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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alexander, Andrews
From the introduction: The purpose of the Symposium on Wildland Fire 2000 was to examine the 'possible, preferred, and probable status of wildland fire management and research in the year 2000 and beyond' (David and Martin 1987). A half-day 'futuring' session was an integral…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Lanoville
The behavior of free-burning forest fires is controlled by the fire environment (i.e., the surrounding conditions, influences, and modifying forces of topography, fuels, and weather). Successful fire management depends very heavily upon, among other things, an intimate knowledge…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berg
The proceedings is a collection of papers presented at the Symposium on Fire and Watershed Management - the second biennial conference of the Watershed Management Council-held in Sacramento, California, October 26-28, 1988. Included are two luncheon addresses, seven papers on…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weber
Some basic fire behavior phenomena are described in terms of analytical solutions to simple physical models for the heating of unburned fuel to ignition temperature by radiation from the combustion region. The most interesting result is a model for the intrinsic acceleration…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larsen
Record of observations on forest/tundra ecology. Discusses northern soils, plant communities, climate, and faunal relationships. Includes maps, data, aerial photographs.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Latham, Schlieter
Ignition of wildland fine fuels by lightning was simulated with an electric arc discharge in the laboratory. The results showed that fuel parameters such as depth, moisture content, bulk density, and mineral content can be combined with the duration of the simulated continuing…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Chase
The BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system is a set of interactive computer programs. BEHAVE provides mathematical prediction models in one easy-to-use package. This paper describes prediction capabilities that have been added to the system. Since 1984, BEHAVE…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chrosciewicz
Moisture contents of organic forest-floor materials were studied by strata in a semi-mature jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) stand in relation to their within-stand locations and changes in both duff moisture code and fine fuel moisture code, the two weather-based components of…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chrosciewicz
Moisture contents of organic forest-floor materials were studied by strata on a clear-cut jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) site in relation to slash distribution and changes in both duff moisture code and fine fuel moisture code, the two weather-based components of the Canadian…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephenson
ANNOTATION: This paper provides an overview of the concept, development, and technology of flail debarkers.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmoldt
Residential encroachment into wildland areas places an additional burden on fire management activities. Prevention programs, fuel management efforts, and suppression strategies, previously employed in wildland areas, require modification for protection of increased values at…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fritts, Swetnam
This chapter reviews basis for some fundamental techniques, principles, and practices of dendroecology. Dendroecology refers to applications of dendrochronological techniques to problems in ecology. The important ecological problems for which dendroecological techniques are well…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Simpson
Basic geograpahic information systems and spatial analysis techniques are freqeuntly used in order to gain environmental understanding as a basis for landscape planning. While technical descriptions of such techniques are common, little has been written regarding their…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, de Groot
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
West
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Salazar, Nilsson
Wildland fire managers and planners rely heavily on information that describes environmental and sociological factors. Complex and dynamic interactions among these factors are commonplace, but difficult to model and portray in a useable and understandable way. And when dealing…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks
The expanding use of prescribed fire to achieve North American land management objectives has led, in recent years, to the increased use of helicopter-ignition, large-scale controlled burns. These mass-ignition convection burns often generate extremely intense and erratic fire…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
A scheme is presented for dealing with the full range of fire behavior in conifer forests. It is based on empirical data from fires in Canadian forests plus a theory to describe the physical conditions for the transition from surface to crown fire. In its ideal form, the model…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Mead
Describing structural aspects of forest vegetation is now routine in forest inventories in Alaska. The biomass structure of understory vegetation is considered a necessary part of the inventory process. In this study twig, foliar and combined (twig plus foliar) biomass were…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks, Lawson, Alexander, Van Wagner, McAlpine, Lynham, Dube
Forest fire danger rating research in Canada was initiated by the federal government in 1925. Five different fire danger rating systems have been developed since that time, each with increasing universal applicability across Canada. The approach has been to build on previous…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schwartz, Franzmann
We compared population dynamics for moose (Alces alces) and black bear (Ursus americanus) in an older (1947) and recent (1969) burn from 1978-1988. Moose densities in the 1947 burn were moderately high in early years of study (1.3 moose/km2) but declined dramatically in later…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Risenhoover
I studied the botanical composition and nutritional qualities of moose (Alces alces) winter diets in subalpine habitats in Denali National Park and Preserve (DNPP), Alaska during January-April 1983 and 1984. Feltleaf willow (Salix alaxensis), diamondleaf willow (S. arbusculoides…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pavlov
Notes on article (do not cite): The article focuses on regeneration of the soil and vegetation cover in hummocky tundra with unsorted circles in a mountainous area of Chukotka after a fire. The morphology, soils, and vegetation prior to the fire are analyzed in detail, and…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES