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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Stewart
From the text ... 'The historic records from around the world leave no room to doubt that primitive hunting and gathering peoples, as well as ancient farmers and herders, for a number of reasons, frequently and intentionally set fire to almost all the vegetation around them…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fueno, Mukherjee, Ree, Eyring
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Laderman, Hecht, Stern, Oppenheim
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Calcote
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weinberg
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae, Lynham, Frech
The alarming loss of forested areas containing red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) and eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) in eastern Canada is a situation that must be addressed promptly by changing management approaches. Since the ecological role of fire in the regeneration and…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Angelstam
Summary (p.499-500) ... 'Fire is an important natural and anthropogenic factor in the dynamics of the boreal forest system. The ecological and environmental impacts of boreal fires depend on fire weather, fuel availability, fire behavior and history of stand development (…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Levine
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Created through the Wildfire Disaster Recovery Act of 1989 (PL 101-286), in response to the destructive western fire season of 1987 and the Yellowstone fires of 1988, the Commission was asked to consider the environmental and economic effects of disastrous wildfires through…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grilz, Romo
Bromus inermis Leyss (smooth brome) is an invasive perennial grass in Fescue Prairie in North America. Prescribed burning is a potential method of controlling this exotic, but its responses to burning in this grassland are not known. This study was conducted to determine the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Velázquez
Multivariate analysis was used to describe the composition and distribution of vegetation types on the slopes of the volcanoes Tláloc and Pelado, Mexico. These volcanoes are situated in the transitional zone between the Holarctic and Neotropical floristic regions, which offers a…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
The capture of fire by the genus Homo changed forever the natural history of the Earth. Even today fire appears at the core of many popular scenarios for an environmental apocalypse. Yet the larger history of fire - the varied ways human society have sought to use and control…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) has defoliated the balsam fir (Abies balsamea) component of many eastern North American forests, resulting in widespread mortality of these trees. Consequently, managers have become concerned about the potential for severe forest fires…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Smith, Reifsnyder
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cayford
In the fall of 1955 a forest fire burned approximately 12,000 acres of merchantable and young growth jack pine on the Sandilands Forest Reserve in southeastern Manitoba. A fact-finding observational study was carried out between 1956 and 1961 to determine the amount and…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
The physical properties of bark are virtually uninvestigated, and the resulting lack of knowledge has relegated bark to the role of residue. Significant among these properties are thermal characteristics, which are basic to the use of bark as thermal insulation. This paper…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Wells
From the text... 'One of the potential problems with the use of prescribed burning in the past has been the lack of any systematic investigation into the ecological effects of this forest management practice on the ecosystem. In 1991, the planning process to address this issue…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Price, Rind
Each year lightning ignites approximately 10,000 wildland fires in the United States alone. Therefore, when considering how climate change may affect wildland fires, one needs to consider possible changes in lightning activity. With the aid of satellite cloud and lightning…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palmer, Goodale, Martin
Large, free-burning fires do not burn steadily. As most experienced fire personnel know, fire behavior varies significantly with time. It frequently can be described as pulsating. This pulsing is caused by a process called layer-replacement. As the burning creates a zone of hot…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Meisner, Fujioka
The United States Historical Climatology Network (HCN) database was compiled by the National Climatic Data Center in response to a compelling interest in climate change. The database contains monthly temperature and precipitation data for approxiamtely 1200 stations in the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein, Whistler
This paper describes a system for preparing monthly outlooks for fire-weather elements in the United States. The system is based on multiple regression equations that specify monthly mean anomalies of precipitation, temperature, dewpoint, and wind speed from concurrent anomalies…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kierstead, Dickison, DeMille
Rainfall is one of the most important of the weather parameters on which fire-danger calculations are based. Therefore, a fire weather network which has been optimally designed for measurement of daily rainfall will be adequate for other input parameters as well. Spatial…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman, Fast
A two-dimensional, coupled, earth-atmospheric model has been used to simulate mean and turbulent atmospheric conditions near lines of extreme surface heating. Prognostic equations are used to solve for the horizontal and vertical wind components, potential temperature, and…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Graham
The National Weather Service (NWS) has provided on-site forecasting services during wildland fire incidents for about 60 years. The basic design of mobile fire weather support units evolved slowly until recently. Prior to the mid 1980's, a vehicle-based support unit was used.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS