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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Mounting the Attack on Wildfire

"Mounting the Attack on Wildfire" is a 18-minute video produced in 1987 by the Canadian Forest Service that offers an overview of the co-operative experimental burning project conducted with the Alberta Forest Service at Big Fish Lake in north-central Alberta during the mid to…
Year: 1987
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Mosses in North American grassland and savanna [abstract]

Christy
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

How to manage small prairie fires [abstract]

Pauly
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Some generalizing ideas about colonization and succession in green plants and fungi

Grubb
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire and survival traits of plants

Trabaud
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Burning - always necessary, always best?

Voight
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Predicted residues and fire behavior in small-stem lodgepole pine stands

Brown, Johnston
Fuel loading, fireline intensity, and expected fire size were determined after harvesting small-stem lodgepole pine stands. Curves relating predicted fireline intensity to slash fuel loading and windspeed are presented. Removing about 15 tons per acre of residues reduced…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Linking fire behavior to its effects on living plant tissue

Wade
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A comparison of procedures to estimate fine dead fuel moisture for fire behaviour predictions

Burgan
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Analysis of the behavior and associated weather for a northwestern Ontario wildfire: Red Lake #7

Stocks, Flannigan
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bushfire hydrology--the case of the leaking watersheds

Daniell, Kulik
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Engelmann spruce, lodgepole pine and subalpine fir seed germination success on ashbed conditions

Woodard, Cummins
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Selected parameters of Pinus banksiana Lamb. regeneration in Eastern Ontario

Weber, Hummel, Van Wagner
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Parasites, lightning, and the vegetation mosaic in wilderness landscapes

Knight
From the Introduction ... 'The vegetation mosaic in any landscape is a function of environmental variation and historic disturbances, whether caused by humans or other factors. Many studies have focused on species composition in relation to environmental gradients, and secondary…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Honoring those that have come before us: introductory remarks to the George M. Byram special session tribute

Alexander
This paper constituents the remarks made during the introduction of the special session 'Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: A Tribute to George M. Byram (1909-1996) - Pioneering Scientist in Forest Fire Research' held on February 20, 2013, at the International Association of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Learning from those who came before us: closing remarks to the George M. Byram special session tribute

Alexander
This paper constituents the closing comments made at the special session 'Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: A Tribute to George M. Byram (1909-1996) - Pioneering Scientist in Forest Fire Research' held on February 20, 2013, at the International Association of Wildland Fire's…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The LANDFIRE Refresh strategy: updating the National dataset

Nelson, Connot, Peterson, Martin
The LANDFIRE Program provides comprehensive vegetation and fuel datasets for the entire United States. As with many large-scale ecological datasets, vegetation and landscape conditions must be updated periodically to account for disturbances, growth, and natural succession. The…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The state of development of fire management decision support systems in America and Europe

Mavsar, González-Cabán, Varela
Forest fires affect millions of people worldwide, and cause major ecosystem and economic impacts at different scales. The management policies implemented to minimize the negative impacts of forest fires require substantial investment of financial, human and organizational…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Pine cones facilitate ignition of forest floor duff

Kreye, Varner, Dugaw, Cao, Szecsei, Engber
The ignition and combustion of forest floor duff are poorly understood yet have been linked to soil heating and overstory tree mortality in many temperate coniferous forests. Research to date has focused on the characteristics of duff that facilitate ignition and spread,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Computing a better fire forecast

Kintisch
Scientists and firefighters ponder new ways to predict the spread of wildfire as the U.S. West faces ever more potent blazes.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Research and development supporting risk-based wildfire effects prediction for fuels and fire management: status and needs

Hyde, Dickinson, Bohrer, Calkin, Evers, Gilbertson-Day, Nicolet, Ryan, Tague
Wildland fire management has moved beyond a singular focus on suppression, calling for wildfire management for ecological benefit where no critical human assets are at risk. Processes causing direct effects and indirect, long-term ecosystem changes are complex and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

On the need for a theory of wildland fire spread

Finney, Cohen, McAllister, Jolly
We explore the basis of understanding wildland fire behaviour with the intention of stimulating curiosity and promoting fundamental investigations of fire spread problems that persist even in the presence of tremendous modelling advances. Internationally, many fire models have…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Quantifying the effect of fuel reduction treatments on fire behavior in boreal forests

Butler, Ottmar, Rupp, Jandt, Miller, Howard, Schmoll, Theisen, Vihnanek, Jimenez
Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinning) fuel treatments have become the preferred strategy of many fire managers and agencies for reducing fire hazard in boreal forests. This study attempts to characterize the effectiveness of four fuel treatments through…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Modeling fire susceptibility to delineate wildland-urban interface for municipal-scale fire risk management

Whitman, Rapaport, Sherren
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the region where development meets and intermingles with wildlands. The WUI has an elevated fire risk due to the proximity of development and residents to wildlands with natural wildfire regimes. Existing methods of delineating WUI are…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Assessing area-specific relative risks from large forest fire size in Canada

Wang, Ma, Li
The evaluation of area-specific risks for large fires is of great policy relevance to fire management and prevention. When analyzing data for the burned areas of large fires in Canada, we found that there are dramatic patterns that cannot be adequately modelled by traditional…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS