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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Cartledge
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foxx
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alanis-Morales
Studies to determine the feasibility of using prescribed fire to prevent fire in the forests of northwestern Chihuahua were initiated in 1982 at an experimental level. These studies have resulted in valuable information on the importance of prescribed fire in protecting and, at…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daniel, Meitner, Weidemann
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robbins
From the text ... 'The United States Forest Service, which manages nearly 200 million acres of public land, believes limited thinning and burning will prevent catastrophic wildfires. The agency contracts with logging companies to cut down large and small trees across sweeping…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
North, Collins, Stephens
The USDA Forest Service is implementing a new planning rule and starting to revise forest plans for many of the 155 National Forests. In forests that historically had frequent fire regimes, the scale of current fuels reduction treatments has often been too limited to affect fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LeQuire, Hunter
From the text ... 'Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction through prescribed burning,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yang
Fighting fire with fire has been given the green light by a new study of techniques used to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires. And with a rise in wildfires predicted in many parts of the country, researchers say controlled burns and other treatments to manage this risk…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stephens, McIver, Boerner, Fettig, Fontaine, Hartsough, Kennedy, Schwilk
The current conditions of many seasonally dry forests in the western and southern United States, especially those that once experienced low- to moderate-intensity fire regimes, leave them uncharacteristically susceptible to high-severity wildfire. Both prescribed fire and its…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Koo, Linn, Pagni, Edminster
Firebrand transport is studied for disc and cylindrical firebrands by modelling their trajectories with a coupled-physics fire model, HIGRAD/FIRETEC. Through HIGRAD/FIRETEC simulations, the size of possible firebrands and travelled distances are analysed to assess spot ignition…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vaillant, Alexander, Cruz, Peterson
The Joint Fire Science Program (JSFP) is supporting a project aimed at synthesizing the currently available information on crown fire behavior in conifer forests (e.g., the onset of crowning, type of crown fire and the associated spread rate and fireline intensity). In addition…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bond, van Wilgen
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The Federal Wildland Fire Policy Review (Policy Review) directly affects only Department of Agriculture and Interior agencies. However, it significantly, although indirectly, affects local, State, and Tribal governments as well as other Federal partners. Every…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gosz, Gosz
The desert/grassland biome transition zone in central New Mexico provides an important region for testing species differences to changing environmental conditions and various land management practices. Interactions of black grama (Bouteloua eripoda) and blue grama (Bouteloua…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Greene, Evenden
From the Conclusions...'Attempts to exclude fire from wildland ecosystems in the Intermountain and Pacific Northwest Regions have had serious ecological impacts on at least 79 of the established and proposed Research Natural Areas. Numerous ecological and operational challenges…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mutch, Cook
From the Current Solutions...'Some breakthroughs in providing more latitude for expanding prescribed fire programs are apparent. For example, the state of Florida has enacted innovative legislation that provides liability protection for prescribed burning. In Oregon, a…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter
Lower atmosphere moistures, temperatures, winds, and lapse rates are examined for the days of 339 fires over 400 ha in the United States from 1971 through 1984. These quantities are compared with a climatology dataset from the same 14-year period using 2-way unbalanced analysis…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Maclean
A writer's reflection on the stories of fatal fire - and why we must remember.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nguyen
Forest harvest scheduling has been modeled using deterministic and stochastic programming models. Past models seldom address explicit spatial forest management concerns under the influence of natural disturbances. In this research study, we employ multistage full recourse…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dicus
This extensive 51-page bibliography of WUI research citations is organized into nine sections: 1) Wildland fuels 2) Landscaping fuels 3) Construction 4) Community Planning 5) Social 6) Policy and economics 7) Fire suppression 8) Post-fire recovery 9) Case studies. Compiled by…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The annual national technical report of the Forest Health Monitoring Program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Meteorologists developed two formulas to predict the probability of dry lightning throughout the continental United States and Alaska and parts of Canada. Predictions are made daily and are accessible through the web at http://www.airfire.org/tools/daily-fire-weather/dry-…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holtzhausen
International cooperation and strengthening of wildland fire science and management skills are key to stemming the escalation of wildland fires, according to an accord drawn up by the 5th International Wildfire Conference.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keller
Chances are good that, if you're reading this, you've had experience operating and parking vehicles in 'the black.' Likewise, you're probably well aware that 'the black' refers to the combustible material or vegetation that has gone through ignition, burning, and smoldering…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Daniel, Meitner, Weidemann
While natural areas are generally perceived as desirable havens by city dwellers, the potential danger of fire is not always fully appreciated. People may correctly perceive the risk, but are unwilling to compromise their version of natural and aesthetically pleasing…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES