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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Agee
Evaluations of fire management programs have been based primarily on ecological criteria rather than on cost-effectiveness. Determining cost-effectiveness poses several problems: current budgeting practices do not encourage such evaluations, assessment of the net value changes…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Apfelbaum
Cattails generally occur as scattered sterile plants in high-quality natural areas. Disruptions of hydrology, wildfire suppression, or system enrichment may favor cattail growth. System disruption is often followed by the growth of dense monocultures of cattails that may reduce…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnston, Woodward
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drew, Samuel, Lukiwski, Willman
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Payette, Filion, Gauthier, Boutin
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Payette, Gagnon
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'INTRODUCTION This guide gives forest managers a description of the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS), and explains the standards and procedures involved. It contains a brief explanation of the basic structure and factors considered and incorporates…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Shay
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hellum, Wang
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Lear, Waldrop
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Noste
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner, Romme, Gardner
The 'bloom' of annual and perennial plants following fire in the chaparral is well documented, but there is controversy over what factors cause this burst of new growth. I examined the relative importance of fire, competition, and herbivory in seedling germination and…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schwartz, Hermann
We present evidence that fire suppression may have contributed to the fungal decline of torreya (Torreya taxifolia). During the 1950's torreya suffered a catastrophic die-back. The torreya die-back was probably caused by needle pathogens induced through environmental stress.…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morber, Miyanishi
Canopy closure by trees such as Prunus serotina and p. virginiana is presently threatening the survival of the herbaceous component of an oak savanna in Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario. Prescribed burning has recently been instituted in an attempt to open up the canopy to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keeley
Mortality patterns are diverse for chaparral shrubs under periods > 100 years without fire. Ceanothus often suffer the highest mortality under extended fire-free conditions and this is best interpreted as density dependent thinning rather than senescence. Intraspecific…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
De Grandpre, Gagnon
The changes observed in the composition and abundance of shrubs, herbs and mosses were investigated following fire in the southern boreal forest of the Abitibi region, Quebec. Ten plots of 100m2 were sampled at each of eight sites varying in age from 26 to 230 years after fire (…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ross, Fox, Dietrich, Childs, Marlatt
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Graber
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
Land managers are becoming increasingly aware that cultural resources are a fragile and nonrenewable part of the environment that must be protected. Legislation has been enacted at the Federal and State levels to protect these resources. There is potential for conflicts between…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haddow
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heinselman
Large stand-replacing fires at intervals of 50 to 500 years were responsible for the vegetation patterns of parks and wilderness areas in the Boreal, Great Lakes-Acadian, Rocky Mountain, and Douglas-fir regions. Fire recurrence is closely linked to stand age in some ecosystems.…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS