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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Zedaker
Herbicides have been added to silvicultural treatments involving fire for nearly 50 years and, for some objectives, can even substitute for a prescribed burn. Herbicides and/or fire create changes in the effects of silvicultural treatments at individual plant, forest community,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sheppard
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 forests until European settlers arrived. Since that time,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Covington, Moore, Fulé
The central concern in ecological restoration is reversing the degradation of ecosystems by restoring the structure and function of ecosystems to approximate those conditions present before degradation began. In many frequent-fire ecosystems, degradation can be traced to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moser
From the Preface ... 'Fire's impact upon the land, atmosphere, and global environment have been apparently more pronounced and more anxiety-causing to the public. The suppression of fire has caused harm to some ecosystems, either through elimination of fire-dependent species or…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Payette, Bhiry, Delwaide, Simard
The lichen woodland is one of the most important forest ecosystems in North America. dominating the central part of the boreal forest. The southernmost lichen woodland is paradoxically in the heart of the southern boreal forest. This distribution prompted this study aiming to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larocque, Bergeron, Campbell, Bradshaw
Succession after fire has mainly been studied by chronosequence, which does not allow study of pre- and post-fire communities at the same site. By using palynology and anthracology. we recovered vegetation communities and fire histories through time on islands of Duparquet Lake…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Aubin, Beaudet, Messier
This study was conducted in six different forest types in Abitibi. Que., (i) to identify the factors that most influence understory light transmission in the southern boreal forest and (ii) to develop light extinction coefficients (k), which could be used to simulate light…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'Fire shelter training has for years stressed the importance of deploying fire shelters where there is no direct flame contact. However, the results of recent tests by the Missoula Technology and Development Center, a part of the USDA Forest Service's Fire and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
A speculative, phenomenological model is formulated for the time-varying intensity and spread rate of a free-burning fire under the influence of nonsteady wind. The model is linearized by approximations and explicit solutions derived for the amplitude response of spread rate and…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the book jacket...'From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Stephen J. Pyne's narrative explores the efforts of sucessive American cultures to master this forbidding kind of fire and to use it to shape the landscape. He draws not only on academic experience…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The purpose of this guide is to assist in the operational monitoring and evaluation of prescribed fires. A common approach to monitoring and evaluation will enable prescribed fire managers and resource specialists in different organizations and areas to share…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schmidtling, Hipkins, Carroll
From the text...'The present study examines geographic patterns of allozyme variation in longleaf and loblolly pines to provide evidence for the location of Pleistocene refugia for the two species.... It is proposed that the continuous linear decrease in allozyme variation in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCullough
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simoneit, Rogge, Lang, Jaffe
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carcaillet, Richard
Postglacial fire history has been reconstructed for eastern Canada from charcoal-influx anomalies from 30 sites taken. from a lacustrine charcoal database. The reconstruction exhibits coherent patterns of fire occurrence in space and time. The early Holocene is characterized by…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lewis
From the text: 'With respect to traditional uses of fire, the Indians of northern Alberta exhibited a clear understanding of both what was happening as well as why things happened. They exhibited full understanding of systemic, relational effects of burning in their discussions…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
Fire occurs at various intervals in differnet vegetation types. Intervals between fires are longer in warm, dry sites where small amount of fuel limits fire spread and in cool, wet sites where burning conditions are limiting despite the large amount of fuel. The shortest fire…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ramsey, Higgins
The tables presented here comtain forest fire statistics for the calender year 1980 as reported by all Canadian forest fire control agencies.The statistical data are presented seperately for each province or other major jurisdiction, and for Canada as a whole. Beside each figure…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Watson
From the text ... 'The Société de Conservation de l*Outaouais, which protects 80 000 km2 southwestern Quebec timberland against fire, has been experimenting with lightning location systems, in an attempt to minimize the problem of lightning caused fires. The experiments, using…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan
Prescribed burning is increasingly being used under standing timber for site preparation and fuels management. Managers need guidelines for determining species and individual tree characteristics that are potentially capable of incurring minimal injury from a fire treatment. A…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Main, Straub, Paananen
From the text 'One of the missions of wildland fire management is to integrate fire with other land management activities to achieve desired objectives at the lowest cost. When fire managers know how fires are likely to behave in an area as well as that area*s associated weather…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This report provides information and comment on a number of practical aspects of the line intersect method, including specific equations for volume and weight for various sets of units; problems of orientation bias and sample layout; diameter-class limits and centres; use of the…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Calliari, Cantiani
An experimental model is described for simulating the dynamics of the initial phase of a forest fire in a conifer stand with a wind blowing persistently in the same direction. It is shown that the characteristic burns on the bark at the base of the stem make it possible to…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
An ad hoc method of deriving quadratic mean diameters for use in the line intersect method, without extra field work, is described. It requires an assumption that the diameters tallied in any actual line intersect survey are distributed according to a simple power law. The…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Duchesne, Hawkes
From the text...'Major forest types include those where aspen, eastern white and red pine stands, and jack pine stands are found either as fire-maintained seral types or exceptionally as climax stands (see table 3-1 for FRES, Kuchler, and SAF cover type designations). This…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS