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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Palmer
This paper gives a brief review of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group's (NWCG) 1980 preliminary report on fatal and near-fatal wildland fire accidents and the recent efforts of the NWCG Fireline Safety Committee. It covers the minimum training and personal protective…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
Forest industry involvement in wildfire protection reduces fire risk and potential economic losses. This paper highlights Weldwood's Hinton Division involvement and goals towards wildfire control and management as a Forest Management Agreement (FMA) operator. Fire control…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Day
In Canada's national parks, ecological integrity cannot be maintained solely through protection. Active management is required to ensure that long-term processes such as fire continue their natural role. In the park areas, the mean annual natural burn area likely exceeded 1000…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey
Because of the natural and social amenities offered by suburban and rural living, more and more people are moving to wildland environments. The combination of people, homes, flammable vegetation, and dry weather conditions is increasing the annual losses from wildland fires and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murphy
The setting of the first annual meeting and workshop of the Interior West Fire Council in the historic Kananaskis Valley provides an opportunity to draw on local lessons from the past to guide and caution us during our rapid transition to the future. Six stages or hierarchies…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beall
The year 1925, in which J.G. Wright formulated his concept of a fire-hazard rating system, is perhaps the most significant date in the evolution of forest-fire research in Canada. But a decade earlier the first (though transitory) attempt in this country to quantify the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Karl, Koscielny
'Statewide averages of temperature and precipitation, from January l895 to April 1981, were intepolated to a grid and Palmer Drought Severity Indices (PDSI) calculated for each of the grid points. Principal component (PC) analysis was performed on the gridded values of PDSI. By…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gardiner
'...With the aid of modern laboratory techniques it is possible to detect not only the end products of combustion proccsses but also many substances that appear transiently in the course of burning. As a result fire has come to be understood chemically as an intricate network of…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'The outcome of the Southern Forestry Education Campaign was much less devisive. To begin with, its subject was not the internal distribution of agency funds but the promotion of fire protection as a concept. Nor was it concerned with the question of transient…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'But with the advent of fire protection in the South, game birds decreased much as pasturage had and as grouse populations had in Britain. The vegetative ensemble that sustained maximum populations gave way to roughage and woods. By 1923 hunting plantations in…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'It is often assumed that the American Indian was incapable of greatly modifying his environment and that he would not have been much interested in doing so if he did have the capabilities. In fact, he possessed both the tool and the will to use it. That tool…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Omi, Laven
The existing literature on wildland fire is assessed in terms of both the biological and social impacts of prescription fire on recreational wildlands. Gaps in the literature are noted and future areas of needed research are suggested, with particular emphasis on the Rocky…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
George
Operational parameters for an S2F airtanker were monitored on a series of wildland fires to verify previous assumptions concerning typical flight envelopes. Results confirmed the validity of the procedure and instrumentation used in obtaining real-time aircraft drop height,…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Woodard, Titus
Regression equations that predict the foliage and roundwood biomass by diameter classes: 0.0-0.5 cm, 0.5-1.0 cm, 1.0-3.0cm, 3.0-5.0 cm, 5.0-7.0 cm and 7.0-10.0 cm given diameter at breast height (dbh) were developed for lodgepole pine and white spruce. Common to the Prairie…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chrosciewicz
There is a strong relationship between jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) regeneration and the combined site and seedbed conditions at the time of seeding. Both unfavorable and favorable seedbed characteristics, as well as available seed sources, are reviewed by groups of sites,…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kaufman, Finck, Kaufman
Fires in ungrazed grassland have negative impacts on small mammal species that are folivorous (microtine rodents and cotton rates), frequently or usually use surface nests of plant debris (microtine rodents, harvest mice, and woodrats), and forage in the litter layer for…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Risser
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barkow
Fire is becoming recognized as a major issue throughout the North American continent. The last several years have seen major fire seasons in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. There are five areas where an international approach to fire management will be useful. Technology…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
Sustaining the availability and quality of forest and rangeland ecosystems is a problem facing our society now and into the future. Since fire is a significant process in these ecosystems, managing fire is a part of this environmental problem. Insufficient knowledge seriously…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cole, Jensen
Interaction models for the dominant crown class were developed for estimating average height to base of crown (crown height) and average crown length (depth) as a function of stand density and average height of dominant trees - for even-aged lodgepole pine stands in Montana,…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gessaman, Worthen
This volume contains abstracts, indexes of species and geographical locations, and key words in the titles of more than 220 publications that describe some aspect of the effect of weather on avian mortality.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
West
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cortner, Taylor, Carpenter, Cleaves
Fire managers from five western regions of the USDA Forest Service were surveyed to determine which decision factors most strongly influenced their fire-risk behavior. Three fire-decision contexts were tested: Escaped Wildfire, Prescribed Burning, and Long-Range Fire Budget…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS