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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kay
It is now widely acknowledged that frequent low-intensity tires once structured many western forests. What is not generally recognized, however, is that most of those tires were purposefully set by native people, not started by lightning. Data from the Rocky Mountains attest to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'Removing American Indians from the land effectively ended wildland burning practices that had lasted for millennia. ...The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management together administer several hundred million acres of grassland and other grazing land where…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'The first white travelers in the Willamette Valley found extensive prairie and oak savanna maintained through Indian-set fires.'
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text ... 'The fires that once flushed the myriad landscapes of North America were fires that people once set and no longer do. ...The aboriginal firestick became a lever that, suitably sited, could move whole landscapes, even continents. ...Forests broke into a…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... 'Using standard terminology improves communication for a safer, better wildland fire organization. ...As policy evolves and new technologies emerge, wildland fire terminology is subject to constant change. ...The National Interagency Incident Management System…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cruz
From the text ... 'I think we'll be utilizing fire a lot more than we have in the past in order to bring our ecosystems back into balance. ... FIRE 21 will help the Forest Service reach the desired future condition for our national forests by using fire management expertise to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunnell
From the text ... 'Designed to be dynamic, the guide contains diagrams and illustrations that help explain the complexities of wildland fire use and prescribed fire application.'
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... 'Changing the journal's name from Control to Management signaled a programmatic shift that continues today as the wildland fire community strives to improve firefighter safety while striking the right balance among prevention, suppression, and fire use. In 1976…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moser, 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
Drewa, Havstad
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brockway
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The papers in these proceedings cover a wide range of topics related to human and natural disturbance processes in forests of the boreal zone in North America and Eurasia. Topics include historic and predicted landscape change; forest management; disturbance by insects, fire,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Lanoville, Wotton, Stocks
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) constitutes a major, cooperative, global undertaking involving coordination by the Canadian Forest Service Fire Research Network and the Government of the Northwest Territories' Forest Management Division combined with…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forty-six papers are presented on the nature and management of threats to wilderness ecosystems. Five overview papers synthesize knowledge and research on wilderness fire, recreation impacts, livestock in wilderness, nonnative invasive plants, and wilderness air quality. Other…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Windell, Bradshaw
ANNOTATION: This report contains the results of numerous interviews, a field survey, and a literature search and discusses fuel reduction equipment and methods that have been tried in the past, those that are currently being used, and those that may warrant consideration in the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weatherspoon
Many U. S. forests, especially those with historically short-interval, low- to moderate-severity fire regimes, are too dense and have excessive quantities of fuels. Widespread treatments are needed to restore ecological integrity and reduce the high risk of destructive,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ferguson
Fires in the northern interior have long been known to smolder for long periods. Because emission rates from smoldering smoke are small in comparison to rates of emissions during flaming, however, and because it is difficult to monitor smoldering fires, there are few…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Alvarado, Bluhm, Morse
Fire severity map of prescribed burn based on interpretation of aerial stereo photography at 1' to 500' scale.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weatherspoon
Project Objectives: Land managers and researchers from the Department of Agriculture (Forest Service), Department of Interior (National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management), and universities will work collaboratively to complete the design of an…
Year: 2000
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Ottmar, Bluhm, Alvarado
FrostFire is a major field experiment and modeling effort to study the role of fire in boreal forests as a global change feedback and simultaneously provide fire managers with an improved capacity to predict fire severity based on meteorological conditions. The centerpiece of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weber
In the boreal forests of North America, fire is the keystone ecosystem process that organizes the physical and biological attributes of the biome over most of its range. Boreal forest ecosystem structure and function are described in terms of the adaptations evolved in response…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Roessler, Packee
The Tanana River basin in interior Alaska occupies approximately 11.9 million hectares. Forests of the basin consist of white or black spruce (Picea glauca, P. mariana), tamarack (Larix laricina), paper birch (Betula papyrifera), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), and balsam…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Parsons
Despite clear legislative and policy direction to preserve natural conditions in wilderness, the maintenance of fire as a natural process has proven to be a significant challenge to federal land managers. As of 1998, only 88 of the 596 designated wilderness areas in the United…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES