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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Taber, Fay
Analysis of the Holonada Fire (AK‐TAD‐337) which was discovered on June 4, 2010 within the Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge (NWR); subsequent spread has been primarily to the south onto BLM land. On June 8, the mapped perimeter was 6840 acres, with no direct suppression action…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Example of long range fire growth analysis of R10100 from 2012 Fire Modeling Workshop
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Natural Areas Association Fire compendium compiles articles from the Natural Areas Journal from 1983 to 2009 that address some aspect of fire ecology or fire management. Some papers specifically focus on the effects of fire on a particular ecosystem or species, while in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allen, Macalady, Chenchouni, Bachelet, McDowell, Vennetier, Kitzberger, Rigling, Breshears, Hogg, Gonzalez, Fensham, Zhang, Castro, Demidova, Lim, Allard, Running, Semerci, Cobb
Greenhouse gas emissions have significantly altered global climate, and will continue to do so in the future. Increases in the frequency, duration, and/or severity of drought and heat stress associated with climate change could fundamentally alter the composition, structure, and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Preliminary list of fire research needs in Alaska.
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Annually in the U.S., smoking causes 438 thousand deaths and costs about $167 billion in healthcare and lost productivity. Despite these statistics, more than a fourth of young adults continue to light up. Quitting smoking has major and immediate health benefits at every age but…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This podcast discusses West Nile Virus and Lyme disease and offers strategies to reduce the risk of mosquito and tick bites.
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Klebenow
From the text ... 'Sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus Bonaparte), due to their dependence upon sagebrush-grassland habitat for food and cover, are limited in distribution to the range type dominated by sagebrush, principally big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) but also its…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Biswell
From the text ... 'The ponderosa pine-grassland is characterized by the occurrence and distribution of ponderosa pine, Pinus ponderosa. It is widely spread covering some 36 million acres from the Fraser River Basin in British Columbia to Durango, Mexico, and from Nebraska to the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Travis, Elsner, Kourtz
From the Introduction: 'The description of this package is divided into two sections namely, the fuel type boundary section and the terrain contouring section. Each section is divided further into four subsections describing: (a) the procedure for setting up and use of the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ribe
From the text: 'A multi-stage sampling scheme (1) was developed and tested for puckerbrush species in 1971. To compare and contrast this destructive sampling procedure with dimensional analysis, a regrssion analysis technique (2), it was necessary to obtain data on 11…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
From the conclusion:'As previously mentioned, the results of this study cannot be applied in the field. A great deal of additional work will be needed before application is possible. This study does show, however, that a systems dynamics approach is well suited to analyzing the…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the introduction:'The Forest Fire Research Institute of the Canadian Forestry Service has on file publications, records, and data covering much of the early forest research undertaken in Canada. This collection, with some publications dating back to 1909, is unique and much…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vogl
Fire is essential to the health of many plant and animal communities. nonetheless, Smokey the Bear and his human allies, relying more on pyrophobia than reason, continue to stamp it out indiscriminately.
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson
Conclusions: 'The results of this study show that black spruce and jack pine can be established successfully by broadcast seeding from the air on fresh to moist sites on a severely burned cutover area in central Newfoundland. The seeding equipment used proved satisfactory. The…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vyse, Muraro
The effect of broadcast slash burning on the cost of planting a recently logged area of over—mature coastal hemlock—balsam—cedar forest was examined. Planting output and costs were measured before and after burning the same area. Three planting methods were used: bareroot/…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sibulkin
The effect of flame size on the relative contributions of luminous (soot) radiation and nonluminous (molecular band) radiation is calculated for typical combustion conditions. It is found that for small flames nonluminous radiation is dominant while for larger flames, both…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dahlgreen
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
The suggestion that some forest fires should be allowed or even encouraged to burn in the large national and provincial parks is bound to evoke a wide range of reactions. For decades the forest authorities across Canada have spared no effort to convince people that forest fires…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rouse, Kershaw
Soil moisture measurements are presented for the summer period of 1971 for nine sites spaced inland from the Hudson Bay coastline adjacent to East Pen Island. The sites show a great variation in natural vegetation from a sparsely vegetated young raised-beach to older beach…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
The heat transfer rate to forest fuels ahead of a flaming fire front is highly variable over the interval of time required to preheat the fuels. An analytical function was derived which permitted inclusion of this varying transfer rate in the calculation of temperature rise for…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Little
'The Canadian Forest Fire Research Institute recently developed a functionally foolproof rate-of-fire spread timer; it costs about $10 to make.'
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cunningham, Martell
This paper discusses the occurrence of man-caused forest fires during the summer fire season in a section of northwestern Ontario. Fire occurrence is viewed as being a chance process and a stochastic model is developed to describe it. The results of this study indicate that a…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chandler, Roberts
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brackebusch
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: TTRS