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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Contains descriptions of fuel types.
Year: 2004
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Teed, Camill, Umbanhowar, Geiss, Murphy, Dorr
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tark
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Loehle
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Litvak, Goulden
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Joy
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hunter, Omi
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hudak, Robinson, Gould, Gonzalez, Hollingsworth
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guyette, Stambaugh, Day
Wildland fire regimes vary with human population density, topography, and climate. The significance of these factors is often difficult to understand and identify at short temporal and small spatial scales. Dendrochronological fire histories from Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bowersox, Arabas
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balice, Koch, Webb, Little
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cruz, Alexander, Wakimoto
The unknowns in wildland fire phenomenology lead to a simplified expirical model approach for predicting the onset of crown fires in live coniferous forests on level terrain. Model parameterization is based on a data set (n = 71) generated from conducting outdoor experimental…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
'Modeling is fine as long as you know what you are doing.' General remark made to the author by a retired University of Alberta forestry professor a few years ago. The April 1988 issue of the Journal of Forestry published an article by John J. Garland that I have often handed…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Many mathematical models exist for calculating various features of wildland fire behavior. Some are easy to use, some very complicated, but all will be found to produce results which do not always agree with observed fire behavior. In some instances, the disagreement can be…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Stocks
The 22nd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference featured a special session on selected aspects of the wildland fire research carried out during the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), co-chaired by M.E. Alexander of the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) and R.A.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yoder
Prescribed fire as a wildfire risk mitigation tool is receiving increasing attention in the United States after a century of emphasis on suppression. A dynamic economic model of prescribed fire use, precaution, and timing is developed and applied to three important policy issues…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loehle
Fire spreads in a specifically spatial manner, which suggests the applicability of percolation models to the risk reduction problem. It is shown that under fairly general conditions a threshold exists below which a landscape becomes essentially fireproof. Arranging treated acres…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
van Mantgem, Schwartz
We subjected 159 small ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex P. & C. Laws.) to treatments designed to test the relative importance of stem damage as a predictor of postfire mortality. The treatments consisted of a group with the basal bark artificially thinned, a second…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Tymstra, Frederick
A workshop was held at the Provincial Forest Fire Centre in Edmonton on September 23, 2004 where wildland fire research and fire operations personnel (T. Van Nest, D. Quintilio, J. Beverly, D. Cousin, G. Baxter and authors) reviewed and discussed the currently available…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yoder, Blatner
Prescribed fire use for wildfire fuel reduction entails trading one risk for another. Because these risks change over time as vegetation matures, prescribed fire use for wildfire risk mitigation can be viewed as a timing problem. We examine economic incentives for prescribed…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White, Pendleton, Pendleton
Prescribed fire was used in two separate semi-arid grasslands to reduce shrub cover, promote grass production through reduced competition by shrubs, and reduce danger from potential wildfire in the urban/wildland interface. The cover of woody shrubs, grass, and bare ground cover…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wheeler
Efforts to reduce fire danger in the wildland/urban interface (WUI) are finally getting the attention they deserve. National and State funding is addressing a century of ecosystem degradation. Local communities are practicing preventive maintenance through fuels reduction and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rohde
I recently completed a study providing insight into critical decisions by command officers on some of California's most notorious wildfires in the wildland/urban interface (WUI). My study focused on the first several hours of response to the fires, a period of time when…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vaz, André, Viegas
The standard formula used to estimate the radiation extinction coefficient, kb (m-1), of solid porous natural fuel beds is examined and tested against laboratory experiments with isotropic beds of pine needles in the range of packing ratio, β, of 0.01-0.02. To measure kb in…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark, Coen, Latham
This paper describes a coupled fire-atmosphere model that uses a sophisticated high-resolution non-hydrostatic numerical mesoscale model to predict the local winds which are then used as input to the prediction of fire spread. The heat and moisture fluxes from the fire are then…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS