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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Annual appropriations to prepare for and respond to wildland fires have increased substantially over the past decade, in recent years totaling about $3 billion. The Forest Service within the Department of Agriculture and four agencies within the Department of the Interior (…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guldin, Graham
Silviculture is increasingly being applied in ways that go beyond traditional timber management objectives. Across the National Forest System, on other public lands, and increasingly on private lands as well, foresters are working with professional colleagues and landowners to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thorpe, Thomas, Caspersen
Variants of partial harvesting are gaining favour as means to balance ecosystem management and timber production objectives on managed boreal forest landscapes. Understanding how residual trees respond to these alternative silvicultural treatments is a critical step towards…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joly, Jandt, Meyers, Cole
The population of the Western Arctic Herd, estimated at 490,000 caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) in 2003, is at its highest level in 30 years. Twenty permanent range transects were established in the winter range of the Western Arctic Herd in 1981 to assess the impacts of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joly, Bente, Dau
Caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) use lichens, when available, as primary forage on their winter range. In boreal forest habitats, wildland fires effectively destroy lichens, and overwintering caribou are known to avoid burned areas for decades while lichen communities…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fosberg
The model was developed from numerical and analytical solutions of the diffusion forms of the mass continuity equation and the first law of thermodynamics. Analytical solutions provided a functional framework to evaluate nonlinear interactions obtained in the numerical solutions…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George
Several fire retardants in current use were dropped from the Canadair CL-215 to determine drop height effects and for evaluation of the tank and gating system. This was accomplished through the quantification and analysis of the characteristics of the ground distribution…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Albini
Describes an algorithm for separating fuel depth data into distinctive groups of measurements. The algorithm is justified heuristically, through its mathematical similarity to the "tuner" of a radio receiver. Test data generated artificially were used to maximize the sensitivity…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Zhou, Mahalingam, Weise
This paper presents a combined study of laboratory scale fire spread experiments and a three-dimensional large eddy simulation (LES) to analyze the effect of terrain slope on marginal burning behavior in live chaparral shrub fuel beds. Line fire was initiated in single species…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Otto
A report is hereby given to the results of an originally seemingly inconspicuous burn in a simple simulated urban street arrangement which is inductive to probable gross vortex formation. These results reveal in vivid details a series of most unusual and exciting events of gross…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winkler, Potter, Wilhelm, Shadbolt, Piromsopa, Bian
The Haines Index is an operational tool for evaluating the potential contribution of dry, unstable air to the development of large or erratic plume-dominated wildfires. The index has three variants related to surface elevation, and is calculated from temperature and humidity…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pyne
Wildland fire research has historically orbited around a physical paradigm of fire. This strategy has yielded remarkable results, yet increasingly it cannot speak to the core issues that concern fire management. Two additional paradigms are needed. One would build on fire's…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viegas
It is shown that the shape of the fire perimeter is not always a regular line. In flank or down-slope fires, the fire line can assume a zigzag shape with kinks at practically orthogonal angles. These kinks are associated with convection cells that generate local equilibrium…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The research and development (R&D) arm of the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with approximately 550 researchers in a range of biological, physical, and social science fields, seeks to better understand and describe the complex mechanisms at work in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Furniss, Clifton, Ronnenberg
This conference was attended by nearly 450 Forest Service earth scientists representing hydrology, soil science, geology, and air. In addition to active members of the earth science professions, many retired scientists also attended and participated. These 60 peer-reviewed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cary, Keane, Flannigan
Wildland fire is a significant disturbance in many ecosystems worldwide and the interaction of fire with climate and vegetation over long time spans has major effects on vegetation dynamics, ecosystem carbon budgets, and patterns of biodiversity. Landscape-Fire-Succession Models…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The International Association of Wildland Fire sponsored the second Fire Behavior and Fuels conference in Destin, Florida. The conference theme was 'Fire Environment--Innovations, Management, and Policy.' Over 450 attendees participated in presentations on the latest innovations…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Countryman
Three ingredients are essential for a wildland fire to start and to burn. First, there must be burnable fuel available. Then enough heat must be applied to the fuel to raise its temperature to the ignition point. And finally, there must be enough air to supply oxygen needed to…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Kelley
This poster is an overview of application of BehavePlus to prescribed fire planning.
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bevins, Seli
This poster is an overview of BehavePlus (versions 3 and 4). It includes a brief description of each module.
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forthofer
Currently, no methods of predicting microscale, terrain influenced winds are available to fire managers. This study evaluated three methods of providing surface wind information to fire growth models. One was simply a uniform wind speed and direction, a method that has been…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turk, Hunt
In traditional mechanics of materials, the stiffness of a beam or plate in bending is described by its cross-sectional shape as well as its material properties, primarily the modulus of elasticity. Previous work at the USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, has…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alig
With increasing opportunity costs of keeping land in forests because of increasing values for other land uses, such as for developed uses, forest ownership may become less attractive for some landowners and the return on investment less viable for both private and public…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Camp, Omi, Huffman, Cronan
This report consists of two parts. Part I was conducted by Yale University and investigates the relationship between stand age and fire behavior in black spruce forests of interior Alaska. Part II was conducted by Colorado State University and examines the utility of two fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wong, Cummings
Aim: The purpose of this review was to describe findings of a systematic review of studies that examine the relationship between nursing leadership and patient outcomes. Background: With recent attention directed to the creation of safer practice environments for patients,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES