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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ascher, Alexander
This videotape production (1987, 18 min) offers an overview of the co-operative experimental burning project being conducted at Big Fish Lake in northcentral Alberta since 1984 by Forestry Canada and the Alberta Forest Service (AFS).
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradley
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) is a computer-based, menu-driven encyclopedia of fire effects and general ecological information for plant species, wildlife species, and plant communities. It provides interpreted, summarized information in an easy-to-use format and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, McRae, Lynham, Hartley
This photo-series was designed to present photographs and a detailed inventory of fuels for important stands in the Boreal and Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Forest Regions of Ontario. Over the last 20 years, an experimental burning program conducted by Forestry Canada, Ontario…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor
Recreation is of increasing importance in forest environments. Fire has both short-term effects, trail closures, smoke impacts; and long-term effects, residual 'scars,' potential hazards, on forest recreation. The general public is gaining sophistication in understanding forest…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ffolliott
Fire, either as a natural occurrence or a management tool, can have beneficial effects on the environment, and its use offers opportunities for reducing fuel loads, disposing of slash, preparing seedbeds, thinning stands, increasing herbaceous plant production, increasing…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daniel
Obstacles to public acceptance of prescribed fire include misunderstanding of fire in forest ecosystems, concerned risk to life and property and assumed adverse effects on scenic and recreation values. Increased appreciation of the ecological, safety (fuel reduction) and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
The public outcry about the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park and adjacent natural forests, coupled with concern among natural resource managers, convinced the Secretaries of the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to establish the Fire Management Policy Review Team in…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw
The program RXWINDOW is intended to help fire managers develop prescription windows based on desired fire behavior. It is the fifth program in the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system. It reverses calculations found elsewhere in BEHAVE. In RXWINDOW, the user…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Branhagen
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Spoon
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Omi, Smith
FIRELAMP represents an ambitious, prototype attempt at integrating fire and land management planning, initiated by the USDA Forest Service's Intermountain Research Station and faculty and students at Colorado State University. The model uses existing knowledge about fire…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foley, Johnson
This paper will show the progression of efforts made by the Alberta Forest Service (AFS) in developing guidelines for forest fire suppression that are in concert with human and forest resource values. A method for determining resource fire protection priorities was developed in…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jenkins
Interactive video is a powerful medium, bringing together the emotional impact of video film and the interactive capabilities of the computer. Interactive videodisc instruction can be used as a tutorial for drill and practice and in simulations as well as for information storage…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bushey, Stiger
This paper presents an historical review of the concepts and developmental phases of the remote ignition of forest fuels by laser devices. An approximate 20-year developmental history is outlined that culminates with recent proposed concepts qf laser ignition devices (LID). Some…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
The l988 fire season was very significant to the western United States. The U.S. fire situation generated a high level of concern among Alberta Forest Service's fire managers. It helped to reinforce a long-argued policy-that of excluding unmanaged wildfire from the provincial…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White
Canadian Parks Service policy requires that 'natural resources will be protected and managed with minimal interference to natural processes to ensure the perpetuation of naturally evolving land and water environments and their associated species.' This mandate provides an…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kruse, Higgins
Fire effects on wildlife and wildlife habitat in northern mixed-grass prairie ecosystems may be positive or negative depending on the uniformity, intensity, duration, frequency, location, shape, size, and timing of the fire and 1) the stage in the life cycle of the species…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunting
The pinyon-juniper woodlands and the sagebrush-grasslands, with a combined area of over 90 million ha, comprise a major portion of the rangelands in western North America. During pristine times fire played an important role in these vegetation types. The role of fire has changed…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palmer
This paper gives a brief review of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group's (NWCG) 1980 preliminary report on fatal and near-fatal wildland fire accidents and the recent efforts of the NWCG Fireline Safety Committee. It covers the minimum training and personal protective…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
Forest industry involvement in wildfire protection reduces fire risk and potential economic losses. This paper highlights Weldwood's Hinton Division involvement and goals towards wildfire control and management as a Forest Management Agreement (FMA) operator. Fire control…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey
Because of the natural and social amenities offered by suburban and rural living, more and more people are moving to wildland environments. The combination of people, homes, flammable vegetation, and dry weather conditions is increasing the annual losses from wildland fires and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murphy
The setting of the first annual meeting and workshop of the Interior West Fire Council in the historic Kananaskis Valley provides an opportunity to draw on local lessons from the past to guide and caution us during our rapid transition to the future. Six stages or hierarchies…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chrosciewicz
There is a strong relationship between jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) regeneration and the combined site and seedbed conditions at the time of seeding. Both unfavorable and favorable seedbed characteristics, as well as available seed sources, are reviewed by groups of sites,…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS