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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Eshee
Legal liability for prescribed burning has been and will be of significant importance to those engaged in this type of activity, In what situations will the prescribed burner be held pecuniarily liable? What factual scenarios denote non-liability? What are the statutory…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lissoway
The rejuvenating effects of natural fires prior to 1900 in Southwestern forest communities have been replaced by recent, unprecedented crownfires. These wildfires have given rise to planned expansion of management fire as a tool for ecosystem restoration, while protecting…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LaFayette
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et. seq.) as amended, also called the Clean Water Act (CWA), provides the basis for the management and improvement of water quality in the United States. As amended in 1987, it addresses both point and nonpoint sources of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wood
Every conservation strategy derived in our democratic and capitalistic system is both driven and restrained by the forces of science, economics, sociology, politics, and law. When properly aligned, these forces can stimulate and guide the owners and managers of the working…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ruesink
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) places both procedural and substantive requirements on agencies and individuals planning and undertaking activities which may affect species listed as threatened or endangered and their designated critical habitat. Prohibitions against take of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunnell
Natural processes are clearly provided for in the Wilderness Act of 1964. This Act defines wilderness as a large land area which is primarily affected by the forces of nature. In addition, the defined purpose of the Act was to assure these lands were to be preserved and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White
The U.S. Enviromnental Protection Agency (EPA) is under court order to review the adequacy of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for Particulate Matter (PM-10) by January 31, 1997. A significant number of recent epidemiological research studies have found a…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Polkowsky
The Clean Air Act sets a national goal of no human-made impairment of visibility in certain national parks and wilderness areas. In many parts of the country these areas, or lands adjacent, are managed with the use of prescribed fire. The Environmental Protection Agency is now…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Proctor, Ahuja, Callenberger, Gause, Miksovsky
To implement Section 176 (c) of the Clean Air Act, The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a 'conformity' rule outlining the procedures and criteria to ensure that federal actions conform to the appropriate State Implementation Plans (SIP). The rule applies to areas…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stoneman
The Clean Air Act (Act) includes several provisions that can affect prescribed burning activity conducted by land managers. The provisions include reasonably and best available control measures for prescribed burning in the form of smoke management, a requirement that Federal…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Seamon
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Galipeau, Kneeshaw, Bergeron
The goal of this study was to describe white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) recolonization in a forest destroyed in 1923 by an intense fire. Regeneration was evaluated considering both ecological site factors and distance to a seed…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li, Ter-Mikaelian, Perera
Potential temporal fire disturbance patterns on a forest landscape were investigated using a fire regime model with four different fire probability functions: (I)forest age-independent; (2) hyperbolic increase with forest age; (3) sigmoid increase with age; and (4) linear…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Harvey
We present a method in which fundamental knowledge of natural ecosystem dynamics of the southern boreal forest may be used as a basis for a new silvicultural approach aimed at maintaining biodiversity and long-term ecosystem productivity under management. The natural disturbance…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morton
From the summary ... 'This paper describes a simple model which can be used to investigate the transport of water vapour by thermal plumes in the atmosphere. For an approximate treatment of these plumes, it is assumed (as in a previous paper) that the vertical velocity,…
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sampson, Schultz
From the text... 'The intimate relations of soil and climate, and the effects of land treatment on stream flow, have been recognized for decades. Since we live in an environment composed of many facets, the best pattern of land us is not always or immediately discernible. Too…
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
De Leo, Levin
The need to reduce human impacts on ecosystems creates pressure for adequate response, but the rush to solutions fosters the oversimplification of such notions as sustainable development and ecosystem health. Hence, it favors the tendency to ignore the complexity of natural…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shilling, Bewick, Gaffney, McDonald, Chase, Johnson
From the Conclusions and Recommendations...'Discing stands of cogongrass was not effective for cogongrass control. Shallow tillage only fragmented rhizomes, causing only short-term growth reduction and subsequent strong shoot growth. A combination of discing and imazapyr…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Basham
The nature, causes, and rate of pathological deterioration of jack, red, and white pine killed by fire in the Mississagi region of Ontario in 1948 were studied to determine the practicability and probable duration of profitable salvage operations in such stands. Blue and brown…
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LeBarron
The article presented below came to the attention of the editors of the Journal of Forestry only recently. It was originally delivered as a paper at a meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Vancouver, B.C., June 15, 1949. It was not published and hence has received little…
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt
Experienced fire control men who have used the water rake believe it is a practicable and worthwhile water-saving device. It is recommended for use where water is scarce and in deep duff where water penetration is slow. One water rake is recommended for each tanker unit in areas…
Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ward
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Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram
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Year: 1957
Type: Document
Source: TTRS