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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 276 - 300 of 494
Nelson
G. M. Byram (1959) proposed a method for computing the ratio of the vertical flux of buoyancy generated by a wildfire (power of the fire Pf) to the horizontal flux of kinetic energy due to the atmospheric winds (power of the wind Pw). Utilizing this power ratio in his case…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beukema, Reinhardt, Greenough, Robinson, Kurz
The Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator is a model that simulates fuel dynamics and potential fire behavior over time, in the context of stand development and management. Existing models are used to represent forest stand development (the Forest…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
White
Engineered wood products, such as oriented strandboard, laminated veneer lumber, and other composite wood products, are being used more often in construction. This includes use as rim boards, which are the components around the perimeter of a floor assembly. This situation has…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland, Black, Elliot, Miller, Neary, Pilliod, Robichaud, Sutherland
The Environmental Consequences Team is developing an information delivery system about potential environmental consequences of fuel treatment activities. Broadly, these activities include thinning and burning, and associated work. The environmental consequences of these…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sun, Jenkins
Since the 1950s, extensive research has been conducted to investigate the relationship between near-surface atmospheric conditions and large wildfire growth and occurrence. Observational studies have demonstrated that near-surface dryness (e-g., Fahnestock 1965) and atmospheric…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Turner, Collins, Lugo, Magnuson, Rupp, Swanson
Long-term ecological research is particularly valuable for understanding disturbance dynamics over long time periods and placing those dynamics in a regional context.We highlighted three case studies from Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network sites that have contributed…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Zachariassen, Zeller, Nikolov, McClelland
The RAWS network and RAWS data-use systems are closely reviewed and summarized in this report. RAWS is an active program created by the many land-management agencies that share a common need for accurate and timely weather data from remote locations for vital operational and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman
This powerpoint discusses the Fire Regime Condition Class's role in fuel treatment and ecosystem restoration.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman
The title of this conference, "Fire, Fuel Treatments, and Ecological Restoration: Proper Place, Appropriate Time," is indicative of a wide range of elements critically important to ecosystem management. While in general, it encompasses many attributes of a comprehensive fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hof, Omi
We explore management science options for scheduling the placement of fuels reductions. First, we look at approaches for creating and maintaining a prespecified set of forest conditions that are deemed desirable from a fuels management perspective. This approach is difficult…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Cohen
The success of fuel management in helping achieve wildland fire management goals is dependent first upon having realistic expectations. Second, the benefits of fuel management can be realized only when treatments are applied at the appropriate scale to the appropriate source of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rideout
Fuels management is conducted in the context of the social sciences, which bring the science of the human element into the analysis. Of the social sciences, economics addresses the enhancement or improvement in the human condition by improving our ability to allocate scarce…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott
Recent fires have spawned intense interest in fuel treatment and ecological restoration activities. Scientists and land managers have been advocating these activities for years, and the recent fires have provided incentives for federal, state, and local entities to move ahead…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Parkinson, Force, Smith
This study evaluated workshops for the adult public featuring experiential learning about wildland fire. Participants used hands-on activities to investigate fire behavior and ecology and to assess hazards in the wildland-urban interface. Effectiveness was examined using a…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Rideout
Determining the specific mix of fire-fighting resources for a given fire is a necessary condition for identifying the minimum of the Cost Plus Net Value Change (C+NVC) function. Current wildland fire management models may not reliably do so. The problem of identifying the most…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jenkins, Chojnacky, Heath, Birdsey
ANNOTATION: This report compiled all available diameter-based allometric regression equations for estimating total aboveground and component biomass, defined in dry weight terms, for trees in the United States. A modified meta-analysis based on the published equations to develop…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rummer, Prestemon, May, Miles, Vissage, McRoberts, Liknes, Shepperd, Ferguson, Elliot, Miller, Reutebuch, Barbour, Fried, Stokes, Bilek, Skog
ANNOTATION: This article assesses how forest biomass can be utilized with and the implementation of fuel reduction and ecosystem restoration objectives of the National Fire Plan for the Western United States. Both public and private forests are assessed in the region including…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A powerpoint presentation describing the advanced features of the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), version 5.0 computer program that covers the advanced use of soil heating and Burnup modules, batch mode and linking FOFEM to GIS.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A powerpoint presentation describing the basic use of the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), version 5.0 computer program covering background information, FOFEM modules, inputs and outputs, step-by-step exercises and saving FOFEM projects and output.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bunnell
Presentation of the development of FRCC concept.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Menakis
Review of FRCC and LANDFIRE Fire Regime Mapping methods. Fire Regime Condition Classes (FRCC) Version 2000 underestimated the departure in Range and Shrublands. It is difficult to extrapolate these numbers to the conterminous US. LANDFIRE can provide finer scale data. LANDFIRE's…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A powerpoint presentation describing the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), version 5.0 computer program.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This document contains the technical description of the Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, Version 4 (hereafter referred to as FETM 4). This technical documentation includes a description of the architecture, equations, assumptions, and principal components and processes used in FETM…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This FIRESTAT User's Guide shows you how to enter Individual Fire Report information using form FS-5100-29 and other sources. It is organized to help you locate and perform specific FIRESTAT functions quickly and easily.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Effects Tradeoff Model Version 4 (FETM 4) is a landscape-scale, strategic planning model designed to simulate the long-term tradeoffs between wildland fire and various fuel treatment alternatives over large areas of the landscape encompassing diverse environmental…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES