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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Knight
From the text...”Summary: Limber pine and ponderosa pine typically occur on escarpments and in the foothills of mountain ranges, environments that are cooler and more mesic than the adjacent grasslands and shrublands below and warmer and drier than the forests above. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hessburg, Smith
From the text ...'This paper summarizes results of a study conducted under the aegis of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project. We report on a midscale scientific assessment of vegetation change in terrestrial landscapes of the interior West, associated change…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Babbitt
From the text...'We are in a national fire crisis. Wildfires are on a sharp increase, burning bigger, threatening communities and taking more and more property and lives. In the last decade, the number of acres burned has doubled; the number of lives lost has tripled. Our…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunton
From the text...'Effective fire reporting requires a seamless system of information sharing among fire organizations nationwide. Winston Churchill once told Congress, 'We are two peoples separated by a common language.' Fire reporting faces a similar problem. Whereas rural and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coles, Conlon, Cotton, Eisenstadt, Goldfarb, Hutchison, Joy, Wolter
From the Executive Summary... 'Purpose: National forests of the dry, interior portion of the western United States that are managed by the Department of Agriculture*s Forest Service have undergone significant changes over the last century and a half, becoming much denser, with…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rodríguez-Trejo
From the text...'The worst fire season in Mexican history was in 1998. Drought conditions precipitated by a strong El Niño led to unusual fire activity, including crown fires, fire whirls, and rapid spread rates. A total of 14,302 fires burned 2,099,412 acres (849,632 ha) - 3.6…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Travers
I conducted a field study of the annual, Clarkia unguiculata, to examine the performance of pollen (pollen-germination time and pollen-tube growth rate) produced by plants growing in two different environments: recently burned and unburned oak woodland. Previous studies on the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gove, Ringvall, Stahl, Ducey
This paper presents a method based on angle-gauge sampling useful for inventorying downed coarse woody material in forest stands. The method is closely related to transect relascope sampling, except that sample points are used rather than line transects. The estimators for the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Slack
This publication provides homeowners and builders in the Wildland Urban Interface with design and building techniques that can offer more protection from wildland or forest fires. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Colorado State Forest Service and the Colorado…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Handbook for criteria pollutant inventory development: a beginner's guide for point and area sources
This document will help state, local, and tribal air pollution control agency personnel compile an inventory of criteria pollutant emissions from stationary (point and area) sources. The information contained in this document is intended to serve as a reference guide only, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
Understanding how ignitions occur is critical for effectively mitigating home fire losses during wildland fires. The threat of life and property losses during wildland fires is a significant issue for Federal, State, and local agencies that have responsibilities involving homes…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hesseln, Rideout
Evolving wildfire management policies are aimed at more comprehensive treatments of current wildland fire management problems. Key policies are identified that affect wildfire and fuels management. Policies are discussed in the context of institutional factors such as…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Snyder
Wildland fire protection in the United States has evolved from predominantly protecting natural resources values to protecting values of the urban-wildland interface. Providing fire protection in this 'unnatural' ecosystem has become more complex. Wildland fire suppression costs…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ponizovsky, Chudinova, Pachepsky
Time domain reflectometry (TDR) is widely used to measure the soil water contents. The effect of soil composition on TDR calibration has to be quantified to diminish the need in re-calibration of TDR. Objectives of the study were: (a) to evaluate the ability of published models…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Users' guide to using DDWoodyPC component of the Fuels Management Analyst Plus suite of computer programs. Fuel loading and fuel bed depths can be estimated using photos contained in a number of published fuels photo series that are contained in this program. The average fuel…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Anderson, DeHerrera, Reinhardt
User's guide for the Consume 2.1 software system. Consume is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption and emissions from the burning of…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Couturier, Liew, Nakayama, Lim
The authors monitor the change in SAR backscattered intensity from forests in East Kalimantan affected by the 1998 fires, possibly due to vegetation regeneration. Eight ERS scenes were acquired near the Kutai National Park, East Kalimantan, from July 1997 to November 1998. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cahill, Blakesley
Denali National Park has been described as having the best air quality measured in the Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE). But even this relatively clean site is not entirely free of pollutants caused by human activities.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hufford, Kelley, Moore, Cotterman
The utility of the new GOES-9 satellite 3.9 um channel to monitor wildfires and their subsequent changes in growth and intensity in Alaska is examined. The June, 1996 Miller's Reach forest fire is presented as a case study. Eighteen hours of sequential imagery coincident to the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bourgeau-Chavez, Kasischke, Rutherford
Research was conducted to determine the utility of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for measuring the fuel moisture status of boreal forests as reflected in Fire Weather Index Codes. Three years (May to August 1992-1995) of SAR data from the European Remote Sensing Satellite…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS