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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Millar
[From the text] Climate variability and sustained change presage far-reaching transformations across America's West, an expanse dominated by immense mountain ranges and interspersed with important urban centers. These mountains provide the region's life blood-water that courses…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Laband, González-Cabán, Hussain
Using the database developed by the General Accounting Office on proposed fuels reduction actions on federal lands in 2001 and 2002, we conduct probit regression analysis to identify factors that significantly affect the likelihood of administrative appeal. The likelihood of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Martínez-de Dios, André, Goncalves, Arrue, Ollero, Viegas
This paper presents an experimental method using computer-based image processing techniques of visual and infrared movies of a propagating fire front, taken from one or more cameras, to supply the time evolutions of the fire front shape and position, flame inclination angle,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Manzello, Cleary, Shields, Yang
Firebrands or embers are produced as trees and structures burn in wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. It is believed that firebrand showers created in WUI fires may ignite vegetation and mulch located near homes and structures. This, in turn, may lead to ignition of homes and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oliveras, Piñol, Viegas
The concept of fire line rotation was applied to curved fire line elements like those of a point ignition fire in a slope or in a wind field. Convective effects induced by the fire modify the shape of the flame around its perimeter and affect the propagation of the fire front.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The Research and Development (R&D) arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service works at the forefront of science to improve the health and use of our Nation's forests and grasslands. Research has been part of the Forest Service mission since the agency's…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott
Quantitative scales of fire magnitude and intensity are needed to assess and publicly communicate the unbiased potential of wildland fire to cause effects-harm, damage, and ecological change. Such scales already exist for earthquakes (Richter Scale and Mercalli Scale),…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tachajapong, Zhou, Mahalingam, Weise
Crown fire initiation is studied by using laboratory experiments, a semi-empirical model, and a detailed physical based on large eddy simulation (LES) to gain a better understanding of transition from ground to crown fire. In the experiments, we investigated the effects of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Akerelrea, Smith, O'Keefe
Natural-resource managers have used a variety of computer-mediated presentation methods to communicate management practices to diverse publics. We explored the effects of visualizing and animating predictions from mathematical models in computerized presentations explaining…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The danger of being entrapped or burned over and possibly killed or seriously injured by a wildfire is very real threat for people living, working or visiting rural areas subject to wildfires. Sometimes there may be no chance to easily escape an approaching wildfire. Injuries…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keyes
In combination with measured stand data and assumed environmental conditions, reasonable estimates of foliar moisture content (FMC) are necessary to determine and justify silvicultural targets for canopy fuels management strategies. FMC often is overlooked in fuels planning,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Manzello, Cleary, Shields, Yang
An experimental apparatus has been built to investigate the ignition of fuel beds as a result of impact with burning firebrands. The apparatus allowed for the ignition and deposition of both single and multiple firebrands onto the target fuel bed. The moisture content of the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Forthofer, Finney, Bradshaw, Stratton
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technology has been used to model wind speed and direction in mountainous terrain at a relatively high resolution compared to other readily available technologies. The process termed "gridded wind"; is not a forecast, but rather represents a…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DiTomaso, Brooks, Allen, Minnich, Rice, Kyser
Prescribed burning has primarily been used as a tool for the control of invasive late-season annual broadleaf and grass species, particularly yellow starthistle, medusahead, barb goatgrass, and several bromes. However, timely burning of a few invasive biennial broadleaves (e.g…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Key
Ecological definition and detection of fire severity are influenced by factors of spatial resolution and timing. Resolution determines the aggregation of effects within a sampling unit or pixel (alpha variation), hence limiting the discernible ecological responses, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Yedinak, Forthofer, Cohen, Finney
One of the many features of a spreading fire is the shape of the combustion interface. We hypothesize that the shape of the flame profile within burning fuel is key to fire propagation because it reflects the mechanisms of energy transfer to the unburned fuels. Most laboratory…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsinger, Keane, Steele, Reeves, Pratt
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Prototype Project, or LANDFIRE Prototype Project, began in April of 2002 and ended in April of 2005. The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior. The…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cary, Keane, Gardner, Lavorel, Flannigan, Davies, Li, Lenihan, Rupp, Mouillot
The relative importance of variables in determining area burned is an important management consideration although gaining insights from existing empirical data has proven difficult. The purpose of this study was to compare the sensitivity of modeled area burned to environmental…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Opperman, Gould, Finney, Tymstra
There is currently no spatial wildfire spread and growth simulation model used commonly across New Zealand or Australia. Fire management decision-making would be enhanced through the use of spatial fire simulators. Various groups from around the world met in January 2006 to…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williams
Over time, events that would not have been disasters, or even emergencies, are now major catastrophes. The increase in world population, the movement of this population to vulnerable areas, has created a situation where 100's of thousands of people die, and 100's of billions of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barkley
A University of Idaho Extension publication explaining the causes, mechanics, behavior and suppresion of wildfire. Identifies potential effects on vegetation, wildlife, soils and watersheds and offers a postfire management plan.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Ottmar
Concerns about wildland fuel levels and a growing wildland-urban interface (WUI) have pushed wildland fire risk mitigation strategies to the forefront of fire management activities. Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinnings) fuel treatments have become the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke
Over the past 4 decades, there has been a doubling of the annual area burned across the North American boreal region [1], resulting in new challenges for fire management and intensified concerns about the effect that an increase in large wildfires may have on ecosystems and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks, Alexander, Wotton, Stefner, Flannigan, Taylor, Lavoie, Mason, Hartley, Maffey, Dalrymple, Blake, Cruz, Lanoville
The referencing of the y- and x-axes in the caption to Fig. 6 on p. 1557 of this paper was inadvertently transposed. The y-axis pertains to the predictions and the x-axis relates to the observed forward spread rates.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schieck, Song
Within boreal forests of western North America, the dominant large-scale natural disturbance is wildfire. Thus, harvesting that is as similar as possible to fire is expected to best maintain natural bird communities. We reviewed studies of birds (mainly grouse, woodpeckers, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS