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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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González-Cabán
A procedure has been developed for estimating the economic cost of initial attack and large-fire suppression. The procedure uses a per-unit approach to estimate total attack and suppression costs on an input-by-input basis. Fire management inputs (FMIs) are the production units…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mills
The analysis of alternative fire management programs should be integrated into the land and resource management planning process, but a single fire management analysis model cannot meet all planning needs. Therefore, a set of simulation models that are analytically separate from…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zasada, Norum, Van Veldhuizen, Teutsch
Fall seed-dispersing species, birch (Betula papyrifera Marsh.), alder (Alnus crispa (Ait.) Pursh), and black spruce Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.), and summer-seeding species, aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.), balsam poplar (P. balsamifera L.), feltleaf willow (Salix alaxensis…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Clements, Ward, Adkins
Photography is practical for recording and measuring some aspects of forest fire behavior if the scale and perspective can be determined. This paper describes a photogrammetric method for measuring flame height and rate of spread for fires on flat terrain. The flames are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seaver, Roussopoulos, Freeling
A preliminary decision analysis model addressing the choice among alternative suppression strategies on escaped wildfires is presented. A case study application of the model, in the context of an Escaped Fire Situation Analysis on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, is…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Latham
This paper presents a system for locating lightning strikes and predicting the number of fire ignitions on forests and rangelands. This system uses variables representing weather and fuels and real-time lightning locations as inputs. Outputs from the system consist of printouts…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bevins, Fischer
Describes structure of a computer system that allows fire managers to evaluate alternative prescriptions for unscheduled prescribed fires. Provides instructions for initial data entry and execution of programs RXBUILD andRXFIRES, the two main components of the system. A…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bevins, Fischer
Describes a user-oriented computer system that allows fire managers to evaluate alternative prescriptions for unscheduled prescribed fires within specific fire management planning areas. Provides instructions for the use of the system, preparation of appropriate program inputs,…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer, McClelland
Provides subject matter and geographic keyword indexes to more than 1,700 titles containing information about 86 species of cavity-nesting birds that inhabit North American forests. Related titles containing information about forest snags, fire, insects, disease, and decay are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Albini
Equations are presented by which to calculate the maximum firebrand particle lofting height from wind-driven line fires in surface fuels. Variables used are the fuel type, described as one of twelve stylized models used for fire behavior prediction, the fire intensity, and the…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson
Documents the analysis of wind tunnel experiments on fire spread that produced a double ellipse concept of fire area growth. This provides ways of estimating size (area), shape (perimeter), and length to width ratio of a wind-driven wild land fire. The only inputs needed are…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
Prescribed burning is an effective tool widely used in forest management. Several strategies are employed to minimize pollution from prescribed fire, including systems to avoid polluting sensitive areas or to ensure adequate dilution between the source and the receptors. Success…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward
Source strength is defined as the rate of release of an emission into the atmosphere from a specified process. In this paper, source-strength modeling of emissions of particulate matter from prescribed fires is discussed from three perspectives: 1) unit area (per m2), 2) unit…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blank, Simard
There are many disadvantages to current techniques for measuring the spread rate of wildland fires. This paper describes the design and use of an electronic timer that resolves most of the problems. The unit is small, lightweight, inexpensive, easy-to-assemble, self-contained,…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Eenigenburg
Presents TI-59 programs that use fire arrival times to calculate the rate and direction of spread of a fire across a triangular or square plot.
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chesemore
In 1951 and 1954, vegetation study plots and observations on wildlife reactions to the forest fire of 1950 along the upper Porcupine River, Alaska, were begun by members on the Alaska Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit. Periodically, the study areas were visited and data on…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Nielsen-Pincus
Wildfire management requires significant institutional organization, a skilled workforce, facilities, and equipment. Sustaining this wildfire response capacity is critical to both agencies and fire-affected communities. Because fire suppression is seasonal and varies…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
America's tremendous asset base of protected areas is critical for conservation planning, natural resource management, recreation, public health and more. These include national parks and forests, wildlife sanctuaries, state beaches and parks, county open space, city parks, land…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bachelet, Hopper
Dominique Bachelet, Conservation Biology Institute, and Dave Hopper, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, discussed the need for reliable, usable tools and data sources to meet climate change-related land management challenges. The combination of projected climate change and land use…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Gallacher
Wildland fire behavior research in the last 100 years has largely focused on understanding the physical phenomena behind fire spread and on developing models that can predict fire behavior. Research advances in the areas of live-fuel combustion and combustion modeling have…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
As a predictable part of many ecosystems, natural disturbances like fire have exerted strong evolutionary pressures on plants. One noteworthy example is the highly fire-prone California chaparral. High intensity crown fires have selected for two different life history strategies…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ultimately, future climate changes are expected to result in dramatically altered fire regimes. However, forecasting such altered fire regimes requires a better understanding of the more proximate drivers, particularly in the case of abrupt fire regime changes. In the case of…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Fletcher, Mahalingam, McAllister, Shotorban, Jolly
Effect of moisture content and heat flux type on ignition of foliage from 10 live fuels was examined over the course of a year using two apparatuses: a flat-flame burner coupled with a radiant panel and a Forced Ignition and flame Spread Test (FIST) apparatus. Results of the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinne, Miller, Parisien, Emelko, Bladon, Silins, Flannigan
Wildfires are keystone components of natural disturbance regimes that maintain ecosystem structure and functions, such as the hydrological cycle, in many parts of the world. Consequently, critical surface freshwater resources can be exposed to post-fire effects disrupting their…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS