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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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An inventory of particulate matter and air toxic emissions from prescribed fires in the USA for 1989
This report documents a prescribed fire emissions inventory developed using consistent methodology for each of the 50 states of the USA for calendar year 1989. Emissions of particulate matter, selected toxic compounds, and a few other carbon-containing compounds are estimated.…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Romo, Grilz, Redmann, Driver
The impacts of autumn or spring burning on Symphoricarpos occidentalis were studied in Fescue Prairie in central Saskatchewan. Symphoricarpos density increased two- to three-fold over preburn density in the 1st 2 growing seasons following a burn. Individual shoot weights were…
Year: 1993
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
Taplin
We correct the variance for the rate of spread of a fire through a non-homogeneous fuel as described in Catchpole et al. (1989, Ecol. Modelling, 48: 101-112). The spatial dependence of the fuel types can greatly influence this variance; a phenomenon not expressed by the analysis…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
This report offers findings and recommendations that address the threat of wildfires in forest and range ecosystems. The report is based on information gathered by the National Commision on Wildfire Disasters and is intended for policymakers at the federal, state, and local…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schaefer
The scales of spatial patterns of the vascular understorey were examined during postfire succession in the taiga of southeastern Manitoba. Patterns of individual species from analogous burned (5 years old) and old-growth (>90 years old) communities were revealed using Paired…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schaber, Kokko, Entz, Richards
Increased seed yields often result when alfalfa fields are burned in spring. The main pollinator of seed alfalfa in Alberta is the alfalfa leafcutter bee. Megachile rotundata (F.). that cuts pieces of leaves to build thimble-like cells. One hypothesis for increased seed yield is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
DeLay, O'Conner, Ryan, Currie
From the Executive Summary: Current Status: Pondberry is listed as an endangered species. A total of 36 naturally occurring populations are extant. The species is currently known from Arkansas (10 populations), Georgia (4 populations), Mississippi (13 populations), Missouri (1…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Luke, Scarlett, Archibald
Mechanized full-tree logging is the preferred harvesting system in Northeastern Ontario. These operations typically involve roadside delimbing, producing large quantities of slash at roadsides and landings. Slash pile burning involves gathering the slash into concentrated areas…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Orozco, Carrillo
Traditionally, in the Southwest, ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) red slash has not been treated with fire to meet resource objectives until all slash has fully cured, usually a 2-to-4-year wait. Waiting for slash to cure is still the widespread practice on most forests in the…
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
Patterson
For the past seven years, Patterson and others have conducted prescribed burning experiments in a Cape Cod pine-oak forest to reduce huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata) dominance. They either brushed or burned 51 0.04ha (0.10 acres) plots during the dormant or growing season at…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Oswald, Brown
Vegetation development, including both planted and natural tree seedlings, was examined over a 5-year period on an area in the ESSFmw subzone of the Nelson Forest Region which was clearcut, skid logged, burned, and planted with 2+0, 313, Engelmann spruce. Study sites included…
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
Alexander, Maffey
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Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wade
Although many resource professionals believe that periodic fire is necessary to the health of fire-adapted ecosystems, prescribed fire exists only because society allows it. Society has given fire managers the authority to determine if, when, and how prescribed burning takes…
Year: 1993
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
Hopkins, Miyanishi
Prescribed burning is being used at Pinery Provincial Park in southern Ontario to restore an oak savanna community which has been changing into a closed oak woodland due to a past policy of fire suppression and conifer reforestation. Quercus muehlenbergii, a shade-intolerant…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viereck, Dyrness, Foote
The soils and vegetation of 12 stages of forest succession on the floodplain of the Tanana River are described. Succession begins with the invasion of newly deposited alluvium by willows (Salix spp.) and develops through a willow-alder (Alnus tenuifolia Nutt.) stage to forest…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
Published data on two sets of experimental fires in jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) forest were subjected to two forms of analysis. The first was a classification into surface fires and two kinds of crown fire, passive and active. In the second, the data were used to develop a…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ottmar, Burns, Hall, Hanson
CONSUME is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of IBM-PC applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption on logged units based on weather data, the amount and fuel moisture of fuels, and a number of other…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Viereck, Marion
This paper provides an overview of the environmental setting, rationale, and organization of a multidisciplinary research programme designed to examine the role of salt-affected soils in primary succession on the Tanana River floodplain of interior Alaska. The association of…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
On fire. Fire behavior, fuel succession and vegetation response to fire in the Swedish boreal forest
A study was made of the relationship between fire behaviour and vegetation dynamics in the Swedish boreal forest. This paper is based on 4 papers published or submitted for publication elsewhere: the original papers are included in appendices.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES