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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Viereck, Werdin-Pfisterer, Yoshikawa, Adams
The 1971 Wickersham fire burned 6,313 ha in an open black spruce forest underlain with permafrost and provided an opportunity to study fire effects on the rate and patterns of permafrost recovery.  When wildfire burns through a northern black spruce forest there is usually a…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Schaitberger
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Macdonald, Burgess, Scrimgeour, Boutin, Reedyk, Kotak
Riparian communities (those near open water) have often been shown to display high structural and compositional diversity and they have been identified as potentially serving a keystone role in the landscape. Thus, they are the focus of specific management guidelines that…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Beighley
From the text ... 'In order to assure safe fireline operations, firefighters need processes to evaluate fireline safety that are measurable, consistent, and transferable.... There should never be any uncertainty about the location of safety zones and excape routes, the adequacy…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Gleason
From the text ... 'The LCES system approach to fireline safety is an outgrowth of my analysis of fatalities and near-misses for over 20 years of active fireline suppression duties. LCES simply refocuses on the essential elements of the standard Fire Orders. Its use should be…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Morse
From the text ... 'Scotoma -- blindness to danger perceived as routine -- had taken hold and blocked out sensitivity to hazardous events or conditions present in the fire environment.... The relationship is clearly established between fireline fatalities and a lack of awareness…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Davis, Chandler
From the text ... 'Vortex turbulence consists of a pair of miniature whirlwinds trailing from the wingtips of any aircraft in flight.'
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Colson
From the text ... 'Many fires have been designated as 'blow-ups' simply because of a lack of understanding of the factors controlling the behavior of these fires.'
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Brown
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Williams
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Krannitz, Duralia
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hagen, Jamison, Giesen, Riley
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Spies
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Haeussler, Bergeron
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fuller, Jessup, Salim
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Pyne
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tansey, Gregoire, Binaghi, Boschetti, Brivio, Ershov, Flasse, Fraser, Graetz, Maggi, Peduzzi, Pereira, Silva, Sousa, Stroppiana
Biomass burning constitutes a major contribution to global emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, greenhouse gases and aerosols. Furthermore, biomass burning has an impact on health, transport, the environment and land use. Vegetation fires are certainly not…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Payette, Boudreau, Morneau, Pitre
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Potvin, Bertrand
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Guyette, Dey
Ignitions, fuels, topography, and climate interact through time to create temporal and spatial differences in the frequency of fire, which, in turn, affects ecosystem structure and function. In many ecosystems non-human ignitions are overwhelmed by anthropogenic ignitions. Human…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Van Lear
Of the many disturbance factors that shaped hardwood forests in the eastern United States, fire was perhaps the most important. Fires ignited by Native Americans and lightning played a dominant role in sustaining oak (Quercus spp.) forests throughout the Central Hardwood Region…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS