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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
From the text ... 'The tree-ring community has successfully overcome the data archiving hurdles that Sue Silver discussed in her September 2003 editorial. We have developed two public data banks that are models of international coopertion in ecological data archiving and sharing…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Connor
From the text ... 'During my 24 years as a wildland firefighter, knowing that I had protected someone's home or community has always made my chest swell. ...The ying and yang of firefighting is partly this: By suppressing fire for so many decades, we have let fuels build up to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... 'The evidence that American Indians used fire to shape their environments is too strong to simply dismiss or ignore. ...The whole country had 'the appearance of a beautiful park. A deer could be seen at a distance of a quarter mile, and a carriage could be…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'Where arid and semiarid landscapes were not already to their liking, American Indians often changed them. ...Broadcast burning was so useful for American Indians that it persisted into the early 20th century. ...Indian-set fires differed from natural fires in…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brauneis
From the text ... 'The Sioux and Cheyenne traditionally set fire to the prairie as they moved their summer camps in pursuit of game. ...The Great Sioux War provides a sharp contrast in how two different cultures with diverse values and objectives utilized fire. ...Many fires set…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ciriacy-Wantrup
From the text ... 'Evaluation of costs and returns is undertaken trough various formal and informal techniques know in economics as 'benefit-cost analysis.' Application of such analysis to the use of fire can benefit from the experience gained in the economic analysis of water…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
A consensus history of fire in the United States has emerged over the past decade. It correctly identifies fire suppression's liabilities, while probably over‐enthusing about fire‐science capabilities. What it lacks, however, is a context of the subject's larger, braided…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews
When predicting fire behavior in the field, it is desirable to be able to obtain the required input information with a minimum of special equipment. This article tells how to estimate slope (percent) using materials in a belt weather kit. This method can be used on wildfires by…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carroll, Kumagai, Daniels, Bliss, Edwards
Fire officials are dismayed when victims of wildfire blame fire fighters and others responsible for fire management for damage resulting from uncontrolled fires. This is in spite of the fact that wildfire damage is a consequence of dynamic interactions among natural factors (…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Canning, Edwards, Anderson
We describe the application of fuzzy logic to the control of a robot intended to navigate forest paths. Robots could improve the safety of forest operations by removing the operator from the vehicle and also reduce costs by automating these operations. The controller was…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jacobson, Powell, Dettman, Saenz, Barton, Hiltz, Dvorachek, Glass, Taylor, Natvig
The fungal genus Neurospora has a distinguished history as a laboratory model in genetics and biochemistry. The most recent milestone in this history has been the sequencing of the genome of the best known species, N. crassa. The hope and promise of a complete genome sequence is…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dewey, Andersen
The wildfire model for invasive weed management is a simple yet effective strategic guide framed on the cornerstones of prevention, early detection, timely control, and vegetation restoration. These guidelines are the same fundamental ingredients that make up this nation's…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gillson, Willis
Too often, wilderness conservation ignores a temporal perspective greater than the past 50 years, yet a long-term perspective (centuries to millennia) reveals the dynamic nature of many ecosystems. Analysis of fossil pollen, charcoal and stable isotopes, combined with historical…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yoder
Prescribed fire as a wildfire risk mitigation tool is receiving increasing attention in the United States after a century of emphasis on suppression. A dynamic economic model of prescribed fire use, precaution, and timing is developed and applied to three important policy issues…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jandt, Hrobak
A summary report by Alaska Fire Service personnel on the record season of 2004 in Alaska, including statistics, smoke impacts, and research conducted during the fire season. Poster presentation at Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes Conference, Spokane, WA Nov. 17-19, 2004.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Presented for Lesson 30 of the S-590 Advanced Fire Behavior Interpretation Course at the National Advanced Resource Technology Center in Marana, Arizona, 7-19 March 2004.
Lesson Objectives:
Gather a cursory understanding of the philosophy and structure of the Canadian Forest…
Year: 2004
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Schreuder, Schaaf, Wiitala, Weise
This study evaluates the effects of alternative fuels treatment options on wildfire acres, smoke emissions, and landscape composition, on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. It is part of the Pacific Southwest Research Station's 'Risk-Based Comparison of Potential Fuel Treatment…
Year: 2004
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ohmann, Pierce, Gregory, Wimberly, Fried
Presentation given at the Joint Fire Science Program Principal Investigator Workshop, April 2004.
Year: 2004
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Contains descriptions of fuel types.
Year: 2004
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Hare
Orthotolidine solution, which stains living but not dead tissue, aids evaluation of fire damage to trees. © Society of American Foresters. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
A series of graphs, tables and maps are presented that form the basis of a revised fire control plan at the Petawawa Forest Experiment Station. Called aids to fire control planning, they are classified into those describing: (a) the pattern of fire weather, (b) the trends in…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Muraro
From the text:'Fuel type maps were once considered to be an integral tools of Forest Protection Organization. In western national forests of the United States where access was limited, fuel conditions diverse, and peak fire loads frequent, the necessity for decision-making tool…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radley
From the text:'The peat in many parts of Britain is being severly eroded by subaerial forces, but the fire provides a method of erosion not previously emphasized. It removes whole tracts of peat and plant cover in a matter of days and permits intensive erosion for several years…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the introduction:'The purpose of this project is to measure the energy production of forest fires and how it is dissipated. If the use of energy output -rate is ever to become accepted as a means of describing forest fires, a simple method must be available, requiring…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The earth itself: a 'good piece of geography' is basic - from there on, its a matter of human wisdom
From the text ... 'To demonstrate what can be accomplished through modern management when the lands are concentrated enough to be manageable, BLM last year began a Resource Conservation Area Program. The so-called :RCA's' were established on some 85 public land bundles, ranging…
Year: 1965
Type: Document
Source: TTRS