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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Stocks, McRae, Lynham, Hartley
This photo-series was designed to present photographs and a detailed inventory of fuels for important stands in the Boreal and Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Forest Regions of Ontario. Over the last 20 years, an experimental burning program conducted by Forestry Canada, Ontario…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
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
Wakimoto
The public outcry about the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park and adjacent natural forests, coupled with concern among natural resource managers, convinced the Secretaries of the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to establish the Fire Management Policy Review Team in…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Canham, Denslow, Platt, Runkle, Spies, White
Light regimes beneath closed canopies and tree-fall gaps are compared for five temperate and tropical forests using fish-eye photography of intact forest canopies and a model for calculating light penetration through idealized gaps. Beneath intact canopies, analyses of canopy…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Feunekes, Methven, Mann
Deployment, manning, and dispatching are geographically driven activities that respond to geographically based phenomena changes in fire weather, fire danger, and potential fire behavior. Information systems or decision-aids designed to support the above activities should…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foley, Johnson
This paper will show the progression of efforts made by the Alberta Forest Service (AFS) in developing guidelines for forest fire suppression that are in concert with human and forest resource values. A method for determining resource fire protection priorities was developed in…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunting
The pinyon-juniper woodlands and the sagebrush-grasslands, with a combined area of over 90 million ha, comprise a major portion of the rangelands in western North America. During pristine times fire played an important role in these vegetation types. The role of fire has changed…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee
This paper reports on the development of the Intelligent Fire Management Information System (IFMIS), a computer program for dispatching fire suppression resources to wildfires. The program uses a number of advanced concepts to provide information to fire managers for both…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palmer
This paper gives a brief review of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group's (NWCG) 1980 preliminary report on fatal and near-fatal wildland fire accidents and the recent efforts of the NWCG Fireline Safety Committee. It covers the minimum training and personal protective…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
Forest industry involvement in wildfire protection reduces fire risk and potential economic losses. This paper highlights Weldwood's Hinton Division involvement and goals towards wildfire control and management as a Forest Management Agreement (FMA) operator. Fire control…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Day
In Canada's national parks, ecological integrity cannot be maintained solely through protection. Active management is required to ensure that long-term processes such as fire continue their natural role. In the park areas, the mean annual natural burn area likely exceeded 1000…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey
Because of the natural and social amenities offered by suburban and rural living, more and more people are moving to wildland environments. The combination of people, homes, flammable vegetation, and dry weather conditions is increasing the annual losses from wildland fires and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
Sustaining the availability and quality of forest and rangeland ecosystems is a problem facing our society now and into the future. Since fire is a significant process in these ecosystems, managing fire is a part of this environmental problem. Insufficient knowledge seriously…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Mutch
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Eenigenburg
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Mutch
Recent wildland fires in Australia, Canada, China, Indonesia, Mexico, the Soviet Union, and the United States have been threatening people and natural resources with increasing severity. The May 1987 wildfire in northeastern China, for example, reportedly burned more than 2…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee
Soil degradation is caused by certain types and degrees of soil disturbance resulting from forest harvesting activities. This soil degradation is known to reduce future productivity of trees. The present method of survey to determine the extent and severity of soil disturbance…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS