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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Roche
One hundred and sixty-two spruce provenances, representing allopatric and sympatric populations of white, Engelmann, and Sitka spruce in British Columbia were sown in a coastal nursery. Twelve of these provenances were randomized in four replications, two of which were of…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evert
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Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ramsey, Higgins
The tables presented here contain forest fire statistics for the calendar year 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1987 as reported by all Canadian forest fire control agencies. The statistical data are presented separately for each province or other major jurisdiction, and for Canada as a…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kourtz, Todd
Lightning causes one third of the 9000 wildfires that occur in Canada. Annually, these lightning-caused fires account for 90% of the area burned and cost Canadians at least 150 million dollars in suppression costs and values destroyed. Unlike the fires caused by human negligence…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This paper looks first at the kind of forest fire statistics that are currently available in Canada. The main statistics are number of fires area burned, causes, and control costs. Good inventory data on burned areas are not available. The recent rising trend in national burned…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keiter, Boyce
From the text: 'In this concluding chapter, therefore, we try to put these Greater Yellowstone developments in perspective. We begin by identifying the principal conflicts involved in this transition to an ecosystem-based management policy in Greater Yellowstone. Next, we…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burbank
From the text: 'I want to stress one last point. Equipment developers, such as my organization, need your cooperation in defining or, more importantly, identifying your major problems. You, Fire Control managers, have the field problems which must be solved, not us. Too often we…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson
From the text...'Management today is faced with getting more jobs done at a relatively constant fund level in a period of inflationary costs and growing environmental concern,. this gives rise to the practice known as 'looking at one's hole card.' Management must critically…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wambach
From the text...'Let me over-simplify (or overstate) my argument to make my point. Foresters have tended to identify only two types of fires: (1) wildfires, which are bad and should be prevented or put out expeditiously, and (2) prescribed fires, which are good and should be…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDowell
From the text...'But we must be concerned with all the products of our forest lands and the successful forest manager will be aware of the tools and techniques that optimize integrated uses. This must be done in the long range view. Thus, we must know more about fire and our…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Henderson
Forest fire records 1914 - 1968, for Kamloops and Nelson Forest Districts in British Columbia are summarized to indicate trends in costs and damage. Areas burned have been substantially reduced by improved fire control techniques and intensity. Ecological impact of fire…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
Costs and effectiveness of fire control, need for hazard reduction, slash disposal policy, history of slash burning, opportunities for prescribed burning, as well as fire effects, costs and benefits are described breifly. Most attention is given to the Vancouver Forest District…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuchs
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Preve
The Forest Title of the 1990 Farm Bill created the Forest Stewardship Program, the Stewardship Incentives Program and related programs to seek to bring 25 million acres of unmanaged, nonindustrial private forest lands into multiple-use management. ACF saw early the importance of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davi
Computers are rapidly expanding into the urban fire safety area. This paper presents some social implications caused by the use of computers for fire safety databases, arson prediction programs, and fire simulation programs. In regards to the new technological advances this…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carrow
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Craig, Chu
Fungal deterioration of second-growth Douglas-fir logs, felled each month from August 1961 to May 1962, was studied 2, 4, and 6 years after felling. Decay increased 10% of log volumes after 2 years to 47% after 6 years. The rate of decay, particularly for the brown cubical type…
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch
In 1989 a new record was established for the number of fires (1147) and area burned (3.28 million ha) in Manitoba. These fires resulted in the unprecedented evacuation of 24,500 people from 32 different communities and cost over $68 million (CDN) to suppress. The first major…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCleese, Nichols, Walton
In this paper, several innovations to the firefighting process are summarized. Organizational innovations include the Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Protection Initiative, common interagency emergency management procedures, and the National Interagency Incident Management System…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson, Bond
The question of which factors limit the occurrence of a plant species to a particular site is addressed by considering 53 cases in which the distribution of pines (Pinus species: Pinaceae) has changed in the last century. We consider expansions of pines in and adjacent to their…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mallik
A greenhouse experiment was conducted to study the effect of cutting, cutting plus burning, and mulching treatments on Kalmia regrowth. Kalmia plants were transplanted into plastic buckets, and the treatments were applied in the greenhouse. After 8 months, the plants receiving…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
The essence of the wildland/urban interface fire problem is the loss of homes. The problem is not new, but is becoming increasingly important as more homes with inadequate adherence to safety codes are built at the wildland/urban interface. Current regulatory codes are…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fujioka
On the heels of the Yellowstone fires of 1988, a Cabinet-level fire management review team recommended research "to improve the ability to predict severe fire behavior, conduct long-term weather forecasting, and identify past abnormal events." In a 1989 report, a Forest Service…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lunney, Eby, O'Connell
The effects of logging on three species of common skinks were estimated from censuses in four age classes of forest: unlogged, just logged, 1-year logged and 10-15 year regrowth. The effects of topography (ridge and gully) were examined in each age class. A fire in November 1980…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS