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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Klenner, Kurz, Beukema
We present the results of a study to examine the effects of management actions and natural disturbances in influencing the evolution of habitat patterns on forested lands. TELSA, a spatially explicit vegetation succession model with the ability to apply user-defined management…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
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
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
Zimmerman, Bunnell
The federal wildland Fire Management Policy and Program Review represents the latest stage in the evolution of wildland fire management. This policy directs changes that consolidate past fire management practices into a single direction to achieve multidimensional objectives and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Lyon, Smith
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lyon, Brown, Huff, Smith
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Englin, Boxall, Hauer
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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
Sheppard
Fire has been a global disturbance agent for thousands of years. As an ecological process that helped shape the floral and faunal communities of western North America, fire also maintained the health and diversity of forests until European settlers arrived. Since that time,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'Fire shelter training has for years stressed the importance of deploying fire shelters where there is no direct flame contact. However, the results of recent tests by the Missoula Technology and Development Center, a part of the USDA Forest Service's Fire and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hawkes
From the text: 'In summary, the coupling of a burning prescription which could deliver adequate fire intensity with gelled gasoline helitorch ignition to overcome some of the fuel arrangement and topographic problems resulted in a generally successful rehabilitation effort at…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lait
Text: 'Fire suppression offers the fire manager little or no time to prepare personnel for tasks which require considerable logistical preparation. Usually these aspects such as air tanker loading and retardant mixing are contracted out and are very expensive. Techniques such as…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Brown
Text: 'Historically, surface fires ignited by lightning and Native Americans burned through the ponderosa pine-fir forests of the Northern Rockies at intervals of 5 to 25 years. The frequent underburns favored regeneration and survival of pine and western larch, and maintained…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simmerman
From the text: 'This poster display illustrates the current development of a classification of fuels in aspen forests. Fuels and flammability vary considerably within the aspen and mixed aspen/conifer forest types depending upon plant community type, grazing influence, and…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Curtis
From the Summary ...'Successful prescribed burning on steep slopes in heavy fuels demands good preparation and planning from the start to the finish. Don*t overload the burn unit with fire fighters. Use only the personnel needed to accomplish the burn. It will not be easy and…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hunter
From the Conclusions ... 'The coordination of the helitorch operations, such as support services, unit ignition procedures, and timing, is of a critical nature. It is imperative that a smooth flow of effort be immediately established and maintained throughout a burn. Oversights…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the Final Remarks...'Designing fire prescriptions to meet today's demand for skill and professionalism requires an orderly planning process. At the start of this process, fire objectives must be derived from land managment objectives and specifically stated in terms of what…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman
From the Introduction ... ' As prescribed fire became more widely understood and applied in the U.S. in the decades following World War II, forest managers routinely used aircraft for various purposes in prescribed fire operations. In the U.S., this most often was the helicopter…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Donoghue, Paananen
From the text ... 'Ninety-one percent of all wildifres occuring in the United States are caused by human activities. From 1974 through 1978, an average of 128,092 fires burned 1,814,943 acres of forest and other protected land (USDA Forest Service 1972-1980). In region 9 alone (…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Caldwell
From the text... 'Governments own most of our forest and because of the lumberjacks* work they have gathered great armsful of gold. Governments should not be responsible for forest management because with every political change policy vacillates. We have never had a consistent…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Duchesne, Hawkes
From the text...'Major forest types include those where aspen, eastern white and red pine stands, and jack pine stands are found either as fire-maintained seral types or exceptionally as climax stands (see table 3-1 for FRES, Kuchler, and SAF cover type designations). This…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Vertinsky, Schreier, Blackwell
Concerns about fire in North American forest management are shifting from a strict focus on fire prevention to a broader view which considers fire accommodation and fire emulation as management alternatives. There is a substantial gap between the articulation of general…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS