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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Topic

Year

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The enduring resource of wilderness

Fege, Corrigall
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire induces clonal sprouting of riparian cottonwoods

Gom, Rood
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Black sturgeon boreal mixedwood research project

Cameron, Morrison, Baldwin, Kreutzweiser
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Interagency teams prevent fires from Alaska to Florida

Kissinger
From the text...'A trained national fire prevention/education team can be mobilized through normal dispatch channels. Mobilization of a team is outlined in the National Interagency Mobilization Guide (section 22.5.10) and can be ordered through the Geographic Area Coordination…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

TNC Testifies Before The House Committee on Agriculture [Testimony]

Ladd
Doug Ladd, Director of Science and Stewardship, Missouri Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, had the opportunity to share TNC's views concerning the use of fire as a management tool in the conservation of natural habitat. His testimony, in full, before The House Committe on…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Management implications of recent changes in spatial patterns of interior northwest forests

Hessburg, Smith
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Use of remote sensing for the 1988 greater Yellowstone area fires

Lachowski, Rodman, Shovic
The 1988 fires created a lot of changes in land cover in Greater Yellowstone Area, an area of several million acres administered by the Park Service, Forest Service and other Federal, State and private owners. Remotely sensed data, such as aerial photography and imagery…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Computer digitization of large scale aerial photography and digital analysis for assessing soil disturbance on clearcuts

Lee
Certain types and degrees of soil disturbance resulting from harvesting activities are known to result in soil degradation and thus in reduced productivity for trees. The present method of survey is a ground-based 'grid-point intercept' system and is time-consuming and costly.…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Opportunities for fire management in the future

Ffolliott
Fire, either as a natural occurrence or a management tool, can have beneficial effects on the environment, and its use offers opportunities for reducing fuel loads, disposing of slash, preparing seedbeds, thinning stands, increasing herbaceous plant production, increasing…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Social/political obstacles and opportunities in prescribed fire management

Daniel
Obstacles to public acceptance of prescribed fire include misunderstanding of fire in forest ecosystems, concerned risk to life and property and assumed adverse effects on scenic and recreation values. Increased appreciation of the ecological, safety (fuel reduction) and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Greater Yellowstone postfire assessment of research needs

In the aftermath of the Greater Yellowstone Area fires of 1988, scientists from all across North America recognized the once in a lifetime research opportunities these fires presented. For a host of reasons, the Yellowstone fires were unique, due largely to their grand scale and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Smoke-haze from the 1997 Indonesian forest fires: effects on pollution levels, local climate, atmospheric CO2 concentrations, and tree photosynthesis

Davies, Unam
Atmospheric composition, local climate and sapling gas exchange were monitored to assess the short-term effects of smoke-haze from the 1997 Indonesian forest fires. Atmospheric concentrations of particulate matter, SO2, CO, CH4 and CO2, and relative humidity were elevated, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An ecological aesthetic for forest landscape management

Gobster
[no description entered]
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Factors influencing forest service fire managers' risk behavior

Cortner, Taylor, Carpenter, Cleaves
Fire managers from five western regions of the USDA Forest Service were surveyed to determine which decision factors most strongly influenced their fire-risk behavior. Three fire-decision contexts were tested: Escaped Wildfire, Prescribed Burning, and Long-Range Fire Budget…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lessons from Yellowstone: an administrative perspective

Cargill
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire management on the frontier: an international perspective

Mutch
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

METAFIRE: A system to support high-level fire management decisions

Simard, Eenigenburg
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire hazards at the urban-wildland interface: what the public expects

Cortner, Gardner, Taylor
Urban-wildland issues have become among the most contentious and problematic issues for forest managers. Using data drawn from surveys conducted by the authors and others, this article discusses how public knowledge and perceptions of fire policies and fire hazards change over…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Attitudes toward prescribed fire policies

Manfredo, Fishbein, Hass, Watson
ANNOTATION: This article discusses social considerations with respect to public wildland forest fire policy. Social attitudes, beliefs and behavioral intentions of wildland fire are described as well as the public's knowledge of the effects of fire. This study details these…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

The Haines index and Idaho wildfire growth

Werth, Ochoa
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Browse regrowth and use by moose after fire in Interior Alaska

MacCracken, Viereck
This study was undertaken to estimate the short-term effects of fire on plant response and moose (Alces alces Miller) browse following the Rosie Creek fire near Fairbanks, Alaska. The fire consumed forests of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michc.), paper birch (Betula…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Detection and growth of an Alaskan forest fire using GOES-9 3.9 um imagery

Hufford, Kelley, Moore, Cotterman
The utility of the new GOES-9 satellite 3.9 um channel to monitor wildfires and their subsequent changes in growth and intensity in Alaska is examined. The June, 1996 Miller's Reach forest fire is presented as a case study. Eighteen hours of sequential imagery coincident to the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Evaluation of ERS SAR data for prediction of fire danger in a boreal region

Bourgeau-Chavez, Kasischke, Rutherford
Research was conducted to determine the utility of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for measuring the fuel moisture status of boreal forests as reflected in Fire Weather Index Codes. Three years (May to August 1992-1995) of SAR data from the European Remote Sensing Satellite…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS