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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Murphy, Cole
The Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, uses prescribed fire for habitat improvement on over 400 National Wildlife Refuges across the United States. Wildfire is a problem on some refuges. Escaped fires have resulted in fatalities and the loss of millions…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel, Andrews
An "integrated fire behavior/fire danger rating system" should be "seamless" to avoid requiring choices among alternate, independent systems. Descriptions of fuel moisture, fuels, and fire behavior should be standardized, permitting information to flow easily through the…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin
Predicting the effects of fires in the year 2000 and beyond will be enhanced by the use of expert systems. Although our predictions may have broad confidence limits, expert systems should help us to improve the predictions and to focus on the areas where improved knowledge is…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Latham
Artificial intelligence could be used in Forest Service fire management and land-use planning to a larger degree than is now done. Robots, for example, could be programmed to monitor for fire and insect activity, to keep track of wildlife, and to do elementary thinking about the…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer
Lack of information regarding fire effects is perceived by many fire and resource managers as a barrier to the effective application of prescribed fire. This lack of information, in many instances, is the result of poor diffusion of existing knowledge rather than lack of…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davis
Methods are described for making comparative valuations of future fire (or any other) research efforts when the benefits that result from some of the efforts cannot be described in dollars. The process helps research managers and scientists set priorities by using the values and…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fosberg
Future improvements in the meteorological forecasts used in fire management will come from improvements in three areas: observational systems, forecast techniques, and postprocessing of forecasts and better integration of this information into the fire management process.
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riebau, Fox
This paper presents a vision of the future rooted in consideration of the past 20 years in the smoke and air resource management field. This future is characterized by rapid technological development of computers for computation, communications, and remote sensing capabilities…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nichols, Warren
The Forest Fire Advanced System Technology (FFAST) project is developing a data system to provide near-real-time forest fire information to fire management at the fire Incident Command Post (ICP). The completed conceptual design defined an integrated forest fire detection and…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Warren
Remote Automatic Weather Stations (RAWS) were introduced to Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management field units in 1978 following development, test, and evaluation activities conducted jointly by the two agencies. The original configuration was designed for semi-permanent…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel
Maintaining a proper balance between fundamental and applied research is only one of the important considerations that must be adhered to in the management of Forest Service research. A critical mass of scientists with the necessary professional and technical staff is needed…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Deeming
For the next 10 years, few changes will be made to the fire-danger rating system. During that time, the focus will be on the automation of weather observing systems and the streamlining of the computation and display of ratings. The time horizon for projecting fire danger will…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chase
The fire program planner faces an increasingly complex task as diverse--and often contradictory--messages about objectives and constraints are received from political, administrative, budgetary, and social processes. Our principal challenge as we move into the 21st century is…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butts
Wildfires do not respect property boundaries. Whole geographic regions are typically impacted by major wildfire outbreaks. Various fire related resources can be shared to solve such crises; whether they are shared, and how they are shared depends to a great extent upon the…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tokle
In the year 2025, wildland fire fighting practices have improved significantly over the method employed during the late 1900's. Improved methods for predicting severe fire weather conditions, the establishment of the North American Fire Coordination Center, and the utilization…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee
Two meanings of human community compete for public attention: (1) community as a sense of belonging to a particular social group within a society, and (2) community as a global ideal consisting of political expression, religious fulfillment, and/or harmony with the world at…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Eenigenburg
Presents an analytical procedure that uses a FORTRAN 77 program to estimate fire direction and rate of spread. The program also calculates the variability of these parameters, both for subsections of the fire and for the fires as a whole. An option in the program allows users…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stage
Describes a set of computer programs for developing prognoses of the development of existing stand under alternative regimes of management. Calibration techniques, modeling procedures, and a procedure for including stochastic variation are described. Implementation of the system…
Year: 1973
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
Patterson, Edwards, Maguire
Charcoal preserved in lake sediments, peat, and soils provides a record of past fire occurrence. An understanding of fire history is important in evaluating interactions between vegetation, climate and human disturbances through at least the last several millennia. In this paper…
Year: 1987
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
Carpenter, Taylor, Cortner, Gardner, Zwolinski, Daniel
Data from three independently conducted surveys indicate a high level of support for management practices initiated and controlled by the manager. Additional analysis performed on one of the data sets further reveals the extent to which sociodemographic characteristics and…
Year: 1987
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