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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Komarek
From the text ... 'The influence of fire on vegetation and on plant succession is coming under more scrutiny, and detailed research is appearing as never before from many agencies. The Forest and Range Experiment Stations of the Forest Service, along with cooperating agencies,…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stewart
From the text ... 'The historic records from around the world leave no room to doubt that primitive hunting and gathering peoples, as well as ancient farmers and herders, for a number of reasons, frequently and intentionally set fire to almost all the vegetation around them…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson
Cutting shallow trenches with a bulldozer or giant plow achieves the three requisites for natural regeneration of cottonwood: a bare seedbed, removal of overstory other than seed trees, and freedom from weeds for at least a year.
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fueno, Mukherjee, Ree, Eyring
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Laderman, Hecht, Stern, Oppenheim
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Calcote
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weinberg
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Diederichsen
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sokolik
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Powell, Taylor
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dimmock, Kineyko
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simms
Recent attempts to model the flow in very hot fire plumes where radiative transport of heat may significantly modify both the dynamics of the flow and the processes of combustion have met with only partial success. This paper gives an account of a model for the flow in a…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Berry, Ripperton
Emergence tipburn was observed in the field following recorded ozone concentrations as high as 6.5 pphm. Similar symptoms were produced on greenhouse plants using artificially produced oxidant at the same levels.
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shelford
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Powell
Private lands are critical to conservation planning for wildlife, worldwide. Agriculture subsidies, tax incentives, and conservation easements have been successfully used as tools to convert cropland to native vegetation. However, uncertain economies threaten the sustainability…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Magnussen, Fehrman, Platt
Density estimators for k-tree distance sampling are sensitive to the amount of extra Poisson variance in distances to the kth tree. To lessen this sensitivity, we propose an adaptive composite estimator (COM). In simulated sampling from 16 test populations, a three-component…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Longcore, Rich, Mineau, MacDonald, Bert, Sullivan, Mutrie, Gauthreaux, Avery, Crawford, Manville, Travis, Drake
Avian mortality at communication towers in the continental United States and Canada is an issue of pressing conservation concern. Previous estimates of this mortality have been based on limited data and have not included Canada. We compiled a database of communication towers in…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jain, Pilliod, Graham, Lentile, Sandquist
Many scientists and managers have an interest in describing the environment following a fire to understand the effects on soil productivity, vegetation growth, and wildlife habitat, but little research has focused on the scientific rationale for classifying the post-fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robbins
From the text ... 'The United States Forest Service, which manages nearly 200 million acres of public land, believes limited thinning and burning will prevent catastrophic wildfires. The agency contracts with logging companies to cut down large and small trees across sweeping…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feng, Alfaro-Murillo, DeAngelis, Schmidt, Barga, Zheng, Ahmad Tamrin, Olson, Glaser, Kielland, Chapin, Bryant
Two models were integrated in order to study the effect of plant toxicity and a trophic cascade on forest succession and fire patterns across a boreal landscape in central Alaska. One of the models, ALFRESCO, is a cellular automata model that stochastically simulates transitions…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keller
From the text ... 'In two recent incidents that occurred with different fire agencies in separate parts of the country, fire vehicles that were parked in the black and left unattended caught fire. At the time of ignitions, the focus was elsewhere: both crews were engaged in…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yang
Fighting fire with fire has been given the green light by a new study of techniques used to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires. And with a rise in wildfires predicted in many parts of the country, researchers say controlled burns and other treatments to manage this risk…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS