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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Weber, Wells
From the text... 'One of the potential problems with the use of prescribed burning in the past has been the lack of any systematic investigation into the ecological effects of this forest management practice on the ecosystem. In 1991, the planning process to address this issue…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Price, Rind
Each year lightning ignites approximately 10,000 wildland fires in the United States alone. Therefore, when considering how climate change may affect wildland fires, one needs to consider possible changes in lightning activity. With the aid of satellite cloud and lightning…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kourtz
Economic limitations prevent the mapping over large areas of forest fire fuel types using conventional forestry methods. The information contained in such maps would be a valuable tool for assisting in initial attack planning, presuppression planning and fire growth modelling.…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt, Hanneman, Ottmar
A study of smoke exposure at prescribed fires was done by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station and Radian Corporation between 1991 and 1994. This study was done to assess exposure to smoke among firefighters at prescribed fires in the Pacific Northwest.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Means, Hansen, Koerper, Alaback, Klopsch
BIOPAK is a menu-driven package of computer programs for IBM-compatible personal computers that calculates the biomass, area, height, length, or volume of plant components (leaves, branches, stem, crown, and roots). The routines were written in FoxPro, Fortran, and C. BIOPAK was…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Adams
The planar intersect technique involves counting or measuring diameters of woody pieces intersected by a vertical plane. It is based on the line intersect technique, which compares length of a given line and the amount of that line crossed by residue pieces. The sum of circular…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES