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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wade
George Byram's accomplishments read like the tree of fire science knowledge. The magnitude of his contributions tower above those of other fire science icons. Looking at the scope, importance and continued relevance of his contributions, one cannot help but reach the conclusion…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
This paper constituents the remarks made during the introduction of the special session 'Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: A Tribute to George M. Byram (1909-1996) - Pioneering Scientist in Forest Fire Research' held on February 20, 2013, at the International Association of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
This paper constituents the closing comments made at the special session 'Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: A Tribute to George M. Byram (1909-1996) - Pioneering Scientist in Forest Fire Research' held on February 20, 2013, at the International Association of Wildland Fire's…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mustaphi, Pisaric
Aim Top-down (climatic) controls of fire occurrence are expected to homogenize fire regimes in a given area over long (millennial) temporal scales. Previous investigations in south-eastern British Columbia have shown that bottom-up (local site) factors can override long-term…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marcoux, Gergel, Daniels
Maps depicting historic fire regimes provide critical baselines for sustainable forest management and wildfire risk assessments. However, given our poor understanding of mixed-severity fire regimes, we asked if there may be considerable errors in fire-regime classification…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kelly, Chipman, Higuera, Stefanova, Brubaker, Hu
Wildfire activity in boreal forests is anticipated to increase dramatically, with far-reaching ecological and socioeconomic consequences. Paleorecords are indispensible for elucidating boreal fire regime dynamics under changing climate, because fire return intervals and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'For anyone who has spent any amount of time working in the world of wildland fire management, it is not news that wildland fire management is a risky business -- that risk is inherent in our work.'
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan, Knapp, Varner
Whether ignited by lightning or by Native Americans, fire once shaped many North American ecosystems. Euro-American settlement and 20th Century fire suppression practices drastically altered historic fire regimes, leading to excessive fuel accumulation and uncharacteristically…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Norman
Presented by Steve Norman, USFS Southern Research Station, and sponsored by the US Forest Service, Research and Development. The Landscape Science Webinar Series occurs monthly on a Tuesday at 1 pm Eastern providing a forum to communicate research findings, promote awareness of…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cawker
Recent vegetation change in the grasslands of southern British Columbia is examined using pollen analysis, and the results are compared with documentary records. The increasing dominance of the grasslands after 1890 by Artemisia tridentata and other woody shrubs has often been…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
The use of existing fire weather history from computerized data storage libraries, in conjunction with fire use programs and routines, allows the fire planner to develop realistic prescription limits, especially when the use of unplanned ignitions is directed. The integration of…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lopoukhine, White
Fire management in Canada's national parks is facing other alternatives besides traditional suppression. The 1979 Parks Canada Policy permits a full range of options while the Natural Resources Management Process (NRMP) provides the framework by which specific options will be…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foster
The fire history of the wilderness of southeastern Labrador is marked by a patchy distribution of large fires in time and space. During the 110-year period encompassed by this study, major fires occurred in four decades, 1870-1879, 1890-1899, 1950-1959, 1970-1979. From 1900 to…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flinn, Pringle
Rhizomes of eight understory species were subjected to treatments of 45, 50, 55 and 60 degrees for 5 min in a water bath. Selecton of thesespecies for study was based on differences in the depth of the rhizomes, in habitat, and in rhizome morphology. Samples were collected from…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delisle, Dube
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Eaton, Wendler
The high variablility of burning conditions and fuels, found in Alaskan forest fires, produces an associated complex emission of particulate matter. Histological evidence of some large particles has been found in the forest fire plumes as well as aerosols resulting apparently…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bellinger, Kaiser, Harrison
An analysis, made by a cost-plus-net-value-change criterion, revealed that the amount of money spent nationwide to achieve an efficient fire protection on nonfederal forest and range lands is appropriate. However, improvements in efficiency can be achieved by increasing the fire…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hamet-Ahti
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kelly, Chipman, Higuera, Stefanova, Brubaker, Hu
Wildfire activity in boreal forests is anticipated to increase dramatically, with far-reaching ecological and socioeconomic consequences. Paleorecords are indispensible for elucidating boreal fire regime dynamics under changing climate, because fire return intervals and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Breen, Gaglioti, Mann, Rocha, Grosse, Arp, Kunz, Walker
Characteristics of the natural fire regime are poorly resolved in the Arctic, even though fire may play an important role cycling carbon stored in tundra vegetation and soils to the atmosphere. In the course of studying vegetation and permafrost-terrain characteristics along a…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arseneault, Dy, Gennaretti, Autin, Bégin
A denser global network of millennial tree ring chronologies is needed to verify whether the warming of the last century is anomalously rapid or of large amplitude in the context of the last millennium. The North American boreal forest in particular has been poorly represented…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Middleton
Land managers are grappling with massive changes in vegetation structure, particularly in protected areas formerly subjected to fire and grazing. The objective of this review was to compare notes on the historical and current management of ecosystems around the world (especially…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mutch
For the 2012 fire season, a USFS 'fire ban' directive raised concerns that a return to a 'suppression'-only response to fire would undermine long-term fire management strategies and policies. Bob Mutch responds with a call for communicating our fire expertise.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dash, Kelly, Higuera, Hu
Although recent climatic warming has markedly increased fire activity in many biomes, this trend is spatially heterogeneous. Understanding the patterns and controls of this heterogeneity is important for anticipating future fire regime shifts at regional scales and for…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Power, Mayle, Bartlein, Marlon, Anderson, Behling, Brown, Carcaillet, Colombaroli, Gavin, Hallett, Horn, Kennedy, Lane, Long, Moreno, Paitre, Robinson, Taylor, Walsh
The significance and cause of the decline in biomass burning across the Americas after ad 1500 is a topic of considerable debate. We synthesized charcoal records (a proxy for biomass burning) from the Americas and from the remainder of the globe over the past 2000 years, and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES