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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Prestemon, Abt, Holmes
ANNOTATION: This paper outlines a Joint Fire Science Program funded study, 'A national study of the economic impacts of biomass removals to mitigate wildfire damages on federal, state, and private lands.' The study involves using the treatment-product and cost information…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bain, Overend
ANNOTATION: Bain and Overend provide a national history of biomass used for energy, a brief market and supply analysis, and a current status of technology. They additionally identify research needs. ABSTRACT: Biomass is the single largest source of non-hydro renewable…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Badger
ANNOTATION: The purpose of this study was to identify and characterize all the receiving, handling, storing, and processing steps required to make woody biomass feedstocks suitable for use in direct combustion and gasification applications, including small modular biopower (SMB…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Storrar
An objective of the soil research program has been to measure forest soil erodibility for erosion prediction. Gathering the data is challenging because samples have to be collected onsite under actual field conditions. These conditions include sites before and after timber…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lisle, Luce, Ziemer, May
Wildfire poses special problems for land-use planners. Responses to fire must be planned in a short period immediately after a fire, relying heavily on information compiled before the extent and severity of the actual fire is known. Secondly, it has been difficult to learn from…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server. The Internet server allows maps of ventilation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Native village of Tanacross is in the Tanana River valley in Alaska's interior region. Surrounded by a dense stand of white spruce pole timber with transition to dense black spruce it was at risk for crown-type fires. In 2001, a unique approach to reduce wildfire threat and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The BLM Alaska Fire Service and Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc-a non-profit corporation formed by and for Alaska Native villages-have initiated a three-year Fuels Treatment Demonstration Project, with funding from the Joint Fire Science Program. The Joint Fire Science Program is…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crookston, Havis
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a computer program that projects the development of forest stands in the United States and British Columbia, Canada. The proceedings of the second FVS conference, held in Fort Collins, CO, includes 34 papers dealing with applications of…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stage
Describes a set of computer programs for developing prognoses of the development of existing stand under alternative regimes of management. Calibration techniques, modeling procedures, and a procedure for including stochastic variation are described. Implementation of the system…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dixon
This document synthesizes information in various users' guides relating to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS), and updates that information to be consistent with current model capabilities. This guide explains FVS data input requirements, the keyword system, model output…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Luo, Neilson, Tian, Vorosmarty, Zhu, Liu
We have constructed a phenological model of leaf area index (LAI) of forests based on biological principles of leaf growth. Field data of maximum LAI from 794 plots with mature or nearly mature stand ages over China were used to parameterize and calibrate the model. New…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gedalof, Mantua, Peterson
Annual growth increments from trees and coral heads provide an opportunity to develop proxy records of climatic variability that extend back in time well beyond the earliest instrumental records, and in regions where records have not been kept. Here we combine five published…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Little, Calfee
Major Results: 1) The presence of YPS (sodium ferrocyanide) increased the toxicity of fire retardants. 2) Ultraviolet radiation increased the toxicity of fire retardants containing YPS. 3) Toxic cyanide concentrations were observed during stream tests. 4) Toxicity of fire…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zalatan
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout, Botti
A new fire management paradigm reflects broadening goals, increased responsibilities, the need for interagency systems, and heightened performance accountability. Current program analysis models developed in a previous era can no longer support the expanded responsibilities and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The site your home is on is critical to its fire safety. Nine tips help homeowners ensure that their home is situated and maintained in a way that protects it from the risk of wildfire.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee
The hard lesson that we should take away from the last decade of fire management in drier forests is that a choice to do nothing is a choice of action, not always with a desirable outcome.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Brown
Measuring hillslope erosion has historically been a costly, time-consuming practice. An easy to install low-cost technique using silt fences (geotextile fabric) and tipping bucket rain gauges to measure onsite hillslope erosion was developed and tested. Equipment requirements,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Forthofer
How close is too close when fighting a forest fire? Wind, temperature and "real" heat energy are all factors that should be considered when determining the safety zone.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
A relation between fire behavior and crown scorch height is derived from measurements on 13 experimental outdoor fires. The range of data includes fire intensities from 16 to 300 kcal/s-m, and scorch heights from 2 to 17 m. The results agree with established theory that scorch…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
Landscapes are strongly shaped by the degree of interaction between pattern and process. This paper examines how ecological memory, the degree to which an ecological process is shaped by its past modifications of a landscape, influences landscape dynamics. I use a simulation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Machlis, Kaplan, Tuler, Bagby, McKendry
A report to NWCG based on a review of existing social science literature, an analysis of social science needs, and a needs assessment based on input from 11 workshops held around the country. The report offers a research agenda that describes what research is needed, why it is…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Albini, Bevins, Brittain, Butler, Catchpole, Finney
PROJECT OBJECTIVES As requested under Tasks 8 and 9, user-friendly modeling systems designed for local use will be provided for modeling smoke from wildland fires. These tools will provide a means for conducting tradeoff analyses, with a focus on emissions production, of…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Russell, Arbaugh, Kimberlin, Omi, Ottmar, Rideout, Snell, Wiitala
The project objectives are as follows: Phase I Model Development 1. Prepare a prototype FETM Version 4.0, incorporating any required revisions to the wildfire size and fire distribution algorithms. The prototype model would be used in the field test of candidate vegetation…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES