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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Robinson, Kurz, Pollack, Listar
A metric variant of Prognosis (also known as the Forest Vegetation Simulator) has been linked to the Western Root Disease extension, and used to explore the interaction between partial harvesting, Armillaria root disease and productivity in 24 stratified combinations of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the Preface ... 'The conference organizers hoped to accomplish three primary objectives. First was to document how forest vegetation simulation is being incorporated into project-level analysis, watershed analysis, and strategic planning. This provided a forum to learn…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gonzalez
Prescribed burning costs are extemely variable, even if conditions are similar. This variability complicates planning and evaluation of prescribed burning programs and budgets, resulting in imprecise projecions of their economic benefits. Evaluating the worth of prescribed…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sheppard, Farnsworth
Fire has been a global disturbance agent for thousands of years. As an ecological process that helped shape the floral and faunal communities of western North America, fire also maintained the health and diversity of forest until European settlers arrived. Since presettlement,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murphy, Cole
From the text... "Futurist biologists have stated that the success of Endangered and Threatened Species recovery programs is not to keep habitats in original and/or untouched conditions (De Blieu 1993). A practical goal is to "Reshape habitats so they can exist in a thickly…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Myers
Fire regimes are sets of recurring conditions of fire that characterize given fife-maintained ecosystems. On any given area, a fire regime is also a unique fire history. In biodiversity conservation, one should distinguish between the concept of a "natural” fire regime and a…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stanton
Most ecosystems in North America evolved with the aid of periodic fires. Managers of natural areas, including prairies and wetlands, who seek to maintain ecologically diverse sites will at some point explore the use of fire in their management program. This article introduces…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The number of wildland fires in Canada has been increasing steadily since 1960 and the area burned appears to have tripled since 1980. There are many possible reasons for the apparent trend. A workshop of Canadian fire experts was convened to 'understand the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schuster, Cleaves, Bell
Forest Service expenditures for fire presuppression and suppression activities increased from $61 million in FY 1970 to $951 million in FY 1994. Yet, real (net of inflation) expenditures have not increased significantly since FY 1970, if FY 1994 expenditures are excluded. During…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bradshaw, Law
PCDANGER is a personal computer application of the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) that calculates both 1978 and 1988 version fire danger indexes from daily weather observations and forecasts. Its computational routines (NFDRCALC) are the same as those used in the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reifsnyder
From the text ... 'One area where great strides can be made is in the climatology of fire weather and its application to fire planning. Recent advances have been made in application of climatology to agriculture, and many of the same principles can be applied to forest fire…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pierovich
Fire management demands that we (1) mke the best use of whatis known to us, (2) add to our knowledge, (3) assess the possibilites andd the probabilities offuture events, (4) obtain meaningful pulic choices.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kerr
'...With that impressionistic gallop through history as a backdrop, let me touch upon some of the technical material that has come to light as a result of urban fires and the research devoted to their prevention and cure. Perhaps the dominant area of uncertainty and of study…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kill
Sixty-three lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. var. latifolia Engelm.) trees were measured on the ground, felled, and their crowns and stems were weighed. The combined independent variables on tree height and crown width gave the most precise estimate of fuel components. No…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
This report evaluates 24 computer-aided decision support systems (DSS) that can support management decision-making in forest ecosystems. It compares the scope of each system, spatial capabilities, computational methods, development status, input and output requirements, user…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fosberg, Deeming
Procedures for calculating the moisture contents of 1- and 10-hour timelag fuels have been developed based on theoretical calculations of the rate of moisture transport in wood. The 1 -hour timelag calculation is superior to fine fuel moisture calculations developed previously…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burgan, Andrews, Bradshaw, Chase, Hartford, Latham
The Fire Behavior Research Work Unit (RWU) of the Intermountain Research Station has been developing the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) since 1994. The WFAS will eventually combine the functionality of the current fire-danger rating system (Deeming et al. 1977) and the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Latham, Burgan, Chase, Bradshaw
Lightning location data are superimposed on lightning ignition potential and on fire danger as experimental phase 1 map products of the Wildland Fire Assessment System. As pilot components of this next generation fire danger/fire behavior system, the maps are designed to help…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown
A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM computes duff and woody fuel consumption, smoke production, and fire-caused tree mortality for most forest and rangeland types in the United States.…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw
A computer program, FIRES: Fire Information Retrieval and Evaluation System, provides methods for evaluating the performance of fire danger rating indexes. The relationship between fire danger indexes and historical fire occurrence and size is examined through logistic…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fosberg, Schroeder
Fuel moisture inputs into fire-danger rating or fire behavior models are generally related to fuel classes. To account for as many fuels as possible and still keep the number of inputs to a minimum, we have adopted the procedure of adjusting the fine fuel moisture with respect…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
The results of this study clearly indicate that during the 5-year period covered by the fire reports, the fire load during periods of High and Extreme danger exceeds the capability of the fire control agency. Changing land values and future land management demands point to the…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deeming
Regardless of what meaning a user attaches to fire-danger ratings the expected fire behavior is the common base on which any interpretation ultimately depends. In order for a fire-danger rating system to be useful, it must accurately and consistently predict the basic aspects of…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dieterich, Pickford
Prescribed burning produces particulate and gaseous air pollutants in relatively small amounts over the course of an entire year. However, on any given day, the pollutants resulting from prescribed burning may constitute a major fraction of the local or regional air pollution…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS