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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Fire, forest health, and biodiversity: a summary of the Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium of the National Commission on Science and Sustainable Forestry

Christensen
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lodgepole pine forest age class dynamics and susceptibility to mountain pine beetle attack

Li, Barclay, Hawkes, Taylor
Because mountain pine beetle attack mature pine stands, an understanding of forest age class dynamics is important to managing forests within the distribution of the beetle. The assumed theoretical negative exponential forest age distribution provides an estimate when ecosystem…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire in boreal ecosystems of Eurasia: first results of the Bor Forest Island fire experiment, Fire Research Campaign Asia-North

Angelstam
Summary (p.499-500) ... 'Fire is an important natural and anthropogenic factor in the dynamics of the boreal forest system. The ecological and environmental impacts of boreal fires depend on fire weather, fuel availability, fire behavior and history of stand development (…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The impact of fire on timber supply in Ontario

Martell
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Afterburn

Kearns
From the text (p. 26) ... 'Wildfire has destroyed forests across the West. Help is needed to restore the life-giving 'natural capital' they provide. ... Wildfires are changing the landscape across the country and often not for the better. A long-standing policy of putting out…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rekindling native fires

Levy
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

How fire shaped the world's vegetation

Bonn
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sensitivity of tree growth to the atmospheric vertical profile in the Boreal Plains of Manitoba, Canada

Girardin, Tardif
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Preparing for wildfire: keys to success in 15 communities in the U.S

Jakes
In 15 communities across the U.S., the authors found seven keys to community wildland fire preparedness: (1) know your place, (2) draw on local knowledge and skills, (3) build on and build social capital, (4) develop agency and community partnerships, (5) communicate effectively…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest landscape dynamics under fire and mountain pine beetle regimes [poster abstract]

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

Alaska Interagency Fire Research Needs September 2005

The following list of research topics was generated by agencies within AWFCG during 2005.  The topics were ranked originally by the AWFCG Fire Research and Development Committee (FRDAC) and finally by the AWFCG members.  Ranking was as follows:  3= high, 2 = medium, 1= low (or H…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Report of the National Commission on wildfire disasters: presented recently to Secretaries Babbitt and Espy, its message is clear: without aggressive, proactive wildland management programs begun now, the worst is yet to come

Created through the Wildfire Disaster Recovery Act of 1989 (PL 101-286), in response to the destructive western fire season of 1987 and the Yellowstone fires of 1988, the Commission was asked to consider the environmental and economic effects of disastrous wildfires through…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Maintaining focus: an introduction to anthropogenic fire

Pyne
The capture of fire by the genus Homo changed forever the natural history of the Earth. Even today fire appears at the core of many popular scenarios for an environmental apocalypse. Yet the larger history of fire - the varied ways human society have sought to use and control…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Listing of tribes that have documented use of fire by author and date of publication

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rocky Mountains, southwest, Gulf States, Texas, and Great Plains/prairies references

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The boreal forest references including Alaska, interior and northern Canada and Vancouver Island

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

General North America references

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas ... Insect collection ...…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire climate analysis of the United States historical climatology network data

Meisner, Fujioka
The United States Historical Climatology Network (HCN) database was compiled by the National Climatic Data Center in response to a compelling interest in climate change. The database contains monthly temperature and precipitation data for approxiamtely 1200 stations in the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Development of an initial attack preparedness system for Manitoba

Hirsch
The 1989 fire season was the most severe in 71-years of recorded fire history in Manitoba. A total of 1147 fires burned 3.28 million ha and cost over $63 million (CDN) to suppress. The events of 1989 resulted in the development and implementation of a new Initial Attack…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Ecological perspective: linking ecology, GIS, and remote sensing to ecosystem management

Allen
'The heightened recognition within the research community of the ecological linkages between Local sites and larger spatial scales has spawned increasing calls for more holistic management of landscapes (Noss 1983, Harris 1984, Risser 1985, Norse et al 1986, Agee and Johnson…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Then Dodge saw it

Maclean
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A case for fire behavior case studies

Thomas
'Documentation and analysis for fire behavior events should become a standard practice with Fire Behavior Analysts, and not 'a nice to do project'. The FBA has a responsibility bfore leaving a fire to tabulate pertinent data and to write a report that summarizesthe key factors…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Unprepared for the worst case scenario

Gleason
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire and forest health southwestern region

Moody, Buchanan, Melcher, Wistrand
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Upper-air snyoptic patterns associated with regional fire-weather episodes

Heilman, Eenigenburg, Main
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS