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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Chowdhury, Hassan
Forest fire is a natural phenomenon in many ecosystems across the world. One of the most important components of forest fire management is the forecasting of fire danger conditions. Here, our aim was to critically analyse the following issues, (i) current operational forest fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Thorburn
As an acronym, LACES stands for Lookout(s) - Anchor point(s) - Communication(s) - Escape routes - Safety zone(s) and has gradually become a guideline for wildland firefighter safety in various regions of Canada over the past 15 years or so. LACES constitutes a slight…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Payette, Gagnon
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Lear, Waldrop
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heinselman
Large stand-replacing fires at intervals of 50 to 500 years were responsible for the vegetation patterns of parks and wilderness areas in the Boreal, Great Lakes-Acadian, Rocky Mountain, and Douglas-fir regions. Fire recurrence is closely linked to stand age in some ecosystems.…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Butts
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCutchan
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lynham, Martell
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell, Otukol, Stocks
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Janz, Nimchuk
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fujioka, Tsou
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parker
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Murphy, Radloff
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saveland
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jeffery
From the text ... 'Wildfires are part of a natural environmental cycle and will continue to be a part of our planet's processes along with other weather-related disaster events. But the unique ability of humans to suppress and contain the flames, as well as mitigate the damage,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
North, Stephens, Collins, Agee, Aplet, Franklin, Fulé
From the text ... 'Management reform in the United States has failed, not because of policy, but owing to lack of coordinated pressure sufficient to overcome entrenched agency disincentive to working with fire. Responding to established research, official agency policy now…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
North, Stephens, Collins, Agee, Aplet, Franklin, Fulé
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christman, Rollins
Wildfire-potential information products are designed to support decisions for prefire staging of movable wildfire suppression resources across geographic locations. We quantify the economic value of these information products by defining their value as the difference between two…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boer, Price, Bradstock
From the text...'Studies in Australia and the United States show that weather is a stronger determinant of fire severity than is fuel...Fuel treatment whether by managed fires or other means, may be most cost-effective when strategically targeted in close proximity to assets at…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Girardin, Terrier
Wildfire activity is projected to increase through upcoming decades in boreal Canada due to climatic changes. Amongst the proposed strategies to offset the climate-driven fire risk is the introduction of broadleaf species into dense-coniferous landscapes so as to decrease the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The wildland/urban inferface (WUI) is a geographic location where structures and flammable vegetation merge in a wildfire-prone environment.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCrae
Results and analysis of an experimental burning study on the fire behavior in boreal mixedwood slash in the northern Ontario's Clay Belt Region are presented. Horizontal discontinuity in this fuel type makes fire spread difficult when the fire danger rating is low to moderate.…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen, Deeming
Updating the National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) was completed in 1977, and operational use of it was begun the next year. The System provides a guide to wildfire control and suppression by its indexes that measure the relative potential of initiating fires. Such fires do…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS