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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Dyrness
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feller
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Donoghue
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beven
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the book jacket...'From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Stephen J. Pyne's narrative explores the efforts of sucessive American cultures to master this forbidding kind of fire and to use it to shape the landscape. He draws not only on academic experience…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferguson
From the Summary...'Managing smoke in ways that prevent serious impact to sensitive areas from single burns or multiple burns occurring simultaneously requires knowledge of the weather conditions that will affect smoke emissions, trajectories, and dispersion. Not only is it…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beeson, Martens, Breshears
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schmoldt, Peterson
Public land managers must treat multiple values coincidentally in time and space, which requires the participation of multiple resource specialists and consideration of diverse clientele interests in the decision process. This implies decision making that includes multiple…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heinrichs, Hebda, Walker
The vegetation and natural disturbance history of the Mount Kobau area, in the Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii Parry ex Engelm.) - subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt.) (ESSF) forest of southern British Columbia, was reconstructed using pollen, plant macrofossils,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Horn, Kennedy, Orvis
From the text: 'Here we focus on the ecological impacts of high elevation fires in the Dominican Republic’s CordiIlera Central, on the island of Hispaniola in the northeast Caribbean. This rugged range includes the Caribbean*s highest peak, Pico Duarte (3087 m), and extensive…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Riebau, Fox
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will implement new regulations for the management of atmospheric particulate matter 2.5 Fm and less in diameter (PM2.5), tropospheric ozone, and regional haze in the next few years. These three air quality issues relate…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cannon, Bigio, Mine
In this study we examine factors that pertain to the generation of debris flows from a basin recently burned by wildfire.. Throughout the summer 2000 thunderstorm season, we monitored rain gauges, channel cross-sections, hillslope transects, and nine sediment-runoff traps…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Main, Straub, Paananen
From the text 'One of the missions of wildland fire management is to integrate fire with other land management activities to achieve desired objectives at the lowest cost. When fire managers know how fires are likely to behave in an area as well as that area*s associated weather…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wong, Lertzman
Errors in estimates of tree ages from increment cores can influence age-class distributions, affecting inferences about forest dynamics. We compare methods of height correction of increment cores taken above ground level by examining how resulting errors affect age-class…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timoney
This first approximation assessment of old-growth forests in Alberta, Canada, presents tabular summaries of selected old-growth attributes and elucidates some themes of old-growth forest development, structure, function, distribution, and conservation status. Forest types…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Finn
From the text ... 'The safety of our firefighters is paramount, and the best tool we can give them is accurate information, conveyed clearly and on time.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Witte, Hudson, Guo, Herman, Fujiwara
New methods for retrieving tropospheric ozone column depth and absorbing aerosol (smoke and dust) from the Earth Probe—Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (EP/TOMS) are used to follow pollution and to determine interannual variability and trends. During intense fires over Indonesia…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hély, Flannigan, Bergeron, McRae
Spring and summer simulations were carried out using the Canadian Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) and U.S. BEHAVE systems to study the role of vegetation and weather on fire behavior in the mixedwood boreal forest. Stands at Lake Duparquet (Quebec, Canada) were characterized as…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Natural fire frequency for the eastern Canadian boreal forest: consequences for sustainable forestry
Given that fire is the most important disturbance of the boreal forest, climatically induced changes in fire frequency (i.e., area burnt per year) can have important consequences on the resulting forest mosaic age-class distribution and composition. Using archives and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner, Krannitz
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tinner, Hu
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fleming, Candau, McAlpine
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Green
Fire has been a major source of instability in the postglacial forests surrounding Everitt Lake in southwest Nova Scotia. Time series analyses of preserved pollen and charcoal reveal the processes involved. Correlograms and pollen sequence splits confirm that prior to 6000 years…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Karl, Koscielny
'Statewide averages of temperature and precipitation, from January l895 to April 1981, were intepolated to a grid and Palmer Drought Severity Indices (PDSI) calculated for each of the grid points. Principal component (PC) analysis was performed on the gridded values of PDSI. By…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jorgenson, Racine, Walters, Osterkamp
Studies from 1994–1998 on the Tanana Flats in central Alaska reveal that permafrost degradation is widespread and rapid, causing large shifts in ecosystems from birch forests to fens and bogs. Fine-grained soils under the birch forest are ice-rich and thaw settlement typically…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS