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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
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Schullery
From introduction: The Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires of 1988 were, in the words of National Park Service (NPS) publications, the most significant ecological event in the history of the national parks (NPS 1988). Their political consequences may be as far-reaching as their…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, de Groot, Hirsch, Lanoville
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCleese
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, Lawson, Alexander, Van Wagner, McAlpine, Lynham, Dube
Forest fire danger rating research in Canada was initiated by the federal government in 1925. Five different fire danger rating systems have been developed since that time, each with increasing universal applicability across Canada. The approach has been to build on previous…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fischer
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cartledge
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bond, van Wilgen
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The Federal Wildland Fire Policy Review (Policy Review) directly affects only Department of Agriculture and Interior agencies. However, it significantly, although indirectly, affects local, State, and Tribal governments as well as other Federal partners. Every…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stock, Williams, Cleaves
Prescribed burning expenditures are based on the fire manager's judgment about the 'risk' of the fire escaping and his/her anticipation of the consequences of such an escape. In a high-risk site, more resources are needed to prepare the site for a safe burn. Ifa fire escapes, or…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Greene, Evenden
From the Conclusions...'Attempts to exclude fire from wildland ecosystems in the Intermountain and Pacific Northwest Regions have had serious ecological impacts on at least 79 of the established and proposed Research Natural Areas. Numerous ecological and operational challenges…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar, Schaaf, Alvarado
From the Introduction...'Fire is the single most important ecological disturbance process throughout the interior Pacific Northwest (Mutch and others 1993; Agee 1994). It is also a natural process that helps maintain a diverse ecological landscape. Fire suppression and timber…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rich
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hamilton, Salazar, Palmer
Controlling wildfires within the wildland/urban interface has proven to be the most complex challenge facing wildland fire agencies. Although program improvements to increase the efficiency of interface suppression efforts have been suggested, the availability of information…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bradley
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS), a 'new generation' knowledge management tool, is designed to store and provide easy user access to state-of-the knowledge information on the effects of fire and general ecology of plant species and communities. System software was…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reynolds
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Andrews
From the introduction: The purpose of the Symposium on Wildland Fire 2000 was to examine the 'possible, preferred, and probable status of wildland fire management and research in the year 2000 and beyond' (David and Martin 1987). A half-day 'futuring' session was an integral…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hirsch, Martell
Information regarding the productivity and effectiveness of initial attack fire crews is essential to a wide variety of forest fire management activities. This paper provides a selective review of crew productivity research conducted in Australia, Canada, and the United States…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schmidt
This paper's title - "Can we restore the fire process? What awaits us if we don't?" - represents an ecologist's view of the world. I submit that this view is unrealistic. The first clause uses the term "restore" which implies reestablishing the fire process of the past. The…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS