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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Revegetation with native species: proceedings, 1997 Society of Ecological Restoration annual meeting
The seven papers in this proceedings address the current state of knowledge and application of ecological restoration in the Western United States. They provide an overview of: rangeland revegetation lessons as they apply to ecological restoration today; USDI National Park…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goode, Yokelson, Susott, Ward
The trace gas emissions from six biomass fires, including three grass fires, were measured using a Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer coupled to an open-path, multipass cell (OP-FTIR). The quantified emissions consisted of carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, water vapor,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiitala
Resource managers are frequently concerned that the area burned by wildfire over time will impede achievement of land management objectives. Methods that use the Poisson probability model to quantify that risk are described. The methods require a concise statement of an adverse…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiitala
A mathematical optimization model, based on the operations research technique of deterministic dynamic programming, is offered as a method to search quickly through available options to find the economically efficient set of initial attack resources to suppress a wildfire.…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Babiuch, Farhar
Stakeholder analysis is a process that allows analysts to identify how parties are likely to be affected by government projects and programs, referred to as 'proposed actions.' The process involves identifying the likely impacts of a proposed action and the affected stakeholder…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This guide will help you translate the complicated scientific and technical information generated at CDC into material that captures and keeps the interest of your intended readers. It will teach you how to write simply, use language and visuals that your audience relates to and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The 'public' are all the stakeholders in the resource-planning area. The public includes those who serve on the Planning Committee, and those who are not actively involved in the planning process. This fact sheet focuses on noncommittee members of the public, and ways that…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trelles, McGrattan, Baum
The effect that the wind's vertical variation has on fire plume behaviour is investigated. A parabolized set of governing equations are discretized using finite differences to arrive at the numerical model. Lagrangian particles are used to visualize the flow, account for…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fric, Roshko
Structural features resulting from the interaction of a turbulent jet issuing transversely into a uniform stream are described with the help of flow visualization and hot-wire anemometry. Jet-to-crossflow velocity ratios from 2 to 10 were investigated at crossflow Reynolds…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McKenzie, Hao, Richards, Ward
The major condensible products (-45ºC) from smoldering combustion of ponderosa pine sapwood have been identified and quantified. Methylene chloride extracts of the condensate, as well as nonextracted condensate, were analyzed by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MC). Non-…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jackson, Adams, Jackson
In a simulation model, the relative advantage of negative versus positive allometry of defense, that is, early versus delayed defensive investment, depends on the forms of the relationships between body size and growth, body size and mortality deterrence, and defense size and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Turner, Romme
Crown fires create broad-scale patterns in vegetation by producing a patch mosaic of stand age classes, but the spread and behavior of crown fires also may be constrained by spatial patterns in terrain and fuels across the landscape. In this review, we address the implications…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leighty, Blume
Current information is presented detailing the interagency fire management planning efforts between the Bureau of Land Management's Grand Junction District and the USDA Forest Service's White River National Forest. The project is based on interdisciplinary input from an…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Slaughter
Flexibility in the Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plan allowed for varied responses to three Modified fires, all located within 15 miles of Bettles, Alaska. Discussions with land managers about values at risk, potential cost, probability of success, fuels, and fire behavior…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mangan
Standardizing equipment and clothing can reduce the costs of fighting wildfires by allowing items to be purchased in large quantities. In the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, equipment is developed at two Technology and Development Centers, one in Missoula,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cleaves, Haines, Martínez
The results of a survey from 1985 to 1994 of the USDA Forest Service's National Forest System prescribed burning activity and costs are examined. Fuels management officers from 95 National Forests reported costs and acreage burned for 4 types of prescribed fire, including slash…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout, Loomis, Omi
The increased importance of non-market values in land management planning means that fire management and planning needs to more directly and effectively incorporate them into the planning and decision-making process. This means developing better understanding of the role of non-…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
Understanding how ignitions occur is critical for effectively mitigating home fire losses during wildland fires. The threat of life and property losses during wildland fires is a significant issue for Federal, State, and local agencies that have responsibilities involving homes…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hesseln, Rideout
Evolving wildfire management policies are aimed at more comprehensive treatments of current wildland fire management problems. Key policies are identified that affect wildfire and fuels management. Policies are discussed in the context of institutional factors such as…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Snyder
Wildland fire protection in the United States has evolved from predominantly protecting natural resources values to protecting values of the urban-wildland interface. Providing fire protection in this 'unnatural' ecosystem has become more complex. Wildland fire suppression costs…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hesseln, Rideout
Wildland fire management strategies often have long-term economic and ecological impacts, as evidenced by the increase in fire danger resulting from the total suppression policy of the last several decades. In the long run, the choice of an optimal wildland fire management…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Rideout, Omi
The economic efficiency of the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS) and FIREPRO is examined. A brief history of the two programs is provided, as well as recent improvements to the contemporary theory of cost plus net value change (C+NVC). The NFMAS process is…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McAlpine, Hirsch
The Level of Protection Analysis System (LEOPARDS) allows the structured assessment of the outcomes and costs associated with alternative fire management policies, budgets, and suppression resource mixes. Its primary component is a deterministic, spatially conscious simulation…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schuster, Krebs
A sensitivity analysis was conducted of the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS) to better understand the relationship between data input and model output. After consultations with fire managers and researchers, five input variables were selected for sensitization:…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lundgren
Wildland fire suppression policy in the USDA Forest Service has evolved over the years from forceful attempts to control all wildland fires at the smallest possible size to consideration of other land management and economic factors during suppression decision making. In 1978,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES