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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Groot, Gauthier, Bergeron
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cruz, Alexander, Wakimoto
The unknowns in wildland fire phenomenology lead to a simplified expirical model approach for predicting the onset of crown fires in live coniferous forests on level terrain. Model parameterization is based on a data set (n = 71) generated from conducting outdoor experimental…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fraser, Landhausser, Lieffers
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Etheridge
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fenner, Bentley
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Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grobman, Mangelsdorf
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Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartley
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Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Galinat
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Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
'Modeling is fine as long as you know what you are doing.' General remark made to the author by a retired University of Alberta forestry professor a few years ago. The April 1988 issue of the Journal of Forestry published an article by John J. Garland that I have often handed…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Many mathematical models exist for calculating various features of wildland fire behavior. Some are easy to use, some very complicated, but all will be found to produce results which do not always agree with observed fire behavior. In some instances, the disagreement can be…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Stocks
The 22nd Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference featured a special session on selected aspects of the wildland fire research carried out during the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), co-chaired by M.E. Alexander of the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) and R.A.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Thomas
In 1957, the Chief of the USDA Forest Service appointed a task force to study ways of preventing firefighter fatalities in the future. A review of 16 fatality fires found that the associated fire behavior in all but one case was unexpected by those entrapped or overrun. One of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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: FRAMES
Loehle
Fire spreads in a specifically spatial manner, which suggests the applicability of percolation models to the risk reduction problem. It is shown that under fairly general conditions a threshold exists below which a landscape becomes essentially fireproof. Arranging treated acres…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
van Mantgem, Schwartz
We subjected 159 small ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex P. & C. Laws.) to treatments designed to test the relative importance of stem damage as a predictor of postfire mortality. The treatments consisted of a group with the basal bark artificially thinned, a second…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Krause, Rieger, Wilde
One of the frequently encountered characteristics of the boreal landscape is the extremely abrupt demarcation of soil-vegetation types. Sharp differentiation of plant communities may be caused by a number of conditions, such as severe fires, irregularities in drainage, invasion…
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Byram
Chapter in the book titled, Forest fire: control and use.
[This publication is referenced in the "Synthesis of knowledge of extreme fire behavior: volume I for fire managers" (Werth et al 2011).]
Year: 1959
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Tymstra, Frederick
A workshop was held at the Provincial Forest Fire Centre in Edmonton on September 23, 2004 where wildland fire research and fire operations personnel (T. Van Nest, D. Quintilio, J. Beverly, D. Cousin, G. Baxter and authors) reviewed and discussed the currently available…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
A dynamic vegetation model has been used to predict patterns of recent past and potential future change in taiga forest ecosystems of interior Alaska. The model, called CASA (Carnegie Ames Stanford Approach), is a process-based ecosystem depiction of plant and soil processes,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaufman, Ager, Anderson, Anderson, Andrews, Bartlein, Brubaker, Coats, Cwynar, Duvall, Dyke, Edwards, Eisner, Gajewski, Geirsdottir, Hu, Jennings, Kaplan, Kerwin, Lozhkin, MacDonald, Miller, Mock, Oswald, Otto-Bliesner, Porinchu, Ruhland, Smol, Steig, Wolfe
The spatio-temporal pattern of peak Holocene warmth (Holocene thermal maximum, HTM) is traced over 140 sites across the Western Hemisphere of the Arctic (0-180 degrees W; north of 60 degrees N). Paleoclimate inferences based on a wide variety of proxy indicators provide clear…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hillebrand
The decline of biodiversity with latitude has received great attention, but both the concise pattern and the causes of the gradient are under strong debate. Most studies of the latitudinal gradient comprise only one or few organism types and are often restricted to certain…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yoder, Blatner
Prescribed fire use for wildfire fuel reduction entails trading one risk for another. Because these risks change over time as vegetation matures, prescribed fire use for wildfire risk mitigation can be viewed as a timing problem. We examine economic incentives for prescribed…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White, Pendleton, Pendleton
Prescribed fire was used in two separate semi-arid grasslands to reduce shrub cover, promote grass production through reduced competition by shrubs, and reduce danger from potential wildfire in the urban/wildland interface. The cover of woody shrubs, grass, and bare ground cover…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wheeler
Efforts to reduce fire danger in the wildland/urban interface (WUI) are finally getting the attention they deserve. National and State funding is addressing a century of ecosystem degradation. Local communities are practicing preventive maintenance through fuels reduction and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rohde
I recently completed a study providing insight into critical decisions by command officers on some of California's most notorious wildfires in the wildland/urban interface (WUI). My study focused on the first several hours of response to the fires, a period of time when…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS