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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Mechanistic modeling of landscape fire patterns

Finney
[From the Introduction] Fire as a landscape process is of broad interest to ecologists and land managers. Fires alter forest age-distributions (Heinselman, 1973; Van Wagner, 1978), are sensitive to climate (Balling et al., 1992, Swetnam and Bettancourt, 1990; Swetnam, 1993;…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Predicting forest fire effects at landscape scales [Chapter 7]

Gardner, Romme, Turner
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Heat transfer into the duff and organic soil

Hungerford, Frandsen, Ryan
From the text...'On July 1, 1992, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station entered into a cooperative agreement (FWS Ref. No. 14-48-0009-92-962 DCN: 98210-2-3927) to conduct a study on 'Heat Transfer into the Duff and Organic…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Heritage resources and fire management: a resource management crossroads

Cartledge
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation succession after the La Mesa Fire at Bandelier National Monument

Foxx
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Remembering the La Mesa Fire

Lissoway
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The effect of prescribed burning to control brush species on buffelgrass pastures in Sonora, Mexico

Ibarra-F, Martin-R, Cox, Miranda-Z.
Vegetational changes were measured after 27 prescribed burns and 3 wildfires which occurred from 1982 to 1995 on buffelgrass pastures highly infested with brush in Sonora, Mexico. Densities of most undesirable brush species were reduced from 40 to 60% with fire. When prescribed…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed fire in the pine forests of northwestern Chihuahua

Alanis-Morales
Studies to determine the feasibility of using prescribed fire to prevent fire in the forests of northwestern Chihuahua were initiated in 1982 at an experimental level. These studies have resulted in valuable information on the importance of prescribed fire in protecting and, at…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Human desires and fears in ecologically rational wildland fire management

Daniel, Meitner, Weidemann
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System

Alexander, Stocks, Lawson
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The effect of fire front width on surface fire behaviour

Wotton, McAlpine, Hobbs
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The mathematical modeling and computer simulation of wildland fire perimeter growth over a 3-dimensional surface

Richards
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Physical properties of dead and downed round-wood fuels in the boreal forests of western and northern Canada

Nalder, Wein, Alexander, de Groot
The quantity of dead and downed woody fuels in forests is commonly estimated using the line intersect method of sampling. Determination of the mass of wood per unit area for each size class requires values for the mean specific gravity, piece tilt angle and piece diameter. We…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Natural regeneration of jack pine following harvesting and site preparation in the Clay Belt of northwestern Quebec

Beland, Bergeron, Zarnovican
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Black sturgeon boreal mixedwood research project

Cameron, Morrison, Baldwin, Kreutzweiser
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Common denominators of fire behavior on tragedy and near-miss wildland fires

Fighting large wildland fires is often compared to a military operation. Each involves such things as: an organization with a general at the head, massive movements of personnel and equipment; tactical aerial support, and long periods of combat and stress until the enemy is…
Year: 1996
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Quantifying organizational change after fire in lodgepole pine forest understorey

Brulisauer, Bradfield, Maze
Temporal changes in community organization were examined in a 300+ year chronosequence of understorey vegetation data from lodgepole pine forests recovering from fire in central British Columbia. Changes between six age-classes of forest were quantified as shifts in the…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Surviving fires - vegetative and reproductive responses [Chapter 3]

Bond, van Wilgen
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire vs. clearcutting: impacts on ectomycorrhizal and decomposer fungi

Visser, Parkinson
Intense wildfire is more destructive to the forest floor than timber harvesting with potentially more impact on fungal communities as loss of forest floor structure, microhabitat and resource diversity is more extreme after wildfire. After intense wildfire, decomposer and EM…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The flora and ecology of southern Ontario granite barrens [Chapter 24]

Catling, Brownell
From the text...”Unlike the flat-rock areas in the southern Appalachians, where the foundation for research on rock barrens was established many decades ago (e.g., Harper 1939; Oosting and Anderson 1939; McVaugh 1943) and has been followed by more recent cornprehensive…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Ponderosa and limber pine woodlands [Chapter 15]

Knight
From the text...”Summary: Limber pine and ponderosa pine typically occur on escarpments and in the foothills of mountain ranges, environments that are cooler and more mesic than the adjacent grasslands and shrublands below and warmer and drier than the forests above. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Savanna, barrens, and glade communities of the Ozark plateaus province [Chapter 13]

Heikens
From the text ...'Summary: It appears that Ozark savannas, barrens, and glades have undergone substantial degradation since settlement due to fire suppression, overgrazing, agricultural practices, and logging. The once widespread and picturesque oak openings currently are…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

TNC Testifies Before The House Committee on Agriculture [Testimony]

Ladd
Doug Ladd, Director of Science and Stewardship, Missouri Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, had the opportunity to share TNC's views concerning the use of fire as a management tool in the conservation of natural habitat. His testimony, in full, before The House Committe on…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Management implications of recent changes in spatial patterns of interior northwest forests

Hessburg, Smith
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Making peace with wildland fire

Babbitt
From the text...'We are in a national fire crisis. Wildfires are on a sharp increase, burning bigger, threatening communities and taking more and more property and lives. In the last decade, the number of acres burned has doubled; the number of lives lost has tripled. Our…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS