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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wheeler
From the text ... 'Most deck material is tested for flame spread rates but not necessarily for ignition potential or energy production. ...If decks ignite during a wildland fire, the fire could reach proportions that would break windows and doors, igniting structures with…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'We can improve preparedness and suppression, but until we better manage fuel buildups and growth in the wildland/urban interface, the gains will be marginal. ...We need fire protection programs that are ecologically appropriate, socially acceptable, and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bosworth
From the text ... 'A policy of allowing all fires to burn would be just as flawed as the old policy of putting them all out. ...Our policy is to use fire where we can and suppress fire where we must.'
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
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
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
Youngblood, Fiedler, Metlen, McIver
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tark
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Loehle
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Litvak, Goulden
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Joy
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hudak, Robinson, Gould, Gonzalez, Hollingsworth
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chapin, DeWilde, Trainor, Calef, McGuire, Rupp, Lovecraft
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bowersox, Arabas
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balice, Koch, Webb, Little
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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
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
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
Clark, Coen, Latham
This paper describes a coupled fire-atmosphere model that uses a sophisticated high-resolution non-hydrostatic numerical mesoscale model to predict the local winds which are then used as input to the prediction of fire spread. The heat and moisture fluxes from the fire are then…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The Alaska National Park Service Western Area Fire Management program in cooperation with Ancor, Incorporated removed approximately 24 acres of biomass from the vicinity of buildings in the headquarters area of Denali National Park and Preserve. Ancor, a private 8a small…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oja, Newbould, MacLean, See, Beebi, Peterson, Wahrenbrock, Degrenes, Wilfong, Rude, Greenberg, Fasteband, Boughton, Lehnhausen, Stockdale, Stubbs, Cooper, Sines, Heppner, Sink
This plan called the 'All Lands/All Hands Action Plan' puts forth a bold, collaborative interagency strategy of compelling on-the-ground actions that emphasizes treatments in community wildfire protection plan (CWPP) areas and wildland urban interface areas (WUI) that lie…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oja, Newbould, MacLean, See, Beebi, Peterson, Wahrenbrock, Degrenes, Wilfong, Rude, Greenberg, Fasteband, Boughton, Lehnhausen, Stockdale, Stubbs, Cooper, Sines, Heppner, Sink
This plan called the 'All Lands/All Hands Action Plan' puts forth a bold, collaborative interagency strategy of compelling on-the-ground actions that emphasizes treatments in community wildfire protection plan (CWPP) areas and wildland urban interface areas (WUI) that lie…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yoder, Engle, Fuhlendorf
Prescribed fire is widely viewed as a useful but risky ecosystem management tool, and liability is a crucial issue for prescribed burning on private and public land. Basic liability rules motivate landowners to reduce risk when making choices about the use of fire. Liability…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Busenberg
Wildfire disasters threaten numerous communities and ecosystems in America today. An effective policy strategy to counteract the threat of wildfire disasters would entail the reduction of accumulated fuels (flammable organic materials) found across large areas in many American…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Miller, Landres
The goal of this project was to develop methods to help wildland fire managers design long term, landscape scale management plans. Although wildland fire managers have a full spectrum of strategies available for reducing fuels, they lack tools for applying these strategies at…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES