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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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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

Understory prescribed burning in red pine and white pine

McRae, Lynham, Frech
The alarming loss of forested areas containing red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) and eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) in eastern Canada is a situation that must be addressed promptly by changing management approaches. Since the ecological role of fire in the regeneration and…
Year: 1994
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

The effect of prescribed burning to control brush species on buffelgrass pastures in Sonora, Mexico

Ibarra-F, Martin-R, Cox, Miranda-Z.
Vegetational changes were measured after 27 prescribed burns and 3 wildfires which occurred from 1982 to 1995 on buffelgrass pastures highly infested with brush in Sonora, Mexico. Densities of most undesirable brush species were reduced from 40 to 60% with fire. When prescribed…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed fire in the pine forests of northwestern Chihuahua

Alanis-Morales
Studies to determine the feasibility of using prescribed fire to prevent fire in the forests of northwestern Chihuahua were initiated in 1982 at an experimental level. These studies have resulted in valuable information on the importance of prescribed fire in protecting and, at…
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

Fire in boreal ecosystems of Eurasia: first results of the Bor Forest Island fire experiment, Fire Research Campaign Asia-North

Angelstam
Summary (p.499-500) ... 'Fire is an important natural and anthropogenic factor in the dynamics of the boreal forest system. The ecological and environmental impacts of boreal fires depend on fire weather, fuel availability, fire behavior and history of stand development (…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Biomass burning and the production of greenhouse gases

Levine
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Common denominators of fire behavior on tragedy and near-miss wildland fires

Fighting large wildland fires is often compared to a military operation. Each involves such things as: an organization with a general at the head, massive movements of personnel and equipment; tactical aerial support, and long periods of combat and stress until the enemy is…
Year: 1996
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

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

Surviving fires - vegetative and reproductive responses [Chapter 3]

Bond, van Wilgen
[no description entered]
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

Report of the National Commission on wildfire disasters: presented recently to Secretaries Babbitt and Espy, its message is clear: without aggressive, proactive wildland management programs begun now, the worst is yet to come

Created through the Wildfire Disaster Recovery Act of 1989 (PL 101-286), in response to the destructive western fire season of 1987 and the Yellowstone fires of 1988, the Commission was asked to consider the environmental and economic effects of disastrous wildfires through…
Year: 1994
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

Water relations growth of Bromus inermis Leyss (smooth brome) following spring or autumn burning in a fescue prairie

Grilz, Romo
Bromus inermis Leyss (smooth brome) is an invasive perennial grass in Fescue Prairie in North America. Prescribed burning is a potential method of controlling this exotic, but its responses to burning in this grassland are not known. This study was conducted to determine the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Burning radionuclide question: what happens to iodine, cesium and chlorine in biomass fires

Amiro, Sheppard, Johnston, Evenden, Harris
Fires can mobilize radionuclides from contaminated biomass through suspension of gases and particles in the atmosphere or solubilization and enrichment of the ash. Field and laboratory burns were conducted to determine the fate of I, Cs and C1 in biomass fires. Straw, wood, peat…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Multivariate analysis of the vegetation of the volcanoes Tláloc and Pelado Mexico

Velázquez
Multivariate analysis was used to describe the composition and distribution of vegetation types on the slopes of the volcanoes Tláloc and Pelado, Mexico. These volcanoes are situated in the transitional zone between the Holarctic and Neotropical floristic regions, which offers a…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire watch: authorities pinpoint certain western forests so stressed and vulnerable that catastrophic fires threaten this summer

Sampson
From the text: 'Authorities pinpoint certain western forests so stressed and vulnerable that catastrophic fires threaten this summer. With over 10 million acres of forest showing serious stress in the West, wildfire is an enormous concern everywhere. That concern heightens…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Research note: response of Shaw creeping vigna and a perennial alyceclover accession to burning

Pitman, Adjei
Most grasslands have developed under burning, and the dominant grasses are tolerant of burning (Roberts 1979; Hodgkinson 1986). Roberts (1979) suggested that burning provided advantages to grasses over desirable pasture legumes, whereas Pressland (1982) considered that native…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Species interactions on the biome transition zone in New Mexico: response of blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) and black grama (Bouteloua eripoda) to fire and herbivory

Gosz, Gosz
The desert/grassland biome transition zone in central New Mexico provides an important region for testing species differences to changing environmental conditions and various land management practices. Interactions of black grama (Bouteloua eripoda) and blue grama (Bouteloua…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Use of forest ecosystem classification systems in fire management

McRae
Forest Ecosystem Classification (FEC) systems have been used in the past mainly for forest management decision-making. FEC systems can also serve an important role for decision-making in other disciplines, such as fire management for both wildfire suppression and prescribed…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Old-growth white spruce and balsam poplar forest of the Peace River Lowlands, Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada: development, structure, and diversity

Timoney, Robinson
Thirty-seven permanent plots were established and sampled during 1993 and 1994 in Timber Berth 408, Peace River Lowlands, of Wood Buffalo National Park. Sites were sampled for vegetation, bird, physical, and structural attributes. The transition from mature to old-growth…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS