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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Amacher, Malik, Haight
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Payette
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Greene, Macdonald, Cumming, Swift
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kolaks, Grabner, Hartman, Cutter, Loewenstein
From the text ... 'Several years ago, Blank and Simard (1983) described an electronic timer, frequently referred to as a rate-of-spread (ROS) clock -- a relatively simple instrument used in measuring fire spread. Although other techniques for measuring rate of spread are…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mauro-Roeser
From the text ... 'The Defensible Space Project was designed to thin and remove hazardous fuels near residences, giving firefighters more room to stop a blaze and protect the community. ...Eligibility was based on a property's tree densities, its slopes, and its location…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frederick, Benefield
Authors' note: The following scenario is a fictitious account of what the revolution in information technology might mean for wildland fire suppression in the not-too-distant future. The story is based partly on reality, partly on our imagination. Ten years ago, it would have…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'At a time when wildfire potential has never been greater, social expectations for protection have never been higher and political tolerance for failure has never been lower. ...We are at a crossroads: We must look beyond our fire policies if we hope to protect…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radeloff, Hammer, Stewart, Fried, Holcomb, McKeefry
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. The WUI is thus a focal area for human-environment conflicts, such as the destruction of homes by wildfires, habitat fragmentation, introduction of exotic…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Finney
Quantitative fire risk analysis depends on characterizing and combining fire behavior probabilities and effects. Fire behavior probabilities are different from fire occurrence statistics (historic numbers or probabilities of discovered ignitions) because they depend on spatial…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fairbrother, Turnley
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Laughlin
Laws and policies require federal land and resource management agencies, and regulatory agencies charged with conserving imperiled species, to assess risks associated with proposed actions and to manage wildland fire risks and habitat for species-at-risk of extinction. For most…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Laughlin
The needs and opportunities for assessing and managing risks posed by wildfire are identified through synthesis of natural resources agency and conservation group perspectives. Risk assessment is needed primarily to compare environmental effects of management alternatives,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saint-Germain, Larrivée, Drapeau, Fahrig, Buddle
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peters, Macdonald, Dale
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fenton, Lecomte, Legare, Bergeron
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Duffy, Walsh, Graham, Mann, Rupp
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
From the text ... 'The August 2004 issue of the Canadian Journal of forest Research (volume 34[8]) is devoted to a special topic: 'The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in Canada's Northwest Territories: Advancing the Science of Fire Behaviour.' Running from…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delaney
From the text ... 'Incorrectly mapped fire locations could distort the allocation of money and jobs. ...The two prominent location referencing systems used for fire locations on fire reports are latitude/longitude and Universal Transverse Mercator. ...Everyone involved in the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keller
From the text ... 'A common set of definitions is needed for terms relating to hazard and risk reduction in the wildland/urban interface [WUI]. ...When addressing a fire hazard in the WUI, prevention and mitigation must each play a role. ...To reduce the potential for disaster…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'The rate of fuel accumulation remains far higher than the rate of fuel reduction. ...Our objectives for secure wildlife habitat, clean air, secluded homesites, and other social values often overlook the disturbance regimes that shape the land. ...Our strategic…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li, Barclay, Liu, Campbell
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodall, Williams
The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the USDA Forest Service conducts a national inventory of forests of the United States. A subset of FIA permanent inventory plots are sampled every year for numerous indicators of forest health ranging from soils to understory…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tirmenstein, Long, Heward
The Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT) is a custom ArcMap toolbar that provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software, FlamMap3 algorithms (Finney 2006) and First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) algorithms (Reinhardt 2003) to produce predicted fire behavior and fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The 2012 wildfire season isn't over yet, but already this year is shaping up to be the one of the worst on record in the American West. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, with nearly two months still to go in the fire season, the total area already burned this…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire simulation models that consider the complex dynamics of weather, fuels, and terrain are essential to forecasting fire behavior. A growing number of such models are available, so understanding the differences in their predictions and sensitivity to drivers of fire behavior…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES