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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ferguson, Hardy
A smoke emissions production model (EPM) was developed by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest (PNW) Research Station about 10 years ago. Since then, the model has been coded into a computer module and integrated into a variety of other computer programs. The module, EPM,…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Latham
PLUMP is a general-purpose, one-dimensional plume rise model for wildfire and prescribed fire planning. It calculates the characteristics of fire plumes, including vertical velocity, water content, excess temperature, rain, and ice. The model can also be used to determine the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Averill, Larson, Saveland, Wargo, Williams, Bellinger
This paper is intended to broaden awareness and help develop consensus among USDA Forest Service scientists and resource managers about the role and significance of disturbance in ecosystem dynamics and, hence, resource management. To have an effective ecosystem management…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mees, Strauss, Chase
We describe a model that estimates the optimal total expected cost of a wildland fire, given uncertainty in both flame length and fire-line width produced. In the model, a sequence of possible fire-line perimeters is specified, each with a forecasted control time. For a given…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blakely
A nylon tent designed for firefighters was placed in a smoky environment in a wind tunnel. The close knit fabric screened out 95 percent of the particulate matter but none of the gases in the smoke. There was no oxygen depletion in the tent when a person was in or out even…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Illman
Mechanical wounding and wounding plus inoculation with a blue-stain fungus, Leptographium abietinum (Peck), associated with the spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby), caused an induced reaction zone or lesion around the wound sites in Lutz spruce, Picea lutzii Little,…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner
This paper provides information on current forest insect research in the boreal forests of Alaska, research needs, management implications, accomplishments and future research goals.
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Hees, Holsten
This study shows that extensive forest inventory data can be used to evaluate selected spruce bark beetle infestation dynamics. Trends in the amount of area that has been infested and is currently undergoing infestation can be estimated. Trends in size and health of attacked…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Dyrness, Viereck
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Truett, Senner, Kertell, Rodrigues, Pollard
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rignot, Williams, Way, Viereck
Mapping of forest types in the Tanana river flood-plain, interior Alaska, is performed using a maximum-a-posteriori Bayesian classifier applied on SAR data acquired by the NASA/JPL three-frequency polarimetric AIRSAR system on several dates. Five vegetation types are separated,…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rignot, Way, Williams, Viereck
Airborne SAR data gathered by the NASA/JPL three-frequency, polarimetric, radar system in winter, spring, and summer over the Bonanza Creek Experimental Forest, near Fairbanks, AK, are compared to estimates of whole-tree aboveground dry biomass from 21 forest stands and two…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reynolds, Holsten
Nine factors were initially suggested by spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kby.)) experts in Alaska as potentially important in determining the risk of a spruce beetle outbreak in stands. Factors suggested were stand hazard, size and trend of spruce beetle population in…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reynolds, Holsten
Stand data from Lutz spruce (Picea × lutzii Little) forest types occurring on the Kenai Peninsula were analyzed by tree-based classification to develop a decision tree for classifying spruce beetle (Dendroctonus Rufipennis Kirby.) hazard. Model development and validation data…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Price, Rind
Future climate change could have significant repercussions for lightning-caused wildfires. Two empirical fire models are presented relating the frequency of lightning fires and the area burned by these fires to the effective precipitation and the frequency of thunderstorm…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bryant, Swihart, Reichardt, Newton
Recent research has demonstrated that juvenile-stage woody plants from Alaska and E. Siberia have more defenses against browsing by hares (Lepus spp.) in winter than similar plants in subarctic regions. Feeding trials were carried out in which snowshoe hare (L. americanus) were…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Achtemeier, Paul
We are developing a numerical wind model to simulate airflow near the ground at night over terrain typical of the Piedmont of the southeastern United States. The purpose is to improve understanding of night winds and provide more accurate prediction of smoke movement when wind…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rexstad
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Valkenburg
Summary (Do Not Cite): Fecal pellet samples were analyzed by the Comp Analysis Lab at Ft. Collins, CO to assess food habits. Delta caribou averaged 59 ¦ 21% lichens and 23 ¦ 21 % moss in their fecal pellets. WACH (3 samples from Pah and Indian rivers) averaged 54, 59, and 74 %…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vyas, Hill, Larson, Poulton
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaufmann, Graham, Boyce, Moir, Perry, Reynolds, Bassett, Mehlhop, Edminster, Block, Corn
Guiding principles based on conservation biology are applied in assessing ecosystem needs. Ecosystem, economic, and social needs are integrated in a decision model in which the guiding principles are used as a primary filter for evaluating proposed actions. Management practices…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Paragi, Katnik
During the summer of 1988, a number of unusually large forest fires occurred in the interior region of Alaska. Subsequently, many local residents voiced concern over the fire management policy because it only provided limited fire suppression in the remote area. The primary…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Morkill
Waterfowl brood surveys were conducted in the Pah River Flats, Alaska during July of 1993. Although spring flooding was extensive, duck production was greater than previous estimates from 1989. A large portion of the study area had burned in a lightning-caused wildfire in the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon, Mask, Holsten
Spruce beetle declined slightly, by 80,000 acres, in 1994. Hardwood defoliation declined from 113,000 acres in 1993 to only 24,221 acres in 1994. Spruce forests, however, showed an increase of insect activity of nearly 200,000 acres primarily due to the budworm outbreak near…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Golden
This report provides an exhaustive history of spruce bark beetle activity on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. It describes the impacts to the ecosystem and the management challenges encountered as a result of these impacts. Strategies to mitigate these impacts are discussed as well…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES