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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Brown
A fire regime classification that recognizes stand-replacement, nonlethal understory, mixed and variable fire severities is discussed as a simplified approach for communicating widely about the natural role of fire. Examples of the fire regime types are provided. Five challenges…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grilz, Romo
Smooth brome (Bromus inermis Leyss.), an introduced perennial grass is an aggressive invader of prairie dominated by plains rough fescue (Festuca altaica Trin. subsp. hallii [Vasey] Harms). We (1) compared richness and density of plant species in brome and fescue stands that…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini, Reinhardt
As part of the development of a model for predicting fuel loading reductions by and intensity histories of fires burning in large woody natural fuels, it was necessary to develop separate models for the processes of ignition and rate of burning of individual fuel elements. This…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
French, Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, Berry
The results of a study using satellite imagery to map boreal forest fires in Alaska in 1990 and 1991 are presented. Composite AVHRR data was found to detect more than 80% of fires greater than 2,000 ha in size Addidonally, using a two season method, 78% of the area of all boreal…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bessie, Johnson
Surface fire intensity (kilowatts per metre) and crown fire initiation were predicted using Rothermel's 1972 and Van Wagner's 1977 fire models with fuel data from 47 upland subalpine conifer stands (comprising Pinus contorta var. latifolia, Picea engelmannii, Abies lasiocarpa…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tirmenstein, Long, Heward
The Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT) is a custom ArcMap toolbar that provides an interface between ArcGIS desktop software, FlamMap3 algorithms (Finney 2006) and First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) algorithms (Reinhardt 2003) to produce predicted fire behavior and fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The 2012 wildfire season isn't over yet, but already this year is shaping up to be the one of the worst on record in the American West. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, with nearly two months still to go in the fire season, the total area already burned this…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire simulation models that consider the complex dynamics of weather, fuels, and terrain are essential to forecasting fire behavior. A growing number of such models are available, so understanding the differences in their predictions and sensitivity to drivers of fire behavior…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This file memo documents the authors' initial thoughts on a broad scale fire danger classification scheme for Alaska back in 1995 and subsequently followed up by some additional comments in 2012.
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
A fire growth model (FARSITE) has been developed for use on personal computers (PC's). Because PC's are commonly used by land and fire managers, this portable platform would be an accustomed means to bring fire growth modeling technology to management applications. The FARSITE…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blonski
One of the traditional roles that prescribed fire has played in the fire management arena is reduction of hazardous fuel buildups under controlled, well-defined environmental conditions. However, our ability to use this tool effectively is blocked by many barriers. The preceding…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin, Sapsis
Wildland fires have occurred for centuries in North America and other selected countries and can be segregated into three periods: prehistoric (presuppression) fires, suppression period fires, and fire management period fires. Prehistoric fires varied in size and damage but were…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pierpont, Nehoda, Williams
Prescribed fire has been recognized as a potential tool for land managers for many years. The gradual recognition of the important role of fire in wildlands has been documented many times. In the United States, this recognition probably first occurred in the longleaf pine region…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turner, Koerper, Harmon, Lee
The potential need for national-level comparisons of greenhouse gas emissions, and the desirability of understanding terrestrial sources and sinks of carbon, has prompted interest in quantifying national forest carbon budgets. In this study, we link a forest inventory database,…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gallant, Binnian, Omernik, Shasby
A map of ecoregions of Alaska has been produced as a framework for organizing and interpreting environmental data for State, national, and international inventory, monitoring, and research efforts. The map and descriptions of 20 ecological regions were derived by synthesizing…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues about wildfire and prescribed fire in both the wildland-urban interface and in wildlands. Thirty-eight invited oral papers and 23 poster papers describing the issues and state-of-the-art…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beer
A simple geometrical model of fire spread through arrays of vertically mounted fuel elements performs well in the absence of wind. The theory assumes that an adjacent fuel element ignites when the flame from the previous fuel element moves downward sufficiently that its…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Albini, Reinhardt
As part of the development of a model for predicting fuel loading reductions by and intensity histories of fires burning in large woody natural fuels, it was necessary to develop separate models for the processes of ignition and rate of burning of individual fuel elements. This…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Richards, Bryce
This work describes a computer based technique for simulating the spread of wildland fire for heterogeneous fuel and meteorological conditions. The mathematical model is in the form of a pair of partial differential equations, and can model fuels whose fire perimeter for…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Richards
This work considers the modelling of two dimensional fire spread for heterogeneous fuel and meteorological conditions. Differential equations are used as the modelling form, and a set of partial differential equations that describes fire growth in terms of the rate of spread at…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Robberecht, Defossé
The response of two bunchgrass species, Festuca idahoensis and Agropyron spicatum, to fire was examined under three levels of fire severity. The fire treatment was applied with an instrument system that allowed precise control over the intensity and duration of fire, and full…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Maclean
A writer's reflection on the stories of fatal fire - and why we must remember.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nguyen
Forest harvest scheduling has been modeled using deterministic and stochastic programming models. Past models seldom address explicit spatial forest management concerns under the influence of natural disturbances. In this research study, we employ multistage full recourse…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oliver
National forest managers are charged with tackling the effects of climate change on the natural resources under their care. The Forest Service National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change and the Climate Change Performance Scorecard require managers to make significant…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mercer, Prestemon
The economics of wildfire is complicated because wildfire behavior depends on the spatial and temporal scale at which management decisions made, and because of uncertainties surrounding the results of management actions. Like the wildfire processes they seek to manage,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES