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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Quail methodology: where are we and where do we need to be?

Stauffer
I review and evaluate methods used for population estimation, determination of survival, radio-tagging, habitat analysis and evaluation, and study design and analysis. I conclude that rigorously designed call-count surveys are likely to provide the best information on quail…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Symposium wrap-up: what is missing?

Robel
The program committee requested that I provide a symposium wrap--up. Generally such presentations provide 1 individual the opportunity to summarize and integrate the information presented during the meeting. That overview is often helpful, if there are several concurrent…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The history of quail management with comments on pen-rearing

Kozicky
Quail were present in the Lower Oligocene about 40 million years ago. The remains of northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) have been found in Indian middens in the eastern United States, but these birds were not considered a preferred food. However, California quail (…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Strategic plan for quail management and research in the United States: introduction and background

Brennan
I assessed the current, broad-scale status of populations, research, and management for 6 species of quail in the U.S., and used this information as an introduction, background, and justification for a national strategic planning effort for quail management and research. Long-…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The wild turkey: biology and management

Sisson
From the text ... 'This long awaited book is the product of a joint effort by the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) and the USDA Forest Service (USFS). Another in an impressive list of definitive species accounts published by Stackpole Books, The Wild Turkey: Biology and…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Heat transfer into the duff and organic soil

Hungerford, Frandsen, Ryan
From the text...'On July 1, 1992, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station entered into a cooperative agreement (FWS Ref. No. 14-48-0009-92-962 DCN: 98210-2-3927) to conduct a study on 'Heat Transfer into the Duff and Organic…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Regrowth of secondary vegetation after the 'Borneo fire' of 1982-1983

Nykvist
From the text ... 'The severe drought in 1982-1983 in south-east Asia caused wildfires in large areas of Borneo (Malingreau et al. 1985, Riswan & Yusuf 1986). In Sabah, Beaman et al. (1985) estimated that about 1 million ha of forest burned. Woods (1989) found that tree…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Management lessons of the La Mesa Fire

Fletcher
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Heritage resources and fire management: a resource management crossroads

Cartledge
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Vegetation succession after the La Mesa Fire at Bandelier National Monument

Foxx
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Remembering the La Mesa Fire

Lissoway
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Image processing techniques for automated terrain stratification

Medler, Patterson, Yool
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Human desires and fears in ecologically rational wildland fire management

Daniel, Meitner, Weidemann
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System

Alexander, Stocks, Lawson
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest inventory update in Canada

Gillis, Leckie
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Quantifying organizational change after fire in lodgepole pine forest understorey

Brulisauer, Bradfield, Maze
Temporal changes in community organization were examined in a 300+ year chronosequence of understorey vegetation data from lodgepole pine forests recovering from fire in central British Columbia. Changes between six age-classes of forest were quantified as shifts in the…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire and management [Chapter 8]

Bond, van Wilgen
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Surviving fires - vegetative and reproductive responses [Chapter 3]

Bond, van Wilgen
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Introduction [Chapter 1]

Bond, van Wilgen
[no description entered]
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Distribution, historical development and ecophysiological attributes of oak species in the eastern United States

Abrams
Approximately 30 Quercus (oak) species occur in the eastern United States, of which Q alba, Q rubra, Q velutina, Q coccinea, Q stellata and Q prinus are among the most dominant. Quercus distribution greatly increased at the beginning of the Holocene epoch (10 000 years BP), but…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Findings from the wildland firefighters human factors workshop: improving wildland firefighter performance under stressful, risky conditions: toward better decisions on the fireline and more resilient organizations: workshop sponsored by USDA Forest

Putnam
From the text...'It has become increasingly clear that wildland firefighters are experiencing collapses in decisionmaking and organizational structure when conditions on the fireline become life-threatening. Since 1990 wildland fire agencies have lost 23 people who might have…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Federal wildland fire management policy and program review: implementation action plan report: May 23, 1996

From the text...'The Federal Wildland Fire Policy Review (Policy Review) directly affects only Department of Agriculture and Interior agencies. However, it significantly, although indirectly, affects local, State, and Tribal governments as well as other Federal partners. Every…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Standing crop, biomass allocation patterns and soil-plant water relations in Symphoricarpos occidentalis Hook. following spring burning

Romo, Grilz, Redmann, Driver
The impacts of autumn or spring burning on Symphoricarpos occidentalis were studied in Fescue Prairie in central Saskatchewan. Symphoricarpos density increased two- to three-fold over preburn density in the 1st 2 growing seasons following a burn. Individual shoot weights were…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Estimating the risk of escape of prescribed fires: an expert system approach

Stock, Williams, Cleaves
Prescribed burning expenditures are based on the fire manager's judgment about the 'risk' of the fire escaping and his/her anticipation of the consequences of such an escape. In a high-risk site, more resources are needed to prepare the site for a safe burn. Ifa fire escapes, or…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Soil seed banks and regeneration of tropical rain forest from Milpa fields at the Selva Lacandona, Chiapas, Mexico

Quintana-Ascencio, Gonzalez-Espinosa, Ramirez-Marcial, Domingues-Vazquez, Martinez-Ico
The traditional milpa agriculture system (slash-burn) of the Lacandon Maya people in eastern Chiapas, Mexico has created and uses a variety of habitat patches including the whole range of seral stages during forest development. This study examines seed bank attributes in…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS