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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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"Mounting the Attack on Wildfire" is a 18-minute video produced in 1987 by the Canadian Forest Service that offers an overview of the co-operative experimental burning project conducted with the Alberta Forest Service at Big Fish Lake in north-central Alberta during the mid to…
Year: 1987
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pauly
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Trabaud
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Voight
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drake
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zasada, Norum, Teutsch, Densmore
Seedlings of black spruce, aspen, green alder, and grayleaf willow planted on black spruce/feather moss sites in the boreal forest in interior Alaska survived and grew relatively well over a 6-year period after prescribed burning. Survival of black spruce was significantly…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Johnston
Fuel loading, fireline intensity, and expected fire size were determined after harvesting small-stem lodgepole pine stands. Curves relating predicted fireline intensity to slash fuel loading and windspeed are presented. Removing about 15 tons per acre of residues reduced…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hungerford
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schmidt
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Apfelbaum, Sams
Reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea L.) is a problem grass in many natural wetlands. This paper reviews the literature regarding the ecology and management of reed canary grass and presents preliminary data that suggest reduced soil-seed banks occur in wetland substrates…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren, Scifres, Teel
Grassland burning elicits a diverse array of responses by arthropods, depending upon many interactive factors. Empirical models were develoed, based on the literature, to qualitatively order selected behavioral characteristics of fire, arthropod life habits and phenology,…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
Guidelines are provided to help forest managers and silviculturists develop even- and uneven-aged cutting methods and associated silvicultural practices needed to convert ponderosa pine forests in the Black Hills into managed stands and maintain them for a variety of resource…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chambers
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Stuckey, Thompson
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kilgore
Literature from the United States, Canada and Australia is reviewed to summarize knowledge concerning fire history, effects of fire, fire behavior, what is "natural," the role of Indian burning, the role of prescribed fires, effects on wildlife, insects and disease, and…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas
From the Conclusion ... 'Quail enthusiasts who have pine forestland have an opportunity to improve quail habitat and improve pine growth and productivity by using imazapyr to control competitive vegetation [see Table 4 -- Wildlife Habitat Enhancement with Imazapyr]. Other game…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Engstrom, Gilbert, Hunter, Merriwether, Nowacki, Spencer
Key issues
• Disturbance ecology furnishes a valuable conceptual framework for natural resource management.
• Numerous techniques exist for documenting past disturbance regimes and the historic range of variability of key disturbances.
• Management goals should be viewed as…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Herr, Duchesne, Reader
The effects of soil organic matter, soil moisture, shading and ash on white pine (Pinus strobus L.) emergence were investigated using soil monoliths in greenhouse experiments. White pine seedling emergence increased with soil organic matter removal, and levelled with the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hamer
Hedysarum (Hedysarum spp.) roots are a primary food of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in the Front Ranges of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. I studied the effects of recent forest fire on yellow hedysarum (H. sulphurescens) habitat by comparing root density, mass, fibre content,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gom, Rood
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beland, Bergeron, Zarnovican
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knight
From the text...”Summary: Limber pine and ponderosa pine typically occur on escarpments and in the foothills of mountain ranges, environments that are cooler and more mesic than the adjacent grasslands and shrublands below and warmer and drier than the forests above. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin-R, Cox, Ibarra-F, Alston, Banner, Malecheck
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nantel, Gagnon
1. The clonal perennial herb Helianthus divaricatus and the clonal shrub Rhus aromatica reach the northern limit of their distribution in southern Quebec (Canada), where both are rare, but they are more common southwards in the adjacent province of Ontario. We tested whether…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'Bark beetles are decimating Alaska's spruce and and bringing together the mostly unlikely of partners...The spruce bark beetle has unwittingly produced collaboration among the humans who share their woods--people who have been at odds for decades...Firefighter…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS