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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Martell
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Created through the Wildfire Disaster Recovery Act of 1989 (PL 101-286), in response to the destructive western fire season of 1987 and the Yellowstone fires of 1988, the Commission was asked to consider the environmental and economic effects of disastrous wildfires through…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sampson
From the text: 'Authorities pinpoint certain western forests so stressed and vulnerable that catastrophic fires threaten this summer. With over 10 million acres of forest showing serious stress in the West, wildfire is an enormous concern everywhere. That concern heightens…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
The capture of fire by the genus Homo changed forever the natural history of the Earth. Even today fire appears at the core of many popular scenarios for an environmental apocalypse. Yet the larger history of fire - the varied ways human society have sought to use and control…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Wells
From the text... 'One of the potential problems with the use of prescribed burning in the past has been the lack of any systematic investigation into the ecological effects of this forest management practice on the ecosystem. In 1991, the planning process to address this issue…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klein, Whistler
This paper describes a system for preparing monthly outlooks for fire-weather elements in the United States. The system is based on multiple regression equations that specify monthly mean anomalies of precipitation, temperature, dewpoint, and wind speed from concurrent anomalies…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brotak
Representative soundings from 74 major wildland fires in the United States were analyzed to determine if characteristic temperature, moisture, and wind patterns were discernable prior to the occurrence of extreme fire behavior. In a previous study, OO UTC soundings were used to…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Canadian/United States cooperative mass fire behavior and atmospheric environmental impact study
Over the past four years scientists have cooperatively monitored fire behavior and smoke chemistry, on a number of large prescribed fires in the Province of Ontario. Primary cooperating agencies include Forestry Canada, the United States Forest Service, the National Aeronautics…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown, Turner
Objectives of this study were to test existing prediction equations for duff depth reduction, percentage of duff consumed, and mineral soil exposure to determine the limits of their applicability, and to develop if possible broadly based prediction equations for use throughout…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chou
Geographic Information System (GIS) is used to delineate critical zones of extremely high fire danger. The objective is to develop effective spatial strategies for the prevention and suppression of wildland fires. To minimize costs and losses due to wildland fires while within…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chase
The computer simulation process used by the National Forests and other wildland protection agencies for strategic fire planning evaluates alternatives based on the range of probable fire behavior conditions that may be expected on the unit over a total period of approxiately 10…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Galbraith
Life after logging is the title and message in a series of photographic displays produced by the Canadian Forest Service's Pacific Forest Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, that have been creating a stir throughout North America and in parts of Europe and Asia. Relying on…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner, Romme, Gardner, Hargrove
The 1988 Yellowstone fires provided a unique opportunity to examine how the geometry of fire created patches affects plant reestablishment. We initiated studies in 1990 in small (1 ha), moderate (74-200 ha), and large (480-3968 ha) crown-fire patches in each of 3 areas.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Archibald, Luke, Coneybeare
'Burning earlier in the season may reduce the need for pre-burn vegetation management treatments (e.g. herbicide application) on some sites...Burning in late spring to take advantage of low green-up levels may result in greater rates of fire spread and allow for reduced…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Litvina, Takle
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moody, Buchanan, Melcher, Wistrand
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lawson, Armitage, Dalrymple
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman, Eenigenburg, Main
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Butler
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Omi, Rideout, Stone, Botti
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Qu, Omi
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mees, Strauss, Chase
We describe a model that estimates the optimal total expected cost of a wildland fire, given uncertainty in both flame length and fire-line width produced. In the model, a sequence of possible fire-line perimeters is specified, each with a forecasted control time. For a given…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reynolds, Holsten
Stand data from Lutz spruce (Picea × lutzii Little) forest types occurring on the Kenai Peninsula were analyzed by tree-based classification to develop a decision tree for classifying spruce beetle (Dendroctonus Rufipennis Kirby.) hazard. Model development and validation data…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES