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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rothermel
The Mann Gulch fire, which overran 16 firefighters in 1949, is analyzed to show its probable movement with respect to the crew. The firefighters were smoke-jumpers who had parachuted near the fire on August 5, 1949. While they were moving to a safer location, the fire blocked…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cartledge
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pippin, Nichols
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foxx
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ibarra-F, Martin-R, Cox, Miranda-Z.
Vegetational changes were measured after 27 prescribed burns and 3 wildfires which occurred from 1982 to 1995 on buffelgrass pastures highly infested with brush in Sonora, Mexico. Densities of most undesirable brush species were reduced from 40 to 60% with fire. When prescribed…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abrams
Approximately 30 Quercus (oak) species occur in the eastern United States, of which Q alba, Q rubra, Q velutina, Q coccinea, Q stellata and Q prinus are among the most dominant. Quercus distribution greatly increased at the beginning of the Holocene epoch (10 000 years BP), but…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Suffling
Studies of anticipated effects of global warming tend to concentrate on the physiological limits of individual organisms, and imputed modifications to biome distributions expresed as climax ecosystems. Changes in distributions of individual species and of tree species…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar, Schaaf, Alvarado
From the Introduction...'Fire is the single most important ecological disturbance process throughout the interior Pacific Northwest (Mutch and others 1993; Agee 1994). It is also a natural process that helps maintain a diverse ecological landscape. Fire suppression and timber…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Landhausser, Wein
1. A fire of unusually great severity (deep burning) burned across the forest-tundra near Inuvik, Northwest Territories from August 8 to 18, 1968. 2. Burned-unburned paired study sites around the fire perimeter, which had been established in both tundra and forest-tundra in 1973…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lewis, Clements
In this note we demonstrate that the Buckney and Morrison (1992) data subsets are located on different geomorphological units and different pre-mining plant communities with different fire histories. The conclusions that they have drawn from their data are therefore not valid.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whitlock
Pollen records from northern Grand Teton National Park, the Pinyon Peak Highlands, and southern Yellowstone National Park were examined to study the pattern of reforestation and climatic change following late-Pinedale Glaciation. The vegetational reconstruction was aided by…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the Summary by Dennis Knight (p.233-235) ... 'During and after the 1988 fires, there were many predictions on how greater Yellowstone area (GYA) ecosystems would be affected. Some were based on research that had been done previously; others stemmed more from anecdotal…
Year: 1996
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
Larsen, MacDonald
To determine whether there are persistent differences in fire frequency in Picea glauca and Pinus banksiana forests, we examine dendrochronological and palynological records of fire history. The time since the last fire at 165 stands located in Wood Buffalo National Park (44,807…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hu, Brubaker, Anderson
Analyses of pollen, plant macrofossils, macroscopic charcoal, mollusks, magnetic susceptibility, and geochemical content of a sediment core from Farewell Lake yield a 11,000-yr record of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem changes in the northwestern foothills of the Alaska Range…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Lower atmosphere moistures, temperatures, winds, and lapse rates are examined for the days of 339 fires over 400 ha in the United States from 1971 through 1984. These quantities are compared with a climatology dataset from the same 14-year period using 2-way unbalanced analysis…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vanderlinden
Stand replacement prescribed burning has been applied in Alaska on several occasions. Based on that experience, perspectives can be provided, issues can be discussed, and keys to success can be identified that are applicable to stand replacement prescribed burning activities in…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Agee
Fire has been an important evolutionary influence in forests, affecting species composition, structure, and functional aspects of forest biology. Restoration of wildland forests of the future will depend in part on restoring fire to an appropriate role in forest ecosystems. This…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The 26 papers in this document address the current knowledge of fire as a disturbance agent, fire history and fire regimes, applications of prescribed fire for ecological restoration, and the effects of fire on the various forested ecosystems of the north-western United States.…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Earle, Brubaker, Anderson
The charcoal content of surface and late-Quaternary lake sediments in boreal forests of northcentral Alaska was investigated using an image-analysis procedure that tallied and measured the area of charcoal particles in size classes. Modern sediments were from mud-water…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sharbaugh
From section titled 'Why are we here?': 'The purpose of the conference is to provide an opportunity for Copper River Basin natural resource managers and researchers, as well as the public, to learn more about the ecology of spruce beetles and the forests they inhabit. The…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Sherman
The objectives of this study were to develop estimates of smoke emissions from wild and prescribed fires in B.C. forests during 1981-90, and to compare these with amounts that occurred before European settlement. The prescribed fires included in this study were carried out under…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fastie, Mann
Fire history in a forested, 550 ha second-order basin (basin P6) of the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska, was reconstructed from 21 replicated fire scars on black spruce trees and age structures of fire post-fire stands of black spruce and paper…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES