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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Nemens, Varner, Johnson
The practice of removing fire-killed trees from burned forests (or “postfire salvage logging”) has sparked public controversy and scientific debate when conducted on public lands in the United States. This review synthesizes the current scientific literature on the subject,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz
We have devised a rule of thumb for obtaining a first approximation of a fire’s spread rate that wildland fire operations personnel may find valuable in certain situations. It is based on the premise that under certain conditions wind speed is the dominant factor in determining…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zivnuska
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vines
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zinke
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dunn, DeBano
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
DeBano, Dunn, Conrad
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gill
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Philpot
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCutchan
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Countryman
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Riedman
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ffolliott, Larson, Thill
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shafizadeh, Chin, DeGroot
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Steward, Wuest, Waibel
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Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson, Brown
Residual char from 76 test burns of wood dowels showed unexpectedly wide variation in density. Variation could not be correlated with initial fuel density, burn time, nor incident windspeed.
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Szpakowski, Rooker Jensen
Wildfire plays an important role in ecosystem dynamics, land management, and global processes. Understanding the dynamics associated with wildfire, such as risks, spatial distribution, and effects is important for developing a clear understanding of its ecological influences.…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schaefer, Magi
For this study, we characterized the dependence of fire counts (FCs) on soil moisture (SM) at global and sub-global scales using 15 years of remote sensing data. We argue that this mathematical relationship serves as an effective way to predict fire because it is a proxy for the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blunck, Butler, Bailey, Wagenbrenner
Spot fires caused by lofted embers (i.e., firebrands) can be a significant factor in the spread of wildland fires. Embers can be especially dangerous near the wildland urban interface (WUI) because of the potential for the fire to be spread near or among structures. Many studies…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prichard, Kennedy, Andreu, Eagle, French, Billmire
Biomass mapping is used in variety of applications including carbon assessments, emission inventories, and wildland fire and fuel planning. Single values are often applied to individual pixels to represent biomass of classified vegetation, but each biomass estimate has…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steblein, Miller, Soileau
The U.S. Geological Survey's Wildland Fire Science Program produces fundamental information to identify the causes of wildfires, understand the impacts and benefits of both wildfires and prescribed fires, and help prevent and manage larger, catastrophic events. Our fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Noble, Anderson
A demonstration of the Landscape Burn Probability in IFTDSS.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The first complete edition of the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System was released by the Forestry Canada Fire Danger Group in 1992. In the intervening 27 years a number of misunderstandings in the FBP System (e.g., limited set of discrete fuel types) have…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Heuristic approaches to problem solving, commonly called rules of thumb, employ practical, quick, in the moment, methods that are not intended to be strictly accurate or reliable in every situation but sufficient for most decision making situations, especially when there is…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES