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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
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Brochure on smoke exposure at prescribed burns.
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
The impact of climate change on human ecology in the northern latitudes is dependent upon the rate, magnitude, and duration of expected change. This paper provides a foundation for understanding these important components by describing elements of the high-latitude environment…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perham, Doyle, Route
From objectives: 'The objectives were to: determine home range, habitat preference, and movements of lynx and how these factors are affected by changes in snowshoe hare populations and trapping pressure; learn more about the status of the lynx population; and determine 24-hour…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saveland
From ancient philosophies to present day science, the ubiquity of change and the process of transformation are core concepts. The primary focus of a recent white paper on disturbance ecology is summed up by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus who stated, "Nothing is permanent but…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
A relation between fire behavior and crown scorch height is derived from measurements on 13 experimental outdoor fires. The range of data includes fire intensities from 16 to 300 kcal/s-m, and scorch heights from 2 to 17 m. The results agree with established theory that scorch…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischoff
Over the past twenty years, risk communication researchers and practitioners have learned some lessons, often at considerable personal price. For the most part, the mistakes that they have made have been natural, even intelligent ones. As a result, the same pitfalls may tempt…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout, Omi
We develop a potentially generalizable cost estimation procedure for fuels treatment using the National Park Service (NPS) nationwide database. The NPS database includes records on the projected cost of fuel treatment projects. These records are kept separately for traditional…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ohmann
Despite a long history of research natural area preservation by the USDA Forest Service and other government agencies, ecological baseline data have been gathered for few areas. This report presents a framework, including possible sampling schemes, for ecological baseline data…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen
A computer program assembled for the Hewlett-Packard 9800/Model 20 is presented for calculating the rate of fire spread according to Rothermel's fire spread model.
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen
An inconsistency arises in Rothermel's fire spread model when there are two or more categories. If a fuel load is split into identical classes in two separate categories, the reaction intensity is less than if the load is contained in a single class in one category. The author…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Darley, Biswell, Miller, Goss
The increasing use of prescribed fire in forest management and the continuing burning of agricultural crop residues creates problems in air pollution. More information is needed on yields of pollutant gases and particulates and how these emissions might be altered by varying…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Armstrong, Vines
Weather trends have been determined from an analysis of long-term rainfall records for towns in the southern part of Canada. The incidence of forest fires in the provinces correlates well with the approximately periodic 'drought patterns' in these areas. Though there are few…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Armstrong
Spontaneous combustion is thought to be a cause of many of the fires which occur in areas such as peat bogs or dry snags. The theories of spontaneous heating are presented, along with a discussion of possible ignition mechanisms in both wood-chip and hay fires. The physical…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garris, Lee
In an effort to gain a better understanding of the mechanics involved in the formation of vortices in buoyancy driven flows, an analysis on the stability of the laminar free convection, due to a line source of heat with ambient shear, was performed by numerical solution of a…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Youngblood
The age structure and growth patterns of 53 young conifer-hardwood stands on upland, south-facing sites of interior Alaska were analyzed to determine the length of time for stand establishment after disturbance, the composition of early-successional stands compared to existing…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein, MacLean
Germination requirements of cotton grass (Eriophorum vaginatum L.) were investigated to determine its potential for reseeding disturbed areas of the arctic tundra. Maximum seed production was 15.7 kg/ha, although production and viability varied widely. There was no seed dormancy…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein, Bliss
The arctic cotton grass (Eriphorum vaginatum ssp. spissum) tussock community is susceptible to fire even though it has a relatively small aboveground standing crop and the peaty substrate is wet even in years of low precipitation. While burns can be severe enough to kill all…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viereck
The taiga of Alaska consists of a vegetation mosaic resulting primarily from past wildfires. Today, both lightning- and man-caused wildfires burn an average of 400,000 hectares annually, creating vast areas of successional ecosystems. However, although the number of reported…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve
Nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium fertilizers were applied to 15-year-old quaking aspen developing on a burned site in interior Alaska. After two years of nutrient application, maximum tip, diameter, and basal area growth averaged 27.1 cm, 0.72 cm, and 2.9 cm per tree,…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Suffling
Models of terrestrial vegetation distribution change during warming have generally paid little attention to ecological disturbances such as fire, even though these have been shown to be vitally important. A model predicting regionally dominant terrestrial vegetation in…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sims, Buckner
Clear felling followed by prescribed burning was recently introduced into Manitoba as a standard forestry practice for site preparation. Though the total population of small mammals was lower immediately after burning, Peromyscus maniculatus re-established rapidly to form 84% of…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shafi, Yarranton
Areas of boreal forest in the clay belt of N. Ontario, burned at various dates from 0 to 57 years ago, were examined. The range of vegetation present was plot-sampled in each area, and a simple test of heterogeneity, based on the number of significant correlations between…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schimel
The terrestrial biosphere plays an important role in the global carbon cycle. In the 1994 Intergovernmental Panel Assessment on Climate Change (IPCC), an effort was made to improve the quantification of terrestrial exchanges and potential feedbacks from climate, changing CO sub(…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Samran, Woodard, Rothwell
A determination of ground fuel hydration was carried out in an aspen forest in Alberta, Canada. The objectives of the study were: (1) to determine the relative contribution of precipitation and soil water to the upper and lower ground fuel layers, (2) to determine if the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rowe, Scotter
The boreal forest in North America owes much of its floristic and faunistic diversity to periodic fires ignited by lightning and by man since he appeared on the scene. The indirect evidences of buring in vegetation and soils, and recent direct observations of fires, are reviewed…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS