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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Turner, Romme, Gardner
The 'bloom' of annual and perennial plants following fire in the chaparral is well documented, but there is controversy over what factors cause this burst of new growth. I examined the relative importance of fire, competition, and herbivory in seedling germination and…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schwartz, Hermann
We present evidence that fire suppression may have contributed to the fungal decline of torreya (Torreya taxifolia). During the 1950's torreya suffered a catastrophic die-back. The torreya die-back was probably caused by needle pathogens induced through environmental stress.…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morber, Miyanishi
Canopy closure by trees such as Prunus serotina and p. virginiana is presently threatening the survival of the herbaceous component of an oak savanna in Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario. Prescribed burning has recently been instituted in an attempt to open up the canopy to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keeley
Mortality patterns are diverse for chaparral shrubs under periods > 100 years without fire. Ceanothus often suffer the highest mortality under extended fire-free conditions and this is best interpreted as density dependent thinning rather than senescence. Intraspecific…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
De Grandpre, Gagnon
The changes observed in the composition and abundance of shrubs, herbs and mosses were investigated following fire in the southern boreal forest of the Abitibi region, Quebec. Ten plots of 100m2 were sampled at each of eight sites varying in age from 26 to 230 years after fire (…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
George, Blakely
Rate of spread and other indirect measurements of fire intensity are often used as measures of flammability when fire-retardant chemicals are evaluated under laboratory conditions. The authors describe a system for obtaining the energy release rate directly and show its…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fahnestock
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Forman, Longacre
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viegas, Neto
Modelling of the wind effect on the rate of spread of a flame in a forest fire usually employs a wind velocity measured at mid-flame height. An alternative formulation is proposed in this paper, based on the wall shear-stress produced by the wind on the fuelbed in the absence of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roads, Ueyoshi, Chen, Alpert, Fujioka
The forecast skill of the National Meteorological Center's medium range forecast (MRF) numerical forecasts of fire weather variables is assessed for the period June 1, 1988 to May 31, 1990. Near-surface virtual temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and a derived fire…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Minimum Acceptable Visibility (MAV) table was originally provided by the California Highway Patrol in response to an inquiry relative to acceptable highway visibility reduction caused by smoke. The table was included in chapter two of the 1991 edition of the National Park…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott
The direct seeding programme in Ontario has increasd from 80 acres in 1956 to a maximum of 11,135 acres in 1967. Seed is applied by a variety of methods including fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft, snowmobiles and a variety of manual and mechanical equipment. All sites are…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ramsey, Higgins
The tables presented here contain forest fire statistics for the calendar year 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1987 as reported by all Canadian forest fire control agencies. The statistical data are presented separately for each province or other major jurisdiction, and for Canada as a…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kourtz, Todd
Lightning causes one third of the 9000 wildfires that occur in Canada. Annually, these lightning-caused fires account for 90% of the area burned and cost Canadians at least 150 million dollars in suppression costs and values destroyed. Unlike the fires caused by human negligence…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pylypec
Breeding bird populations were monitored for three years after an October prescribed burn in a fescue grassland near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Breeding populations of 12 species were recorded on a 12.9 ha burned plot and an adjacent 5.6 ha unburned plot, each with similar…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peck, Peek
Prescribed fire has traditionally been used to create and maintain Elk habitat in the Tuchodi River area of northeastern British Columbia. Elk use of post fire vegetation was examined. Elk wintered primarily on younger postburn vegetation dominated by grasses or shrubs, except…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This paper looks first at the kind of forest fire statistics that are currently available in Canada. The main statistics are number of fires area burned, causes, and control costs. Good inventory data on burned areas are not available. The recent rising trend in national burned…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jin
From the summary:'Experimental study on the visibility through fire smoke was carried out. The relation among the brightness of sign, visual distance, and the extinction coefficient of smoke at the instant of obscuration threshold was obtained by using the smoke chamber. The…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keiter, Boyce
From the text: 'In this concluding chapter, therefore, we try to put these Greater Yellowstone developments in perspective. We begin by identifying the principal conflicts involved in this transition to an ecosystem-based management policy in Greater Yellowstone. Next, we…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the text: 'In 1959 Williams published a method of calculating the fire season severity rating, an integrated measure of fire weather over the whole season. Being based solely on the daily fire danger index (1956 type), it could be used as an objective yardstick for…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Connaughton
From the text: 'We have established that fire in the Intermountain West is a well recognized and time honored natural orce as part of our dynamic evolution. We have had no trouble agreeing that fire preceded man and, until very recently at least, has been a far more potent force…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burbank
From the text: 'I want to stress one last point. Equipment developers, such as my organization, need your cooperation in defining or, more importantly, identifying your major problems. You, Fire Control managers, have the field problems which must be solved, not us. Too often we…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Corrick
From the text: 'There is an awareness by many of our educational institutions to the fact that continuing education beyond graduation is a function that must be given greater emphasis. These institutions offer any number of special courses, seminars and programs designed to…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moore
From the text: 'Obviously an extremely professional task of development, research and management looms ahead. Moreover, to manage land and protect its resources in the true public interest requires involvement of an informed citizenry in many managerial and policy decisions.…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS