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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cohen
The essence of the wildland/urban interface fire problem is the loss of homes. The problem is not new, but is becoming increasingly important as more homes with inadequate adherence to safety codes are built at the wildland/urban interface. Current regulatory codes are…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fujioka
On the heels of the Yellowstone fires of 1988, a Cabinet-level fire management review team recommended research "to improve the ability to predict severe fire behavior, conduct long-term weather forecasting, and identify past abnormal events." In a 1989 report, a Forest Service…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ball, Guertin
FIREMAP is a model for simulating surface fire spread through heterogeneous fuels and over non-uniform terrain. The model was constructed using PROMAP, a language which allows dynamic spatial models to be constructed using raster GIS data bases. The GIS system is used to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Saveland
Adaptive resource management is a continuous learning process in which current knowledge always leads to further experimentation and discovery. Adaptive management evolves by learning from mistakes. Designing adaptive management strategies involves four tasks. First, the problem…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Roads, Ueyoshi, Chen, Alpert, Fujioka
The forecast skill of the National Meteorological Center's medium range forecast (MRF) numerical forecasts of fire weather variables is assessed for the period June 1,1988 to May 31,1990. Near-surface virtual temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and a derived fire weather…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hamilton
Although the Stand Prognosis Model has several stochastic components, features have been included in the model in an attempt to minimize run-to-run variation attributable to these stochastic components. This has led many users to assume that comparisons of management…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Means, Hansen, Koerper, Alaback, Klopsch
BIOPAK is a menu-driven package of computer programs for IBM-compatible personal computers that calculates the biomass, area, height, length, or volume of plant components (leaves, branches, stem, crown, and roots). The routines were written in FoxPro, Fortran, and C. BIOPAK was…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Christensen
[From introduction] What are the proper fire regimes for our diverse wilderness ecosystems? How and why have the frequency and behavior of fire changed through time? How have human activities such as a century of fire exclusion, landscape fragmentation, and alteration of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bailey
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Phillips, George
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grumbine
Cooperation between the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and the United States Department of Interior (USDI) National Park Service is most often advocated to protect biological diversity on national forests and parks, but the agencies, so far, have…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel
An account is presented of the initial long-range, 30-day, projections of fire growth of the wildfires in the Greater Yellowstone Area in 1988. The request for information, the method of prediction, and the actual fire growth are discussed and documented with maps. The…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Noss
From the text ... 'The best that land managers might do to cope with these problems, with respect to maintaining biodiversity, is to attempt to mimic the natural disturbance regime (however changing) with their management activities. Because land management is essentially a…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doren, Roberts, Richardson
Fire as an ecological factor is of major importance in the distribution, species composition, and productivity of the sand pine scrub community, both in its own right and as it interacts with other factors such as animal influences, trophic factors, soil particle movement, and…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murphy, Woodard, Quintilio, Titus
Hot-spotting containment rates were determined for 18 fires of various intensities in two common boreal forest cover types: 8 in jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) and 10 in black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.). Hot-spotting containment rates did not differ significantly…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stocks, McRae
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel
The fire characteristics chart has been expanded and modified to indicate crown fire behavior. Any point on the chart provides a simultaneous representation of rate of spread, unit energy, fireline intensity, flame length, and power of the fire. The contrast in behavior between…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McAlpine, Lawson, Taylor
Although the effects of slope and wind on fire spread rate have been well documented, their interactive effects are not as well known. Past methods have added spread rates predicted by the wind and slope separately using vector algebra. Other, simpler, methods have also been…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vanderlinden
Notes (Do Not Cite): Listing of 6 factors complicating fire behavior prediction in insect-damaged spruce stands on the Kenai Peninsula. Fire behavior observations from the Pothole Lake fire of May 1991. In early spring prior to greenup a crown fire in mixed live/dead standing…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bradshaw
One of the studies being conducted by the Fire Behavior Research Work Unit at the Intermountain Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana in an analysis of the relationship between fire danger rating indexes and fire occurrence data. We believe that this work can be used to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Clark, Findley, Hanes, Mahaffey, Miller, Stinson, Zimmerman
Compilation of reference material and guidance on fire behavior, fuels, and fire effects on wildlife, cultural resources, etc. including a bibliography. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of the Interior, and National Association of State Foresters.
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen, Chase, LeVan, Tran
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS