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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Benscoter
Questions: What is the mechanism of bog ground layer colonization post-fire? Is species colonization stochastic or does facilitation occur? Location: Boreal bog peatland near Crow Lake, Alberta, Canada. Methods: Diaspore-addition treatments were applied in 2003 to autoclaved…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McKenzie, O'Neill, Larkin, Norheim
Visibility impairment from regional haze is a significant problem throughout the continental United States. A substantial portion of regional haze is produced by smoke from prescribed and wildland fires. Here we describe the integration of four simulation models, an array of GIS…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mason, Trentmann, Winterrath, Yokelson, Christian, Carlson, Warner, Wolfe, Andreae
Results from two independently developed biomass-burning smoke plume models are compared. Model results were obtained for the temporal evolution of two nascent smoke plumes originating from significantly different fire environments (an Alaskan boreal forest and an African…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pengelly, Hamer
Hedysarum (Hedysarum spp.) roots are a major food for grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) over much of their Canadian and Alaskan range. In Banff National Park, grizzly bears typically dig roots of pink hedysarum (H. alpinum) in willow (Salix glauca, S. farriae) - dwarf birch (Betula…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drewa, Peters, Havstad
Relationships involving fire and perennial grasses are controversial in Chihuahuan Desert grasslands of southern New Mexico, USA. Research suggests that fire delays the resprouting of perennial grasses well after two growing seasons. However, such results are confounded by…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keyes
In combination with measured stand data and assumed environmental conditions, reasonable estimates of foliar moisture content (FMC) are necessary to determine and justify silvicultural targets for canopy fuels management strategies. FMC often is overlooked in fuels planning,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hiratsuka, Toma, Diana, Hadriyanto, Morikawa
After the 1998 forest fire in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, biomass recovery of naturally regenerated vegetation was estimated in order to evaluate the initial secondary succession patterns of the burned land. We established research plots in naturally regenerated vegetation that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ohlson, Berry, Gray, Blackwell, Hawkes
This paper provides an example of the practical application of multi-attribute trade-off analysis (MATA) to wildfire management. The MATA approach supports more informed decision-making because it exposes important trade-offs among competing management objectives (requiring…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tinner, Hu, Beer, Kaltenrieder, Scheurer, Krahenbuhl
Pollen, plant macrofossil and charcoal analyses of sediments from two Alaskan lakes provide new data for inferring Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change. The records span the past 14,700 years at Lost Lake, 240 m a.s.l., central Alaska, north of the Alaska Range and 9600…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Meyn, Feller
Forest fires in British Columbia often leave patches of unburned vegetation (forest remnants) within their perimeters. These remnants help to maintain biological diversity and structural complexity in stands. To be able to maintain patterns similar to those created by fire, we…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nadeau, Englefield
The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) is used daily across Canada for evaluating forest fire danger. Fuel-type information is one of the inputs required by the models used in the CFFDRS. In this project, three fuel-type maps with a 25 m resolution were produced…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gan
This article demonstrates the applicability of vector autoregression (VAR) modeling in probing the causality relationships among wildfire, El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), timber harvest, and urban sprawl in the U.S. The VAR approach allows for the multi-directional, multi-…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berg, Henry, Fastie, De Volder, Matsuoka
When spruce beetles (Dendroctonus rufipennis) thin a forest canopy, surviving trees grow more rapidly for decades until the canopy closes and growth is suppressed through competition.We used measurements of tree rings to detect such growth releases and reconstruct the history of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fauria, Johnson
[1] Large lightning wildfires in Canada and Alaska account for most of the area burnt and are main determiners of the age mosaic of the landscape. Such fires occur when positive midtroposphere height anomalies persist > 10 days during the fire season. Midtroposphere anomalies…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
Presented for Lesson 30 of the S-590 Advanced Fire Behavior Interpretation Course at the National Advanced Resource Technology Center in Marana, Arizona, 5-17 March 2006.
Lesson Objectives:
Gather a cursory understanding of the philosophy and structure of the Canadian Forest…
Year: 2006
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Scesa, Sauer
From the Summary ... 'The transfer theory is applied to the problem of atmospheric diffusion of momentum and heat induced by line and point sources of heat on the surface of the earth. In order that the validity of the approximations of the boundary layer theory be realized, the…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sidle
Before examining the impacts of forest management practices on surface erosion, it is appropriate to ask the question 'Why should we be concerned with surface erosion?' One of the most important impacts of surface erosion on forest lands is the decrease in site productivity…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brisson, Cogliastro, Robert
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Simard, Titman
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrows, Schaefer, MacCready
This report describes the factors which led to the establishment of Project Skyfire and presents the first results of its operation. Skyfire is a program designed to acquire basic scientific information about lightning fires in western forests, the atmospheric and cloud…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shantz
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Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stelfox
'In trials at Swift Current, Saskatchewan and Lacome, Alberta, the following treatments were used: spring burning and no burning, row spacings 1, 2, 3 and 4 ft. apart and no manure, ammonium phosphate (16-12-0 NPK) at 135 lb. per ac., ammonium phosphate at 250 lb. per ac., and…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangelsdorf
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Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
This article describes the work performed by Steve Otway in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an M.Sc. degree in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science at the University of Alberta. His work has furthered some of the initiatives taken to extend…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES