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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Aplet, Laven, Fiedler
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Houle
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huenneke
Those responsible for protecting 'sensitive' plants and vegetation possess a wealth of empirical evidence that could be used to test predictions of ecological and conservation biology theory. Real-life management issues offer perfect laboratories for research in population and…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cabrera-Perez, Garcia-Moya, Romero-Manzanares
Saltgrass cover the bed lake of Texcoco, Mexico. Spring burning is practiced to promote growth and to improve forage quality. To test the effect of burning on productivity an expriment with two treatments, burning and control with three replications was established. Monthly…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christensen
Natural disturbances were ubiquitous, even inevitable, on many landscapes. Human intervention in disturbance regimes and patterns of ecosystem response is also ubiquitous with historic precedent over evolutionary time scales, continuing extensive landscape modification, and…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blackwell, Feller, Trowbridge
The ecological effects of different treatments used to convert dense Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm. stands into young P. contorta plantations are determined. The treatments used were felling the trees with a bulldozer and either broadcast burning the slash or bulldozing…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mohr
The traditional notion that all fires need to be put out immediately is no longer the only approach to fire management. Rather, land managers are challenged to make situation-specific decisions with each fire start. There are situations when the decision involves suppression…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rasker
In the Greater Yellowstone area there is a perceived controversy between conservation efforts and economic well-being. This controversy is fueled by misconceptions about the economy and the role played by public lands in the region. In this paper three commonly held myths are…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gericke, Sullivan, Wellman
This country was founded on a belief that citizens should be involved in decisions affecting their lives. The costs of such involement may be high in particular instances, but equity may be more important than efficiency. The national forest planning process has been difficult…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
In July 1991,the Society published its task force report 'Biological Diversity in Forest Ecoystems'(S
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brooks, Grant
The first part of this article,published in January, examined the scientific, managemnt, and social factors that have contributed to the need for rethinking some basic precepts of forest management. This second part outlines a framework for research and suggests some directions…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ball, Guertin
Recent developments in the use of GIS for spatial dynamic modeling has reulted in improved fire growth simulations. This paper examines previous growth models and some of their weaknesses. We then define what would be required to handle the growth of surface fire within a raster…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lesica, Allendorf
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fritz
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bradshaw
The problem of fire protection in the urban/wildland interface is a complex combination of three components: fire behavior and combustion, social and political factors, and the cooperation of property owners. By examing the problem's component parts, it is easier to understand…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delisle, Woodard, Titus, Johnson
This study assessed the variability of sample estimates for downed and dead woody fuel weight in natural lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl) stands using line-intersect sampling procedures. Equilateral triangles (30 m/side) were established at each of 40 sample sites with…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Koppenaals, Colombo
To determine the effect of stage of bud development on heat tolerance, overwintered black spruce seedlings (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) were (i) maintained in a dormant state, (ii) allowed to grow new shoots under favorable greenhouse conditions, or (iii) induced to initiate…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brooks, Mayden, McLennan
Historical ecological studies provide information about the origins of species in an area and the origins of traits characterizing the interactions between those species and their environment. Incorporating this evolutionary information into conservation policies will broaden…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Siegel, Haines
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Probst
The Kirtland's warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii) is an early succession, area-sensitive species seldom found in stands smaller than 30 to 40 ha. This warbler occupies dense jack pine (Pinus banksiana) stands where trees are from 6 to 23 years old and from 1.7 to 5.0 m high growing…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Includes 25 invited papers and panel discussions, 6 workshop reports, and 15 poster papers that focus on the escalating problem of wildfire in wildland residential areas throughout the western United States and Canada.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saveland, Neuenschwander
In many cases, fire is not an effective thinning tool. However, under certain conditions, stand density and composition can be manipulated by the prescribed use of fire. The factors that determine tree survival are reviewed along with how to effect changes in the fire situation…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrett, Arno
This report describes use of increment borers for interpreting fire history in coniferous forests. These methods are especially useful in wildernesses, parks, and other natural area where fire history is needed for fire management planning, but where sawing cross-sections from…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Deusen, Koretz
The effect of climate on tree rings may change over time as a result of stand dynamics or environmental stress. These dynamic effects can be studied using theory and computer programs and further information on their use are availabe from the authors.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Matthiessen
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS