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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Woodall
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neznek
From the text...'On December 3, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, legislation designed to expedite hazardous fuel reduction projects and improve forest health conditions in the nation's forests. Several provisions of this legislation alter…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Teich, Vaughn, Cortner
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the Introduction ... 'The Fire and fuels Extension (FFE) has been developed for 18 of the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) variants: Northern Idaho, Kookantl, Central Rockies, Utah, Eastern Montana, Western Sierra, Blue Mountains, Eastern Cascades, Central Idaho, Tetons,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tansey, Gregoire, Binaghi, Boschetti, Brivio, Ershov, Flasse, Fraser, Graetz, Maggi, Peduzzi, Pereira, Silva, Sousa, Stroppiana
Biomass burning constitutes a major contribution to global emissions of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, greenhouse gases and aerosols. Furthermore, biomass burning has an impact on health, transport, the environment and land use. Vegetation fires are certainly not…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Englefield, Lee, Fraser, Landry, Hall, Lynham, Cihlar, Li, Jin, Ahern
The Fire Monitoring, Mapping and Modelling System (Fire M3) is an initiative of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) and the Canadian Forest Service (CFS), both agencies of Natural Resources Canada. The goals of Fire M3 are to use low-resolution satellite imagery to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lanoville
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) provided fire research scientists an outdoor laboratory to test a theoretical, physical-based fire model and to conduct a wide variety of concurrent experiments. The crown fire experiments, located 40 km northeast of Fort…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kalkhan, Martinson, Omi, Stohlgren, Chong, Hunter
Investigating spatial relationships among fuels, wildfire severity, and post-fire invasion by exotic plant species through linkage of multiphase sampling design and multiscale nested sampling field plots, pre- and post-fire, can be accomplished by integrating spatial information…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae, Jin
Quantitative documentation of fire behavior is important in understanding aspects of physical fire behavior. We describe the use of infrared technology to document on-the-ground fire behavior observed during the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Omi, Martinson, Kalkhan, Chong, Hunter, Stohlgren
The severity of the 2000 fire season has increased public awareness of a widespread fuels problem in western U.S. forests. Federal land management agencies have responded with plans to greatly expand programs to mitigate hazardous fuel conditions. However, scant information…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hann
Fire regime and associated condition class mapping have provided key data for development of cohesive strategies for restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems and for the National Fire Plan within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and U.S. Department of Interior…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rogeau, Pengelly, Fortin
The fire management goal in Banff National Park is to maintain or restore, where possible, historical fire regimes. Fire cycles are an important component of a fire regime, and historical fire cycles provide a reference to guide the use of prescribed fire. Weather, climate,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrett
From the text ... 'Knowing the current status of the historical fire regimes is critical for land management planning. ...Over the past century, forested area with low-severity fire potential has declined by more than 80 percent. ...During the presettlement era, stands in the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... ''It will be a long time before those woods, more relentless than the waters, give up their dead.' -- C.E.Robinson, 1872 ...The drought was mild compared to the times leading up to other historically great fires in the Midwest. ...Surface fires scorched tree…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bosworth
From the text ... 'A policy of allowing all fires to burn would be just as flawed as the old policy of putting them all out. ...Our policy is to use fire where we can and suppress fire where we must.'
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
A consensus history of fire in the United States has emerged over the past decade. It correctly identifies fire suppression's liabilities, while probably over‐enthusing about fire‐science capabilities. What it lacks, however, is a context of the subject's larger, braided…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Canning, Edwards, Anderson
We describe the application of fuzzy logic to the control of a robot intended to navigate forest paths. Robots could improve the safety of forest operations by removing the operator from the vehicle and also reduce costs by automating these operations. The controller was…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ohmann, Pierce, Gregory, Wimberly, Fried
Presentation given at the Joint Fire Science Program Principal Investigator Workshop, April 2004.
Year: 2004
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Joy
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Stocks
The 22nd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference featured a special session on selected aspects of the wildland fire research carried out during the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), co-chaired by M.E. Alexander of the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) and R.A.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Thomas
In 1957, the Chief of the USDA Forest Service appointed a task force to study ways of preventing firefighter fatalities in the future. A review of 16 fatality fires found that the associated fire behavior in all but one case was unexpected by those entrapped or overrun. One of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
van Mantgem, Schwartz
We subjected 159 small ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex P. & C. Laws.) to treatments designed to test the relative importance of stem damage as a predictor of postfire mortality. The treatments consisted of a group with the basal bark artificially thinned, a second…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rohde
I recently completed a study providing insight into critical decisions by command officers on some of California's most notorious wildfires in the wildland/urban interface (WUI). My study focused on the first several hours of response to the fires, a period of time when…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Galyardt, Queen, Ward
The wildland fire situation analysis (WFSA) is a great way to assess wildland fires that escape initial attack. It documents the situation, sets forth objectives, and facilitates communication on the ground. Yet it has a basic drawback: the WFSA relies entirely on text to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES