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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
Year
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Ramseur
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schroeder, Buck
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Varma, Steward
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evert
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis, Dieterich
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee, Hellman
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
George, Blakely
Rate of spread and other indirect measurements of fire intensity are often used as measures of flammability when fire-retardant chemicals are evaluated under laboratory conditions. The authors describe a system for obtaining the energy release rate directly and show its…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fahnestock
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brotak, Reifsnyder
Fifty-two major wildland fires in the eastern half of the United States were analyzed to determine the synoptic situations involved. At the surface, 3/4 of the fires were found near frontal areas. The vast majority of fires were associated with the eastern portion of small…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Smathers
From the text ... 'The primary objective of this study is to develop fire policy recommendations for the management of Lava Beds National Monument which will aid in the restoration and preservation of 'pristine' conditions by natural means.Before this objective can be met,…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wicker, Leaphart
From the text ... 'The pioneer and seral tree species within the many forest ecosystems of the northern Rocky Mountains definitely reflect the longtime inclusion of fire as a factor of environmental selection....Dwarf mistletoes (Arceuthobium spp.) are one of the most serious…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sellers, Despain
From the text ... 'Over 1,900,000 acres (770,000 ha) of Yellowstone Park are managed as wilderness. The administrative policy for the management of natural areas of the National Park system such as Yellowstone clearly stated in 1970 The presence or absence of natural fire within…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sanderson
From the Summary ... 'As fire management is integrated into land management, the decisions made will determine how, when, and where fire will be used or suppressed.The most pronounced changes in the direction in which fire management is moving are the reduction of accumulations…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Orme, Leege
From the Summary and Conclusions ... 'Large wildfires in the early 1900's burned over many of the low elevation forests in northern Idaho. Seral plant communities of grasses, forbs, and shrubs followed these wildfires and created important big game winter ranges. Redstem…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McLeod
From the Conclusions ... 'The results of the research to date have demonstrated the feasibility and usefulness of microwave moisture sensing as a valuable tool in watershed management. Specifically, the protable moisture meter allows rapid, on site measurement of fuel moisture…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McGuire
From the text ... 'Fire is not an independent force in Nature. When fire rages through the forest, it affects every aspect of the ecosystem -- the soil, air, wildlife, trees, and all other plant life. Fire is one component of the total forest ecology, as you have reemphasized…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lyon, Stickney
From the Summary and Conclusions ... 'Forest succession in the Northern Rocky Mountains is not an autogenic process in which initial seral plants modify the site to their own exclusion and permit the establishment of interseral and eventually climax species. Rather, succession…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kickert, Taylor, Firmage, Behan
From the Introduction ... 'In 1970, within the International Biological Program (IBP), the National Science Foundation established the Coniferous Forest Biome research organization. The overall goal of the Biome program was the analysis of the structure and function of western…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Habeck
From the Conclusions and Summary ... 'The vegetation within the SBW represents a generally typical array of forest communities of the sort found in much of northern Idaho and western Montana. For tens of thousands of years the flora in this region has evolved in the presence of…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burbank
From the text: 'I want to stress one last point. Equipment developers, such as my organization, need your cooperation in defining or, more importantly, identifying your major problems. You, Fire Control managers, have the field problems which must be solved, not us. Too often we…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wellner
From the Summary...'Historically, fires have repeatedly burned nearly every square foot of northern Rocky Mountain forests. Fire damage was especially severe during the 75 years following 1860, and much of this was due to promiscuous burning by whites. Prior to 1940, fire was…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Patton, Avant
Data from a burned area in the spruce-fir type, the Walker Burn, indicate that burning significantly increases aspen density for about 4 years. After that, the number of stems per acre declines, and the aspens begin to grow out of reach as browse for elk and deer.
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ahlstrand
From the text... 'Although the National Park Service has been largely successful in operating park lands for the enjoyment of the public. preservation attempts have oftentimes impaired these natural areas by bringing about unplanned and undesired changes in the ecosystems (Stone…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS