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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Viereck, Werdin-Pfisterer, Yoshikawa, Adams
The 1971 Wickersham fire burned 6,313 ha in an open black spruce forest underlain with permafrost and provided an opportunity to study fire effects on the rate and patterns of permafrost recovery.  When wildfire burns through a northern black spruce forest there is usually a…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Macdonald, Burgess, Scrimgeour, Boutin, Reedyk, Kotak
Riparian communities (those near open water) have often been shown to display high structural and compositional diversity and they have been identified as potentially serving a keystone role in the landscape. Thus, they are the focus of specific management guidelines that…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Krannitz, Duralia
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hagen, Jamison, Giesen, Riley
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Spies
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Haeussler, Bergeron
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fuller, Jessup, Salim
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Pyne
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tansey, Gregoire, Binaghi, Boschetti, Brivio, Ershov, Flasse, Fraser, Graetz, Maggi, Peduzzi, Pereira, Silva, Sousa, Stroppiana
Biomass burning constitutes a major contribution to global emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, greenhouse gases and aerosols. Furthermore, biomass burning has an impact on health, transport, the environment and land use. Vegetation fires are certainly not…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Payette, Boudreau, Morneau, Pitre
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Potvin, Bertrand
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Van Lear
Of the many disturbance factors that shaped hardwood forests in the eastern United States, fire was perhaps the most important. Fires ignited by Native Americans and lightning played a dominant role in sustaining oak (Quercus spp.) forests throughout the Central Hardwood Region…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Johnson
Like all forests, oak forests are continually responding to disturbances originating from both within and outside the forest. Oaks (Quercus spp.) owe their very existence to disturbance. In this context, silvicultural and other management practices can be thought of as planned…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Amiro, de Groot, Bothwell, Westhaver, Achuff
Complex interactions exist among ungulates, predators, humans, and vegetation in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. Fire and herbivory are key parts of the interactions among these ecosystem components. Significant increases in human use, exclusion of fire, and thriving…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Parisien, Sirois, Babeau
The study of a species at its range limits allows the factors associated with its presence on the landscape to be determined. This study examines the distribution and dynamics of jack pine (Pinus banksiana), a fire-adapted boreal tree species, in two sectors of its longitudinal…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lanoville
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) provided fire research scientists an outdoor laboratory to test a theoretical, physical-based fire model and to conduct a wide variety of concurrent experiments. The crown fire experiments, located 40 km northeast of Fort…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Stefner, Alexander, Maffey, Mason, Stocks, Hartley
Various methods and techniques were utilized in sampling the ground, surface, ladder, and crown fuel characteristics of the jack pine (Pinus banksiana)-black spruce (Picea mariana) forest associated with the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), Northwest…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Despain
Fire line intensity (kW/m) in woody vegetation crowns is one of the parameters useful in assessing many fire effects. However, crown fire intensity is very difficult to measure. Temperature and time can be measured with a variety of sensors such as thermistors and thermocouples…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Blackwell, Gray, Steele, Needoba, Green, MacKenzie
In 2000 the Squamish Forest District began a pilot project to study the effects of prescribed fire on forest succession, fuel dynamics, regeneration, wildlife habitat, and timber supply within two landscape units encompassing 103,000 ha north of Pemberton, British Columbia.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Omi, Martinson, Kalkhan, Chong, Hunter, Stohlgren
The severity of the 2000 fire season has increased public awareness of a widespread fuels problem in western U.S. forests. Federal land management agencies have responded with plans to greatly expand programs to mitigate hazardous fuel conditions. However, scant information…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wong, Lertzman, Heyerdahl
We used temporal and spatial patterns in establishment of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) to infer the influential disturbance regime at both the stand level and across the study area over the last 200 years in the lower Stein Valley,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS