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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Susott
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Snyder
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Episode 2 of the Fire Danger Learning Series discussing the forthcoming 2016 revision to the US National Fire Danger Rating System.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hobbs, Currall, Gimingham
From the Summary ... '(1) The use of heat-sensitive materials to study temperatures in vegetation fires is reviewed. (2) A pyrometer using 'Thermocolor* paints on mica strips is described and a calibration is given for heath fire conditions. (3) A method of data presentation is…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lutes
FOFEM - A First Order Fire Effects Model - is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pimont, Parsons, Rigolot, deColigny, Dupuy, Dreyfus, Linn
Scientists and managers critically need ways to assess how fuel treatments alter fire behavior, yet few tools currently exist for this purpose. We present a spatially-explicit-fuel-modeling system, FuelManager, which models fuels, vegetation growth, fire behavior (using a…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fischer, Spies, Steelman, Moseley, Johnson, Bailey, Ager, Bourgeron, Charnley, Collins, Kline, Leahy, Littell, Millington, Nielsen-Pincus, Olsen, Paveglio, Roos, Steen-Adams, Stevens, Vukomanovic, White, Bowman
Wildfire risk in temperate forests has become a nearly intractable problem that can be characterized as a socioecological 'pathology': that is, a set of complex and problematic interactions among social and ecological systems across multiple spatial and temporal scales.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drury, Rauscher, Banwell, Huang, Lavezzo
The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based software and data integration framework that organizes fire and fuels software applications into a single online application. IFTDSS is designed to make fuels treatment planning and analysis more…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balch, Nagy, Archibald, Bowman, Moritz, Roos, Scott, Williamson
Humans use combustion for heating and cooking, managing lands, and, more recently, for fuelling the industrial economy. As a shift to fossil-fuel-based energy occurs, we expect that anthropogenic biomass burning in open landscapes will decline as it becomes less fundamental to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Steelman
There are fundamental spatial and temporal disconnects between the specific policies that have been crafted to address our wildfire challenges. The biophysical changes in fuels, wildfire behavior, and climate have created a new set of conditions for which our wildfire governance…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Waring, Coops
A lengthening of the fire season, coupled with higher temperatures, increases the probability of fires throughout much of western North America. Although regional variation in the frequency of fires is well established, attempts to predict the occurrence of fire at a spatial…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wei, Rideout, Kirsch, Kernohan
Hazard fuel reduction and wildland fire preparedness programs are two important budgeting components in the US National Park Service strategic wildland fire planning. During the planning process, each national park independently conducts analysis to understand the benefits from…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Breen
Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop | Thursday, October 13, 2016Presenter: Amy Breen
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Van Wagner
From the Conclusion: 'The ultimate justification for conducting research on forest fire is a) that it is a complex natural phenomenon with both physical and biological dimensions, b) that it can only be described and understood through scientific investigation, c) that it…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mohr
From the text: 'This technique uses a form for recording and displaying prescription fire data. Measured environmental elements and observed fire behavior are consolidated on one page.'
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hawkes
From the text: 'In summary, the coupling of a burning prescription which could deliver adequate fire intensity with gelled gasoline helitorch ignition to overcome some of the fuel arrangement and topographic problems resulted in a generally successful rehabilitation effort at…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Denney
From the text: 'Remember, an aluma-gel mix can 'make or break' a helitorch operation. It is suggested for the inexperienced to invite someone knowledgeable to assist on the heliport and aid in training your mixing crew. Timing is very important. It takes practice for a mixing…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Text: 'Recent spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.) infestations have resulted in widespread areas of balsam fir (Abies balsamea [L.] Mill) mortality in Ontario and interest in converting these areas back into productive forest by the use of a tramping following by a…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Text: 'Eleven experimental burns were conducted in the Kapuskasing District of the northern Clay Belt Region in Ontario for the period 1979-1983. The test fires, using strip headfires for ignition, were used to study the fire behavior in boreal mixedwood slash fuel complexes as…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen, Ryan
Text: 'The organic mantle of the forest floor acts as a barrier to heat transport down into the mineral soil. This study compares the temperatures experienced in a surrogate mineral soil (sand) with and without an organic mantle (peat moss) covering the mineral soil. Different…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simmerman
From the text: 'This poster display illustrates the current development of a classification of fuels in aspen forests. Fuels and flammability vary considerably within the aspen and mixed aspen/conifer forest types depending upon plant community type, grazing influence, and…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunnell
From the Summary: 'There are several reasons to use helitorch ignition instead of hand ignition. Three primary reasons are safety of ground ignition personnel, cost effectiveness, and ability to meet resource objectives.'
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS