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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Kayll
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fanshawe
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Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin, Cushwa
From the text ... 'The purpose of this paper is to explore possible mechanisms by which fire may benefit several species of leguminous plants through its direct effects on the seed. The work presented here is exploratory, although the effects of various treatments are quite…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the text ... 'Some thirty-odd years ago, Aldo Leopold (1933) defined game management as '. . . the art of making land produce sustained annual crops of wild game for recreational use.' Recently, after a bibliographical journey through the pages of the Journal of Wildlife…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the Conclusions ... 'These patterns of frontal movements and correlated lightning fires and the data upon which they are based lead me to four conclusions.1. The lightning potential over North America is extremely large although virtually unknown.2. That thunderstorms may…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guha, Mitchell
[no description entered]
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maini, Horton
[no description entered]
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hull, O'Dell, Schroeder
Prepared by the Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture for Office of Civil Defense, Office of the Secretary of the Army.
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hull, O'Dell, Schroeder
Prepared by the Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture for Office of Civil Defense, Office of the Secretary of the Army.
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sparling, Smith
The temperature of 18 fires in an open jack pine barren near Timmins, Ontario, have been recorded. The maximum temperature recorded was 545 degrees C, although in other determinations fire temperatures in excess of 1000 degrees C were reached. The mean temperatures of all fires…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Adams
The results of controlled burning on cut-over jack pine sites in southeastern Manitoba can be summarized as follows: (1) The fire hazard resulting from jack pine slash was eliminated on all the areas burned. (2) On most areas a good proportion of the organic material was removed…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Critchfield, Little
[no description entered]
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDonald, Schimke
The the Challenge Experimental Forest, 29 acres of slash were broadcast burned on five small clearcut plots (2 to 10 acres) at a cost of $57.00 per acre. Fuel-weight measurements showed reductions of 68 to 84% after the burn. Modifications to plot size, shape, and orientation…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sander
[no description entered]
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kormanik, Brown
[no description entered]
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
[no description entered]
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ingalsbee
From the text (p. 34) ... 'Given the fact that climate change will cause many wildfires to burn larger and longer, the real issue in the near future will not be cost reduction or even cost containment, but rather, cost management. Expenditures may still remain high as the amount…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hu, Higuera, Walsh, Chapman, Duffy, Brubaker, Chipman
Recent climatic warming has resulted in pronounced environmental changes in the Arctic, including shrub cover expansion and sea ice shrinkage. These changes foreshadow more dramatic impacts that will occur if the warming trend continues. Among the major challenges in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Havstad, James
Prescribed burning is a commonly advocated and historical practice for control of woody species encroachment into grasslands on all continents. However, desert grasslands of the southwestern United States often lack needed herbaceous fuel loads for effective prescriptions,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Greene, Hesketh, Pounden
We studied the density of ascocarps (mushrooms) of morels (Morchella) and pixie cups (Geopyxis carbonaria) as a function of postfire duff (forest floor organic layer) depth in the first 4 y after a wildfire. The great majority of ascocarps of both species appeared in the first…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldshleger, Ben-Dor, Lugassi, Eshel
Recent developments in the monitoring of soil degradation processes have used passive remote sensing (diffuse reflectance spectroscopy) and active remote-sensing tools such as ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and frequency domain electromagnetic induction (FDEM). We have limited…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gleason
From the text ... 'As the only agency managing lands in all 50 states and every U.S. territory, the FWS [Fish and Wildlife Service] manages fire on the greatest number of units with the smallest fire budget of any federal agency.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gautam, Pulkki, Shahi, Leitch
Wildfire burnt forest biomass can be salvaged as feedstock for bioenergy power generating stations. Despite availability of such forest biomass in northwestern Ontario, its procurement has generally been considered uneconomic and no studies have looked into the cost of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garcia-del-Rey, Otto, Fernandez-Palacios, Munoz, Gil
Fire is a key ecological force in pine forests worldwide, and faunal responses to this disturbance have been a major topic of ecology, yet little is known for oceanic island environments. Using line transects we surveyed the bird community of a natural Pinus canariensis forest…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS