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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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The wildland-urban interface in the United States

Radeloff, Hammer, Stewart, Fried, Holcomb, McKeefry
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. The WUI is thus a focal area for human-environment conflicts, such as the destruction of homes by wildfires, habitat fragmentation, introduction of exotic…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The challenge of quantitative risk analysis for wildland fire

Finney
Quantitative fire risk analysis depends on characterizing and combining fire behavior probabilities and effects. Fire behavior probabilities are different from fire occurrence statistics (historic numbers or probabilities of discovered ignitions) because they depend on spatial…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Predicting risks of uncharacteristic wildfires: application of the risk assessment process

Fairbrother, Turnley
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Policies for risk assessment in federal land and resource management decisions

O'Laughlin
Laws and policies require federal land and resource management agencies, and regulatory agencies charged with conserving imperiled species, to assess risks associated with proposed actions and to manage wildland fire risks and habitat for species-at-risk of extinction. For most…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Policy issues relevant to risk assessments, balancing risks, and the National Fire Plan: needs and opportunities

O'Laughlin
The needs and opportunities for assessing and managing risks posed by wildfire are identified through synthesis of natural resources agency and conservation group perspectives. Risk assessment is needed primarily to compare environmental effects of management alternatives,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Short-term response of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) to fire and logging in a spruce-dominated boreal landscape

Saint-Germain, Larrivée, Drapeau, Fahrig, Buddle
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The interaction between masting and fire is key to white spruce regeneration

Peters, Macdonald, Dale
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Paludification in black spruce (Picea mariana) forests of eastern Canada: potential factors and management implications

Fenton, Lecomte, Legare, Bergeron
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Impacts of large-scale atmospheric-ocean variability on Alaskan fire season severity

Duffy, Walsh, Graham, Mann, Rupp
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Long-term experiment takes some of the mystery out of crown fires

Alexander
From the text ... 'The August 2004 issue of the Canadian Journal of forest Research (volume 34[8]) is devoted to a special topic: 'The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in Canada's Northwest Territories: Advancing the Science of Fire Behaviour.' Running from…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The ABCs of correctly mapping a fire: New importance of fire location

Delaney
From the text ... 'Incorrectly mapped fire locations could distort the allocation of money and jobs. ...The two prominent location referencing systems used for fire locations on fire reports are latitude/longitude and Universal Transverse Mercator. ...Everyone involved in the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A new look at wildland/urban interface hazard reduction: The emergency management cycle: A hazard assessment in progress

Keller
From the text ... 'A common set of definitions is needed for terms relating to hazard and risk reduction in the wildland/urban interface [WUI]. ...When addressing a fire hazard in the WUI, prevention and mitigation must each play a role. ...To reduce the potential for disaster…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

America's wildlands: a future in peril

Williams
From the text ... 'The rate of fuel accumulation remains far higher than the rate of fuel reduction. ...Our objectives for secure wildlife habitat, clean air, secluded homesites, and other social values often overlook the disturbance regimes that shape the land. ...Our strategic…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Simulation of historical and current fire regimes in central Saskatchewan

Li, Barclay, Liu, Campbell
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire protection in the urban/wildland interface: who plays what role?

Bradshaw
The problem of fire protection in the urban/wildland interface is a complex combination of three components: fire behavior and combustion, social and political factors, and the cooperation of property owners. By examing the problem's component parts, it is easier to understand…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sample size and variability of fuel weight estimates in natural stands of lodgepole pine

Delisle, Woodard, Titus, Johnson
This study assessed the variability of sample estimates for downed and dead woody fuel weight in natural lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl) stands using line-intersect sampling procedures. Equilateral triangles (30 m/side) were established at each of 40 sample sites with…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Heat tolerance of actively growing, bud-initiated and dormant black spruce seedlings

Koppenaals, Colombo
To determine the effect of stage of bud development on heat tolerance, overwintered black spruce seedlings (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) were (i) maintained in a dormant state, (ii) allowed to grow new shoots under favorable greenhouse conditions, or (iii) induced to initiate…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Legislative regulation of private forestry practices--national trends with a focus on the South

Siegel, Haines
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kirtland's warbler breeding biology and habitat management

Probst
The Kirtland's warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii) is an early succession, area-sensitive species seldom found in stands smaller than 30 to 40 ha. This warbler occupies dense jack pine (Pinus banksiana) stands where trees are from 6 to 23 years old and from 1.7 to 5.0 m high growing…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Protecting people and homes from wildfire in the Interior West: proceedings of the symposium and workshop

Includes 25 invited papers and panel discussions, 6 workshop reports, and 15 poster papers that focus on the escalating problem of wildfire in wildland residential areas throughout the western United States and Canada.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Changing stand density and composition with prescribed fire

Saveland, Neuenschwander
In many cases, fire is not an effective thinning tool. However, under certain conditions, stand density and composition can be manipulated by the prescribed use of fire. The factors that determine tree survival are reviewed along with how to effect changes in the fire situation…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Increment-borer methods for determining fire history in coniferous forests

Barrett, Arno
This report describes use of increment borers for interpreting fire history in coniferous forests. These methods are especially useful in wildernesses, parks, and other natural area where fire history is needed for fire management planning, but where sawing cross-sections from…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Theory and programs for dynamic modeling of tree rings from climate

Van Deusen, Koretz
The effect of climate on tree rings may change over time as a result of stand dynamics or environmental stress. These dynamic effects can be studied using theory and computer programs and further information on their use are availabe from the authors.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Our national parks: the case for burning

Matthiessen
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Management of pinyon-juniper woodlands

Evans
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS