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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Ffolliott
Fire, either as a natural occurrence or a management tool, can have beneficial effects on the environment, and its use offers opportunities for reducing fuel loads, disposing of slash, preparing seedbeds, thinning stands, increasing herbaceous plant production, increasing…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daniel
Obstacles to public acceptance of prescribed fire include misunderstanding of fire in forest ecosystems, concerned risk to life and property and assumed adverse effects on scenic and recreation values. Increased appreciation of the ecological, safety (fuel reduction) and…
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
Andrews, Bradshaw
The program RXWINDOW is intended to help fire managers develop prescription windows based on desired fire behavior. It is the fifth program in the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system. It reverses calculations found elsewhere in BEHAVE. In RXWINDOW, the user…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson
Major revisions to Rothermel's fire spread equations include the propagating flux ratio, reaction velocity, and moisture damping coefficient. The reaction intensity is of the flames alone and specifically excludes energy derived from burning char whether or not it lies in the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Donaldson, Paul
This user's guide is an introductory manual for using the 1988 version (Burgan 1988) of the National Fire-Danger Rating System on an IBM PC or compatible computer. NFDRSPC is a window-oriented, interactive computer program that processes observed and forecast weather with fuels…
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
Branhagen
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Spoon
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McGuiness, Benner, Smith
During late winter 1988 and 1989, 18 radio-marked eastern wild turkey hens released into Natchez Trace State Park, Forest and Wildlife Management Area, and 20 radio-marked Natchez Trace (resident) hens released at the capture site were monitored continuously throughout the…
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
Hironaka
Medusahead (Taeniatherum asperum) has replaced cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and other annual grasses over extensive areas in California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington during the past 40 years. It has low palatability, injurious, and pesky awns, and completely dominates affected…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pellant
The size and frequency of wildfires are rapidly increasing on rangelands in the Intermountain area of the Western United States. One of the major contributors to increased wildfires is alien annual grasses, primarily cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum). Because these annual grasses dry…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner, Romme, Gardner, Hargrove
The 1988 Yellowstone fires provided a unique opportunity to examine how the geometry of fire created patches affects plant reestablishment. We initiated studies in 1990 in small (1 ha), moderate (74-200 ha), and large (480-3968 ha) crown-fire patches in each of 3 areas.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hargrove, Gardner, Turner, Romme
Future long-term (ca. 100 year) trends in fire frequency and burn patterns were investigated in the subalpine plateau of Yellowstone National Park, USA, using EMBYR, a probabilistic, spatially-explicit fire simulation model. The central subalpine plateau (85 km x 82 km) was…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gutsell, Johnson
Two key observations lead to our understanding of how fire scars form on trees. First, as a fire passes by a tree, its flame length increases on the leeward side of the tree. Second, the cambium is killed in a triangular shape, encompassing approximately half the circumference…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bridge, Johnson
Statistically acceptable fire frequency models using time since fire maps are iterative and require specialized statistical and graphical routines. We introduce an automated technique for studying fire frequency usinq Geographic Information Systems' analytical capabilities. A…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Archibald, Luke, Coneybeare
'Burning earlier in the season may reduce the need for pre-burn vegetation management treatments (e.g. herbicide application) on some sites...Burning in late spring to take advantage of low green-up levels may result in greater rates of fire spread and allow for reduced…
Year: 1994
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
Allen
'The heightened recognition within the research community of the ecological linkages between Local sites and larger spatial scales has spawned increasing calls for more holistic management of landscapes (Noss 1983, Harris 1984, Risser 1985, Norse et al 1986, Agee and Johnson…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
A century of overly diligent fire suppression has left western forests in an explosive condition exacerbated by drought. The number and intensity of the fires this year has strained the resources of firefighters, making an already dangerous job more deadly than ever.
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine, Hobbs
A critical parameter for the initiation and propagation of a crown fire in the boreal forest is the height to the base of the live crown. The initiation of crown fire requires that the surface fire intensity must be sufficient to 'jump' the gap between the forest floor and the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS