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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Fight, Barbour
Knowing the cost of fuel reduction treatments and associated activities, such as hauling cut trees, is essential for fire and fuels planning. This fact sheet explores the main factors that determine the cost of hauling cut trees and points the user to an interactive tool that…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Reinhardt
Tutorials for determining tree mortality, fuel consumption, smoke emissions and soil heating using the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), version 5.0 computer program.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Caratti
The FIREMON database software allows users to enter data, generate summary reports, and perform other data management tasks. The FIREMON database software consists of a Java application and a Microsoft Access database. The Java application provides the user interface with…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gangi, Keane
The FIREMON Analysis Tools component encompasses two major tasks: 1) data entry and 2) data analysis. Data entry is accomplished in FIREMON by physically entering the collected field data into a set of standardized Microsoft Access databases. Data analysis is accomplished using…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw
This document describes the upgrades to the FireFamily Plus is a software system for version 3.0.5. Version 3.0.5.0 is a special FireFamily Plus release at the request of Fire and Aviation Management to respond to the National Wildfire Coordinating Committees' (NWCG) adoption of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Landres
We report the results of a questionnaire and workshop that sought to gain a better and deeper understanding of the contemporary information needs of wildland fire and fuels managers. Results from the questionnaire indicated that the decision to suppress a wildland fire was most…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Bevins, Seli
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a program for personal computers that is a collection of mathematical models that describe fire and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams. It can be used for a multitude of fire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hann, Beighley, Teensma, Sexton, Hilbruner
Analyses were conducted of fire and fuel management options for 172 million hectares (424 million acres) of Forest Service and Interior public lands in the contiguous lower 48 states. A landscape dynamics model was calibrated based on fire regime condition class (FRCC). A…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaennel Dobbertin, Grissino-Mayer
Two new online products are available to the international tree-ring community. The Bibliography of Dendrochronology (published online in February 2003) currently has 10,000 references and is the world's largest online bibliography specializing in tree-ring research. In March…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Horel, Splitt, Pechmann, Olsen, Delgado
During the last couple of years and stemming from the year 2000 fire plan, Land Management Agencies hired 20 meteorologists nationwide to develop fire weather programs at Geographic Area Coordination Centers and to introduce and implement new programs in support of the fire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Webb, Jimenez, Reardon, Butler
A new one-dimensional heat conduction model for predicting stem heating during fires is presented. Themodel makes use of moisture- and temperature-dependent thermal properties for layers of bark and wood. The thermal aspects of the processes of bark swelling, desiccation, and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wang, Li, Winnady
It is commonly accepted that the fire retardant mechanism of boric acid is a physical mechanism achieved by the formation of a coating or protective layer on the wood surface at high temperature. Although a char-forming catalytic mechanism has been proposed by some researchers,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fonda, Varner
This experiment studied burning characteristics of pine cones as a separate fuel component. Cones of fire resisters ponderosa pine, Jeffrey pine, longleaf pine, and south Florida slash pine, and cones of fire evaders Monterey pine, knobcone pine, sand pine, and pond pine were…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ryu, Chen, Crow, Saunders
Available fuel and its dynamics, both of which affect fire behavior in forest ecosystems, are direct products of ecosystem production, decomposition, and disturbances. Using published ecosystem models and equations, we developed a simulation model to evaluate the effects of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, McMurray
FireWorks is an educational program that provides interactive, hands-on activities for studying fire behavior, fire ecology, and human influences on three fire-dependent forest types-ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), interior lodgepolepine (P. contorta var.latifolia), and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hao, Meghan Salmon, Nordgren
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Meghan Salmon, Nordgren
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haines, Renner, Reams, Granskog
States, counties and local governments in the United States have dramatically increased their wildfire mitigation efforts in recent years. Policymakers and fire officials are employing a wide range of regulatory and voluntary wildfire risk reduction programs to protect residents…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hagge, Bryden, Dietenberger
Cone calorimeter tests show that backing board materials do not affect the ignition time, initial heat release rate, or the total heat released of combustion for redwood slabs. However, it has been observed that backing board materials alter combustion performance by altering…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gebert
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Achtemeier, Goodrick
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Graham, Jain
In general, silviculture can be defined as the art and science of controlling the establishment, growth, competition, health, and quality of forests and woodlands to meet the diverse needs and values of landowners and society on a sustainable basis (Helms 1998). This definition…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dietenberger
Piloted ignition behavior of materials, particularly wood products, during transitions between heating regimes is measured and modeled in a cone calorimetry (ISO 5660) heating environment. These include (1) effect of material thickness, density, moisture content, and paint…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davis, Miller
We developed a GIS model, BurnPro, to estimate the annual probability of burning for every pixel on a raster landscape. BurnPro uses historic ignition locations, fuel models, topography, and historic weather patterns to estimate the likelihood of burning using a least-…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Lanoville
Several fuel treatment demonstration trials or case studies were carried out as part of the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), Northwest Territories: 1) demonstrating the value of fully leafed-out trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) stands as fuelbreaks…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES