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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Albini, Baughman
This paper presents formulae, tables, and figures that can be used to estimate the ratio of mean windspeed acting on the flame from a spreading wildland fire to the mean windspeed 20 ft (6 m) above the vegetation cover. The formulae for windspeed above uniform, continuous…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Albini
Describes a theoretical model for calculating thermochemical properties of the gaseous fuel that burns in the free flame at the edge of a spreading fire in fine forest fuels. Predicted properties are the heat of combustion, stoichiometric air/fuel mass ratio, mass-averaged…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davis, Franzmann
DRAFT, to be presented at the North American Moose Conference Workshop: Extirpation of caribou from the Kenai Peninsula in the early 1900's and the subsequent increase in moose numbers is frequently cited as a classic example of a faunal change that resulted from fire-initiated…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woddley
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stockstad
Spontaneous and piloted ignitions of rotten wood samples from ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) were investigated in a specially designed ignition furnace. Minimum heat flux intensities required to produce…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vogl
Fire management of grasslands is best executed based on an understanding of the fundamental properties of grassland components, structures, and environments, and the nature of fire behavior in grassland fuels. The art of controlled burning combines experience, practicality,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davis
A new Forest Service policy, effective February 1978, allows some wildfires to burn under prescribed conditions, urges a multidisciplinary approach to fire control, and has applications to rural and urban situations.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nelson
The policy for dealing with fires on National Forest System lands was changed in 1977, in essence from control to management. The change was based on the knowledge and understanding that fire can result in a positive effect on wildland resources. Land managers were directed to…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Mason, Stocks
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flatman, Storey
Cost-plus-loss analysis and benefit/cost analysis are two techniques that fire managers can apply to FOCUS computer simulation output for alternate fire plans to help them choose the best plan. FOCUS (Fire Operational Characteristics Using Simulation) calculates costs and…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
Systems to enable land managers to locate, evaluate, and counter the fire threat of lightning storms are in the early stages of development. In the western U.S. and Alaska, the Bureau of Land Management has established networks of instruments that locate lightning strikes by…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
Describes a theoretical model for calculating thermochemical properties of the gaseous fuel that burns in the free flame at the edge of a spreading fire in fine forest fuels. Predicted properties are the heat of combustion, stoichiometric air/fuel mass ratio, mass-averaged…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viereck
The treeline in Alaska is usually mapped as the limit of white spruce Picea glauca (Moench) Voss along the south slope of the Brooks Range and in western Alaska and as the limit of Sitka spruce Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr. on Kodiak Island and in the Alaska Peninsula. In some…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Weber, Viereck, Dyrness
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sigman
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Noga, Tikhonov
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wolff, Zasada
Production, availability, and utilization of woody browse by moose in winter were recorded in stands of 16 different ages of the Tanana River Floodplain and the Yukon-Tanana uplands of Alaska. These stands represented primary and secondary succession following fire, flooding,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vogl
Sound resource management, including fire management, cannot be based on biased information and incomplete facts. A way to become critical is to understand the basic ecological principles that underlie resource management and that are inherent in the resources under…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
Excerpt: The material presented in this paper is drawn from one of the fire research studies at the Petawawa, Ontario, Forest Experiment Station; namely, an ecological study of fire in our boreal forest. The purpose of this work, in the official language of project statements,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Russell
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rowe
Land management goals in the North ought to stem from a land ethic, a care for the terrain. They ought to take account of the historical forces that have produced landscape variety. The occurrences of fires in space and in time have created a patchwork mosaic and thus, have…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Pierovich, Fox, Ross
The objective of this report is to summarize the current state-of-knowledge of the effects of forest burning on the air resource, and to define research questions of high priority for the management of smoke from prescribed and wild fires. Our purpose was to provide background…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rennie
Productivity of the boreal forest in Canada is discussed in relation to location of soils, distribution and species composition of the forest, ecological factors, production and yield, and factors that affect production (fire, insects, diseases, management practices, and air…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES