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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Anderson
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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
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
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
Weber
This is a review of the essential ingredients needed to make a mathematical model of fire spread through a fuel bed. The physical problem is outlined in general terms. Previous models are classified as statistical, empirical, or physical in accordance with the methods used in…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Reinhardt
Equations for predicting duff and large woody fuel (7.6+ cm) consumption are summarized. Dependent variables are duff depth reduction, percentage duff depth reduction, percentage mineral soil, large fuel diameter reduction, and percentage large fuel reduction. Opportunities to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hungerford, Campbell
Predictions of soil heating for two models were compared with temperatures and moisture contents measured in laboratory experiments. Columns packed with soil of different water contents and bulk densities were placed under a radiant gas heater. Temperature and water content were…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viney, Hatton, Dawes
The moisture content of the litter is one of the most important environmental factors affecting the ignition and propogation of a forest fire. The concept of equilibrium moisture content has proven utility in making a meaningful connection between weather and litter moisture.…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Todd, Kourtz
People are responsible for starting two out of every three forest fires in Canada. To efficiently suppress these fires while they are still small, a modern forest fire control organization must be able to predict their numbers and locations one day in advance. Contrary to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
A prescribed fire was ignited near Chapleau, western Ontario, Canada, on the afternoon of August 10, 1989. The fire, covering approximately 400 ha, burned vigorously over a period of 3 hours, from 1400 to 1700 EDT, generating a plume cloud structure including a portion…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Houle, Payette
We studied the seed dynamics of Abies balsamea and Acer saccharum in a sugar maple-yellow birch forest of Quebec, Canada. Seed rain was censused every week from spring to autumn in 1988 and 1989. The soil seed bank was sampled four times during the 1988 growing season. Abies…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine, Wakimoto
The acceleration phase of a forest fire, from ignition to the equilibrium rate of spread, is perhaps the most important phase of fire behavior because often it represents the only time period in which suppression efforts could be effective. A series of experimental fires in a…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parker
Prescribed burning of chaparral is a common management practice that produces variable results in vegetation recovery. Conditions during prescribed burns can differ greatly from those the plants historically experienced and much of the observed variation in chaparral response…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White, Fenton
The western national parks managed by the Canadian Parks Service (CPS) are dominated by fire dependent forests of lodgepole pine, spruce and trembling aspen. Values at risk and high-intensity fire regimes limit the acceptability of unscheduled (lightning and unplanned man)…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kaufman, Fraser, Mahoney
Emission from burning of fossil fuels and biomass ( associated with deforestation ) generates a radiative forcing on the atmosphere and a possible climate change. Emitted trace gases heat the atmosphere through their greenhouse effect, while particulates formed from emitted SO2…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carlton
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gonzalez-Espinosa, Quintana-Ascencio, Ramirez-Marcial, Gaytan-Guzman
We present floristic and structural data on seral plant communities (Old-Field, Grassland, Shrubland, and Early Successional, Mid-Successional, and Mature Forest) resulting from the current land use pattern in the Pinus-Quercus forests in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. The…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron
In order to characterize the fires regime of the southern boreal forest and to understand the way in which landscape and fire regime interact, a detailed study of fire history was undertaken in two adjacent contrasting landscapes in northwestern Quebec. The fire history for the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch
In 1989 a new record was established for the number of fires (1147) and area burned (3.28 million ha) in Manitoba. These fires resulted in the unprecedented evacuation of 24,500 people from 32 different communities and cost over $68 million (CDN) to suppress. The first major…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baker, Egbert, Frazier
Global warming may have many consequences for natural ecosystems, including a change in disturbance regimes. No current model of landscapes subject to disturbance incorporates the effect of climatic change on disturbances on decade to century times scales, or addresses…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein, Whistler
Specification of monthly mean surface weather elements from concurrent fields of 700 mbar monthly mean height anomaly can help the US Forest Service to evaluate the potential for wildland fires. Multiple regression equations, therefore, were derived for anomalies of monthly mean…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kurz, Sampson
From the text...'In this paper, we will provide a brief overview of the predictions of climatic change and the current understanding of forest response through changes in growth rates, disturbance regimes, and species composition. We will explore the implications of these…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCleese, Nichols, Walton
In this paper, several innovations to the firefighting process are summarized. Organizational innovations include the Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Protection Initiative, common interagency emergency management procedures, and the National Interagency Incident Management System…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS