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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The CrownMass program within Fuels Management Analyst facilitates: (1) the calculation of the loading of foliage and woody biomass by tree species from plot data consisting of a minimum of tree species, tree diameter breast high, tree height, tree canopy ratio and tree…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hann, Bunnell
Ecosystem conditions on Federal public lands have changed, particularly within the last 30 years. Wildfires in the west have increased to levels close to or above those estimated for historical conditions, despite increasing efforts and expertise in fire prevention and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hao
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dennis, Miles
A consequence of past fire management practices in U. S. Forests is the excessive accumulation of fuel. In order to avoid severe and catastrophic fires, resource managers employ a number of treatments to diminish fuel loads. Alternative treatments include prescribed burns and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cohen
Research results indicate that the home and its immediate surroundings within 100-200 feet (30-60 meters) principally determines the home ignition potential during severe wildland-urban fires. Research has also established that fire is an intrinsic ecological process of nearly…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bartlette
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Croft, Watts, Potter, Reed
Since the Haines Index (HI) was introduced in 1988, it has been used as a tool to aid fire managers with their decision-making in assessing fire risk. The HI is a lower atmospheric severity index for wildfire severity (growth potential) based upon environmental lapse rates and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The National Wildfire Coordinating Group's (NWCG) Fire Use Working Team has assumed overall responsibility for sponsoring the development and production of this revised Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed and Wildland Fire (the 'Guide'). The Mission Statement for the Fire Use…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leuschen, Wade, Seamon
The success of a fire use program is in large part dependent on a solid foundation set in clear and concise planning. The planning process results in specific goals and measurable objectives for fire application, provides a means of setting priorities, and establishes a…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ferguson
Once smoke enters the atmosphere, its concentration at any one place or time depends on mechanisms of transport and dispersion. By transport, we mean whatever carries a plume vertically or horizontally in the atmosphere. Dispersion simply is the scattering of smoke. Vertical…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
Smoke dispersion prediction systems are becoming increasingly valuable tools in smoke management. There are a variety of potential applications that can help current management issues. These include screening, where methods and models are used to develop 'worst-case' scenarios…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thonicke, Venevsky, Sitch, Cramer
Disturbances from fire, wind-throw, insects and other herbivores are, besides climate, CO2, and soils, critical factors for composition, structure and dynamics of most vegetation. To simulate the influence of fire on the dynamic equilibrium, as well as on potential change, of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lardner, Wright, Cohen, Curry, MacFarlane
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hardy, Schmidt, Menakis, Sampson
Spatial data products are most often developed to support resource management decisions. Rarely can the data stand by themselves as spatially-explicit risk assessments. We discuss the technical aspects of true risk assessments, and the contrast between risk assessments and the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Patterns of disconnected fuel treatment patches that overlap in the heading fire spread direction are theoretically effective in changing forward fire spread rate. The analysis presented here sought to find the unit shape and pattern for a given level of treatment that has the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arseneault
Although behaviour of stand-replacing wildfire has significant impacts on initial tree regeneration in the fire-prone boreal landscape, the unknown behaviour of most past wildfires has precluded any evaluation of these impacts on the progressive development of late-successional…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paré, Bergeron, Longpre
Height growth of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) stands originating from three different disturbance types (fire, clearcut, and tree-fall gap) was compared on two different deposits (glacial till and lacustrine clay) in the Abitibi region in northwestern Quebec…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wan, Hui, Luo
A comprehensive and quantitative evaluation of the effects of fire on ecosystem nitrogen (N) is urgently needed for directing future fire research and management. This study used a meta-analysis method to synthesize up to 185 data sets from 87 studies published from 1955 to 1999…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS