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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Medler, Patterson, Yool
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gillis, Leckie
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bond, van Wilgen
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, McRae, Lynham, Hartley
This photo-series was designed to present photographs and a detailed inventory of fuels for important stands in the Boreal and Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Forest Regions of Ontario. Over the last 20 years, an experimental burning program conducted by Forestry Canada, Ontario…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paragi, Johnson, Katnik, Magoun
During 1991-1994 we tested whether martens (Martes americana) selectively used postfire seres in the Alaskan taiga and whether selection could be explained by differences in marten hunting behaviour, habitat, prey abundance, or demography. Forest seral stages included early-…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gosz, Gosz
The desert/grassland biome transition zone in central New Mexico provides an important region for testing species differences to changing environmental conditions and various land management practices. Interactions of black grama (Bouteloua eripoda) and blue grama (Bouteloua…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Forest Ecosystem Classification (FEC) systems have been used in the past mainly for forest management decision-making. FEC systems can also serve an important role for decision-making in other disciplines, such as fire management for both wildfire suppression and prescribed…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timoney, Robinson
Thirty-seven permanent plots were established and sampled during 1993 and 1994 in Timber Berth 408, Peace River Lowlands, of Wood Buffalo National Park. Sites were sampled for vegetation, bird, physical, and structural attributes. The transition from mature to old-growth…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delong, Tanner
Managing forests for sustainable use requires that both the biological diversity of the forests and a viable forest industry be maintained. A current approach towards maintaining biological diversity is to pattern forest management practices after those of natural disturbance…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vega-García, Lee, Woodard, Titus
Human-caused forest fires are a serious problem throughout the world. Believing that there are predictable characteristics common to all fires, we analyzed the historical human-caused fire occurrence data for the Whitecourt Provincial Forest of Alberta using artificial neural…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar, Schaaf, Alvarado
From the Introduction...'Fire is the single most important ecological disturbance process throughout the interior Pacific Northwest (Mutch and others 1993; Agee 1994). It is also a natural process that helps maintain a diverse ecological landscape. Fire suppression and timber…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lachowski, Rodman, Shovic
The 1988 fires created a lot of changes in land cover in Greater Yellowstone Area, an area of several million acres administered by the Park Service, Forest Service and other Federal, State and private owners. Remotely sensed data, such as aerial photography and imagery…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee
Certain types and degrees of soil disturbance resulting from harvesting activities are known to result in soil degradation and thus in reduced productivity for trees. The present method of survey is a ground-based 'grid-point intercept' system and is time-consuming and costly.…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Canham, Denslow, Platt, Runkle, Spies, White
Light regimes beneath closed canopies and tree-fall gaps are compared for five temperate and tropical forests using fish-eye photography of intact forest canopies and a model for calculating light penetration through idealized gaps. Beneath intact canopies, analyses of canopy…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
In the aftermath of the Greater Yellowstone Area fires of 1988, scientists from all across North America recognized the once in a lifetime research opportunities these fires presented. For a host of reasons, the Yellowstone fires were unique, due largely to their grand scale and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feunekes, Methven, Mann
Deployment, manning, and dispatching are geographically driven activities that respond to geographically based phenomena changes in fire weather, fire danger, and potential fire behavior. Information systems or decision-aids designed to support the above activities should…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foley, Johnson
This paper will show the progression of efforts made by the Alberta Forest Service (AFS) in developing guidelines for forest fire suppression that are in concert with human and forest resource values. A method for determining resource fire protection priorities was developed in…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunting
The pinyon-juniper woodlands and the sagebrush-grasslands, with a combined area of over 90 million ha, comprise a major portion of the rangelands in western North America. During pristine times fire played an important role in these vegetation types. The role of fire has changed…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee
This paper reports on the development of the Intelligent Fire Management Information System (IFMIS), a computer program for dispatching fire suppression resources to wildfires. The program uses a number of advanced concepts to provide information to fire managers for both…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
Forest industry involvement in wildfire protection reduces fire risk and potential economic losses. This paper highlights Weldwood's Hinton Division involvement and goals towards wildfire control and management as a Forest Management Agreement (FMA) operator. Fire control…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Day
In Canada's national parks, ecological integrity cannot be maintained solely through protection. Active management is required to ensure that long-term processes such as fire continue their natural role. In the park areas, the mean annual natural burn area likely exceeded 1000…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Eenigenburg
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter
Lower atmosphere moistures, temperatures, winds, and lapse rates are examined for the days of 339 fires over 400 ha in the United States from 1971 through 1984. These quantities are compared with a climatology dataset from the same 14-year period using 2-way unbalanced analysis…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS