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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Apfelbaum, Sams
Reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea L.) is a problem grass in many natural wetlands. This paper reviews the literature regarding the ecology and management of reed canary grass and presents preliminary data that suggest reduced soil-seed banks occur in wetland substrates…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren, Scifres, Teel
Grassland burning elicits a diverse array of responses by arthropods, depending upon many interactive factors. Empirical models were develoed, based on the literature, to qualitatively order selected behavioral characteristics of fire, arthropod life habits and phenology,…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
Guidelines are provided to help forest managers and silviculturists develop even- and uneven-aged cutting methods and associated silvicultural practices needed to convert ponderosa pine forests in the Black Hills into managed stands and maintain them for a variety of resource…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Russell
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chambers
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks, Flannigan
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Stuckey, Thompson
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daniell, Kulik
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baker
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zimmerman, Laven
Seeds of three species of dwarf mistletoe, Arceuthobium americanum Nutt. Ex Engelm., A. cyanocarpum Coulter & Nelson, and A. vaginatum subsp. cryptopodum (Engelm.) Hawksw. & Wiens, were exposed to smoke from burning forest fuels. Premeasured amounts of coniferous needles…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodard, Cummins
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Hummel, Van Wagner
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kilgore
Literature from the United States, Canada and Australia is reviewed to summarize knowledge concerning fire history, effects of fire, fire behavior, what is "natural," the role of Indian burning, the role of prescribed fires, effects on wildlife, insects and disease, and…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heyerdahl, Lertzman, Wong
Historical fire severity is poorly characterized for dry forests in the interior west of North America. We inferred a multicentury history of fire severity from tree rings in Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca (Beissn.) Franco) - ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knight
From the Introduction ... 'The vegetation mosaic in any landscape is a function of environmental variation and historic disturbances, whether caused by humans or other factors. Many studies have focused on species composition in relation to environmental gradients, and secondary…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guth
The subtitle ... 'The American dream of a home in the woods is going up in smoke for more and more people. Here's how to keep it from happening to you.' Published by American Forests. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Powell
Private lands are critical to conservation planning for wildlife, worldwide. Agriculture subsidies, tax incentives, and conservation easements have been successfully used as tools to convert cropland to native vegetation. However, uncertain economies threaten the sustainability…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Magnussen, Fehrman, Platt
Density estimators for k-tree distance sampling are sensitive to the amount of extra Poisson variance in distances to the kth tree. To lessen this sensitivity, we propose an adaptive composite estimator (COM). In simulated sampling from 16 test populations, a three-component…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Longcore, Rich, Mineau, MacDonald, Bert, Sullivan, Mutrie, Gauthreaux, Avery, Crawford, Manville, Travis, Drake
Avian mortality at communication towers in the continental United States and Canada is an issue of pressing conservation concern. Previous estimates of this mortality have been based on limited data and have not included Canada. We compiled a database of communication towers in…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jain, Pilliod, Graham, Lentile, Sandquist
Many scientists and managers have an interest in describing the environment following a fire to understand the effects on soil productivity, vegetation growth, and wildlife habitat, but little research has focused on the scientific rationale for classifying the post-fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haecker
From the Summary ... 'Exposure of a historic structure or object to fire, regardless of the temperature that is generated, does not necessarily equate with destroying its value as a cultural resource. For instance, a low-temperature prescribed fire that burns over a trash…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deal
From Lithic Artifacts and Fire ... 'Artifacts made of stone are generally the best preserved of all material types in the archaeological record, often providing the only evidence of where people lived and worked in the past. Despite its durability, stone can be affected by fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews
Rothermel's surface fire spread model was developed to use a value for the wind speed that affects surface fire, called midflame wind speed. Models have been developed to adjust 20-ft wind speed to midflame wind speed for sheltered and unsheltered surface fuel. In this report,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS