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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Olson
From the text:'In the summer of 1951, some exploratory tests were made to study rate of flame spread as influenced by specie characteristics. Results of these test are reported in this paper.'
Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Metz
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Year: 1952
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pearson, Turner, Wallace, Romme
The effect of fire and habitat heterogeneity on winter foraging by ungulates was studied in northern Yellowstone National Park (YNP). Grazing was monitored at 15 study sites for 14 wks during the winters of 1991 and 1992. The location and intensity of grazing activity within…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Singer, Renkin
The effects of elk (Cervus elaphus), pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) browsing on shrubs in big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) communities were monitored over a 31-year period in Yellowstone National Park. Ungulates were restricting…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Green, Finney, Campbell, Weinstein, Landrum
FIRE! is one example of GIS models that go beyond inventory, monitoring, and display to allow ecosystem managers to simulate the spatial outcomes of management and policy decisions. By making the ability to vary critical model assumptions readily accessible to the manager, FIRE…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Calvin
Fire managers base a growing number of decisions on information from a variety of computer systems.
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wuerthner
'After years of suppressing forest fires, the Park Service is realizing its policy does not necessarily benefit ecosystems that depend on intense blazes for regeneration.'
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
'The forests that burned in the 1988 Yellowstone fires appear by all indicators to be perfectly healthy. We should place a premium on the protection of large preserves where nature can manage her own affairs.'
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schullery
Greater Yellowstone is described as the last large, nearly intact ecosystem in the northern temperate zone of the earth (Reese 1984;Keiter and Boyce 1991.) Conflict over management has been controversial, and the area is a flagship site among conservation groups that…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stanton
Prescribed fires create a wide range of exposures to liability for the individuals, groups, or agencies involved. This article examines general principles of tort law, strict liability for ultrahazardous activities, negligence per se, and volunteer and personal liablity.…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sarrazin, Hogenbirk
Economic and ecological losses can be high when a wild or prescribed fire rages out of control into natural areas such as wetlands, national parks and conservation areas. These natural areas are often crossed by a network of road, railway and power line right-of-ways that offer…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hungerford, Frandsen, Ryan
An integrated study to define fire relationships in wetland soils is described The objectives are to define the limits to combustion (ignition and burnout), model heat and vapor transport, and predict fire effects in organic soils. The goal is to develop models to predict the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brennan
From the Introduction ... 'The purpose of this summary is to describe the four emergent themes of the Fire and Wetlands Conference. The first theme is that wetlands are interestint model systems for studying fire effects. However, wetland systems confound and challenge a great…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
James, Leenhouts, Moore, Tanner, Vanderlinden
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Willard, Wakimoto, Ryan
The Red Bench Fire of 1988 was the most significant fire to occur within the North Fork of the Flathead River drainage since 1926. Several wet sedge meadows were burned within Glacier National Park. To determine the effects of fire on vegetation recovery in these sedge meadows,…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hungerford, Frandsen, Ryan
Surface fires in wetland ecosystems frequently ignite smoldering ground fires. Ground fires often create and maintain open, shallow marshes that contribute to ecosystem diversity. Fire exclusion, drainage, deforestation, and other human activities have altered the landscape…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lugo
A conceptual ecosystem model illustrates principles of ecosystem management in wetlands. Wetlands are excellent systems for the development of ecosystem management principles because they are relatively simple ecosystems and respond quickly to changes in their environment. The…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ratz
Fire is one of the most important factors structuring boreal forests. A spatial simulation model based on a cellular automata approach was built to obtain insights into the spatial pattern of successional stages. Two scenarios are compared: 1. constant flammability and 2.…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Green
'FireNet (Green, Gill and Trevitt 1994) is an international information retrieval network for everyone interested in landscape fires. It is a practical result of the recognition that we need to harness modern computer networks to support fire management, research and training In…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrett
[no description entered]
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas
'Statement by the Chief of the Forest Service United States Department of Agriculture, before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry, and General Legislation Committee on Agriculture, United States Senate.'
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Cole
A graph has been constructed for determining one of five possible head fire intensity classes as well as the general type of fire (i.e., surface,intermittent crown or continuous crown) for Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System Fuel Type C-2 F(Boreal Spruce) based on…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foote
Fire burns 3,000-1,000,000 acres annually, It is a natural part of the ecology of the boreal forest of interior Alaska. Fire alters the site, growing conditions on the site, site resilency, and the habitat of users of the site. It promotes site productivity by recycling…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
A fire regime classification that recognizes stand-replacement, nonlethal understory, mixed and variable fire severities is discussed as a simplified approach for communicating widely about the natural role of fire. Examples of the fire regime types are provided. Five challenges…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS