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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Fege, Corrigall
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor
Recreation is of increasing importance in forest environments. Fire has both short-term effects, trail closures, smoke impacts; and long-term effects, residual 'scars,' potential hazards, on forest recreation. The general public is gaining sophistication in understanding forest…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wakimoto
The public outcry about the 1988 fires in Yellowstone National Park and adjacent natural forests, coupled with concern among natural resource managers, convinced the Secretaries of the Departments of Interior and Agriculture to establish the Fire Management Policy Review Team in…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
In the aftermath of the Greater Yellowstone Area fires of 1988, scientists from all across North America recognized the once in a lifetime research opportunities these fires presented. For a host of reasons, the Yellowstone fires were unique, due largely to their grand scale and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
The l988 fire season was very significant to the western United States. The U.S. fire situation generated a high level of concern among Alberta Forest Service's fire managers. It helped to reinforce a long-argued policy-that of excluding unmanaged wildfire from the provincial…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stechishen, Murray
This paper gives an overview of the history of forest fire fighting foam, foam characteristics, criteria critical to product selection, the benefits of using foam, and the results of effectiveness trials and evaluations. Source: Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Warren
Forest industry involvement in wildfire protection reduces fire risk and potential economic losses. This paper highlights Weldwood's Hinton Division involvement and goals towards wildfire control and management as a Forest Management Agreement (FMA) operator. Fire control…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Day
In Canada's national parks, ecological integrity cannot be maintained solely through protection. Active management is required to ensure that long-term processes such as fire continue their natural role. In the park areas, the mean annual natural burn area likely exceeded 1000…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murphy
The setting of the first annual meeting and workshop of the Interior West Fire Council in the historic Kananaskis Valley provides an opportunity to draw on local lessons from the past to guide and caution us during our rapid transition to the future. Six stages or hierarchies…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beall
The year 1925, in which J.G. Wright formulated his concept of a fire-hazard rating system, is perhaps the most significant date in the evolution of forest-fire research in Canada. But a decade earlier the first (though transitory) attempt in this country to quantify the…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barkow
Fire is becoming recognized as a major issue throughout the North American continent. The last several years have seen major fire seasons in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. There are five areas where an international approach to fire management will be useful. Technology…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
Sustaining the availability and quality of forest and rangeland ecosystems is a problem facing our society now and into the future. Since fire is a significant process in these ecosystems, managing fire is a part of this environmental problem. Insufficient knowledge seriously…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Philpot
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hawkes
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mutch
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Eenigenburg
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Young, Ogg, Dotray
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stevens
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heikes, Ransohoff, Small
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ward
My discussion starts with some of the chemical aspects of forest fuels important from an emissions production standpoint. Then combustion processes are discussed. Finally, the emissions are described according to particulate matter and gaseous fractions.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lobert, Scharffe, Hao, Crutzen
BIOMASS burning is a primary source of many trace substances that are important in atmospheric chemistry. More than 80% of the world's biomass burning takes place in the tropics as a result of savanna fires, forest-clearing activity, and the burning of agricultural waste and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werth, Ochoa
[no description entered]
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS