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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Werth
From the text...'In conclusion, El Niño and La Niña are extreme phases of a naturally occurring climatic cycle known as the El Niño Southern Oscillation. Both affect wind and sea surface temperature patterns in the tropical Pacific Ocean. El Niño is the warm water and La Niña…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson, Romme, Meyer, Knight, Wallace
From the text...'Bill Wattenburg (Letters, Science's Compass, 6 Nov., p. 1051) accuses the U.S. National Park Service and ecologists quoted by Richard Stone (Research News, 5 June, p. 1527) of struggling 'to rationalize the official burning of the forests of Yellowstone in l988…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Zollner, Bukenhofer, Hensley, Houf
From the text...'Obviously, there are many ways to categorize plants and animals that people are concerned about. For this chapter, the Terrestrial Team focused on the categories public land managers typically must address as part of their planning, habitat management, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guldin, Loewenstein
From the Key Findings (No. 7)...'The use of prescribed burning as a tool for managing intermediate stands has increased nearly four-fold over the past 5 years and exceeded 100,000 ac in 1997 (due primarily to actions on the Ouachita National Forest). The Ouachita National Forest…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guldin, Thompson, Richards, Harper
From the text...'This chapter provides information about the vegetation cover of the Assessment area. The types and areal extent of vegetation in the Highlands are of interest for many reasons. Vegetation cover largely determines the availability of habitat for terrestrial…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Savory, Butterfield
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson
On rich productive mixedwood cutover sites in western Newfoundland, hardwood reproduction competes strongly with regenerating softwood seedlings, chiefly of balsam fir. An experiment was established to compare several chemical methods and one mechanical method of releasing the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
This report provides interim fuel consumption guidelines for five common slash fuel complexes found in Ontario. Slash fuel consumption and depth of burn were found to be related to preburn fuel. loadings, and to fire weather as expressed by the Buildup Index (BUI), a component…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Willms, Bailey, McLean
The effects of fall clipping or burning on the subsequent morphology of bluebunch wheatgrass were studied in both the big sagebrush-bluebruch wheatgrass and Douglas fir-bluebunch wheatgrass communities. Observations were made to the 2nd year after treament. Burning, in the big…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Luti
This paper describes a finite difference experiment to simulate the transient development of the convection column above a strip of uniform high temperature source in a stratified uniform cross flow atmosphere. The k--e model of turbulence is used and an upstream weighted scheme…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
A series of experimental fires was conducted to document point-source fire growth burning on full-tree harvested jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) sites with a feathermoss (Pleurozium schreberi (B.S.G.) Mitt.) duff layer. Results showed that the time for any of the fires to…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coles, Conlon, Cotton, Eisenstadt, Goldfarb, Hutchison, Joy, Wolter
From the Executive Summary... 'Purpose: National forests of the dry, interior portion of the western United States that are managed by the Department of Agriculture*s Forest Service have undergone significant changes over the last century and a half, becoming much denser, with…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li, Corns, Yang
Decisions for sustainable forest resources management require a better understanding of forest dynamics as a result of disturbances. Forest fires are one of the major types of natural disturbances in many forest landscapes. Existing fire regime models can be used in evaluating…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timoney
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rodríguez-Trejo
From the text...'The worst fire season in Mexican history was in 1998. Drought conditions precipitated by a strong El Niño led to unusual fire activity, including crown fires, fire whirls, and rapid spread rates. A total of 14,302 fires burned 2,099,412 acres (849,632 ha) - 3.6…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carlson, Gay
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuquay
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Donohoe, Reifsnyder, Reed
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bevins, Roussopoulos
In this paper, we offer a general overview of the design and status of the NFIL. We discuss the structure of the Fuels Inventory Database, the function of the various database management programs available in the Management Software Package, and the current contents of the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Routledge
Because standard methods for computing the optimal rotation age of a forest stand assume complete knowledge of the stand value at any future time, a forest manager must treat his estimates of future value as if they were completely accurate. Minor, unpredictable fluctuations…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sackett
'A recently developed instrument to be used operationally by a variety of industries and disciplines may significantly shorten the time needed to determine dead and live fuel moisture for those people trying to predict prescribed or wildfire behavior and effects. It can be used…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
Every wildland fire control organization in North America relies on assistance from outside agencies during periods of extreme fire severity.In some cases interagency cooperation is formalized, as in the Northeast Forest Fire Compact or the Boise Interagency Fire Center. In…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mollner, Olsen
The Automated Fire Weather Forecast (AFWF) is a computer program designed to forecast seven of the eight fire weather forecast parameters issued daily during the fire weather season at the Boise Weather Service Forecast Office (WSFO). The program uses Limited Fine Mesh (LFM)…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roussopoulos, Yancik, Radloff
'We have developed a prototype National Fire Occurrence Data Library (NF0DL) to help fire managers interact with resource managers in meeting the new planning requirements of the Resources Planning Act and the National Forest Management Act. The data library provides means for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Imbernon
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS