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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini, Reinhardt
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mejer
Building on insights provided by Beck (1988), Pyne (1982) and others, the paper views wildland fire as an event revealing a social and scientific field in which basic dilemmas that separate nature and culture, environmental autonomy and human intervention, and the certainty of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murray, Bunting, Morgan
The subalpine vegetation zone is an extensive and important high elevation setting in the western United States. Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) is restricted to, and occurs widely in, the subalpine zone. This tree provides a valuable foodsource and shelter for a variety of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baisan, Swetnam
Four centuries of land use history were compared to fire regime characteristics along a use-intensity gradient. Changes in intensity and type of utilization varied directly with changes in fire regime characteristics near population centers, while remote areas showed little…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schuster, Cleaves, Bell
Forest Service expenditures for fire presuppression and suppression activities increased from $61 million in FY 1970 to $951 million in FY 1994. Yet, real (net of inflation) expenditures have not increased significantly since FY 1970, if FY 1994 expenditures are excluded. During…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sellers, Despain
From the text ... 'Over 1,900,000 acres (770,000 ha) of Yellowstone Park are managed as wilderness. The administrative policy for the management of natural areas of the National Park system such as Yellowstone clearly stated in 1970 The presence or absence of natural fire within…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sanderson
From the Summary ... 'As fire management is integrated into land management, the decisions made will determine how, when, and where fire will be used or suppressed.The most pronounced changes in the direction in which fire management is moving are the reduction of accumulations…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
Prescribed fire as a social issue becomes automatically an ecological, political, and economic issue. Any issue that affects us socially we take to the political arena, and its final resolution will involve the costs of different avenues to resolving the issue. Unfortunately,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Harvey
We present a method in which fundamental knowledge of natural ecosystem dynamics of the southern boreal forest may be used as a basis for a new silvicultural approach aimed at maintaining biodiversity and long-term ecosystem productivity under management. The natural disturbance…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ahlstrand
From the text... 'Although the National Park Service has been largely successful in operating park lands for the enjoyment of the public. preservation attempts have oftentimes impaired these natural areas by bringing about unplanned and undesired changes in the ecosystems (Stone…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cooper
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reifsnyder
At the request of the World Meteorological Organization, a hierarchical system for rating forest fire danger was developed. The system uses generally available meteorological measurements to evaluate the flammability of wildland fuels anywhere in the world. The basic framework…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mutch
In summary, there are some individuals who see prescribed fire, especially wilderness fires, as a threat to the fire prevention program. Others are equally frustrated because they feel the simplistic message of Smokey is in opposition to, or makes it more difficult to achieve,…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kilgore
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bjornsen
There are five principle categories of fire management planning which have meteorological needs; many of them common. Meteorological data is essential to execution of fire plans. The data, historical and forecasted, is an integral part of each fire plan. There is shared…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dieterich
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Call, Albini
An empirical model is presented which relates fractional reduction in loading to fuel element diameter and moisture content for surface and aerial fuels consumed near the fire front in a spreading crown fire. The model is based upon data from a series of experimental crown fires…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
George, Johnson
Updates data (Research Note INT-91) for measuring viscosity of fire retardants in the field by means of the Marsh Funnel. New data cover Tenogum and gum-thickened Fire-Trol 931. Data for Gelgard (no longer available) have been dropped.
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George, Blakely, Johnson
Forest fire retardant research was divided into five different study areas: (1) retardant effectiveness; (2) retardant physical properties; (3) retardant delivery systems; (4) retardant-caused corrosion; and 5) retardant environmental impact. Past research is reviewed for each…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Eaton
For more than a half-century, it has been public policy to suppress all brush and forest fires, yet contrary to Smokey the Bear's conventional wisdom, not all fires may be harmful. Recent evidence suggests that periodic small fires may benefit forests and wildlife. A long period…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Helmers
Fire access usually should be via ridges, where soil tends to be shallow, erosion hazards minimal, and timber cover most open. Dry slopes with deep permafrost or none are useable, but any slope is a potential erosion hazard. Permafrost areas, muskegs, and poorly drained sites…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
This paper presents a brief survey of the research literature on wildfire behavior and effects and assembles formulae and graphical computation aids based on selected theoretical and empirical models. The uses of mathematical fire behavior models are discussed, and the general…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cohen, Saveland
The wildland-urban interface (W-UI) refers to residential areas surrounded by or adjacent to wildland areas. In recent years, significant W-UI residential fire losses have occurred nationwide in the United States that have focused attention on the principal W-UI problem - losses…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark, Hardy
Alaskans in general felt that fires burned communities elsewhere but not in their backyard. That all started to change after the disastrous Miller's Reach Fire in June of 1996. Now Alaskans are thinking about and discussing the hazards and destructive power of wildfire.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES