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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Edminster, Weatherspoon, Neary
As part of the 1998 Joint USDA/USDI Fire Science Program, the Fire and Fire Surrogates Study was proposed to establish and evaluate cross-comparisons of fuels treatment practices and techniques to reduce wildfire risk. This study evaluates prescribed fire, thinning, and various…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moody, Field
Fluorinated surfactants comprise a unique class of specialty chemicals whose environmental behavior has received little attention. Consequently, little Information Is available to permit a complete life-cycle analysis. The focus of this review of fluorinated surfactants Is to (1…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roseberry
From the text (p.244) ... 'In closing, I would just like to remind you that as necessary and vital as research is, it is not an absolute cure-all for the current problems faced by quail and other forms of wildlife. The widespread decline in bobwhite abundance over the past 3 or…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burger, Taylor
Radio telemetry is a widely accepted tool in the field of wildlife ecology, yet there is little information in the wildlife literature that demonstrates how to incorporate spatiotemporal data from telemetry into spatial databases such as geographic information systems (GIS).…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Capel
Federal Farm programs have had wide range of impacts on wildlife over the years. Some programs have been extremely harmful to wildlife while others have, intentionally or accidentally, been beneficial to wildlife. Frequently, the same program that is beneficial to wildlife in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carver, Burger, Brennan
We compared survival, weight gain, and mark retention of wing bands (n = 50), passive integrated transponders (PITs) (n = 50), and leg bands proportional to the chicks size (control) (n = 50) on 1-day-old northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) chicks. A repeated measures,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pope, Heekin
Mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus) populations have declined throughout the Intermountain Region of the Pacific Northwest. The decline of mountain quail is most likely related to the loss of habitat. We suggest that disturbance may play a critical role in providing the structure,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hunter, Ludolph
Archaeological and historical evidence on status of northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) in southern Ontario prior to European settlement is not clear. The bird was documented on the Essex and Kent County prairies at the time of European settlement in the early 1700's.Early…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guthery, Forrester, Nolte, Cohen, Kuvlesky
Populations of scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) and northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) have declined in North America coincident with global warming. We speculate on a cause-effect relation between global warming and quail declines. Quail are sensitive to operative…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Crawford
Mountain quail (Oreortyx pictus) are among the least studied of the North American quails. The prehistoric and early historic distributions of this bird are uncertain. In the Pacific Northwest, mountain quail were first recorded by Lewis and Clark in 1806 near the Columbia River…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carroll
Recently, McGowan et al. (1995) completed a worldwide conservation strategy for all species of partridges, quails, and francolins. They identified priority species and projects for the next 5 years. Mexico was identified as a critical country in Latin America because of the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evans, Schemnitz
We observed unmarked and radio-marked (20 females/1994; 9 females and 11 males/1995) scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) during the nesting season in the Chihuahuan Desert of southern New Mexico. In 1994, pairing was completed by early April. Clutch size averaged 13.8 ± 1.7 (n =…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radomski, Guthery
We established mathemetical models and explored the role of a learned response (avoidance behavior) to understand and manage the hunter-covey interface. Furthermore, we examined the dynamic nature of the probability of flush, given encounter, in a population that learned to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potts
Aware of the time lag that frequently exists between declines in biodiversity and effective conservation to correct and reverse the declines, I examine some reasons behind this problem. Experience with species as diverse as the shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) and grey partridge…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Norris
From the text...'In the early decades of the twentieth century, the astronomer Andrew Douglass noted that trees growing in a particular area, which are exposed to the same sequence of wet and dry growing seasons, typically share the same pattern of variation in the width of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dudley, DeLoach, Lovich, Carruthers
From the text...'the goals of this paper are to describe briefly the nature of impacts that saltcedar has to riparian ecosystems and how human impacts relate to this invasion, to review our expectations for a biological control program to augment traditional control efforts, to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Joyce, Mitchell, Loftin
Criterion 3 - Maintenance of Ecosystem Health - encompasses three indicators: disturbance, air pollution, and biological components. Our objective is to assess how well Criterion 3, developed to monitor temperate and boreal forests, applies to rangelands. We review the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Poiani, Richter, Anderson, Richter
From the text...'Approaches to conservation and natural resource management are maturing rapidly in response to changing perceptions of biodiversity and ecological systems. In past decades,biodiversity was viewed largely in terms of species richness, and the ecosystems…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shafer
Which management strategy, intervention or nonintervention, is best for the northern elk herd of Yellowstone National Park? This question was first raised in the early part of the twentieth century and resurfaced in the 1960s, prompting controversy that continues today. In…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maina, Howe
We explore the implications of an often overlooked fact in community restoration: most species, in real or synthetic communities, are infrequent or rare, a phenomenon we call 'inherent rarity.' Whether from long-term interactions of many factors affecting birth, death, and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nguyen-Xuan, Bergeron, Simard, Fyles, Paré
The nonvascular and vascular plant composition of the early regenerating vegetation present following wildfires and clear-cut logging has been compared separately in three areas of the black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) - feathermoss (Pleurozium schreberi (Brid.) Mitt.))…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Greene, Johnson
We developed and tested a wind-dispersal model of tree recruitment into burns from living sources at the fire edge or from small unburned residual stands. The model was also tested on recruitment of serotinous Pinus banksiana Lamb. within a burn. The model assumed that source…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clubine
Clubine discusses the best seasons to conduct burns in order to increase the quality of warm-season grasses, reduce woody plant species and cool-season grasses, and improve growth and reproduction. He recommends occasional burns in summer (July-August), fall (October-November),…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Patel, Rapport
An effective approach to increase forest health is to identify and validate a suite of indicators for monitoring forest conditions. We sought indicators of impacts due to deer browsing. prescribed burn, visitor use, and trails on understory plants beside trails in an oak-pine…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron
In order to test whether changes in forest composition observed while sampling portions of the landscape originating from different fires may be explained by stand-level processes, I reconstructed species and stand dynamics for mesic sites in the mixedboreal forests of Quebec.…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS