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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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From the text... 'This initial release of these Guidelines reflects the efforts of the Fire Management Task Force and subsequent review by park, regional and WASO staff. It represents the framework of the Service fire management program. The WASO Office of Fire Management,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gobster
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte, Gorte
The USDA Forest Service policy adopted in 1935 calls for fast, aggressive fire suppresssion action. Economic considerations, first voiced in 1916, quieted after 1935, until the 1960's and 1970's. The most common technique proposed is least-cost-plus-loss; the objective is to…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Manthy
In summary, I am sympathetic with the concerns of fire management over the need for additional training of fire management practitioners, but I reject the suggested solution. The options to a new curriculum have not been adequately considered, and the costs of the employment,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martini
College curriculums in fire management are not producing people who are qualified to do a total fire management job for hiring fire agencies. Most schools are offering only 2-3 credits in fire that are poorly taught and often downgraded in value by the faculty. This creates an…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gemmer
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis
Federal, state, and local agencies, working through the National Wildfire Coordinating Group, have developed a National Interagency Fire Qualification System (NIFQS). NIFQS sets uniform standards for fire suppression work, specifying prerequisite jobs, currency of experience,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bowman
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen, Burgan
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Iltis, Guzman, Pazy
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anonymous
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
He, Mladenoff
Understanding disturbance and recovery of forest landscapes is a challenge because of complex interactions over a range of temporal and spatial scales. Landscape simulation models offer an approach to studying such systems at broad scales. Fire can be simulated spatially using…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Travers
I conducted a field study of the annual, Clarkia unguiculata, to examine the performance of pollen (pollen-germination time and pollen-tube growth rate) produced by plants growing in two different environments: recently burned and unburned oak woodland. Previous studies on the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Islam, Martell
Each day, forest fire managers must deploy airtankers at initial attack bases to minimize initial attack response times. They must decide how many airtankers to deploy at each base and the initial attack range of each airtanker. We develop a daily airtanker simulation model and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gove, Ringvall, Stahl, Ducey
This paper presents a method based on angle-gauge sampling useful for inventorying downed coarse woody material in forest stands. The method is closely related to transect relascope sampling, except that sample points are used rather than line transects. The estimators for the…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the Federal and State levels. The topics discussed at the symposium include fire economics, planning, and policy on wildfire and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Slack
This publication provides homeowners and builders in the Wildland Urban Interface with design and building techniques that can offer more protection from wildland or forest fires. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Colorado State Forest Service and the Colorado…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Porterie, Loraud, Morvan, Larini
A computational procedure for predicting the buoyant plume above a line fire in a cross wind is reported. The present model takes into account the interaction between the plume and the surrounding flow by solving the two-dimensional equations for the conservation of mass,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Richards
This work considers wildfire growth over variable topography. Through an analysis of fire perimeter growth for homogeneous conditions over a surface of constant slope, a mathematical model of fire growth for heterogeneous conditions and variable surface is proposed. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Santoni, Balbi, Dupuy
A two-dimensional non-stationary model of fire spread including slope effects is proposed. The numerical study of this model allows us to predict the rate of spread, the fire front perimeter and the temperature distribution for a fire spreading across a fuel bed under slope…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Balbi, Santoni, Dupuy
The analysis of laboratory fire experiments led to the development of a reaction-diffusion model for the spread of fire across a fuel bed in windless and slopeless conditions. A method for the determination of coefficients in this model based on the dynamic features of a…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wotton, McAlpine, Hobbs
To determine the effect of fire front width on surface fire spread rates, a series of simultaneously ignited experimental fires was carried out in a pine plantation. Fires were ignited in plots with widths ranging from 0.5 m to 10 m and were burned in low wind conditions. Flame…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES