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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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De Grandpre, Gagnon
The changes observed in the composition and abundance of shrubs, herbs and mosses were investigated following fire in the southern boreal forest of the Abitibi region, Quebec. Ten plots of 100m2 were sampled at each of eight sites varying in age from 26 to 230 years after fire (…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
This paper looks first at the kind of forest fire statistics that are currently available in Canada. The main statistics are number of fires area burned, causes, and control costs. Good inventory data on burned areas are not available. The recent rising trend in national burned…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brennan
My purpose in this paper is to outline a research and management manifesto for the northern bobwhite in the 1990's. My objectives are to (1) describe the probable causes for the northern bobwhite population decline, (2) outline the research agenda that will be required to solve…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ross, Smith, O'Brien
Stand ages and fire scars were used to piece together the histories of stand-replacing conflagrations and noncatastrophic fires, respectively, in a 1500-hectare area east of Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada. The overall distribution of stand ages in the study area indicates a…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saveland
The impact of fire suppression on ecosystems with long fire return intervals has been considered negligible. It is argued that, since fire suppresssion has been effective for only the last 30 to 50 years, fire suppresssion could not possibly have had much of an impact where the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maldonado
The paper represents factors that cause wildland fires and their diverse impacts on Mexico. It also outlines how the Mexican government establishes and operates prevention and suppression programs by taking advantage of participation by all sectors in our society trying to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Arno
Protection of resources from fire has increased the risk of severe fires and reduced resource values in some ecosystems. Constraints on use of prescribed fire have limited its effectiveness in meeting resource goals. This predicament is discussed by describing the ecological…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron
In order to characterize the fires regime of the southern boreal forest and to understand the way in which landscape and fire regime interact, a detailed study of fire history was undertaken in two adjacent contrasting landscapes in northwestern Quebec. The fire history for the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, Tankersley
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fege, Peterson
Conference proceeding from the 84th annual meeting and exhibition, Air and Waste Management Association, April 20, 1991.
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Soden, Freemuth
Over the course of the last two decades there has been a recurring theme among proponents of the National Park Service mission that politics has undermined the day-to-day goals of the Service. With the increased politization of the Park Service, two recent proposals have called…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Riley
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
King
The transition of restoration from a science, craft and labor of love to a business raises questions about ecological values and economic costs. An environmental economist summarizes some problems and offers a framework for evaluating the costs and expected results of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Magill
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grumbine
Cooperation between the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and the United States Department of Interior (USDI) National Park Service is most often advocated to protect biological diversity on national forests and parks, but the agencies, so far, have…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peterson, Arbaugh, Pollock, Robinson
Dendroecological methods were used to study the effects of wildfire on radial growth of Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas-fir) and Pinus contorta (lodgepole pine) in the northern Rocky Mountains. Mean basal area increment during a 4-year postfire period declined relative to prefire…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel
An account is presented of the initial long-range, 30-day, projections of fire growth of the wildfires in the Greater Yellowstone Area in 1988. The request for information, the method of prediction, and the actual fire growth are discussed and documented with maps. The…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doren, Roberts, Richardson
Fire as an ecological factor is of major importance in the distribution, species composition, and productivity of the sand pine scrub community, both in its own right and as it interacts with other factors such as animal influences, trophic factors, soil particle movement, and…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw
One of the studies being conducted by the Fire Behavior Research Work Unit at the Intermountain Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana in an analysis of the relationship between fire danger rating indexes and fire occurrence data. We believe that this work can be used to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fleischman
Regional patterns of lichen abundance, and lichen availability as affected by snow, were investigated on the range of the Delta Caribou Herd, Alaska. Snow only mildly affected lichen availability in windswept tundra on peripheral ranges, since lichens grew primarily on xeric…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flannigan, Van Wagner
This study investigates the impact of postulated greenhouse warming on the severity of the forest fire season in Canada. Using CO2 levels that are double those of the present (2 X CO2), simulation results from three general circulation models (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Flannigan, Wotton
This study investigates the relationship between lightning activity and the occurrence of lightning-ignited forest fires in the Northwestern Region of Ontario. We found that the Duff Moisture Code (a component of the Fire Weather Index System) and the multiplicity of the…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ballard, Whitman, Reed
Demography, movements, and habitat use of moose (Alces alces) were studied in south-central Alaska from 1976 through early 1996 and historical data were reviewed. Initially this study tested the hypothesis that predation by wolves (Canis lupus) was limiting moose population…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bildstein, Bancroft, Dugan, Gordon, Erwin, Nol, Payne, Senner
Coastal wetlands rank among the most productive and ecologically valuable natural ecosystems on Earth. Unfortunately, they are also some of the most disturbed. Because they are productive and can serve as transporation arteries, coastal wetlands have long attracted human…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS