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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Vining, Merrick
Because American national forests are managed for all citizens, it is important that researchers explore the differences and similarities between citizens living both near and far from publicly managed land. We surveyed residents living at various distances from nationally…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Theobald, Romme
For at least two decades, expansion of low-density residential development at the wildland-urban interface has been widely recognized as a primary factor influencing the management of US national forests. We estimate the location, extent, and trends in expansion of the wildland-…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McGee
This paper is based on a survey of homeowners living adjacent to the extensive and heavily vegetated North Saskatchewan River Valley and Ravine System in Edmonton, Alberta. Residents in a random sample of 436 households adjacent to this urban natural area completed a mail…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hashidoko, Takakai, Toma, Darung, Melling, Tahara, Hatano
Using a soilless culture system mimicking tropical acidic peat soils, which contained 3mg of gellan gum and 0.5mgNO3¯-N per gram of medium, a greenhouse gas, N2O emitting capability of microorganisms in acidic peat soil in the area of Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fiedler, Friederici, Petruncio, Denton, Hacker
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to managing frequent-fire, old-growth forests. However, there are general guidelines to follow: 1) set objectives for both structure (tree density, diameter distribution, tree species composition, spatial arrangement, amount of coarse woody…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cram, Baker, Fernald, Madrid, Rummer
Increasing densities of small diameter trees have changed ecological processes and negatively impacted conservation of soil and water resources in western forests. Thinning treatments are commonplace to reduce stein density and potential fire hazard. We evaluated the impacts of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Binkley, Sisk, Chambers, Springer, Block
Classic ecological concepts and forestry language regarding old growth are not well suited to frequent-fire landscapes. In frequent-fire, old-growth landscapes, there is a symbiotic relationship between the trees, the understory graminoids, and fire that results in a healthy…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abella, Covington, Fulé, Lentile, Sánchez Meador, Morgan
Old growth in the frequent-fire conifer forests of the western United States, such as those containing ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), Jeffrey pine (P. jeffreyi), giant sequoia (Sequioa giganteum) and other species, has undergone major changes since Euro-American settlement.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shlisky, Hickey, Bragg
Altered fire regimes are a serious threat to biodiversity in almost every major habitat type on earth. Threats to the restoration and maintenance of intact fire regimes (e.g., federal and state fire policies, land use, social values, global plant dispersal, governmental cultures…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson, Rundel, Jackson, Teskey, Aronson, Bytnerowicz, Wingfield, Proches
Pines (genus Pinus) form the dominant tree cover over large parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Human activities have affected the distribution, composition, and structure of pine forests for millennia. Different human-mediated factors have affected different pine species in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDonald, Yuan-Farrell, Fievet, Moeller, Kareiva, Foster, Gragson, Kinzig, Kuby, Redman
The fate of private lands is widely seen as key to the fate of biodiversity in much of the world. Organizations that work to protect biodiversity on private lands often hope that conservation actions on one piece of land will leverage the actions of surrounding landowners. Few…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miller
Successful implementation of watershed restoration projects involving control of pinon and juniper requires understanding the spatial extent and role presettlement trees (> 140 yr) play in the ecology of Intermountain West landscapes. This study evaluated the extent,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brennan
I assessed the current, broad-scale status of populations, research, and management for 6 species of quail in the U.S., and used this information as an introduction, background, and justification for a national strategic planning effort for quail management and research. Long-…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bate, Yanoff, McCarthy, Bradley
The Nature Conservancy is working with the Bureau of Land Management to assess multiple indicators of ecological condition, including fire regime, across grasslands and shrublands in southern New Mexico. The purpose of the assessment is to identify restoration opportunities and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fege, Absher
From the text ... 'Preventing structure loss has become a major focal point of wildland firefighting. Most days, it feels like wildland fire professionals and land managers are becoming more and more responsible for reducing property losses in the wildland/urban interface (WUI…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... 'In the early 20th century, the debate was not about whether Indians used fire to manage landscapes, but that they did so much of it.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Drapeau, Gauthier, Lecomte
Several concepts are at the basis of forest ecosystem management, but a relative consensus exists around the idea of a forest management approach that is based on natural disturbances and forest dynamics. This type of approach aims to reproduce the main attributes of natural…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Rollins, Zhu
Canopy and surface fuels in many fire-prone forests of the United States have increased over the last 70 years as a result of modern fire exclusion policies, grazing, and other land management activities. The Healthy Forest Restoration Act and National Fire Plan establish a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guo
Diversity, biomass, and productivity, the three key community/ecosystem variables, are interrelated and pose reciprocal influences on each other. The relationships among the three variables have been a central focus in ecology and formed two schools of fundamentally different…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Havstad, James
Prescribed burning is a commonly advocated and historical practice for control of woody species encroachment into grasslands on all continents. However, desert grasslands of the southwestern United States often lack needed herbaceous fuel loads for effective prescriptions,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... '..., we have established cooperative agreements with state and many local entities and outlined how each will respond and provide mutual aid and cost-effective fire protection for public lands and their surrounding communities. Additional partnerships include…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fry, Stephens
Descriptions of spatial patterns are important components of forest ecosystems, providing insights into functions and processes, yet basic spatial relationships between forest structures and fuels remain largely unexplored. We used standardized omnidirectional semivariance…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cantu-Salazar, Gaston
A high proportion of global coverage by protected areas is composed of relatively few very large protected areas (vLPAs); it is therefore important to understand their contribution to biological conservation. Here, using fresh analyses and a review of literature, we examine five…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Butler, Goldstein
Wildland fire management in the United States is caught in a rigidity trap, an inability to apply novelty and innovation in the midst of crisis. Despite wide recognition that public agencies should engage in ecological fire restoration, fire suppression still dominates planning…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bagne, Finch
Mechanical and fire treatments are commonly used to reduce fuels where land use practices have encouraged accumulation of woody debris and high densities of trees. Treatments focus on restoration of vegetation structure, but will also affect wildlife populations. Small mammal…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS