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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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An overview of the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiments in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Year: 1997
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fuller
Holocene fossil pollen data of fine temporal and spatial resolution were obtained from two small, closed lake basins in southern Ontario, Canada. Forest development is recorded in the pollen sequences, which document the invasion and expansion of tree populations during the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stage
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS), coupled with a new key to structural classes, provided an empirical link between the Columbia River Basin SUccessional Model (CRBSUM) and the real world. The essence of CRBSUM is a set of residence times and disturbance probabilities for…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnston, Elliott
The Boreal Mixedwood Ecosystem Study near Thunder Bay, Ontario is a multi-disciplinary investigation of the impacts of harvesting and fire on the structure and function of a boreal mixed-wood ecosystem. The fire component comprises a set of treatments in which fire severity was…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
World Fire is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseparable, and together they have repeatedly remade the planet.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Damhoureyeh, Hartnett
Forb populations were sampled on Kansas tallgrass prairie to exaniinc the effects of native (bison) and domestic (cattle) ungulates on plant growth, reproduction, and species abundances. Five locally and regionally abundant native tallgrass prairie perennials, Baptisia bracteata…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gonzalez
Prescribed burning costs are extemely variable, even if conditions are similar. This variability complicates planning and evaluation of prescribed burning programs and budgets, resulting in imprecise projecions of their economic benefits. Evaluating the worth of prescribed…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sheppard, Farnsworth
Fire has been a global disturbance agent for thousands of years. As an ecological process that helped shape the floral and faunal communities of western North America, fire also maintained the health and diversity of forest until European settlers arrived. Since presettlement,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mejer
Building on insights provided by Beck (1988), Pyne (1982) and others, the paper views wildland fire as an event revealing a social and scientific field in which basic dilemmas that separate nature and culture, environmental autonomy and human intervention, and the certainty of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harrod, Knecht, Kuhlmann, Ellis, Davenport
From the text... "Conclusions: Our preliminary results regarding O. pinorum and S. seelyi response to fire are inadequate to provide management recommendation. However, the result of this study indicate that C. fasciculatum is a fire-intolerant species and management of this…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murray, Bunting, Morgan
The subalpine vegetation zone is an extensive and important high elevation setting in the western United States. Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) is restricted to, and occurs widely in, the subalpine zone. This tree provides a valuable foodsource and shelter for a variety of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lord
A probabilistic model is offered for tracing the fate of vegetation communities in fire-prone lands that are subjected to regular fuel reduction burning. The model is based on the semi-Markov process (an extension of Markov chain modelling). The inputs necessary for the semi-…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murphy, Cole
From the text... "Futurist biologists have stated that the success of Endangered and Threatened Species recovery programs is not to keep habitats in original and/or untouched conditions (De Blieu 1993). A practical goal is to "Reshape habitats so they can exist in a thickly…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Graham, Jain, Reynolds, Boyce
The northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), is a northern latitude, forest dwelling raptor. In the Western United States, goshawks live in most forests, including those dominated by western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.), lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl.ex.Loud.)…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Geier-Hayes
Post-fire rehabilitation efforts following a central Idaho wildfire included aerial seeding four exotic grass species at a rate of 6.2kgha-1. Smooth brome, intermediate wheatgrass, timothy, and orchard-grass constituted the seed mix. Paired seeded and unseeded plots were…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Myers
Fire regimes are sets of recurring conditions of fire that characterize given fife-maintained ecosystems. On any given area, a fire regime is also a unique fire history. In biodiversity conservation, one should distinguish between the concept of a "natural” fire regime and a…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baisan, Swetnam
Four centuries of land use history were compared to fire regime characteristics along a use-intensity gradient. Changes in intensity and type of utilization varied directly with changes in fire regime characteristics near population centers, while remote areas showed little…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stanton
Most ecosystems in North America evolved with the aid of periodic fires. Managers of natural areas, including prairies and wetlands, who seek to maintain ecologically diverse sites will at some point explore the use of fire in their management program. This article introduces…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lawson, Frandsen, Hawkes, Dalrymple
From the text...'Wildfires continue to threaten the forest resources of the boreal forest, as well as human life and property in Canada and the State of Alaska. There has been an increased understanding of the natural role of fire in these ecosystems, and prescribed fire is a…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schuster, Cleaves, Bell
Forest Service expenditures for fire presuppression and suppression activities increased from $61 million in FY 1970 to $951 million in FY 1994. Yet, real (net of inflation) expenditures have not increased significantly since FY 1970, if FY 1994 expenditures are excluded. During…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wikars
The fauna of wood-living arthropods was studied during two years of succession after tree death in burned and unburned logs at a burned site, and in unburned logs at a clearing and in a forest. Burned spruce logs hosted fewer beetles than unburned logs. Especially bark beetles,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wikars
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boychuk, Perera, Ter-Mikaelian, Martell, Li
With the exponential model, Van Wagner (1978) gave us valuable insight in understanding stand age and forest age distribution in fire-disturbed landscapes. He showed that, under certain conditions, the probability distribution of the age of a stand subject to periodic renewal by…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schwartz, Hermann
In this chapter we review the philosophy and use of prescribed fire in the fragmented landscape of the Midwest. Forty years ago most resource management agencies viewed fire as a destructive force to be suppressed at all costs (reviewed by Pyne 1982). Over time, and with…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS