of crown damage on mortality of red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) and white pine (Pinus strobus L.) was examined using both controlled temperature laboratory experiments on pine seedlings and prescribed fires in mature pine stands. Laboratory experiments indicated that…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Wells
From the text... 'One of the potential problems with the use of prescribed burning in the past has been the lack of any systematic investigation into the ecological effects of this forest management practice on the ecosystem. In 1991, the planning process to address this issue…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Oliver, Knapp, Everett
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Canadian/United States cooperative mass fire behavior and atmospheric environmental impact study
Over the past four years scientists have cooperatively monitored fire behavior and smoke chemistry, on a number of large prescribed fires in the Province of Ontario. Primary cooperating agencies include Forestry Canada, the United States Forest Service, the National Aeronautics…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radke, Ward
Planning prescribed fires for optimal periods which results in emissions reduction is an extremely useful air quality management technique. New information suggests that one more useful tool in smoke management may involve using the capacity of the atmosphere to remove smoke…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Molenkamp, Bradley
The OCTET modeling system has been designed to simulate the atmospheric dynamics, microphysics and scavenging above hypothetical large city fires with energy release rates on the order of 10-100kW/m2 over areas of tens to hundreds of square kilometers. It simulates the three-…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
Electric field measurements, combined with lightning location data, demonstrate that the plume clouds from large fires can be charged and can generate lightning discharges. The results of measurements made on a prescribed burn show that the charge distribution is a positive…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Banta, Olivier, Holloway
The Doppler lidar of NOAA/ERL's Wave Propagation Laboratory (WPL) observed a prescribed forest fire that was ignited in the township of Battersby, Ontario, Canada, on 12 August 1988. During the first hour of the fire the lidar saw the smoke column rise nearly straight up to a…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown, Turner
Objectives of this study were to test existing prediction equations for duff depth reduction, percentage of duff consumed, and mineral soil exposure to determine the limits of their applicability, and to develop if possible broadly based prediction equations for use throughout…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS