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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
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Zasada, Argyle
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boldt, Alexander, Larson
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Steele, Cooper, Ondov, Roberts, Pfister
A land-classification system based upon potential natural vegetation is presented for the forests of central Idaho. It is based on reconnaissance sampling of about 980 stands. A hierarchical taxonomic classification of forest sites was developed using the habitat type concept. A…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel
This manual documents the procedures for estimating the rate of forward spread, intensity, flame length, and size of fires burning in forests and rangelands. It contains instructions for obtaining fuel and weather data, calculating fire behavior, and interpreting the results for…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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: TTRS
Parsons, Bancroft, Nichols, Stohlgren
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: 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: TTRS
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: TTRS
Beckage, Platt, Gross
Savanna models that are based on recurrent disturbances such as fire result in nonequilibrium savannas, but these models rarely incorporate vegetation feedbacks on fire frequency or include more than two states (grasses and trees). We develop a disturbance model that includes…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Calabi, Traniello, Werner
From the Introduction ... 'A main theme of eusociality is division of labor (Wilson 1971, 1975), which can be based on physiological differences (as in the case of the reproductive queen and sterile workers), morphological (size) differences among workers, or age differences…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weaver
From the text ... 'Fire education specialists are joining with college graduate students and education majors to present a 3-day fire ecology and management program that involves both field and classroom exercises to fourth-through eighth-grade students.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wells
From the text ... 'The Joint Fire Science Program, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group Fuels Management Committee, and Sonoma Technology, Inc. are unveiling the prototype of a new planning environment that will help fuels specialists negotiate the confusing array of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larkin, O'Neill, Solomon, Raffuse, Strand, Sullivan, Krull, Rorig, Peterson, Ferguson
Smoke from fire is a local, regional and often international issue that is growing in complexity as competition for airshed resources increases. BlueSky is a smoke modeling framework designed to help address this problem by enabling simulations of the cumulative smoke impacts…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Klenner, Walton
We used the TELSA forest landscape model to examine the long-term consequences of applying different forest management scenarios on indicators of wildlife habitat, understory productivity, crown fuel hazard, timber yield and treatment costs. The study area was a dry forest…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zinck, Grimm
Understanding the dynamics of wildfire regimes is crucial for both regional forest management and predicting global interactions between fire regimes and climate. Accordingly, spatially explicit modeling of forest fire ecosystems is a very active field of research, including…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wotton
Understanding and being able to predict forest fire occurrence, fire growth and fire intensity are important aspects of forest fire management. In Canada fire management agencies use the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) to help predict these elements of forest…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Strong
Postfire vegetation development among 8-185-year-old stand was assessed based on 100 releves from the northern boreal-cordilleran ecoclimatic region (61-63ºN) in the central Yukon Territory, Canada. Vegetation sampling included only stands thought to have originated from…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nappi, Drapeau
The black-backed woodpecker (Picoides arcticus) is considered a fire specialist throughout its breeding range. Given its high abundance in recent burns, it has been hypothesized that post-fire forests are source habitats for this species. We conducted a 3-year post-fire study to…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jaime, Lopez, Lickliter
Gaze following allows individuals to detect the locus of attention of both conspecifics and other species. However, little is known about how this ability develops. We explored the emergence of bobwhite quail hatchlings' ability to track human gaze by assessing their avoidance…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Finney, Grenfell, McHugh
Billions of dollars are spent annually in the United States to contain large wildland fires, but the factors contributing to suppression success remain poorly understood. We used a regression model (generalized linear mixed-model) to model containment probability of individual…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dalziel, Perera
Fire disturbance patterns influence forest communities at a range of spatial scales. Forest community structure may also influence fire disturbance patterns, because tree species vary in their fuel value and in their tolerance to fire damage. However, the influence of community…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boychuk, Braun, Kulperger, Krougly, Stanford
We consider a stochastic fire growth model, with the aim of predicting the behaviour of large forest fires. Such a model can describe not only average growth, but also the variability of the growth. Implementing such a model in a computing environment allows one to obtain…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beverly, Herd, Conner
Strategic modification of forest vegetation has become increasingly popular as one of the few preemptive activities that land managers can undertake to reduce the likelihood that an area will be burned by a wildfire. Directed use of prescribed fire or harvest planning can lead…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS