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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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An overview of the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiments in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Year: 1997
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Woodley
From the text ... 'The Canadian Parks Service has a fire management policy that is best described as evolving. The development history of the fire policy and current practices have been reviewed by other authors (Lopoukhine, 1993; Westhaver, 1992; Day and others, 1988, Van…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'The 1988 fire season showed us much about the importance of basing decisions on fire regimes and their associated fire behavior characteristics. Although our policies are necessarily broad, we are learnng that implementation of programs must be based on the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
van Wagtendonk
To trully allow fires to play their natural role in wilderness ecosystems, it is sometimes necessary to have large fires of long duration. Large fires are ecologically significant events that drive many other ecosystem processes. However, these fires pose significant management…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Poncin
Decision making for managers in a fire situation can be very complicated. The information brought to the decision maker must be well though out and accurate. Before meaningful strategy can be formulated, realistic agreed-upon objectives for the incident are needed. With…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Norum
From the text ... 'The National Park Service objective for fire in wilderness (and parks managed as wilderness) is to include, to the fullest extent possible, fire as a natural, accepted, and irreplaceable functional factor in the proper management of natural systems.'
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leenhouts
From the text ... 'Wilderness areas are planned and managed as part of the entire Service land unit with appropriate management to comply with the Wilderness Act, and in Alaska, the Alaska National Interests Lands Conservation Act. The Service has long recognized that ecosystems…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LaSalle
From the text ... 'If we can change people's perceptions about fire we will significantly reduce the political pressure placed on our leaders to spend money where it isn't needed, leaving impacts in wilderness that clearly display the effects of man's activities.'
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kilgore, Nichols
From the text ... 'In this paper we will review those changes [the National Park Service made after the Yellowstone fires of 1988 in the way fire policies had previously been implemented] to determine what impacts they have had during the past four years on prescribed fire…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christensen
From the text ... 'In recognizing that fire is critical to sustained ecosystem function, it is also important to achnowledge that fire cannot itself be the goal or endpoint of management. Rather, we must identify and set objectives for the key ecosystem elements and processes…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunnell
The decision process involved in developing any plan to manage a prescribed natural fire must consider several divergent resource and management goals. In many cases, these fires may be projected to be, and eventually become, large and long-duration events. The exact final fire…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hogenbirk, Sarrazin-Delay
There are areas in the boreal forest where the combination of highly flammable vagetation and frequent ignition events create a high fire hazard. The resultant fires cause considerable economic and social damage. During global change, fire frequency may increase in parts of the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuller
Holocene fossil pollen data of fine temporal and spatial resolution were obtained from two small, closed lake basins in southern Ontario, Canada. Forest development is recorded in the pollen sequences, which document the invasion and expansion of tree populations during the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson, Kurz, Pollack, Listar
A metric variant of Prognosis (also known as the Forest Vegetation Simulator) has been linked to the Western Root Disease extension, and used to explore the interaction between partial harvesting, Armillaria root disease and productivity in 24 stratified combinations of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stage
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS), coupled with a new key to structural classes, provided an empirical link between the Columbia River Basin SUccessional Model (CRBSUM) and the real world. The essence of CRBSUM is a set of residence times and disturbance probabilities for…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Telfer
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnston, Elliott
The Boreal Mixedwood Ecosystem Study near Thunder Bay, Ontario is a multi-disciplinary investigation of the impacts of harvesting and fire on the structure and function of a boreal mixed-wood ecosystem. The fire component comprises a set of treatments in which fire severity was…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Oliveira, Viegas, Raimundo
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini, Reinhardt
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robberecht, Defosse
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mejer
Building on insights provided by Beck (1988), Pyne (1982) and others, the paper views wildland fire as an event revealing a social and scientific field in which basic dilemmas that separate nature and culture, environmental autonomy and human intervention, and the certainty of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harrod, Knecht, Kuhlmann, Ellis, Davenport
From the text... "Conclusions: Our preliminary results regarding O. pinorum and S. seelyi response to fire are inadequate to provide management recommendation. However, the result of this study indicate that C. fasciculatum is a fire-intolerant species and management of this…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murray, Bunting, Morgan
The subalpine vegetation zone is an extensive and important high elevation setting in the western United States. Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) is restricted to, and occurs widely in, the subalpine zone. This tree provides a valuable foodsource and shelter for a variety of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lord
A probabilistic model is offered for tracing the fate of vegetation communities in fire-prone lands that are subjected to regular fuel reduction burning. The model is based on the semi-Markov process (an extension of Markov chain modelling). The inputs necessary for the semi-…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS