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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Furman, Helfman
FIRDAT is a FORTRAN IV program to compute the daily components and indexes of the National Fire-Danger Rating System. FIRDAT will also compute and print the absolute, relative and cumulative frequencies of occurrence, and print a cumulative frequency distribution for each of the…
Year: 1973
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

Allen
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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

Klebenow
From the text ... 'Sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus Bonaparte), due to their dependence upon sagebrush-grassland habitat for food and cover, are limited in distribution to the range type dominated by sagebrush, principally big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) but also its…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Biswell
From the text ... 'The ponderosa pine-grassland is characterized by the occurrence and distribution of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa. It is widely spread covering some 36 million acres from the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia to Durango, Mexico, and from Nebraska to the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Riggs, Bonting, Daniels
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Year: 1996
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

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

Cunningham, Martell
This paper discusses the occurrence of man-caused forest fires during the summer fire season in a section of northwestern Ontario. Fire occurrence is viewed as being a chance process and a stochastic model is developed to describe it. The results of this study indicate that a…
Year: 1973
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

Armstrong, Vines
Weather trends have been determined from an analysis of long-term rainfall records for towns in the southern part of Canada. The incidence of forest fires in the provinces correlates well with the approximately periodic 'drought patterns' in these areas. Though there are few…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

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