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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The need to understand both the role of wildland fire as an ecosystem process and the appropriate use of fire as a management tool has been recognized for years. Historically fire has played an important role in many ecosystems by removing fuel accumulations,…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
Abstract only:..'In the middle of July, 1997, I had the opportunity to present my views on 'Wildfire Management' to the House Agriculture Committee. On my return to Missoula one of my graduate students came running into my office waving a set of new fire management definitions…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Conference Goals: This Future Search Conference was a task-focused planning effort that relied on the knowledge, expertise, and experience of individuals interested in improving wildland fire research. The goals of this conference were to: 1) discover common ground in the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
Fire on the Earth today looks the way it does because of the expansion of Europe, first as an imperial power, then as the vector for industrialization. The 'suppression' paradigm characteristic of Europe's frontiers derived from the collision of intra-European experiences with…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Oliver
Foresters have many of the technical tools to manage forests so they will have relatively low susceptibility to fires. These tools include fire behavior models, stand growth models, geographic information systems, and stand inventories. The silviculture laboratory at the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frost
It is now apparent that fire once played a role in shaping all but the wettest, the most arid, or the most fire-sheltered plant communities of the United States. Understanding the role of fire in structuring vegetation is critical for land management choices that will, for…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feary, Neuenschwander
Fire exclusion in wildlands during the last century has caused the excessive accumulation of fuels that has resulted in catastrophic fires. In spite of devastating losses from fire, human development continues to increase in the wildland-urban interface. Additional houses and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Farris, Neuenschwander, Boudreau
The importance of large fire events in shaping the structure and composition of subalpine forests has recently gained a great deal of attention from resource managers. High elevation forests dominated by Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) and subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa)…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McKenzie
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brose, Van Lear
Effects of seasonal prescribed fires of varying intensities on density, mortality, stem form, height, and height growth of hardwood advance regeneration were investigated. Three mixed-hardwood stands on productive upland sites were cut using a shelterwood technique, each forming…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mock, Bartlein, Anderson
Analyses of more than 40 years of climatic data reveal intriguing spatial variations in climatic patterns for Beringia (North-eastern Siberia and Alaska), aiding the understanding of the hierarchy of climatic controls that operate at different spatial scales within the Arctic. A…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bartlein, Anderson, Anderson, Edwards, Mock, Thompson, Webb, Webb, Whitlock
Maps of upper-level and surface winds and of surface temperature and precipitation illustrate the results of a sequence of global paleoclimatic simulations spanning the past 21,000 yr for North America. We review (a) the large-scale features of circulation, temperature, and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Chase, Bradshaw
This CD-ROM contains GIF images of four vegetation greenness themes derived from Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data for the years 1989 through 1998 and three fire danger themes for 1996 and 1998. CD Only - Not available online.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leenhouts
ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery, and ecological fire regime…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Finney
A computer simulation model, FARSITE, includes existing fire behavior models for surface, crown, spotting, point-source fire acceleration, and fuel moisture. The model’s components and assumptions are documented. Simulations were run for simple conditions that illustrate the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smyth, Dearden
The regulatory performance standards and monitoring requirements that are used to evaluate reclamation success in nine western North America jurisdictions were reviewed. Ecosystem-based reclamation monitoring, a crucial part of regulatory enforcement and adaptive environmental…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nalder, Wein
We described an effective and inexpensive device for sampling forest floors. It is based on a rechargeable, battery-powered drill that drives a sharpened steel coring tube. The corer is simple to fabricate, is lightweight (3.5 kg) and can be used easily by one person to obtain…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Welbourn
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Vihnanek
Two series of stereo photographs display a range of natural conditions and fuel loadings in black spruce and white spruce ecosystems in Alaska. Each group of photos includes inventory information summarizing vegetation composition, structure and loading, woody material loading…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elzinga, Salzer, Willoughby
This technical reference applies to monitoring situations involving a single plant species, such as an indicator species, key species, or weed. It was originally developed for monitoring special status plants, which have some recognized status at the Federal, State, or agency…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Drury
From introduction: 'The natural aspect of fire in black spruce forests is widely accepted, however much disagreement and confusion exists as to the nature of fire and the possible uses of fire and fire suppression in land management practices. Fire is a very important…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
A computer simulation model, FARSITE, includes existing fire behavior models for surface, crown, spotting, point-source fire acceleration, and fuel moisture. The model’s components and assumptions are documented. Simulations were run for simple conditions that illustrate the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Flannigan, Bergeron, Engelmark, Wotton
Despite increasing temperatures since the end of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1850), wildfire frequency has decreased as shown in many field studies from North America and Europe. We believe that global warming since 1850 may have triggered decreases in fire frequency in some regions…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burgan, Klaver, Klaver
A national 1-km resolution fire danger fuel model map was derived through used of previously mapped land cover classes and ecoregions, and extensive ground sample data, then refined through review by fire managers familiar with various portions of the U.S. The fuel model map…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS