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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Miyanishi, Johnson
Postfire tree recruitment in the boreal forest is restricted to patches from which the duff (organic layer) has been removed by fire. Duff consumption occurs by smoldering combustion, propagation of which is determined by bulk density, moisture content, and depth. This study…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chipman, Johnson
One of the goals of ecosystem management has been to maintain plant specie diversity. Emulating the "natural” (pre-European) fire regime is often proposed as a means of accomplishing this goal in fire-influenced boreal forest ecosystems. Here we examine this hypothesis as it…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zabinski
From the text ... 'On May 29, 2000, just 3 weeks after the Cerro Grande Fire was ignited in northern New Mexico's Bandelier National Monument, the Viveash Fire erupted some 30 miles (48 km) to the east, on the Santa Fe National Forest. A human-caused blaze, Viveash grew to 2,000…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Greenlee, Greenlee
From the text ... 'Like similar fires elsewhere, the Cerro Grande Fire burned hotter than historical fires because of fuel buildups from years of fire suppression.'
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weatherford
From the text ... 'State agencies are cooperating more due to the increasing number of large, damaging wildland fires.'
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Charron, Greene
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Purdy, Macdonald, Dale
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bogen, Bork, Willms
Rough fescue (Festuca campestris Rydb.) is an ecologically and economically important native plant species within grasslands of southwest Alberta. This is also a region where wildfires have become prevalent over the last decade. While the risk of long-term damage from fire may…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins, Morgan, Swetnam
Topography, vegetation, and climate act together to determine thespatial patterns of fires at landscape scales. Knowledge oflandscape-fire-climate relations at these broad scales (1,000s hato 100,000s ha) is limited and is largely based on inferences andextrapolations from fire…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
Excpert: "A preliminary study of the issue of managing fuels on the boreal fire landscape suggests that it's just as "daunting" a task in the boreal forest as it is in dry forest type ecosystems of southern British Columbia. However, not all areas are equally at risk.…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Billings
Forest biomass, rates of production, and carbon dynamics are a function of climate, plant species present, and the structure of the soil organic and mineral layers. Inventory data from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Inventory Analysis Unit was used to develop estimates of the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Fire-growth modeling on complex landscapes can be approached as a search for the minimum time for fire to travel among nodes in a two-dimensional network. The paths producing minimum travel time between nodes are then interpolated to reveal the fire perimeter positions at an…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Morandini, Santoni, Balbi, Ventura, Mendes-Lopes
In a previous work (Santoni et al., Int. J. Wildland Fire, 2000, 9(4), 285-292), we proposed a twodimensional fire spread model including slope effects as another step towards our aim to elaborate a fire management tool. In the present study, we improve the model to include both…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schapiro
The San Dimas Technology and Development Center (SDTDC) investigated the use of air curtain destructors (ACDs) as an efficient, environmentally friendly, and technically viable means of disposing of slash, wood, and other burnable waste materials. ACDs should be considered an…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
In a year that produced yet another record-setting wildfire season in the western United States, former Forest Service researcher Steve Arno and science writer Steven Allison-Bunnell urge Tree Farmers to demonstrate how to nurture forests that are fire-resistant and sustainable…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon, Abt, Holmes
ANNOTATION: This paper outlines a Joint Fire Science Program funded study, 'A national study of the economic impacts of biomass removals to mitigate wildfire damages on federal, state, and private lands.' The study involves using the treatment-product and cost information…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bain, Overend
ANNOTATION: Bain and Overend provide a national history of biomass used for energy, a brief market and supply analysis, and a current status of technology. They additionally identify research needs. ABSTRACT: Biomass is the single largest source of non-hydro renewable…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Badger
ANNOTATION: The purpose of this study was to identify and characterize all the receiving, handling, storing, and processing steps required to make woody biomass feedstocks suitable for use in direct combustion and gasification applications, including small modular biopower (SMB…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Native village of Tanacross is in the Tanana River valley in Alaska's interior region. Surrounded by a dense stand of white spruce pole timber with transition to dense black spruce it was at risk for crown-type fires. In 2001, a unique approach to reduce wildfire threat and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The BLM Alaska Fire Service and Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc-a non-profit corporation formed by and for Alaska Native villages-have initiated a three-year Fuels Treatment Demonstration Project, with funding from the Joint Fire Science Program. The Joint Fire Science Program is…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crookston, Havis
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a computer program that projects the development of forest stands in the United States and British Columbia, Canada. The proceedings of the second FVS conference, held in Fort Collins, CO, includes 34 papers dealing with applications of…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dixon
This document synthesizes information in various users' guides relating to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS), and updates that information to be consistent with current model capabilities. This guide explains FVS data input requirements, the keyword system, model output…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee
The hard lesson that we should take away from the last decade of fire management in drier forests is that a choice to do nothing is a choice of action, not always with a desirable outcome.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Albini, Bevins, Brittain, Butler, Catchpole, Finney
PROJECT OBJECTIVES As requested under Tasks 8 and 9, user-friendly modeling systems designed for local use will be provided for modeling smoke from wildland fires. These tools will provide a means for conducting tradeoff analyses, with a focus on emissions production, of…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES