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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
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Jenkins
From the text ... 'The United States and Mexico agreed to identify and protect special radio frequencies for wildland firefighters in border areas.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klenner, Kurz, Beukema
We present the results of a study to examine the effects of management actions and natural disturbances in influencing the evolution of habitat patterns on forested lands. TELSA, a spatially explicit vegetation succession model with the ability to apply user-defined management…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mora, Hernandez-Cardenas
An increasing severity in the occurrence of wildfires in Mexico has been recently associated with the activity of 'El Nino' Southern Oscillation (ENSO). A spatio-temporal analysis of fire potential indicated that indeed, catastrophic fires could occur due to unusual droughts and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
We present results from ongoing research into 20th Century fire regimes in two large Rocky Mountain wilderness areas. Fire patterns are represented as digital fire atlases based on archival forest service data. We find that spatial and temporal fire patterns are variable in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harkins, Morgan, Neuenschwander, Chrisman, Zack, Jacobson, Grant, Sampson
The Idaho Panhandle National Forests (IPNF), in partnership with the University of Idaho, the Fire Sciences Laboratory, and The Sampson Group, developed a Geographic Information System (GIS) based wildfire hazard-risk assessment. The assessment was completed for the North Zone…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zimmerman, Bunnell
The federal wildland Fire Management Policy and Program Review represents the latest stage in the evolution of wildland fire management. This policy directs changes that consolidate past fire management practices into a single direction to achieve multidimensional objectives and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
Twentieth century fire patterns were analyzed for two large, disparate wilderness areas in the Rocky Mountains. Spatial and temporal patterns of fires were represented as GIS-based digital fire atlases compiled from archival Forest Service data. We find that spatial and temporal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lyon, Smith
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lyon, Brown, Huff, Smith
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timoney, Lee
Economic growth is frequently touted as a cure for environmental ills, particularly for those in Third World countries. Here we examine that paradigm in a case study of Alberta, Canada, a wealthy, resource-rich province within a wealthy nation. Through provincial-scale datasets…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Englin, Boxall, Hauer
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Law
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
The thrilling story of the most important firefighting efforts in the last 100 years as told by fire expert Stephen Pyne. Pyne relates the similarities between the vast fires of summer 2000 with the Great Fires of 1910 that swept across the northwest, destroying towns, killing…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Norris
From the text...'In the early decades of the twentieth century, the astronomer Andrew Douglass noted that trees growing in a particular area, which are exposed to the same sequence of wet and dry growing seasons, typically share the same pattern of variation in the width of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sheppard
Fire has been a global disturbance agent for thousands of years. As an ecological process that helped shape the floral and faunal communities of western North America, fire also maintained the health and diversity of forests until European settlers arrived. Since that time,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'Fire shelter training has for years stressed the importance of deploying fire shelters where there is no direct flame contact. However, the results of recent tests by the Missoula Technology and Development Center, a part of the USDA Forest Service's Fire and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catling, Sinclair, Cuddy
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weddell
Managers often want to restore historical disturbance regimes. In the northern intermountain region, there is considerable interest in using fire as a management tool to accomplish a variety of objectives in steppe vegetation. Little information is available on the fire regimes…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ward, Tithecott, Wotton
Ward and Tithecott (PC. Ward and A.G. Tithecott. 1993. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Aviation, Flood and Fire Management Branch, Publ. 305) presented data that indicated fire suppression activities in Ontario led to reductions in average annual area burned and greater…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grace, Smith, Grace, Collins, Stohlgren
A substantial number of invasive grasses, forbs and woody plants have invaded temperate grasslands in North America. Among the invading species are winter annuals, biennials, cool-season perennials, warm-season perennials, vines, shrubs, and trees. Many of these species have…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Duchesne, Hawkes
From the text...'Major forest types include those where aspen, eastern white and red pine stands, and jack pine stands are found either as fire-maintained seral types or exceptionally as climax stands (see table 3-1 for FRES, Kuchler, and SAF cover type designations). This…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Vertinsky, Schreier, Blackwell
Concerns about fire in North American forest management are shifting from a strict focus on fire prevention to a broader view which considers fire accommodation and fire emulation as management alternatives. There is a substantial gap between the articulation of general…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hansen, Rotella, Kraska, Brown
Landscapes are often heterogeneous in abiotic factors such as topography, climate, and soil, yet little 15 known about how these factors may influence the spatial distribution of primary productivity. We report estimates of aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) in 90…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Swetnam, Allen
Relatively frequent surface fires recurred for centuries in ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests of the Southwest before intensive live stock grazing and active fire suppression by government agencies began. The available evidence suggests that extensive (> 100 ha) stand-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar, Vihnanek, Bluhm, Sandberg
Wildland fire is a major disturbance agent that has shaped the biotic landscapes throughout time. The amount and duration of the heat determined by the availability of the fuels to consume is the ultimate driving force that causes a widespread range of environmental responses…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS