The coniferous forests of the 6 major areas of the USA (North Pacific maritime forests; Forests of the Rocky Mountain west; Sierra coniferous forests; Northern boreal forests of Alaska; Southern pine forests; and Northeastern coniferous forests) are...
Alaska Reference Database
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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Person: Lotan, Alexander, Arno, French, Langdon, Loomis, Norum, Rothermel, Schmidt, van Wagtendonk
Year: 1981
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES
Current evidence suggests that Indian fires substantially augmented those set by lightning in grassland, shrubland, and certain lower-elevation forest types for a millennium before settlement by Euro-Americans. In some large areas Indian fires...
Person: Lotan, Kilgore, Fischer, Mutch, Arno
Year: 1985
Resource Group: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS