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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Foote
Fire burns 3,000-1,000,000 acres annually, It is a natural part of the ecology of the boreal forest of interior Alaska. Fire alters the site, growing conditions on the site, site resilency, and the habitat of users of the site. It promotes site productivity by recycling…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
A fire regime classification that recognizes stand-replacement, nonlethal understory, mixed and variable fire severities is discussed as a simplified approach for communicating widely about the natural role of fire. Examples of the fire regime types are provided. Five challenges…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grilz, Romo
Smooth brome (Bromus inermis Leyss.), an introduced perennial grass is an aggressive invader of prairie dominated by plains rough fescue (Festuca altaica Trin. subsp. hallii [Vasey] Harms). We (1) compared richness and density of plant species in brome and fescue stands that…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini, Reinhardt
As part of the development of a model for predicting fuel loading reductions by and intensity histories of fires burning in large woody natural fuels, it was necessary to develop separate models for the processes of ignition and rate of burning of individual fuel elements. This…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
French, Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, Berry
The results of a study using satellite imagery to map boreal forest fires in Alaska in 1990 and 1991 are presented. Composite AVHRR data was found to detect more than 80% of fires greater than 2,000 ha in size Addidonally, using a two season method, 78% of the area of all boreal…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bessie, Johnson
Surface fire intensity (kilowatts per metre) and crown fire initiation were predicted using Rothermel's 1972 and Van Wagner's 1977 fire models with fuel data from 47 upland subalpine conifer stands (comprising Pinus contorta var. latifolia, Picea engelmannii, Abies lasiocarpa…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lesica, Allendorf
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fritz
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brooks, Mayden, McLennan
Historical ecological studies provide information about the origins of species in an area and the origins of traits characterizing the interactions between those species and their environment. Incorporating this evolutionary information into conservation policies will broaden…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
This file memo documents the authors' initial thoughts on a broad scale fire danger classification scheme for Alaska back in 1995 and subsequently followed up by some additional comments in 2012.
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
A fire growth model (FARSITE) has been developed for use on personal computers (PC's). Because PC's are commonly used by land and fire managers, this portable platform would be an accustomed means to bring fire growth modeling technology to management applications. The FARSITE…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blonski
One of the traditional roles that prescribed fire has played in the fire management arena is reduction of hazardous fuel buildups under controlled, well-defined environmental conditions. However, our ability to use this tool effectively is blocked by many barriers. The preceding…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin, Sapsis
Wildland fires have occurred for centuries in North America and other selected countries and can be segregated into three periods: prehistoric (presuppression) fires, suppression period fires, and fire management period fires. Prehistoric fires varied in size and damage but were…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pierpont, Nehoda, Williams
Prescribed fire has been recognized as a potential tool for land managers for many years. The gradual recognition of the important role of fire in wildlands has been documented many times. In the United States, this recognition probably first occurred in the longleaf pine region…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turner, Koerper, Harmon, Lee
The potential need for national-level comparisons of greenhouse gas emissions, and the desirability of understanding terrestrial sources and sinks of carbon, has prompted interest in quantifying national forest carbon budgets. In this study, we link a forest inventory database,…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vasconcelos, Guertin
FIREMAP is a simulation system designed to estimate wildfire characteristics in spatially non-uniform environments and simulate the growth of fire in discrete time steps. This simulation system integrates Rothermel's behavior prediction model (Rothermel 1972) with a raster-…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Heilman, Fast
A two-dimensional, nonhydrostatic, coupled, earth/atmospheric model has been used to simulate mean and turbulent atmospheric characteristics near lines of extreme surface heating. Prognostic equations are used to solve for the horizontal and vertical wind components, potential…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ball, Guertin
Recent developments in the use of GIS for spatial dynamic modeling has resulted in improved fire growth simulations. This paper examines previous growth models and some of their weaknesses. We then define what would be required to handle the growth of surface fire within a…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Martin
The concept of a passive flame height sensor involves thin strings permeated with fire retardant or solder which record heights of flame contact. Both types of sensors were calibrated during 12 experimental test fires with respect to flame heights measured on video tape. Three…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Heilman
A two-dimensional nonhydrostatic atmospheric model was used to simulate the circulation patterns (wind and vorticity) and turbulence energy fields associated with lines of extreme surface heating on simple two-dimensional hills. Heating-line locations and ambient crossflow…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kanjanakunchorn, Woodard, McCornick, McDonald
Water is frequently used to contain wild or prescribed fires in a wildland situation. In this paper, we show why the commonly-available, relatively inexpensive garden-type soaker hose can be effectively used to contain fires. We present results on such performance…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viney
A practical means of quanming the diffusivities of forest fuels from field data is presented. The mathematics of this method is explored for four fuel shapes: a litter layer, a hardwood leaf, a twig and a square fuel moisture analogue stick, which are represented geometrically…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
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Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gallant, Binnian, Omernik, Shasby
A map of ecoregions of Alaska has been produced as a framework for organizing and interpreting environmental data for State, national, and international inventory, monitoring, and research efforts. The map and descriptions of 20 ecological regions were derived by synthesizing…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues about wildfire and prescribed fire in both the wildland-urban interface and in wildlands. Thirty-eight invited oral papers and 23 poster papers describing the issues and state-of-the-art…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES