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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McCleese, Nichols, Walton
In this paper, several innovations to the firefighting process are summarized. Organizational innovations include the Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Protection Initiative, common interagency emergency management procedures, and the National Interagency Incident Management System…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson, Bond
The question of which factors limit the occurrence of a plant species to a particular site is addressed by considering 53 cases in which the distribution of pines (Pinus species: Pinaceae) has changed in the last century. We consider expansions of pines in and adjacent to their…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reduced postfire tree regeneration along a boreal forest - forest-tundra transect in northern Quebec
The large 1950s fires that burned > 5500 km2 of land across a south-to-north climatic gradient in northern Quebec provide an opportunity to evaluate the role of fire in forest-tundra development on a demographic basis. The tree population density before and 30 yr after fire…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mallik
A greenhouse experiment was conducted to study the effect of cutting, cutting plus burning, and mulching treatments on Kalmia regrowth. Kalmia plants were transplanted into plastic buckets, and the treatments were applied in the greenhouse. After 8 months, the plants receiving…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flannigan, Wotton
This study investigates the relationship between activity and the occurrence of lightning-ignited forest fires in the Northwestern Region of Ontario. We found that the Duff Moisture Code (a component of the Fire Weather Index System) and the multiplicity of the negative…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yamaguchi
For many types of forest studies, it is essential to identify the exact years of formation of annual rings in increment cores taken from living trees. To accomplish this, dendrochronologists employ cross dating, which involves both ring counting and ring-width pattern matching,…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schwartz, Franzmann
We compared characteristices of 2 black bear (Ursus americanus) populations living in middleaged (1947 burn area) and recent (1969 burn area) burned forest stands on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, during 1982-87. Densities of bears on the 1947 (205 bears/1,000 km2) and 1969 (265…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, Tankersley
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
This article describes the work performed by Steve Otway in partial fulfillment of the requirements for an M.Sc. degree in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science at the University of Alberta. His work has furthered some of the initiatives taken to extend…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
Wildland fire is a significant component of nearly all North American ecosystems. High intensity, stand-replacement fires are normal in certain ecosystems, especially in the northern Rocky Mountains. Wilderness fire managers are obligated to let fire operate as a natural…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
van Wagtendonk
National Park Service policies concerning fire have changed over the years from no policy at all in the early years, through years of absolute fire suppression, to a period of experimentation and refinement with a full spectrum of integrated fire management strategies. During…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith
This paper draws on comments from 89 reporters who covered the fires, on comments from 146 of their news sources, and on evaluations of network television coverage by four groups of wildfire experts. The research also incorporates a content analysis of stories about the fires…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
The essence of the wildland/urban interface fire problem is the loss of homes. The problem is not new, but is becoming increasingly important as more homes with inadequate adherence to safety codes are built at the wildland/urban interface. Current regulatory codes are…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Davi
Computers are rapidly expanding into the urban fire safety area. This paper presents some social implications caused by the use of computers for fire safely databases, arson prediction programs, and fire simulation programs. In regards to the new technological advances this…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fujioka
On the heels of the Yellowstone fires of 1988, a Cabinet-level fire management review team recommended research "to improve the ability to predict severe fire behavior, conduct long-term weather forecasting, and identify past abnormal events." In a 1989 report, a Forest Service…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ball, Guertin
FIREMAP is a model for simulating surface fire spread through heterogeneous fuels and over non-uniform terrain. The model was constructed using PROMAP, a language which allows dynamic spatial models to be constructed using raster GIS data bases. The GIS system is used to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Saveland
Adaptive resource management is a continuous learning process in which current knowledge always leads to further experimentation and discovery. Adaptive management evolves by learning from mistakes. Designing adaptive management strategies involves four tasks. First, the problem…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Baxter, Hsieh
As part of their project on linear disturbances, the Wildland Fire Operations Research Group of the Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada (FERIC) have developed a state-of-the art user-oriented computer program for gauging the effectiveness of firebreaks in stopping…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thomas, Alexander
Fire Management Today and its predecessors collectively now have a 70-year record of publishing on all aspects of wildland fire, including firefighter safety. The authors have served as coordinators and/or contributors for five special issues dealing with the Dude Fire Staff…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Garbutt, Hawkes, Allen
Beginning in about 1990, populations of spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis Kirby (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), reached epidemic levels and began killing drought-stressed white spruce, Picea glaucawithin Kluane National Park and Reserve in the southwest Yukon. By 1994, when the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woodall, Nagel
The species composition of both standing live and down dead trees has been used separately to determine forest stand dynamics in large-scale forest ecosystem assessments. The species composition of standing live trees has been used to indicate forest stand diversity while the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rachaniotis, Pappis
In fire fighting, the time and effort required to control a fire increase if the beginning of the fire containment effort is delayed. Several demand-covering models have been proposed for the deployment of available fire-fighting resources so that a forest fire is attacked…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reed
The concepts of hazard of burning, fire interval, and fire cycle are considered. It is claimed that the current notion of fire cycle is poorly defined, since the time required to burn a specified area is a random variable. It is shown that the expected time to burn an area equal…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Catchpole, Catchpole
A model, based on those of Rothermel (1972) and Wilson (1990), is developed for the effect of fuel moisture on fire spread rate in a fuel complex consisting of a mixture of live and dead fine fuel particles. Physical arguments lead to a modification of the heat sink term of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES