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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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International Crown Fire Modeling Experiment

An overview of the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiments in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Year: 1997
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Holocene forest dynamics in southern Ontario, Canada: fine-resolution pollen data

Fuller
Holocene fossil pollen data of fine temporal and spatial resolution were obtained from two small, closed lake basins in southern Ontario, Canada. Forest development is recorded in the pollen sequences, which document the invasion and expansion of tree populations during the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Exploring partial harvesting options in the Nelson Forest Region, British Columbia

Robinson, Kurz, Pollack, Listar
A metric variant of Prognosis (also known as the Forest Vegetation Simulator) has been linked to the Western Root Disease extension, and used to explore the interaction between partial harvesting, Armillaria root disease and productivity in 24 stratified combinations of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Using FVS to provide structural class attributes to a forest succession model (CRBSUM)

Stage
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS), coupled with a new key to structural classes, provided an empirical link between the Columbia River Basin SUccessional Model (CRBSUM) and the real world. The essence of CRBSUM is a set of residence times and disturbance probabilities for…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Heritage resources and fire management: a resource management crossroads

Cartledge
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Observations of arthropod populations following the La Mesa Fire of 1977

Pippin, Nichols
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation succession after the La Mesa Fire at Bandelier National Monument

Foxx
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Image processing techniques for automated terrain stratification

Medler, Patterson, Yool
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed fire in the pine forests of northwestern Chihuahua

Alanis-Morales
Studies to determine the feasibility of using prescribed fire to prevent fire in the forests of northwestern Chihuahua were initiated in 1982 at an experimental level. These studies have resulted in valuable information on the importance of prescribed fire in protecting and, at…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Human desires and fears in ecologically rational wildland fire management

Daniel, Meitner, Weidemann
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System

Alexander, Stocks, Lawson
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The effect of fire severity on ash, and plant and soil nutrient levels following experimental burning in a boreal mixedwood stand

Johnston, Elliott
The Boreal Mixedwood Ecosystem Study near Thunder Bay, Ontario is a multi-disciplinary investigation of the impacts of harvesting and fire on the structure and function of a boreal mixed-wood ecosystem. The fire component comprises a set of treatments in which fire severity was…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Numerical predictions on the soil thermal effect under surface fire conditions

Oliveira, Viegas, Raimundo
[no description entered]
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Improved calibration of a large fuel burnout model

Albini, Reinhardt
[no description entered]
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Common denominators of fire behavior on tragedy and near-miss wildland fires

Fighting large wildland fires is often compared to a military operation. Each involves such things as: an organization with a general at the head, massive movements of personnel and equipment; tactical aerial support, and long periods of combat and stress until the enemy is…
Year: 1996
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Quantifying organizational change after fire in lodgepole pine forest understorey

Brulisauer, Bradfield, Maze
Temporal changes in community organization were examined in a 300+ year chronosequence of understorey vegetation data from lodgepole pine forests recovering from fire in central British Columbia. Changes between six age-classes of forest were quantified as shifts in the…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Surviving fires - vegetative and reproductive responses [Chapter 3]

Bond, van Wilgen
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Introduction [Chapter 1]

Bond, van Wilgen
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fire as a luminal environment

Mejer
Building on insights provided by Beck (1988), Pyne (1982) and others, the paper views wildland fire as an event revealing a social and scientific field in which basic dilemmas that separate nature and culture, environmental autonomy and human intervention, and the certainty of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of the Rat and Hatchery Creek fires on four rare plant species

Harrod, Knecht, Kuhlmann, Ellis, Davenport
From the text... "Conclusions: Our preliminary results regarding O. pinorum and S. seelyi response to fire are inadequate to provide management recommendation. However, the result of this study indicate that C. fasciculatum is a fire-intolerant species and management of this…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Subalpine ecosystems: the roles of whitebark pine and fire

Murray, Bunting, Morgan
The subalpine vegetation zone is an extensive and important high elevation setting in the western United States. Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) is restricted to, and occurs widely in, the subalpine zone. This tree provides a valuable foodsource and shelter for a variety of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Long term effects of repeated burning on understory containing rare vegetation communities

Lord
A probabilistic model is offered for tracing the fate of vegetation communities in fire-prone lands that are subjected to regular fuel reduction burning. The model is based on the semi-Markov process (an extension of Markov chain modelling). The inputs necessary for the semi-…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Planning and executing prescribed burns to conform to endangered species act requirements

Murphy, Cole
From the text... "Futurist biologists have stated that the success of Endangered and Threatened Species recovery programs is not to keep habitats in original and/or untouched conditions (De Blieu 1993). A practical goal is to "Reshape habitats so they can exist in a thickly…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The role of fire in sustaining northern goshawk habitat in Rocky Mountain forests

Graham, Jain, Reynolds, Boyce
The northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), is a northern latitude, forest dwelling raptor. In the Western United States, goshawks live in most forests, including those dominated by western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.), lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl.ex.Loud.)…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Designing fire regimes for biodiversity conservation

Myers
Fire regimes are sets of recurring conditions of fire that characterize given fife-maintained ecosystems. On any given area, a fire regime is also a unique fire history. In biodiversity conservation, one should distinguish between the concept of a "natural” fire regime and a…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS