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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

Type

Topic

Year

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Prescribed burning of a festuca-stipa grassland

Bailey, Anderson
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Use of fire to manage grasslands of the Great Plains: Central and southern Great Plains and adjacent forests

Wright
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Use of fire to manage grasslands of the Great Plains: Northern Great Plains and adjacent forests

Bailey
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The use of prescribed fire in the management of lodgepole pine

Muraro
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Silvicultural uses of fire in midwestern Canada

Chrosciewicz
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire behavior in natural forest stands

Quintilio
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Annual burning and vegetation in the aspen parkland of east central Alberta

Anderson
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Report of the Wilderness Research Foundation on the operations of the Quetico-Superior Wilderness Research Center for the period 1976-1978

Ahlgren
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bibliography on the effects of prescribed burning and mammal and waterfowl utilization of wetlands: annotated literature search with selected abstracts

Rutkosky
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes for carbon, water and vegetation outcomes

Gharun, Possell, Bell, Adams
Fire plays a critical role in biodiversity, carbon balance, soil erosion, and nutrient and hydrological cycles. While empirical evidence shows that fuel reduction burning can reduce the incidence, severity and extent of unplanned fires in Australia and elsewhere, the integration…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A critique of the historical-fire-regime concept in conservation

Freeman, Kobziar, Rose, Cropper
Prescribed fire is widely accepted as a conservation tool because fire is essential to the maintenance of native biodiversity in many terrestrial communities. Approaches to this land-management technique vary greatly among continents, and sharing knowledge internationally can…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire reduces fungal species richness and in situ mycorrhizal colonization: a meta-analysis

Dove, Hart
Soil fungal communities perform many functions that help plants meet their nutritional demands. However, overall trends for fungal response to fire, which can be especially critical in a post-fire context, have been difficult to elucidate. We used meta-analytical techniques to…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Impact of work task-related acute occupational smoke exposures on select proinflammatory immune parameters in wildland firefighters

Adetona, Adetona, Gogal, Diaz-Sanchez, Rathbun, Naeher
Objective: A repeated measures study was used to assess the effect of work tasks on select proinflammatory biomarkers in firefighters working at prescribed burns. Methods: Ten firefighters and two volunteers were monitored for particulate matter and carbon monoxide on workdays,…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Findings and recommendations from the WFLC Tall Timbers Research Station Wildland Fire Smoke Management and Air Quality Research Gap Forum

A diversity of partners and interests, federal to private, came together to identify current challenges and research in the wildland fire and air quality impacts realm. Meeting management needs and the opportunity to learn from one another’s expert perspectives were primary…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

How Might Different Wildfire Response Policies Affect the Landscape Over Time?

Riley
Can we save money on wildfire suppression by investing in fuel treatments and prescribed fire?
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

The effect of burning on the germination and development of the maquis plants [abstract]

Harif
From the text...'The effect of burning on the germination and development of maquis plants allows the separation of the plants into two divisions: (1) plants like oak and Pistacia which have no store of seeds in the soil from former years. The fire destroys the seeds on these…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire research at the Petawawa Forest Experiment Station: the integration of fire behavior and forest ecology for management purposes

Methven
From the text:'In conclusion I would like to emphasize that the use to which fire ecology work is to be put must be kept in mind, namely to predict postfire vegetation development for an ecologic-economic input into fire and land management decision-making. This cannot be done…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The use of historical fire weather data for prescribed burn planning

Martell
An interactive computer program that can be used to analyse historical fire weather data and determine how frequently specific prescribed burn fire weather prescriptions have occured in the past is described. The Canadian Institute of Forestry/Institut forestier du Canada.…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Legal considerations of prescribed burning programs

Dietz
Most western state laws pertaining to prescribed burning do not specifically deal with range rehabilitation. Prescribed burns require a burning permit issued by the State Forester, or his equivalent, prior to ignition during closed fire seasons. Air quality standards have been…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicted erosion rates for forest management activities in the Southeast

Dissmeyer, Stump
[no description entered]
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Natural fire regimes and fire management--foundations for direction

Sando
'Natural resource management is an important activity in our society. The conservation and current environmental movements have emphasized the importance of sound management of natural resources. While there may be significant potential gains for production of our renewable…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons in forest fire smoke

McMahon, Tsoukalas
The occurrence of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in the combustion products of carbonaceous fuels is a well known phenomenon. Several PAW are known to be carcinogenic in animals. Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) is the most well-known and studied compound of those classified by the…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Planning and evaluating prescribed fires--a standard procedure

Fischer
Provides a standard format and checklist to guide the land manager through the important steps for prescribed hurning. Describes the kind of information necded to prepare fire prescriptions and burning plans. Identifies the elements of a fire prescriptlon, a burning plan, and a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges

Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
The Western Governors’ Association hosted the webinar, Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges on Dec. 19, 2017 as part of the series for the National Forest and Rangeland Management Initiative. Prescribed fire is a tool for land managers to address wildfire…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

CanFIRE: Predicting Fire Behaviour and Fire Effects

de Groot
This webinar addresses the following subjects regarding CanFIRE: CFFDRS science-management integration model; Stand-level, fire behaviour-based model; Simulates physical and ecological fire effects; Small scale (fire behaviour) to large scale (fire regimes); New fuel consumption…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES