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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Schulte, Mladenoff
Studies of pre-European-settlement vegetation frequently use the original Public Land Survey (PLS) records from the US General Land Office. Like all other sources of data, this historical source poses both advantages and limitations. We review spatial and temporal issues…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuhlendorf, Engle
From the text ... 'We purpose a paradigm that enhances heterogenity instead of homogeneity to promote biological diversity and wildlife habitat on rangelands grazed by livestock.' © American Institute of Biological Sciences. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ward, Tithecott, Wotton
Ward and Tithecott (PC. Ward and A.G. Tithecott. 1993. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Aviation, Flood and Fire Management Branch, Publ. 305) presented data that indicated fire suppression activities in Ontario led to reductions in average annual area burned and greater…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arseneault
Although behavior of stand-replacing wildfire has significant impacts on initial tree regeneration in the fire-prone boreal landscape, the unknown behavior of most past wildfires has precluded any evaluation of these impacts on the progressive development of late-successional…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hann, Hemstrom, Haynes, Clifford, Gravenmier
To understand benefits of integrating management at landscape scales, we estimated cost and projected integrated outcomes for three alternatives for public land management in the interior Columbia River basin over 100 years. Effectiveness was measured in terms of costs and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cannon, Bigio, Mine
In this study we examine factors that pertain to the generation of debris flows from a basin recently burned by wildfire.. Throughout the summer 2000 thunderstorm season, we monitored rain gauges, channel cross-sections, hillslope transects, and nine sediment-runoff traps…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson, Carey, Beeson, Gard, Lane
A profile-based, analytical hillslope erosion model (HEM) is integrated into a geographical information system (GIS) framework to provide a tool to assess the impact of the Cerro Grande fire on erosion and sediment delivery to the many streams draining the burn area. The model,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kirk, Hobson
We made counts of 42 bird species at 217 points in 44 jack pine Pinus banksiana stands in the boreal region of north-central Saskatchewan, Canada because of concerns about the impact of forestry on avian biodiversity. Using multivariate analyses we describe the main patterns of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grace, Smith, Grace, Collins, Stohlgren
A substantial number of invasive grasses, forbs and woody plants have invaded temperate grasslands in North America. Among the invading species are winter annuals, biennials, cool-season perennials, warm-season perennials, vines, shrubs, and trees. Many of these species have…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brooks, Pyke
Invasive plants and fire create substantial challenges for land managers in the deserts of North America. Invasive plants can compete with native plants, alter wildlife habitat, and promote the spread of fire where it was historically infrequent. Increased fire frequency in the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coloff
From the Preface ... 'The basic mission of the Joint Fire Science Program is to provide the scientific basis and rationale for implementing fuels management activities, with emphasis on the development and application of information for resource managers. The Joint Fire Science…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murgai
This paper describes the results of examining the influence of radiative heat transfer on turbulent natural convection above fires in an atmosphere of constant potential temperature, under both the 'opaque' and 'transparent' approximations. It turns out that on the basis of the…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Swengel
This literature review concerns insect responses to fire, compared to other feasible and appropriate conservation managements of open habitats. Many insect groups decline markedly immediately after fire, with the magnitude of reduction related to the degree of exposure to the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weatherford
The mechanism of wood burning has been subjected to mathematical analysis. Extensive finite-difference computations for symmetrical and nonsymmetrical heating of flat wood slabs have provided results which appear to shed additional light upon the mechanisms leading to stable…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text... 'The final conclusion was, then that for the type of slash studied there is no need to adjust the slash hazard index for exposure through that part of the fire season when wildfires are more likely to occur but, if the ratings are to be used as guides in fall…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sparrow, Bellingham
From the text...'In a critique of our paper (Bellingham and Sparrow 2000) that proposed a non-linear trade-off between biomass allocation to resprouting and seeding, Pausas (2001) raises some questions about the general applicability of our model. Three issues arise from Pausas'…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saab, Vierling
Lewis*s Woodpecker (Melanerpes lewis) has been characterized as a "burn specialist” because of its preference for nesting within burned pine forests. No prior study, however, has demonstrated the relative importance of crown-burned forests to this woodpecker species by examining…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Nieuwstadt, Sheil, Kartawinata
In 1997-1998 over 50,000 km2 of East Kalimantan burned, affecting some 23,000 km2 of natural forest concessions. This is nearly one-quarter (24%) of the area of all natural forest concessions in the province (Hoffmann et al. 1999). The biomass of the trees living at the time of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wong, Lertzman
Errors in estimates of tree ages from increment cores can influence age-class distributions, affecting inferences about forest dynamics. We compare methods of height correction of increment cores taken above ground level by examining how resulting errors affect age-class…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Uncertainty in surface-fire history: the case of ponderosa pine forests in the western United States
Present understanding of fire ecology in forests subject to surface fires is based on fire-scar evidence. We present theory and empirical results that suggest that fire-history data have uncertainties and biases when used to estimate the population mean fire interval (FI) or…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timoney
This first approximation assessment of old-growth forests in Alberta, Canada, presents tabular summaries of selected old-growth attributes and elucidates some themes of old-growth forest development, structure, function, distribution, and conservation status. Forest types…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hjerpe, Hedenas, Elmqvist
In 1990 and 1991, Samoa was struck by two cyclones, Ofa and Val. In the Tafua Rain Forest Preserve on the island of Savai*i, one part of the forest also burned after the first cyclone. Here we report on patterns of regeneration and changes in tree species composition in the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Snow
From the text... 'The U.S. Forest Service, surveying the wake of the fire, began making plans to re-seed the scorched areas, and to use a relatively new technique known as hydromulching as the best way to rehabilitate problem locations such as steep slopes and other erosion-…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Finn
From the text ... 'The safety of our firefighters is paramount, and the best tool we can give them is accurate information, conveyed clearly and on time.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ingalsbee
From the text ... 'In May 2000, the Forest Service released a proposal to protect roadless areas on the national forests and grasslands from degradation through future roadbuilding. The Roadless Area Conservation Draft Environmental Impact Statement, coupled with an unusually…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS