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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Willard, Wakimoto, Ryan
The Red Bench Fire of 1988 was the most significant fire to occur within the North Fork of the Flathead River drainage since 1926. Several wet sedge meadows were burned within Glacier National Park. To determine the effects of fire on vegetation recovery in these sedge meadows,…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hungerford, Frandsen, Ryan
Surface fires in wetland ecosystems frequently ignite smoldering ground fires. Ground fires often create and maintain open, shallow marshes that contribute to ecosystem diversity. Fire exclusion, drainage, deforestation, and other human activities have altered the landscape…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lugo
A conceptual ecosystem model illustrates principles of ecosystem management in wetlands. Wetlands are excellent systems for the development of ecosystem management principles because they are relatively simple ecosystems and respond quickly to changes in their environment. The…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan
The 1988 National Fire Danger System implements the Keetch-Byran Drought Index. This indexis output both as an estimator of drought in its own right and is used to modify fire danger calculations to account for deep drying of dead vefetation and duff. A method initializes this…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ratz
Fire is one of the most important factors structuring boreal forests. A spatial simulation model based on a cellular automata approach was built to obtain insights into the spatial pattern of successional stages. Two scenarios are compared: 1. constant flammability and 2.…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cobb
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Green
'FireNet (Green, Gill and Trevitt 1994) is an international information retrieval network for everyone interested in landscape fires. It is a practical result of the recognition that we need to harness modern computer networks to support fire management, research and training In…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrett
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas
'Statement by the Chief of the Forest Service United States Department of Agriculture, before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry, and General Legislation Committee on Agriculture, United States Senate.'
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Cole
A graph has been constructed for determining one of five possible head fire intensity classes as well as the general type of fire (i.e., surface,intermittent crown or continuous crown) for Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System Fuel Type C-2 F(Boreal Spruce) based on…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foote
Fire burns 3,000-1,000,000 acres annually, It is a natural part of the ecology of the boreal forest of interior Alaska. Fire alters the site, growing conditions on the site, site resilency, and the habitat of users of the site. It promotes site productivity by recycling…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
A fire regime classification that recognizes stand-replacement, nonlethal understory, mixed and variable fire severities is discussed as a simplified approach for communicating widely about the natural role of fire. Examples of the fire regime types are provided. Five challenges…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grilz, Romo
Smooth brome (Bromus inermis Leyss.), an introduced perennial grass is an aggressive invader of prairie dominated by plains rough fescue (Festuca altaica Trin. subsp. hallii [Vasey] Harms). We (1) compared richness and density of plant species in brome and fescue stands that…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini, Reinhardt
As part of the development of a model for predicting fuel loading reductions by and intensity histories of fires burning in large woody natural fuels, it was necessary to develop separate models for the processes of ignition and rate of burning of individual fuel elements. This…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
French, Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, Berry
The results of a study using satellite imagery to map boreal forest fires in Alaska in 1990 and 1991 are presented. Composite AVHRR data was found to detect more than 80% of fires greater than 2,000 ha in size Addidonally, using a two season method, 78% of the area of all boreal…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bessie, Johnson
Surface fire intensity (kilowatts per metre) and crown fire initiation were predicted using Rothermel's 1972 and Van Wagner's 1977 fire models with fuel data from 47 upland subalpine conifer stands (comprising Pinus contorta var. latifolia, Picea engelmannii, Abies lasiocarpa…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Goldammer
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, French, Harrell, Christensen, Ustin, Barry
Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) composite image data, produced from AVHRR data collected in 1990, were evaluated for locating and mapping the areal extent of wildfires in the boreal forests of Alaska during that year. A technique was developed to map forest fire…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, Stocks
Changing climate and land use appear to importantly affect the biosphere by way of impacts on fire regimes. Feedback effects on climate and air quality are likely through emissions of trace gases, aerosols, and particulates that affect radiation budgets, stability of the…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bishop, Armbruster
We compared the thermoregulatory capabilities of tropical and subarctic bees to determine whether bees from higher latitudes have greater thermoregulatory capabilities. The data indicate that thermoregulatory capability is a function of size and wing loading, and there is no…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bessie, Johnson
Surface fire intensity (kW m[-1]) and crown fire initiation were predicted using Rothermel's (1972) and Van Wagner's (1977) models, with fuel data from 47 subalpine conifer stands and 35 years of daily weather (moisture contents and windspeeds). Rothermel's intensity equations…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gutsell, Johnson
We have constructed a model for the transient heating of cones showing that there is a logarithmic relationship between the time (sec) to cone opening (releasing viable seeds) or cone ignition and temperature (°K) in the convective column above a fire. The slope of the curve is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heard
Larvae of the midge Metriocnemus knabi and of the mosquito Wyeomyia smithii feed on decaying invertebrate carcasses inside the water-filled leaves of the purple pitcher plant. I examined the interaction between these two species in natural populations in Gros Morne National Park…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS