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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Hessburg
It's no secret that wildfires in the west have been drastically increasing in size and destructive power. But what, if anything, can be done about it? Join world-renown and award-winning USFS research ecologist Dr. Paul Hessburg as he explains how we got here and restores our…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Hessburg
We have all seen the news - hotter summers, and bigger, badder wildfires. What's going on? How did we get here? Paul tells a fast-paced story of western US forests - unintentionally yet massively changed by a century of management. He relates how these changes, coupled with a…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Komarek
From the text ... 'The influence of fire on vegetation and on plant succession is coming under more scrutiny, and detailed research is appearing as never before from many agencies. The Forest and Range Experiment Stations of the Forest Service, along with cooperating agencies,…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Stewart
From the text ... 'The historic records from around the world leave no room to doubt that primitive hunting and gathering peoples, as well as ancient farmers and herders, for a number of reasons, frequently and intentionally set fire to almost all the vegetation around them…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Johnson
Cutting shallow trenches with a bulldozer or giant plow achieves the three requisites for natural regeneration of cottonwood: a bare seedbed, removal of overstory other than seed trees, and freedom from weeds for at least a year.
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fueno, Mukherjee, Ree, Eyring
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Laderman, Hecht, Stern, Oppenheim
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Calcote
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Diederichsen
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Van Wagner
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Grant
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sokolik
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Dimmock, Kineyko
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Simms
Recent attempts to model the flow in very hot fire plumes where radiative transport of heat may significantly modify both the dynamics of the flow and the processes of combustion have met with only partial success. This paper gives an account of a model for the flow in a…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Browning
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Berry, Ripperton
Emergence tipburn was observed in the field following recorded ozone concentrations as high as 6.5 pphm. Similar symptoms were produced on greenhouse plants using artificially produced oxidant at the same levels.
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Shelford
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Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Walker, Mack, Johnstone
Climate change has increased the occurrence, severity, and impact of disturbances on forested ecosystems worldwide, resulting in a need to identify factors that contribute to an ecosystem's resilience or capacity to recover from disturbance. Forest resilience to disturbance may…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lopes, Ribeiro, Viegas, Raposo
The present work addresses the problem of how wind should be taken into account in fire spread simulations. The study was based on the software system FireStation, which incorporates a surface fire spread model and a solver for the fluid flow (Navier-Stokes) equations. The…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Gould, Sullivan, Hurley, Koul
Different methods can be used to measure the time and distance of travel of a fire and thus its speed. The selection of a particular method will depend on the experimental objectives, design, scale, location (in the laboratory or field), required accuracy and resources available…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Freeman, Kobziar, Rose, Cropper
Prescribed fire is widely accepted as a conservation tool because fire is essential to the maintenance of native biodiversity in many terrestrial communities. Approaches to this land-management technique vary greatly among continents, and sharing knowledge internationally can…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Dove, Hart
Soil fungal communities perform many functions that help plants meet their nutritional demands. However, overall trends for fungal response to fire, which can be especially critical in a post-fire context, have been difficult to elucidate. We used meta-analytical techniques to…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Allaby, Juday, Young
Post-harvest regeneration failure of white spruce (Picea glauca Moench [Voss]), has led to concerns of 'de-coniferization' on productive site in the Alaskan boreal forest. Forest management in the region sought historically to increase spruce composition after harvest through…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS