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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Engstrom, Gilbert, Hunter, Merriwether, Nowacki, Spencer
Key issues
• Disturbance ecology furnishes a valuable conceptual framework for natural resource management.
• Numerous techniques exist for documenting past disturbance regimes and the historic range of variability of key disturbances.
• Management goals should be viewed as…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gardner, Romme, Turner
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harvey
The Lake Duparquet Research and Teaching Forest is situated in northwestern Quebec in the Boreal Shield Ecozone. Managed by two constituents of the Universite du Quebec, in collaboration with two forest companies, Norbord and Tembec, the Lake Duparquet Forest has a strong…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi, O'Brien
Climate modelling studies have predicted an increase in fire frequency with global warming as well as suggesting a longer fire season occurring later in the year. We used 160 years of fire scars in Pinus banksiana Lamb. dating from 1831 to 1948 and written fire records from 1927…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi
From the text... 'Summary: Despite the occurrence of fire and the presence of large grazing herds of caribou in the subarctic, the major factor determining the open-canopy nature of the subarctic spruce-lichen woodland is climate. Thus, unlike other transitional open-canopy…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catling, Brownell
From the text...”Unlike the flat-rock areas in the southern Appalachians, where the foundation for research on rock barrens was established many decades ago (e.g., Harper 1939; Oosting and Anderson 1939; McVaugh 1943) and has been followed by more recent cornprehensive…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knight
From the text...”Summary: Limber pine and ponderosa pine typically occur on escarpments and in the foothills of mountain ranges, environments that are cooler and more mesic than the adjacent grasslands and shrublands below and warmer and drier than the forests above. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kissinger
From the text...'A trained national fire prevention/education team can be mobilized through normal dispatch channels. Mobilization of a team is outlined in the National Interagency Mobilization Guide (section 22.5.10) and can be ordered through the Geographic Area Coordination…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huggard, Arsenault
From the text...'Fire-frequency (FF) analysis is used to derive, from empirical data, parameters that describe the frequency of fires in a system; the time-since-fire distribution; the age-specific probability of fire; and other summary statistics such as the natural fire…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ladd
Doug Ladd, Director of Science and Stewardship, Missouri Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, had the opportunity to share TNC's views concerning the use of fire as a management tool in the conservation of natural habitat. His testimony, in full, before The House Committe on…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hessburg, Smith
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller
Aerial photographs from 1935 and 1991 were used in an analysis of vegetation change in the Negrito Creek watershed of southwestern New Mexico. Vegetation maps interpreted from aerial photographs were digitized and analyzed in a Geographic Information System to derive a…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rochna
From the text...'High Expansion foam application has had limited use in wildland operations. Those who have been using it have experienced overwhelming success with little cost in manpower. As with all new tools, it must be experienced in action before it can be accepted.'
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Werth
From the text...'In conclusion, El Niño and La Niña are extreme phases of a naturally occurring climatic cycle known as the El Niño Southern Oscillation. Both affect wind and sea surface temperature patterns in the tropical Pacific Ocean. El Niño is the warm water and La Niña…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson, Romme, Meyer, Knight, Wallace
From the text...'Bill Wattenburg (Letters, Science's Compass, 6 Nov., p. 1051) accuses the U.S. National Park Service and ecologists quoted by Richard Stone (Research News, 5 June, p. 1527) of struggling 'to rationalize the official burning of the forests of Yellowstone in l988…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Savory, Butterfield
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coles, Conlon, Cotton, Eisenstadt, Goldfarb, Hutchison, Joy, Wolter
From the Executive Summary... 'Purpose: National forests of the dry, interior portion of the western United States that are managed by the Department of Agriculture*s Forest Service have undergone significant changes over the last century and a half, becoming much denser, with…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timoney
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rodríguez-Trejo
From the text...'The worst fire season in Mexican history was in 1998. Drought conditions precipitated by a strong El Niño led to unusual fire activity, including crown fires, fire whirls, and rapid spread rates. A total of 14,302 fires burned 2,099,412 acres (849,632 ha) - 3.6…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davies, Unam
Atmospheric composition, local climate and sapling gas exchange were monitored to assess the short-term effects of smoke-haze from the 1997 Indonesian forest fires. Atmospheric concentrations of particulate matter, SO2, CO, CH4 and CO2, and relative humidity were elevated, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson
Lightning is the primary cause of fire in the forested regions of the Pacific Northwest, especially when it occurs without significant precipitation at the surface. Using thunderstorm occurrence and precipitation observations for the period 1948–77, along with automated…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Slack
This publication provides homeowners and builders in the Wildland Urban Interface with design and building techniques that can offer more protection from wildland or forest fires. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Colorado State Forest Service and the Colorado…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiitala
A mathematical optimization model, based on the operations research technique of deterministic dynamic programming, is offered as a method to search quickly through available options to find the economically efficient set of initial attack resources to suppress a wildfire.…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
Understanding how ignitions occur is critical for effectively mitigating home fire losses during wildland fires. The threat of life and property losses during wildland fires is a significant issue for Federal, State, and local agencies that have responsibilities involving homes…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES