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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hironaka
Medusahead (Taeniatherum asperum) has replaced cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and other annual grasses over extensive areas in California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington during the past 40 years. It has low palatability, injurious, and pesky awns, and completely dominates affected…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pellant
The size and frequency of wildfires are rapidly increasing on rangelands in the Intermountain area of the Western United States. One of the major contributors to increased wildfires is alien annual grasses, primarily cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum). Because these annual grasses dry…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner, Romme, Gardner, Hargrove
The 1988 Yellowstone fires provided a unique opportunity to examine how the geometry of fire created patches affects plant reestablishment. We initiated studies in 1990 in small (1 ha), moderate (74-200 ha), and large (480-3968 ha) crown-fire patches in each of 3 areas.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hargrove, Gardner, Turner, Romme
Future long-term (ca. 100 year) trends in fire frequency and burn patterns were investigated in the subalpine plateau of Yellowstone National Park, USA, using EMBYR, a probabilistic, spatially-explicit fire simulation model. The central subalpine plateau (85 km x 82 km) was…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gutsell, Johnson
Two key observations lead to our understanding of how fire scars form on trees. First, as a fire passes by a tree, its flame length increases on the leeward side of the tree. Second, the cambium is killed in a triangular shape, encompassing approximately half the circumference…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bridge, Johnson
Statistically acceptable fire frequency models using time since fire maps are iterative and require specialized statistical and graphical routines. We introduce an automated technique for studying fire frequency usinq Geographic Information Systems' analytical capabilities. A…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Archibald, Luke, Coneybeare
'Burning earlier in the season may reduce the need for pre-burn vegetation management treatments (e.g. herbicide application) on some sites...Burning in late spring to take advantage of low green-up levels may result in greater rates of fire spread and allow for reduced…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Allen
'The heightened recognition within the research community of the ecological linkages between Local sites and larger spatial scales has spawned increasing calls for more holistic management of landscapes (Noss 1983, Harris 1984, Risser 1985, Norse et al 1986, Agee and Johnson…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
A century of overly diligent fire suppression has left western forests in an explosive condition exacerbated by drought. The number and intensity of the fires this year has strained the resources of firefighters, making an already dangerous job more deadly than ever.
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cornett
'The complexities of ecosystem management virtually require the use of GIS technology. The need to view and analyze ecosystems at a landscape level demands the spatial capabilities that only GIS can provide. The same capabilities will assist in modeling conditions and attributes…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cleland, Crow, Hart, Padley
'In this chapter, we present several concepts that are useful for defining, mapping, and managing ecosystems, and offer a brief prospectus of the use of remote sensing and GIS technoLogy in support of these activities. The topics presented here include (1) multiple factors,…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodard, Michalsky
A stand replacing crown fire was set in 1983 for the purpose of increasing the quality and quantity of a bighorn sheep range on Ram Mountain, Alberta. The area burned was a 250-year-old white spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss) stand in close proximity to escape terrain and…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Joslin
'Smokey Bear, America's 'forest fire preventin' bear' for fifty years, has taken a lot of undeserved heat lately. Wildland fire management professionals--especially fire prevention professionals--must understand that heat and counter it to preserve Smokey's effectiveness.'
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Litvina, Takle
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moody, Buchanan, Melcher, Wistrand
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae, Weirich, Johnson
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine, Wotton
Forest fire perimeters, in both Canada and the United States are predicted with an elliptical growth model, or acellular growth model, that emulates an ellipse. Recently it has been shown that the fractal dimension, a measure of line "wiggliness", anda subdivision ofthe science…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Adkins, Bleau, Duvarney
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman, Eenigenburg, Main
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fujioka, Meisner, McCutchan
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch, Hoskins, Hoskins
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin, Gordon, Gutierrez, Lee, Molina-Terrén, Schroeder, Sapsis, Stephens, Chambers
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS