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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Wildland fire and weather information data warehouse

Bunton
The USDA Forest Service stores fire occurrence data in a relational data base for planning, analysis, and other purposes. Weather observations are stored in the same data base for all five federal land management agencies and some state wildland agencies. Ready access to fire…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Past, current and future fire frequency in the Canadian boreal forest: implications for sustainable forest management

Bergeron, Flannigan, Gauthier, Leduc, Lefort
Over the past decades, there has been an increasing interest in the development of forest management approaches that are based on an understanding of historical natural disturbance dynamics. The rationale for such an approach is that management to favor landscape compositions…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Is regulated even-aged management the right strategy for the Canadian boreal forest?

Bergeron
Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in the development of forest management approaches that are based on an understanding of historical natural disturbance dynamics. The rationale for such an approach is that management to favour landscape compositions…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The great western wildfires: predicting the future by looking at the past

Rothermel
From the text ... 'It should be clear to everyone concerned that weather conditions and the availability of fuel largely control the behavior of fires. Since projections of actual fire growth depend on weather forecasts, and the weather beyond three to five days is highly…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forecasting fires: new database aids firefighters and forest ecologists

Ferber
From the text ... 'LANDFIRE can give more precise predictions than previous fire-behavior models did, allowing land managers to let beneficial fires burn, Shlisky says.The database has been tested in the northern Rockies and in central Utah; now it will expand nationwide. As…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Paleoecology and its application to fire and vegetation management in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia

Hallett, Walker
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Applying RUSLE 2.0 on burned-forest lands: an appraisal

Gonzalez-Bonorino, Osterkamp
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Safety's new horizon [interview]

Williams
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The millennial dynamics of a boreal forest stand from buried trees

Arseneault, Sirois
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Testing forest ecosystem management in boreal mixedwoods of northwestern Quebec: initial response of aspen stands to different levels of harvesting

Brais, Harvey, Bergeron, Messier, Greene, Belleau, Paré
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Trends and periodicities in the Canadian Drought Code and their relationships with atmospheric circulation for the southern Canadian boreal forest

Girardin, Tardif, Flannigan, Wotton, Bergeron
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tending fire: coping with America's wildland fires

Pyne
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Variability of wildland fire emissions across the contiguous United States

Liu
This study analyzes spatial and temporal variability of emissions from wildland fires across the contiguous US. The emissions are estimates based on a recently constructed dataset of historical fire records collected by multiple US governmental agencies. Both wildfire and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Spatial variation in fire frequency in the Interior Columbia River Basin

McKenzie, Peterson, Agee
We developed multiple regression models and tree-based (CART -- classification and regression tree) models to predict fire return intervals across the Interior Columbia River basin at 1-km resolution, using geo-referenced fire history potential vegetation, cover type, and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Modeling and mapping wildfire potential in Mexico based on vegetation and drought conditions using remote sensing and GIS technology

Mora, Hernandez-Cardenas
An increasing severity in the occurrence of wildfires in Mexico has been recently associated with the activity of 'El Nino' Southern Oscillation (ENSO). A spatio-temporal analysis of fire potential indicated that indeed, catastrophic fires could occur due to unusual droughts and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The workshop summary report: general recommendations to the Joint Fire Science Governing Board and Director

Sampson, Gollberg
The workshop began with the workshop facilitator, Neil Sampson, summarizing 17 invited papers presented on the opening day of the conference. These papers provided a state-of-the-science overview of pre-selected topics including Overview (3 papers), GIS and Remote Sensing…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

1997 and 1998 World ATSR Fire Atlas using ERS-2 ATSR-2 data

Arino, Rosaz
Data from the ERS-2 ATSR-2 instrument have been used to derive a world fire atlas for the year 1997 and 1998. The IGBP-DIS is currently co-ordinating the validation of this product. 36 scientists are taking part in the validation process over several representative areas of the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Twentieth century fire patterns in the Gila/Aldo Leopold Wilderness Complex New Mexico and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area Idaho/Montana

Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
We present results from ongoing research into 20th Century fire regimes in two large Rocky Mountain wilderness areas. Fire patterns are represented as digital fire atlases based on archival forest service data. We find that spatial and temporal fire patterns are variable in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Idaho Panhandle National Forests wildfire hazard-risk assessment

Harkins, Morgan, Neuenschwander, Chrisman, Zack, Jacobson, Grant, Sampson
The Idaho Panhandle National Forests (IPNF), in partnership with the University of Idaho, the Fire Sciences Laboratory, and The Sampson Group, developed a Geographic Information System (GIS) based wildfire hazard-risk assessment. The assessment was completed for the North Zone…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Returning America's forests to their 'natural' roots

Kloor
New data on how North American forests looked centuries ago are fueling a debate on what ecologists should aim for when restoring ailing ecosystems.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Ponderosa pine ecosystems restoration and conservation: steps toward stewardship

Vance, Edminster, Covington, Blake
This volume is divided into three sections: (1) Ecological, Biological, and Physical Science; (2) Social and Cultural; and (3) Economics and Utilization. Effective ecological restoration requires a combination of science and management. The authors of the first section…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Managing the unexpected in prescribed fire use operations: a workshop on the high reliability organization

Fire management, and forest and rangeland fuels management, over the past century have altered the wildland fire situation dramatically, thus also altering the institutional approach to how to deal with the changing landscape. Also, climate change, extended drought, increased…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Twentieth-century fire patterns in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area, Idaho/Montana, and the Gila/Aldo Leopold Wilderness Complex, New Mexico

Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
Twentieth century fire patterns were analyzed for two large, disparate wilderness areas in the Rocky Mountains. Spatial and temporal patterns of fires were represented as GIS-based digital fire atlases compiled from archival Forest Service data. We find that spatial and temporal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Management and research implications [Chapter 8]

Lyon, Smith
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Introduction [Chapter 1]

Lyon, Brown, Huff, Smith
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS