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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Radford
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Walmsley, Komarek
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kayll
Through a review of literature, the essential role of fire in the boreal forest as a natural regulatory agent of composition and succession is discussed in terms of plants, soils, and animals. In natural, long-term cycles, the incidence of lightning-started fires on a particular…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferguson, Lawson, Maple, Mesavage
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cushwa
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jarvis, Tucker
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cramer
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ward
From the text ... 'The Delta Marsh lies in south-central Manitoba, 75 miles north of the U.S. border. It is within the eastern edge of the Aspen Parkland, between the Great Plains of central North America and the coniferous forests of the Pre-cambrian Shield.The Delta Marsh…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the text ... 'This paper is an attempt to bring about a better ecological understanding of lightning and lightning fires, as they concern living organsms and their habitat. The comprehension of these forces is difficult because of their great variability....'From the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kayll
From the text ... 'The experiments reported here were undertaken to investigate the heat tolerance of tree seedlings and to determine how it varies with species, degree of physiological activity, and method of heat application.'From the Summary ... 'Heat tolerance of…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
From the text ... 'This paper deals with investigations which concentrated on certain aspects of the direct and indirect effects of surface fire on the soil in the jack pine barren community in northern Ontario.The experiment, started in 1964 and terminated in 1966, involved…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chrosciewicz
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shafizadeh
[no description entered]
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wright, Beall
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Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
A study was made of the fuel complex in 70-year old lodgepole pine stands in west-central Alberta to facilitate measurement and prediction of weight-and-size distribution of fuel components. Results showed that the weight of the entire fuel complex increased with increasing…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodley
From the text ... 'The Canadian Parks Service has a fire management policy that is best described as evolving. The development history of the fire policy and current practices have been reviewed by other authors (Lopoukhine, 1993; Westhaver, 1992; Day and others, 1988, Van…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'The 1988 fire season showed us much about the importance of basing decisions on fire regimes and their associated fire behavior characteristics. Although our policies are necessarily broad, we are learnng that implementation of programs must be based on the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
van Wagtendonk
To trully allow fires to play their natural role in wilderness ecosystems, it is sometimes necessary to have large fires of long duration. Large fires are ecologically significant events that drive many other ecosystem processes. However, these fires pose significant management…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stokes
From the text ... 'As forest plans are implemented and revised, attention is being given to the adequacy of direction provided for wilderness management....Performance elements for the regional forester, directors, and forest supervisors now include an element for wilderness…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stauber
The statement, 'Availability of fire resources can be a serious constraint to conducting prescribed natural fire activities,' illustrates some misunderstanding of prescribed fire programs. The availability of fire suppression resources should not be a 'driving force' in our…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stankey, McCool
While the concept of wilderness in the American landscape may be traced to the mid-19th century, it was not until 1964 that formal, Congressional protection began. The resulting National Wilderness Preservation System, encompassing approximately 95 million acres, is not only…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
Examination of 320 stories about wildfire published since 1988 suggests that journalists did not learn from the mistakes they made reporting the Yellowstone fires. The conventions of journalism, which value drama over explanation, suggest that wildfires and other natural…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS