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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Blackwell, Green, Hedberg
In 1992 the Greater Vancouver Water District began an extensive ecological inventory of its three watersheds (53,600 ha) that serve as the drinking water source for the Greater Vancouver Region. The focus of the inventory was to provide watershed managers with a better…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blackwell, Green, Hedberg, Ohlson
In 1992 the Greater Vancouver Water District began an extensive ecological inventory of its three watersheds (53,600 ha) that serve as the drinking water source for the Greater Vancouver Region. The focus of the inventory, which integrates physical and ecological information,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harkins, Morgan, Neuenschwander, Chrisman, Zack, Jacobson, Grant, Sampson
The Idaho Panhandle National Forests (IPNF), in partnership with the University of Idaho, the Fire Sciences Laboratory, and The Sampson Group, developed a Geographic Information System (GIS) based wildfire hazard-risk assessment. The assessment was completed for the North Zone…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell, Last, Campbell, Clare, McAndrews
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moore, Richardson
Forest disturbance agents, such as wildfire and windthrow, often differ in magnitude and frequency between upland and riparian zones. Riparian forests may be subject to additional disturbance agents that do not affect uplands, including debris flows, floods, bank erosion, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dudley, DeLoach, Lovich, Carruthers
From the text...'the goals of this paper are to describe briefly the nature of impacts that saltcedar has to riparian ecosystems and how human impacts relate to this invasion, to review our expectations for a biological control program to augment traditional control efforts, to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mullen
The Cerro Grande has been called the biggest fire in New Mexico history. The Cerro Grande blaze raged across the hillsides above Los Alamos National Laboratory, then, driven by high winds, the fire raced through the Laboratory and the Los Alamos town site. The fire destroyed…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Edwards, Bigelow, Finney, Eisner
We investigated whether techniques developed to evaluate qualitative lake-level changes in the temperate zone can be used in sub-arctic and arctic Alaska. We focused on aquatic pollen records and sediment properties (loss-on-ignition and magnetic susceptibility) from centrally-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Allen, Baron, Fagre, McKenzie, Stephenson, Fountain, Hicke, Malanson, Ojima, Tague, van Mantgem
Mountains in western North America are beginning to see changes in ecosystem processes primarily from climate-forced changes in water dynamics. With earlier snowmelt and increasing proportions of rain versus snow (Mote 2003; Stewart et al. 2005; Knowles et al. 2006), drought…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Medley-Daniel, Davis
Forest Service policies and programs promote the integration of forest and watershed restoration with local economic development. For example, the Collaborative Landscape Restoration Program, stewardship contracting, and the Watershed Condition Framework all explicitly link…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Medley-Daniel, Davis
The Watershed Condition Framework (WCF) asks Forest Service program managers and line officers to plan and implement integrated watershed restoration. Collaborating to restore watershed can help you, as a national forest or grassland staff member, achieve diverse benefits. In…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Davis
Across multiple presidential administrations, forest and watershed restoration has become an increasingly important focus of the USDA Forest Service. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, for example, has made restoring watershed and forest health the primary objective of the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Foltz, Showers
The increased size and severity of wildland fires require increasingly effective BAER treatments. A commonly used BAER treatment is mulching, the spreading of agricultural straw by hand or from the air using a helicopter. While widely used and fairly reasonably effective at…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
We propose development of a new methodology that can be used by forest and fire managers and planners to consider the potential effects of all aspects of fire management (i.e., fuels reduction to post-fire restoration) on native stream fishes and their habitats. State-of-the-art…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Ashmun
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
This chapter presents a broader, more fundamental view of the ecological principles and shifting fire regimes described in the previous chapters that have important implications for ecosystem management. Also included are strategies and approaches for managing fire in an…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
France, Steedman, Lehmann, Peters
It has been recently suggested that droughts induced by climate warming reduce the catchment export of colour-forming, and therefore, UV-B protective, DOC to boreal lakes, which in turn may influence the health of resident biota. We determined that the concentration of DOC in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke
This paper discusses the overall effects fire has on the carbon budget of boreal forests. Studies on using the boreal forest as a means to sequester carbon have not adequately accounted for these effects. Among other approaches, it has been suggested that suppression of fire in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Caldwell, Canavan, Bloom
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Enache, Prairie
Biogeochemical effects of fire events were analysed in a small humic kettle lake. Lac Francis (claybelt area. Abitibi, northwestern Quebec), using diatom-based quantitative inference models developed to reconstruct past pH. total phosphorus, and dissolved organic carbon in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Campbell, Flannigan
From the Introduction ... 'This chapter reviews the record of past and present North American boreal fire regimes at various time scales and how the relate to both climate and vegetation. From this review, we draw some possible conclusions regarding possible future fire regimes…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garcia, Carignan
We measured total Hg and stable isotopes (d13C and d15N) in northern pike (Esox lucius) from 19 Boreal Shield lakes with undisturbed, logged, or burned watersheds. Average Hg level in standard 560-mm northern pike, on a dry weight basis, was significantly higher in logged lakes…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carignan, D'Arcy, Lamontagne
Water quality was monitored in Boreal Shield lakes for 3 years following their simultaneous impact by clearcut logging or wildfire. Seventeen similar undisturbed lakes served as references. Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and the light attenuation coefficient (PAR) were up to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS