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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Holsinger, Parsons, Rollins, Karau, Keyser
Biophysical settings describe site-specific physical and biotic conditions from which landscape composition, structure and function can be predicted, and represent a key starting point on the road to predicting fire regimes across landscapes. Previous efforts to map biophysical…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hrobak
Fire is a critical disturbance that maintain boreal ecosystems. Black spruce (Picea mariana) trees are very flammable and have high crowning potential. Stands are thinned to create shaded fuelbreaks used to slow the rate of fire spread (Agee et al. 2000) and protect towns and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz
This thesis describes a two-part study aimed at understanding the physical processes leading to the ignition of forest canopy fuels above a spreading surface fire. The study comprises a theoretical component focusing on the development of a crown fuel ignition model based on…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
The principal goals of fuel treatments are to reduce fireline intensities, reduce the potential for crown fires, improve opportunities for successful fire suppression, and improve forest resilience to forest fires. This fact sheet discusses thinning, and surface fuel treatments…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire, other disturbances, physical setting, weather, and climate shape the structure and function of forests throughout the Western United States. More than 80 years of fire research have shown that physical setting, fuels, and weather combine to determine wildfire intensity (…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butteri
This project builds and analyzes a model for predicting the occurrence of Lightning Fire Days (days on which at least one lightning fire is discovered) in interior Alaska's Tok Area Fire Management Zone. The model is developed through logistic regression analysis of historical (…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Stefner, Mason, Stocks, Hartley, Maffey, Wotton, Taylor, Lavoie, Dalrymple
This report describes in detail the various sampling methods and techniques used in quantifying the ground, surface, ladder, and crown or canopy fuel characteristics of the jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) - black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forest in the primary plots…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brenner
Objective: The purpose/objectives of the 2: Congress is an open exchange of information between fire managers, land managers, fire ecologists and the meteorological and climatological community. As stated above, the issue of wildland fire has become one of great concern. The…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Lynch, Clark, Stocks
The relationship between charcoal production from fires and charcoal deposition in lakes is poorly understood, which limits the interpretation of sediment charcoal records. This calibration study assessed charcoal particle production, size, and transport during the International…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lynch, Hollis, Hu
1) The response of ecosystems to past and future climatic change is difficult to understand due to the uncertainties in the direction and magnitude of changes and the relative importance of interactions between climate and local factors. In boreal ecosystems such interactions…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
O'Brian
Fire hazard reflects the potential fire behavior and magnitude of effects as a function of fuel conditions. This fact sheet discusses crown fuels, surface fuels, and ground fuels and their contribution and involvement in wildland fire.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Brian
Many managers and policy makers guided by the National Environmental Policy Act process want to understand the scientific principles on which they can base fuel treatments for reducing the size and severity of wildfires. These Forest Structure and Fire Hazard fact sheets discuss…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) data indicate that wildfires destroyed approximately 9,000 homes between 1985 and 1994 in the United States. The loss of homes to wildfire has had a significant impact on Federal fire policy. This fact sheet discusses the causes of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Landres
We report the results of a questionnaire and workshop that sought to gain a better and deeper understanding of the contemporary information needs of wildland fire and fuels managers. Results from the questionnaire indicated that the decision to suppress a wildland fire was most…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Bevins, Seli
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a program for personal computers that is a collection of mathematical models that describe fire and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams. It can be used for a multitude of fire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Webb, Jimenez, Reardon, Butler
A new one-dimensional heat conduction model for predicting stem heating during fires is presented. Themodel makes use of moisture- and temperature-dependent thermal properties for layers of bark and wood. The thermal aspects of the processes of bark swelling, desiccation, and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fonda, Varner
This experiment studied burning characteristics of pine cones as a separate fuel component. Cones of fire resisters ponderosa pine, Jeffrey pine, longleaf pine, and south Florida slash pine, and cones of fire evaders Monterey pine, knobcone pine, sand pine, and pond pine were…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ryu, Chen, Crow, Saunders
Available fuel and its dynamics, both of which affect fire behavior in forest ecosystems, are direct products of ecosystem production, decomposition, and disturbances. Using published ecosystem models and equations, we developed a simulation model to evaluate the effects of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, McMurray
FireWorks is an educational program that provides interactive, hands-on activities for studying fire behavior, fire ecology, and human influences on three fire-dependent forest types-ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), interior lodgepolepine (P. contorta var.latifolia), and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dietenberger
Piloted ignition behavior of materials, particularly wood products, during transitions between heating regimes is measured and modeled in a cone calorimetry (ISO 5660) heating environment. These include (1) effect of material thickness, density, moisture content, and paint…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davis, Miller
We developed a GIS model, BurnPro, to estimate the annual probability of burning for every pixel on a raster landscape. BurnPro uses historic ignition locations, fuel models, topography, and historic weather patterns to estimate the likelihood of burning using a least-…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Lanoville
Several fuel treatment demonstration trials or case studies were carried out as part of the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), Northwest Territories: 1) demonstrating the value of fully leafed-out trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) stands as fuelbreaks…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Fuel treatment effects on the growth and behavior of large wildland fires depend on the spatial arrangements of individual treatment units. Evidence of this is found in burn patterns of wildland fires. During planning stages, fire simulation is most often used to anticipate…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES