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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mullen
The Cerro Grande has been called the biggest fire in New Mexico history. The Cerro Grande blaze raged across the hillsides above Los Alamos National Laboratory, then, driven by high winds, the fire raced through the Laboratory and the Los Alamos town site. The fire destroyed…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Snow
From the text... 'The U.S. Forest Service, surveying the wake of the fire, began making plans to re-seed the scorched areas, and to use a relatively new technique known as hydromulching as the best way to rehabilitate problem locations such as steep slopes and other erosion-…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hiers, Wyatt, Mitchell
The biodiversity of fire-dependent ecosystems is increasingly threatened by habitat fragmentation and fire suppression. Reducing species loss requires that salient features of natural fire regimes be incorporated into managed regimes, Lightning-season burns have been emphasized…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Finn
From the text ... 'The safety of our firefighters is paramount, and the best tool we can give them is accurate information, conveyed clearly and on time.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ingalsbee
From the text ... 'In May 2000, the Forest Service released a proposal to protect roadless areas on the national forests and grasslands from degradation through future roadbuilding. The Roadless Area Conservation Draft Environmental Impact Statement, coupled with an unusually…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Executive Summary: On August 8, 2000, President Clinton asked Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to prepare a report that recommends how best to respond to this year*s severe fires, reduce the impacts of these wildland fires on rural…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dombeck
From the text ... 'We can postpone the inevitible blazes, but-as the 2000 fire season showed-not indefinitely...' ... 'The relative severity of the 2000 fire season mobilized public opinion behind a large-scale program to reduce the fire hazard in our western forests. On…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paxon
From the text ... 'The Cerro Grande Fire resulted from an escaped prescribed burn designed to minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire to the community of Los Alamos.'
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text ... 'The difference between fire suppression and fire use is that firefighting can tell a marvelous story, whereas prescribed burning cannot. ... They remain the fires of record. They became huge because they timed perfectly the shift from a rural, frontier society…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text ... 'More biomass does not always mean a bigger fire when the spark strikes. There are plenty of reasons to control-burn and many ways to do it. But we are often told that burning is necessary simply to prevent conflagrations and that it is easier, cheaper, and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jolley
From the text ... 'Reducing heavy fuel buildups in the Western United States will require the use of every available tool, including biomass removal.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
From the text ... 'At the beginning of the 20th century, equipment development for wildland firefighting was an informal, backyard affair. Farmers, ranchers, and loggers developed equipment for their specific needs, often sharing their best ideas with neighbors. After 1905, when…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
From the text ... 'Every year, hundreds of aircraft and tens of thousands of firefighters are needed to suppress wildland fires in the United States, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... 'Since the 1980's, there has been a disturbing rise in both total suppression costs and the cost per acre burned.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Putnam
From the text, 'The central theme discussed is the use of the psychological technique of mindfulness to promote clear thinking under stressful, risky conditions. Clear thinking enhances safety by improving all our actions: self-awareness, situational awareness, risk analysis,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
A series of experimental fires was conducted to document point-source fire growth burning on full-tree harvested jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) sites with a feathermoss (Pleurozium schreberi (B.S.G.) Mitt.) duff layer. Results showed that the time for any of the fires to…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Laverty, Williams
From Web Document, Executive Summary... ' Premise This strategy is based on the premise that sustainable resources are predicated on healthy, resilient ecosystems. In fire-adapted ecosystems, some measure of fire use - at appropriate intensity, frequency, and time of year -…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coles, Conlon, Cotton, Eisenstadt, Goldfarb, Hutchison, Joy, Wolter
From the Executive Summary... 'Purpose: National forests of the dry, interior portion of the western United States that are managed by the Department of Agriculture*s Forest Service have undergone significant changes over the last century and a half, becoming much denser, with…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Echelle, Propst, Brooks, Fisher
We used the computer program RAMAS to explore the sensitivity of an extinction-risk model for the Gila trout (Oncorhynchus gibe) to management of wildfires and number of populations of the species. The Gila trout is an endangered salmonid presently restricted to very few…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bond, Midgley
Many woody plants can resprout and many ecosystems are dominated by resprouters. They persist in situ through disturbance events such as fire, flooding or wind storms. However, the importance of 'persistence' in plant demography has been neglected in favour of 'recruitment.'…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sawyer, Knox, Donart, Petersen
Cholla cactus may serve as an emergency feedstuff for livestock when forage availability is low. A study was conducted at the Corona Range and Livestock Research Center to evaluate the nutritive quality of cholla cactus (Opuntia imbricata) after spine removal. Six samples were…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tharme, Green, Baines, Bainbridge, O'Brien
1. Breeding birds, vegetation and moorland management were surveyed in 320 1-km squares on 122 estates in upland areas of eastern Scotland and northern England where red grouse shooting is a widespread land use. We assessed whether population densities of 11 species of breeding…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Engelmark, Bergeron, Flannigan
Stand age structures of Eastern White Pine (Pious strobus L.) were analysed on three sites with different fire histories (latest fire 1760, 1825 and 1941, respectively) in Québec to assess whether Eastern White Pine is regenerating or not at its northern limit. Previous paleo-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Adams, Rieske-Kinney
We manipulated arthropod and mammalian herbivory levels on white oak seedlings using a combination of insecticide applications and fencing, and employed a split-split-plot design to assess the impact of single-and multiple-year burns on seedling growth over a two year period.…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Buckner
Over time fire has played many roles in the modification of the earth*s landscapes. In the beginning there was only "natural” fire, but it came from several sources (i.e., volcanoes, spontaneous combustion, lightning, etc.). Then came a new source of fire that has drastically…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS