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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Moody, Field
Fluorinated surfactants comprise a unique class of specialty chemicals whose environmental behavior has received little attention. Consequently, little Information Is available to permit a complete life-cycle analysis. The focus of this review of fluorinated surfactants Is to (1…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dudley, DeLoach, Lovich, Carruthers
From the text...'the goals of this paper are to describe briefly the nature of impacts that saltcedar has to riparian ecosystems and how human impacts relate to this invasion, to review our expectations for a biological control program to augment traditional control efforts, to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clubine
Clubine discusses the best seasons to conduct burns in order to increase the quality of warm-season grasses, reduce woody plant species and cool-season grasses, and improve growth and reproduction. He recommends occasional burns in summer (July-August), fall (October-November),…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cleaves, Haines, Martinez
The results of a survey concerning National Forest System prescribed burning activity and costs from 1985-1995 are examined. Ninety-five (83%) of 114 National Forests responded. Number of hectares burned and costs for conducting burns are reported for 4 types of prescribed fire…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zedaker
Herbicides have been added to silvicultural treatments involving fire for nearly 50 years and, for some objectives, can even substitute for a prescribed burn. Herbicides and/or fire create changes in the effects of silvicultural treatments at individual plant, forest community,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sheppard
Fire has been a global disturbance agent for thousands of years. As an ecological process that helped shape the floral and faunal communities of western North America, fire also maintained the health and diversity of forests until European settlers arrived. Since that time,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simoneit, Rogge, Lang, Jaffe
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller
From the text... 'Fire is a key ecological process within most ecosystems in the United States and Canada. An understanding of factors controlling the initial response of vegetation to fire is essential to its management. Fire effects on plants can vary significantly among fires…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
At the request of public and private wildland fire managers who recognized a need to assimilate current fire effects knowledge, we produced this state-of-the-art integrated series of documents relevant to management of ecosystems. The series covers our technical understanding of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Duchesne, Herr, Wetzel, Thompson, Reader
Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) does not regenerate well in the absence of fire, or without mechanical exposure of mineral soil, while balsam fir (Abies balsamea L. Mill.) is a common understory species on sites occupied by white pine. We conducted two experiments to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Buddle, Spence, Langor
To test whether spider succession following harvest differed from succession following wildfire, spiders were collected by pitfall trapping and sweep netting over two years in aspen-dominated boreal forests, Over 8400 individuals is from 127 species of spiders were identified…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hansen, Rotella, Kraska, Brown
Landscapes are often heterogeneous in abiotic factors such as topography, climate, and soil, yet little 15 known about how these factors may influence the spatial distribution of primary productivity. We report estimates of aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) in 90…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robichaud, Hungerford
Highly variable water repellent soil conditions have been reported after forest fires. We examined interactions among heating, soil water content and soil texture on water repellency. Undisturbed, 305 mm diameter cores were collected in the field from four soils commonly…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leenhouts
Wildland fire has been an integral part of the conterminous United States' ecological landscape for millennia. Today wildland fire has to compete with other socially desirable goals for a share of a limited air resource. New ozone, particulate, and visibility protection air-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fujioka, Burgan, Chase, Roads, Chen
The Forest Service has always relied on its regional fire managers to assess the potential severity of the forthcoming fire season, and the ability of the local organization to respond under the expected conditions. Among the factors considered were the current state of fuels,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foote
An understanding of the interaction of fuel, fire, burn severity, site, and site vegetation, is essential to predicting the primary and secondary short term and long-term impacts of fire. After analyzing fire behavior and by following the changes in species composition and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, Coen, Radke
Airborne infrared (IR) observations were made of the prescribed burns between 8-10 July 1999 at the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska. The observations were made by pointing an Inframetrics
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radke, Clark
A Crown Fire is observed with an airborne IR imager moving swiftly up a modest slope in mixed fuels. Light winds helped propel the blaze during the Frost Fire Experiment north of Fairbanks, Alaska in June 1999. A vigorous convective column capped with a pyrocumulus cloud forms…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
The National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) and the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) were developed to assess and predict wildfire danger in the forests of the United States and Canada. In addition, the fire weather index components of these systems are used…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferguson, Rorig, Bluhm, Sandberg
The moisture content of material on a forest floor can play a significant role in its potential for fire ignition and resulting severity, especially in boreal ecosystems that contain deep layers of moss. To better understand the effect of weather and permafrost on moss moisture…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilmore, Fox, Sandberg, Alexander
Large moderate to severe high intensity stand replacement fires characterize the fire regime in the boreal forest of Interior Alaska. It is the moisture content of the moss profile that largely determines ignition probability and depth of fuel consumption (i.e. severity). The…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar, Vihnanek, Bluhm, Sandberg
Wildland fire is a major disturbance agent that has shaped the biotic landscapes throughout time. The amount and duration of the heat determined by the availability of the fuels to consume is the ultimate driving force that causes a widespread range of environmental responses…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Medler
Forest fires are not spatially uniform events. They result in a complicated mosaic of burned and unburned vegetation. To manage fuel loads and the associated fire hazard it is essential to improve our understanding of the spatial patterns of the potential effects of future fires…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flores, Omi
Fire can be used not only to protect forest ecosystems but also as a restoration tool. However, a successful application of fire requires knowing in advance the potential fire behavior (e.g., rate of spread and intensity). Without this information adverse effects could result…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cruz, Wakimoto, Alexander
The unknowns in fire phenomenology lead to simplified empirical approachs to build models designed to predict the initiation and spread of crown fires. This information is needed to support decision making in a large array of fire management problems. The present study is based…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS