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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Eenigenburg, Main
United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) uses the METAFIRE Severity Index to justify fire emergency funding requests. In addition, many fire managers use it successfully to support applications for those very funds. The METAFIRE Information System has assembled…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cole, Alexander
In July 1992, after several seasons of informal testing, Alaska's interagency fire management community decided to adopt the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System in lieu of continuing to use the US National Fire Danger Rating System. The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keetch, Byram
The moisture content of the upper soil, as well as that of the covering layer of duff, has an important effect on the fire suppression effort in forest and wildland areas. In certain forested areas of the United States, fires in deep duff fuels are of particular concern to the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Adkins
The Fire Image Analysis System is a tool for quantifying flame geometry and relative position at selected points along a spreading line fire. At present, the system requires uniform terrain (constant slope). The system has been used in field and laboratory studies for…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Puttock
ANNOTATION: Often the deciding factor in the economical recovery of wood fuel is its relationship with some other objective such as stand establishment, stand improvement, or forest access. The costs and benefits arising from these related management activities are discussed.…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Angus-Hankin, Stokes, Twaddle
ANNOTATION: In spite of this simplicity secondary transport is typically responsible for between 20 and 40% of the delivered fuel cost. To achieve a full payload within maximum allowable load dimension restrictions the material transported must have a minimum bulk density of…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson
A Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System (MAPSS) has been constructed for simulating the potential biosphere impacts and biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks from climatic change. The system calculates the potential vegetation type and leaf area that could be supported at a site, within…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lenihan, Neilson
The potential equilibrium response of Canadian vegetation under two doubled-CO2 climatic scenarios was investigated at three levels in the vegetation mosaic using the rule-based, Canadian Climate-Vegetation Model (CCVM) and climatic response surfaces. The climatic parameters…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kittel, Rosenbloom, Painter, Schimel, Melillo, Pan, Kicklighter, McGuire, Neilson, Chaney, Ojima, McKeown, Parton, Pulliam, Prentice, Haxeltine, Running, Pierce, Nemani, Hunt, Smith, Rizzo, Woodward
For the Vegetation/Ecosystem Modeling and Analysis Project (VEMAP), we developed a model database of climate, soils and vegetation that was compatible with the requirements of three ecosystem physiology models and three vegetation life-form distribution models. A key constraint…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
Major wildland/urban interface fire losses, principally residences, continue to occur. Although the problem is not new, the specific mechanisms are not well known on how structures ignite in association with wildland fires. In response to the need for a better understanding of…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cole, Alexander
Poster presentation providing the graph and the interpretations associated with the head fire intensity graph for the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System Fuel Type C-2 (Boreal Spruce) on level to gently undulating terrain and 85% foliar moisture content.
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Jones, Johnston
We stood with the gray-haired ranger on a high ridge in Oregon overlooking a thousand square miles of forest. [from the text] The night before, my GEOGRAPHIC colleague Jay Johnston and I had watched a particularly violent thunderstorm of the type that plagued the Northwest in…
Year: 1968
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
Daubenmire
This chapter reviews the ecology of fire in grasslands. It describes several generalizations such as environmental alterations, effects on species of plants, effects on vegetation, and associated animals. The grassland essentially includes any herb-dominated vegetation, herb…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Anderson, Anderson
Small plot and aerial spray trials have shown that nonsprouting greenleaf manzanita in the Cascade Range can be killed by a single aerial application of 3 pounds of 2, 4-D per acre. Conifers planted amid the dead shrubs should be caged in hardware cloth cylinders for protection…
Year: 1968
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
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
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
Pothier, Doucet, Boily
The advance regeneration often present following clear-cutting in black spruce (Picea mariana) stands is generally composed of individuals of various heights. This initial height difference is hypothesized to affect the yield of the future stand. Height of the advanced…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES