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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Hibbert
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Bruggen
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viereck, Foote, Dyrness, Van Cleve, Kane, Seifert
Four units totaling 1 hectare in area were burned during the summer of 1976 in the Washington Creek experimental fire site near Fairbanks, Alaska. Original vegetation on the site consisted of an unevenly spaced stand of black spruce approximately 70 years old, with an understory…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vogl
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White
Natural disturbances have been traditionally defined in terms of major catastrophic events originating in the physical environment and, hence, have been regarded as exogenous agents of vegetation change. Problems with this view are: (1) there is a gradient from minor to major…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
An increase in the use of prescribed fire as a forest management tool is anticipated in Ontario where its use is viewed as a viable method of site preparation for regeneration purposes. Literature available on prescribed burning in the jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) logging…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Kessell, Catteline
(FORPLAN) has been developed to facilitate the use of simulation for integrating fire into the land management planning process. FORPLAN incorporates unique characteristics of previous systems, links numerous models and databases, allows selection of variable resolution levels,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kelsall, Telfer, Wright
This review analyzes literature relevant to effects of fire on the Boreal Forest, and on its related wildlife resources, with particular reference to the Canadian North. The selected bibliography contains the more recent and historicallv important references and is not all-…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gruell
Grazing impact by elk and moose has been a point of concern in Jackson Hole for many years. Concern has been primarily directed toward sparsely vegetated south aspects, aspen stands, and willow bottoms. Numerous transects have quantified heavy forage utilization. Trend studies…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kessell
The purpose of this special Fire Management issue of ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT is to report on examples of progress toward the goal of integrating fire into land management.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen, Burgan
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen, Andrews
Predicting fire behavior in nonuniform fuel arrays is a problem requiring: 1. A method of assessing fuel nonuniformity, 2. A method of simulating fuel nonuniformity, and 3. An algorithm governing fire spread through a simulated array. Satisfying these requirements is the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fuquay, Baughman, Latham
A model has been developed for predicting the number of lightning-fire ignitions in wildland fuels. The model is based on both stochastic and physical processes. Stochastic methods are used to generalize the lightning storm characteristics and site conditions that affect the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smith, Egging
Today, natural resource managers and scientists are required to evaluate and even anticipate the effects that management practices for a single resource will have on the production or use of all other natural resources. For example, a successful prescribed fire will accomplish…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lyon
Land use planning has truly reached a high plateau in this country. Planning is firmly entrenched and here to stay. With the population increase and therefore increased resource demands, our resource producing land base is shrinking. We must strive for maximum production on the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan
A fire danger/fire behavior Custom Read Only Memory (CROM) has been developed for the Texas Instruments model 59 hand held calculator. It can be used to compute both 1978 National Fire Danger Rating indexes and components and several variables used to estimate wildfire behavior…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
Presents a predictive model for calculating the maximum spot fire distance expected when firebrands are thrown into the air by the burning of tree crowns. Variables included are: quantity and surface/volume ratio of foliage in the burning tree(s), height of the tree(s), and the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini, Baughman
This paper presents formulae, tables, and figures that can be used to estimate the ratio of mean windspeed acting on the flame from a spreading wildland fire to the mean windspeed 20 ft (6 m) above the vegetation cover. The formulae for windspeed above uniform, continuous…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stockstad
Spontaneous and piloted ignitions of rotten wood samples from ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) were investigated in a specially designed ignition furnace. Minimum heat flux intensities required to produce…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vogl
Fire management of grasslands is best executed based on an understanding of the fundamental properties of grassland components, structures, and environments, and the nature of fire behavior in grassland fuels. The art of controlled burning combines experience, practicality,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Flatman, Storey
Cost-plus-loss analysis and benefit/cost analysis are two techniques that fire managers can apply to FOCUS computer simulation output for alternate fire plans to help them choose the best plan. FOCUS (Fire Operational Characteristics Using Simulation) calculates costs and…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
Systems to enable land managers to locate, evaluate, and counter the fire threat of lightning storms are in the early stages of development. In the western U.S. and Alaska, the Bureau of Land Management has established networks of instruments that locate lightning strikes by…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
Describes a theoretical model for calculating thermochemical properties of the gaseous fuel that burns in the free flame at the edge of a spreading fire in fine forest fuels. Predicted properties are the heat of combustion, stoichiometric air/fuel mass ratio, mass-averaged…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS