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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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West, Cain, Gifford
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Habeck
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Furman, Helfman
FIRDAT is a FORTRAN IV program to compute the daily components and indexes of the National Fire-Danger Rating System. FIRDAT will also compute and print the absolute, relative and cumulative frequencies of occurrence, and print a cumulative frequency distribution for each of the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wade
George Byram's accomplishments read like the tree of fire science knowledge. The magnitude of his contributions tower above those of other fire science icons. Looking at the scope, importance and continued relevance of his contributions, one cannot help but reach the conclusion…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
This paper constituents the remarks made during the introduction of the special session 'Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: A Tribute to George M. Byram (1909-1996) - Pioneering Scientist in Forest Fire Research' held on February 20, 2013, at the International Association of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
This paper constituents the closing comments made at the special session 'Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: A Tribute to George M. Byram (1909-1996) - Pioneering Scientist in Forest Fire Research' held on February 20, 2013, at the International Association of Wildland Fire's…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mustaphi, Pisaric
Aim Top-down (climatic) controls of fire occurrence are expected to homogenize fire regimes in a given area over long (millennial) temporal scales. Previous investigations in south-eastern British Columbia have shown that bottom-up (local site) factors can override long-term…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marcoux, Gergel, Daniels
Maps depicting historic fire regimes provide critical baselines for sustainable forest management and wildfire risk assessments. However, given our poor understanding of mixed-severity fire regimes, we asked if there may be considerable errors in fire-regime classification…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kelly, Chipman, Higuera, Stefanova, Brubaker, Hu
Wildfire activity in boreal forests is anticipated to increase dramatically, with far-reaching ecological and socioeconomic consequences. Paleorecords are indispensible for elucidating boreal fire regime dynamics under changing climate, because fire return intervals and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'For anyone who has spent any amount of time working in the world of wildland fire management, it is not news that wildland fire management is a risky business -- that risk is inherent in our work.'
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan, Knapp, Varner
Whether ignited by lightning or by Native Americans, fire once shaped many North American ecosystems. Euro-American settlement and 20th Century fire suppression practices drastically altered historic fire regimes, leading to excessive fuel accumulation and uncharacteristically…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Norman
Presented by Steve Norman, USFS Southern Research Station, and sponsored by the US Forest Service, Research and Development. The Landscape Science Webinar Series occurs monthly on a Tuesday at 1 pm Eastern providing a forum to communicate research findings, promote awareness of…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Klebenow
From the text ... 'Sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus Bonaparte), due to their dependence upon sagebrush-grassland habitat for food and cover, are limited in distribution to the range type dominated by sagebrush, principally big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) but also its…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Biswell
From the text ... 'The ponderosa pine-grassland is characterized by the occurrence and distribution of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa. It is widely spread covering some 36 million acres from the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia to Durango, Mexico, and from Nebraska to the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cunningham, Martell
This paper discusses the occurrence of man-caused forest fires during the summer fire season in a section of northwestern Ontario. Fire occurrence is viewed as being a chance process and a stochastic model is developed to describe it. The results of this study indicate that a…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kelly, Chipman, Higuera, Stefanova, Brubaker, Hu
Wildfire activity in boreal forests is anticipated to increase dramatically, with far-reaching ecological and socioeconomic consequences. Paleorecords are indispensible for elucidating boreal fire regime dynamics under changing climate, because fire return intervals and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Breen, Gaglioti, Mann, Rocha, Grosse, Arp, Kunz, Walker
Characteristics of the natural fire regime are poorly resolved in the Arctic, even though fire may play an important role cycling carbon stored in tundra vegetation and soils to the atmosphere. In the course of studying vegetation and permafrost-terrain characteristics along a…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arseneault, Dy, Gennaretti, Autin, Bégin
A denser global network of millennial tree ring chronologies is needed to verify whether the warming of the last century is anomalously rapid or of large amplitude in the context of the last millennium. The North American boreal forest in particular has been poorly represented…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Middleton
Land managers are grappling with massive changes in vegetation structure, particularly in protected areas formerly subjected to fire and grazing. The objective of this review was to compare notes on the historical and current management of ecosystems around the world (especially…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mutch
For the 2012 fire season, a USFS 'fire ban' directive raised concerns that a return to a 'suppression'-only response to fire would undermine long-term fire management strategies and policies. Bob Mutch responds with a call for communicating our fire expertise.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dash, Kelly, Higuera, Hu
Although recent climatic warming has markedly increased fire activity in many biomes, this trend is spatially heterogeneous. Understanding the patterns and controls of this heterogeneity is important for anticipating future fire regime shifts at regional scales and for…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Power, Mayle, Bartlein, Marlon, Anderson, Behling, Brown, Carcaillet, Colombaroli, Gavin, Hallett, Horn, Kennedy, Lane, Long, Moreno, Paitre, Robinson, Taylor, Walsh
The significance and cause of the decline in biomass burning across the Americas after ad 1500 is a topic of considerable debate. We synthesized charcoal records (a proxy for biomass burning) from the Americas and from the remainder of the globe over the past 2000 years, and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Duffy
Presented at the 2013 Spring Fire Management Officer/Agency Administrator Meeting, Alaska Fire Service Training Rooms, Fairbanks
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Huffman
I examined the hypothesis that traditional social-ecological fire systems around the world include common elements of traditional fire knowledge (TFK). I defined TFK as fire-related knowledge, beliefs, and practices that have been developed and applied on specific landscapes for…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Armstrong, Vines
Weather trends have been determined from an analysis of long-term rainfall records for towns in the southern part of Canada. The incidence of forest fires in the provinces correlates well with the approximately periodic 'drought patterns' in these areas. Though there are few…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS