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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Stuart
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Forest species regeneration and management options in the Melajo Nature Reserve, Trinidad and Tobago
Tropical moist forests are declining rapidly world-wide. Reforestation efforts in Trinidad have generally been insufficient and focused on non-native species. Some of these species (e.g. Pinus caribaea), however, appear ecologically inappropriate but have been used extensively…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text...'Our program is built on cost-effectiveness and safety. Yet, despite larger protection budgets, bigger and better tools, and sophisticated fire-danger prediction systems, wildfire losses are higher now than at any time in the past half century. Despite personal…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Perrett
From the text...'Some fire organizations want large increases in funding to deal with wildland-urban interface fires. With public temperament intent upon government budget and staff reductions at all levels, acquiring bigger budgets to deal with the problem is unlikely. A new…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hardy, Smith
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) is a computerized encyclopedia that summarizes the general ecology and effects of fire on more than 1,000 plant and animal species and plant communities. These 'summaries' synthesize current information in an easy-to-use format and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavoie, Sirois
From 1980- 1989, fires burned 32 440 km² of boreal forest, 200 km south of the forest-tundra border in northern Quebec, Canada. An assessment of the impact of fire on tree population densities was carried out by comparing the number of Pinus banksiana and Picea mariana in 83…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brose, Van Lear, Keyser
Regenerating oak stands on productive upland sites is widely recognized by foresters as a major problem in hardwood management. Recent research indicates that oak regeneration is more resistant to surface fires than its primary competitors on these sites if burning occurs 3 to 5…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Long, Karels
The National Association of State Foresters fully supports the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy and stands ready to work with our federal partners to implement the recommendations. It is unfortunate, however, that states couldn't have been directly involved in development…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stapanian, Sundberg, Baumgardner, Liston
A probability-based sampling scheme was used to survey plant species composition in forests of 16 states in seven geopolitical regions of the United States (California. Colorado, Minnesota, and parts of the Pacific Northwest, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast) in 1994. The…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Greenlee
From the text...'When called to Florida this summer, the fires were nearly out. You had done your jobs, and from all indications and from the comments of the firefighters we met, you had done exceptionally well. Our job, once again, was to figure out if anything could be done in…
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
Parsons, Landres
The restoration of natural fire to wilderness ecosystems poses a significant challenge to the federal land management agencies. The U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service have conducted progressive prescribed…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jacobs
Decades of fire suppression have produced unnatural levels of fuel accumulation and created unprecedented wildfire hazards on National Park Service (NPS) lands. This problem has made reintroduction of fire into ecosystems a long-term NPS management goal. Using both prescribed…
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
Fiedler, Arno, Harrington
Elimination of the historic pattern of frequent low-intensity fires in Inland West ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)-fir (Abies spp. and Pseudotsuga menziesii) forests has contributed to major ecological disruptions. Today most stands contain thickets of small trees (often firs)…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stieglitz
From the Abstract: 'Fire managers face various problems, including: A. Classic urban interface issues. 1. Endangerment of private property, especially structures. 2. Air quality and smoke management. 3. Loss of cost-effectiveness by managing fire on extremely small parcels. B.…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text... 'Controlled fires are essential to avoid conflagrations now scorching Florida'
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Stocks, Wotton, Lanoville
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) constitutes a major, cooperative, global undertaking involving coordination by the Canadian Forest Service Fire Research Network and the Government of the Northwest Territories' Forest Management Division combined with…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sadovnik, Manasson, Chapman, Mino, Kiseliov
Lack of reliable fire warning and detection systems for urban/wildland interface, large area industrial facilities and transportation systems result each year in a loss of millions of dollars worth of property; it also endangers lives. Typical optical fire detection sensor do…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickmann, Rollinger
The exclusion of fire from ecosystems to which it was a frequent visitor has produced profound alterations in historic ecological conditions; therefore, fire must be an integral component of ecosystem management. That was the overwhelming message conveyed by speakers at the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arno
The fire ecology of Scandinavian forests and its management implications have many parallels to forests of the American West. As in the United States, the policy of fire exclusion has yielded to a broader understanding of fire ecology, and both silviculture and prescribed fire…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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
Weber, Stocks
The boreal forest is the largest forest region in Canada, occupying approximately 315 million ha. Within this forest region the long-term average annual area burned is 1.3 million ha, with extreme fire years being common, and covering up to 7 million ha in a single fire season.…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tsvetkov, Prokushkin, Sorokin, Kaverzina, Sorokina, Tsvetkova
The impact of surface fires on the thermal and trophic conditions of forest soils is studied in burnt areas of larch (Larix gmelinii) forest in the northern taiga zone of central Siberia. The duration of the regeneration period on burnt areas is also examined and viability of…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES