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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wotton, Mason, Hartley, Stefner
Wind speed and direction measurements took place around the perimeter of each of the main experimental fires of the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment, Northwest Territories. Wind was measured at 2-m, 5-m, and 10-m heights at distances of 20 to 30 m from the ignition…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ackerman, Dakin
Clearings in forest stands, no matter how small, are often viewed as places of refuge in the event of a sudden, unexpected change in fire behavior. Over a period of several years, as part of the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in the Northwest Territories,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reardon, Jimenez, Ryan
Soil heating associated with large-scale crown fires is of great concern to land managers. The relationship between crown fire intensity and fire severity is not clear. Crown fires have been linked to varying degrees of soil heating and changes in soil properties such as…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stefner, Alexander, Maffey, Mason, Stocks, Hartley
Various methods and techniques were utilized in sampling the ground, surface, ladder, and crown fuel characteristics of the jack pine (Pinus banksiana)-black spruce (Picea mariana) forest associated with the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), Northwest…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Lanoville
Several fuel treatment demonstration trials or case studies were carried out as part of the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), Northwest Territories: 1) demonstrating the value of fully leafed-out trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) stands as fuelbreaks…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Despain
Fire line intensity (kW/m) in woody vegetation crowns is one of the parameters useful in assessing many fire effects. However, crown fire intensity is very difficult to measure. Temperature and time can be measured with a variety of sensors such as thermistors and thermocouples…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
de Groot, Alexander, Wotton, Bothwell, Stefner, Carlsson
Factors affecting tree regeneration in the boreal forest after fire are poorly understood. We studied post-fire recruitment and early growth of jack pine (Pinus banksiana) seedlings in a prescribed burn experiment. We burned nine plots (0.56-2.25 ha) of mature jack pine trees…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hobbs, Alexander, Weber
The understory vegetation response is one of the post-fire effects studies being carried out as part of the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), Northwest Territories. In each of the main 150 × 150-m ICFME plots, fifteen 1 × 1-m quadrats, further subdivided…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jimenez, Butler, Reardon, Webb, Jones
Current methods for predicting fire-induced mortality in shrubs and trees are largely empirical. These methods do not exhibit a wide range of applicability and are not readily linked to duff burning, soil heating, and surface fire behavior models. New models for duff burning and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor, Dalrymple
Rate of spread is a key fire behavior characteristic. Spread rate is thought to accelerate after ignition to an equilibrium value, then vary over the burning period due to variation in wind speed and direction, and fuel conditions. Using data from gridded thermocouples, we…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Stocks
The 22nd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference featured a special session on selected aspects of the wildland fire research carried out during the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), co-chaired by M.E. Alexander of the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) and R.A.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kalkhan, Martinson, Omi, Stohlgren, Chong, Hunter
Investigating spatial relationships among fuels, wildfire severity, and post-fire invasion by exotic plant species through linkage of multiphase sampling design and multiscale nested sampling field plots, pre- and post-fire, can be accomplished by integrating spatial information…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch, Kafka, Todd
During the next few decades, a considerable portion of the productive boreal forest in Canada will be harvested and there is an excellent opportunity to use forest management activities (e.g., harvesting, regeneration, stand tending) to alter the forest fuels for fire management…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blackwell, Gray, Steele, Needoba, Green, MacKenzie
In 2000 the Squamish Forest District began a pilot project to study the effects of prescribed fire on forest succession, fuel dynamics, regeneration, wildlife habitat, and timber supply within two landscape units encompassing 103,000 ha north of Pemberton, British Columbia.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae, Jin
Quantitative documentation of fire behavior is important in understanding aspects of physical fire behavior. We describe the use of infrared technology to document on-the-ground fire behavior observed during the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Valerio
On 4 May 2000, the Bandelier National Monument initiated a prescribed fire south and west of the town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to reduce accumulated forest fuels near Cerro Grande Peak. On 5 May, the fire was declared a wildfire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Omi, Martinson, Kalkhan, Chong, Hunter, Stohlgren
The severity of the 2000 fire season has increased public awareness of a widespread fuels problem in western U.S. forests. Federal land management agencies have responded with plans to greatly expand programs to mitigate hazardous fuel conditions. However, scant information…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wong, Lertzman, Heyerdahl
We used temporal and spatial patterns in establishment of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) to infer the influential disturbance regime at both the stand level and across the study area over the last 200 years in the lower Stein Valley,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Le, Sirois
Black spruce (Picea mariana) and jack pine (Pinus banksiana) are two major species of the North American boreal forest, east of James Bay, Quebec. These tree species are the main components of the forest cover in the area, where a 100-year fire rotation period prevails. Largely…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Francis, Conly
Lignum Ltd. holds a 610,000-ha Innovative Forest Practices Agreement (IFPA) within the Cariboo-Chilcotin region of central British Columbia. The Lignum IFPA is ecologically diverse, with the majority of the IFPA comprising variants of the Sub-Boreal Pine and Spruce (SBPS), Sub-…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jurney, Evans, Ipppolito, Bergstrom
Records of natural and cultural fires are scattered, difficult to obtain, and are of variable quality. We synthesize these disparate data for portions of southeastern North America from 1916 to 1990 for use by foresters, ecologists, and land managers. Dendrochronological studies…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hann
Fire regime and associated condition class mapping have provided key data for development of cohesive strategies for restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems and for the National Fire Plan within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and U.S. Department of Interior…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rogeau, Pengelly, Fortin
The fire management goal in Banff National Park is to maintain or restore, where possible, historical fire regimes. Fire cycles are an important component of a fire regime, and historical fire cycles provide a reference to guide the use of prescribed fire. Weather, climate,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bothwell, de Groot, Dube, Chowns, Carlsson, Stefner
Nahanni National Park and the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary are ecologically important areas in the Northwest Territories. Fire history data in Nahanni National Park and the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary were used for a comparative analysis in order to identify the most influential…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martinson, Omi
Federal land management agencies in the U.S. have responded to recent severe wildfire seasons with plans to greatly expand fuel treatment programs. These plans are often accompanied by ecological justifications to assuage environmental objections to fuel treatment activities (e.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS