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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Yount, Niemi
We present a narrative account of case studies of the recovery of flowing water systems from disturbance, focusing on the investigators' conclusions about recovery time and the factors contributing to recovery. We restrict our attention to case studies in which the recovery of…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Lachowski, Rodman, Shovic
The 1988 fires created a lot of changes in land cover in Greater Yellowstone Area, an area of several million acres administered by the Park Service, Forest Service and other Federal, State and private owners. Remotely sensed data, such as aerial photography and imagery…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ffolliott
Fire, either as a natural occurrence or a management tool, can have beneficial effects on the environment, and its use offers opportunities for reducing fuel loads, disposing of slash, preparing seedbeds, thinning stands, increasing herbaceous plant production, increasing…
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
Andrews, Bradshaw
The program RXWINDOW is intended to help fire managers develop prescription windows based on desired fire behavior. It is the fifth program in the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system. It reverses calculations found elsewhere in BEHAVE. In RXWINDOW, the user…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Branhagen
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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
Risser
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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
Cortner, Taylor, Carpenter, Cleaves
Fire managers from five western regions of the USDA Forest Service were surveyed to determine which decision factors most strongly influenced their fire-risk behavior. Three fire-decision contexts were tested: Escaped Wildfire, Prescribed Burning, and Long-Range Fire Budget…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mutch
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deselm, Clebsch
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ball
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Young, Ogg, Dotray
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stevens
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heikes, Ransohoff, Small
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Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blakely
Water alone was the principal agent reducing flaming combustion to smoldering combustion; adding chemical retardant contributed only a slight additional reduction. Water alone was significantly less effective than chemical mixtures in reducing final energy release rates and…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, 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