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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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A story to tell: the big blow up

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

No fuel like an old fuel

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

Protecting people and sustaining resources in fire-adapted ecosystems: a cohesive strategy: The Forest Service management response to the General Accounting Office Report GAO/RCED-99-65, October 13, 2000

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

Age structure of Eastern White Pine, Pinus strobus L., at its northern distribution limit in Quebec

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

Oak seedling response to fire and herbivory [poster abstract]

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

In summary: fire in the evolution of the eastern landscape - a timeline

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

Native burning in western North America: implications for hardwood forest management

Kay
It is now widely acknowledged that frequent low-intensity tires once structured many western forests. What is not generally recognized, however, is that most of those tires were purposefully set by native people, not started by lightning. Data from the Rocky Mountains attest to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Managing the impact of wildfires on communities and the environment: a report to the President in response to the wildfires of 2000

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: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

After the fire: The effects of salvage logging

Lynn, McIver
From the text... 'Salvage logging--whether it is done after a wildfire, an insect infestation, or some other disturbance--is an increasingly controversial forest management activity. Land managers may conider salvaging dead or dying timber an economic necessity or part of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reintroducing Indian-type fire: implications for land managers [including: What is Indian-type fire?; Indian-type fire on the Reservations; Objections to Indian-type fire use; Where do people fit into ecosystems?; Reasons for using fire; Bruce Babbit

Williams
From the text ... 'Removing American Indians from the land effectively ended wildland burning practices that had lasted for millennia. ...The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management together administer several hundred million acres of grassland and other grazing land where…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire history along the ancient Lolo Trail [including: Burning by American Indians in the northern Rockies and Fire use in James Fenimore Cooper's The Prairie]

Barrett
From the text ... 'Crossing the Bitterroot Mountains on the Lolo Trail was a daunting experience for the historic Lewis and Clark Expedition. ...Historically, fires occurred somewhere along the 50-mile trail corridor at least every two decades, on average... Over the last five…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Early fire use in Oregon [including: Indian versus settler fire use and Presettlement fires--natural or human caused?]

Williams
From the text ... 'The first white travelers in the Willamette Valley found extensive prairie and oak savanna maintained through Indian-set fires.'
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Where have all the fires gone?

Pyne
From the text ... 'The fires that once flushed the myriad landscapes of North America were fires that people once set and no longer do. ...The aboriginal firestick became a lever that, suitably sited, could move whole landscapes, even continents. ...Forests broke into a…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fire terminology update [including: Useful wildland fire glossaries; 'Wildfire'--a tainted term; and Wildland fire management terminology]

Brown
From the text ... 'Using standard terminology improves communication for a safer, better wildland fire organization. ...As policy evolves and new technologies emerge, wildland fire terminology is subject to constant change. ...The National Interagency Incident Management System…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire management leadership in the 21st century [including: Gifford Pinchot on the role of wildland fire; Common characteristics of good leaders; and What is expected of you as a fire management leader?]

Thompson
From the text ... 'We are only now relearning the need to have a sound land management policy based on a thorough understanding of fire's ecological role.'
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Where are we taking wildland fire management? [including: José Cruz: a wildland fire leader for the 21st century and About the Firewise program]

Cruz
From the text ... 'I think we'll be utilizing fire a lot more than we have in the past in order to bring our ecosystems back into balance. ... FIRE 21 will help the Forest Service reach the desired future condition for our national forests by using fire management expertise to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A race that couldn't be won [drawn from GTR INT-299]

Rothermel, Brown
From the text ... 'Lessons learned: Deeply shocked by the Mann Gulch tragedy and subsequent firefighter fatalies in California, the Forest Service initiated reforms to prevent future disasters. Thanks to improved training, equipment, and safety techniques, another tragedy was…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Ten Standard Firefighting Orders

From the text ... 'The Ten Standard Firefighting Orders: 1. Fight fire agressively, but provide for safety first. 2. Initiate all action based on current and expected fire conditions. 3. Recognize current weather conditions and obtain forecasts. 4. Ensure that instructions are…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

To burn or not to burn: changes in blueberry management

Brown
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Guide available for implementing fire management policy [including: Fire use management teams monitor wildland fires]

Bunnell
From the text ... 'Designed to be dynamic, the guide contains diagrams and illustrations that help explain the complexities of wildland fire use and prescribed fire application.'
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

How did Fire Control Notes become Fire Management Today? [including: Fire Management Today--whatever happened to notes?]

Brown
From the text ... 'Changing the journal's name from Control to Management signaled a programmatic shift that continues today as the wildland fire community strives to improve firefighter safety while striking the right balance among prevention, suppression, and fire use. In 1976…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Proceedings of the 21st Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference - Fire and Forest Ecology: Innovative Silviculture and Vegetation Management, 14-16 April 1998, Tallahassee, FL

Moser, Moser
From the Preface ...'Fire's impact upon the land, atmosphere, and global environment have been apparently more pronounced and more anxiety-causing to the public. The suppression of fire has caused harm to some ecosystems, either through elimination of fire-dependent species or…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A timing-oriented approach to spatial allocation of fire management effort

Hof, Omi, Bevers, Laven
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Seasonal effects of fire on microbiotic crusts in shortgrass steppe [abstract]

Ford, Johnson
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Modeling the spatial patterns of forest fuels in the Los Alamos region [abstract]

Balice, Koch, Yool
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS