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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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White, Dietenberger
The Forest Products Laboratory uses the cone calorimeter for the initial evaluation of the flammability of untreated and fire retardant treated wood products. The results of various studies are reviewed using a model presented at the 12th Annual BBC Conference on Flame…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weng, Kamikawa, Fukuda, Hasemi, Kagiya
A series of experiments to study merged flame from multiple fire sources was carried out. The porous 15-cm^2 burner was used as a unit burner and propane was employed as a fuel. Many burners with various heat release rates were placed in a square configuration with various…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viegas, Pita
Canyons or ridges are associated with a large number of fatal accidents produced during forest fires all over the world. A contribution to the understanding of fire behaviour in these terrain conditions is given in this paper. The basic geometrical parameters of the canyon…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gaberšek, Durran
Gap winds produced by a uniform airstream flowing over an isolated flat-top ridge cut by a straight narrow gap are investigated by numerical simulation. On the scale of the entire barrier, the proportion of the oncoming flow that passes through the gap is relatively independent…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire management, and forest and rangeland fuels management, over the past century have altered the wildland fire situation dramatically, thus also altering the institutional approach to how to deal with the changing landscape. Also, climate change, extended drought, increased…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foltz, Dooley
Agricultural straw is used in forested areas of the United States for erosion control on burned areas, harvest landings, decommissioned road prisms, road cuts and fills, and other areas of disturbed soil. Two blends of wood strands were statistically equal to straw in reducing…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Alden, Shulski
This proposal is in response to the Joint Fire Science Program's Announcement for Proposals 2004-2, Task 1, 'directly address[ing] local knowledge gaps associated with planning and implementation of...fuels treatment...that are specifically identified by an agency administrator…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiitala
This guide contains instructions for using PROBACRE. PROBACRE is a computer program developed for purposes of assessing the long term risk associated with the level of protection provided to an area. The risk of concern centers on the chance that a protection area over time will…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Interactions between forests, climatic change and the Earth's carbon cycle are complex and represent a challenge for forest managers-they are integral to the sustainable management of forests. In this volume, a number of papers are presented that describe some of the complex…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska National Park Service Western Area Fire Management program in cooperation with Ancor, Incorporated removed approximately 24 acres of biomass from the vicinity of buildings in the headquarters area of Denali National Park and Preserve. Ancor, a private 8a small…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Sandberg, Norheim
Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS) is a user-friendly computer program designed for scientists and resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software manages data concerning consumption, emissions and heat release characteristics…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A new PC-based Visual Basic software program called FEPS version 1.0 (Fire Emission Production Simulator) is now available on the Web. It is a user-friendly computer program, designed to predict emissions and heat release characteristics from prescribed or wildfires using system…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The goal of this project, co-funded by JFSP and NFP, is to help managers determine (quantify and map) where and under what conditions fire may create benefits or pose threats to identified ecological conditions or management targets. To facilitate this, we developed and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGaughey
The Stand Visualization System (SVS) generates images depicting stand conditions represented by a list of individual stand components, e.g., trees, shrubs, and down material, using detailed geometric models (McGaughey 1997). The images produced by SVS, while somewhat abstract,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Forthofer
Gridded wind is a method that can provide information about the effect of topography on local wind flow at the 100-300 ft scale (Fig. 1). Wind information at this detail is not available from the weather service. The wind simulations are not forecasts but rather simulations of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson
Natural resource science and management seem to have entered the 'age of the landscape.' Historically, resources have been studied and managed from a stand, or site, perspective and have generally been approached as single-issue problems. Forests, water, fish, and biodiversity…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kittel, Rosenbloom, Royle, Daly, Gibson, Fisher, Thornton, Yates, Aulenbach, Kaufman, McKeown, Bachelet, Schimel
Analysis and simulation of biospheric responses to historical forcing require surface climate data that capture those aspects of climate that control ecological processes, including key spatial gradients and modes of temporal variability. We developed a multivariate, gridded…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Daly, Gibson, Doggett, Smith, Taylor
A high-quality, topographically-sensitive, 103-year data set of monthly maximum and minimum temperature and precipitation on a 2.5-min (4-km) grid over the conterminous United States became available via the World Wide Web in 2002 (Daly et al. 2000, Gibson et al. 2002). The…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bachelet, Neilson, Lenihan, Drapek
We simulated the variability in natural ecosystem carbon storage under historical conditions (1895-1994) in six regions of the conterminous USA as delineated for the USGCRP National Assessment (2001). The largest simulated variations in carbon fluxes occurred in the Midwest,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rosner
Black spruce, Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P., in Alaska is largely overlooked in terms of growth and yield research because of its small size and slow growth. Growth and yield information is therefore limited or nonexistent. This study developed the first polymorphic site index (…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oja, Newbould, MacLean, See, Beebi, Peterson, Wahrenbrock, Degrenes, Wilfong, Rude, Greenberg, Fasteband, Boughton, Lehnhausen, Stockdale, Stubbs, Cooper, Sines, Heppner, Sink
This plan called the 'All Lands/All Hands Action Plan' puts forth a bold, collaborative interagency strategy of compelling on-the-ground actions that emphasizes treatments in community wildfire protection plan (CWPP) areas and wildland urban interface areas (WUI) that lie…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oja, Newbould, MacLean, See, Beebi, Peterson, Wahrenbrock, Degrenes, Wilfong, Rude, Greenberg, Fasteband, Boughton, Lehnhausen, Stockdale, Stubbs, Cooper, Sines, Heppner, Sink
This plan called the 'All Lands/All Hands Action Plan' puts forth a bold, collaborative interagency strategy of compelling on-the-ground actions that emphasizes treatments in community wildfire protection plan (CWPP) areas and wildland urban interface areas (WUI) that lie…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yoder, Engle, Fuhlendorf
Prescribed fire is widely viewed as a useful but risky ecosystem management tool, and liability is a crucial issue for prescribed burning on private and public land. Basic liability rules motivate landowners to reduce risk when making choices about the use of fire. Liability…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Busenberg
Wildfire disasters threaten numerous communities and ecosystems in America today. An effective policy strategy to counteract the threat of wildfire disasters would entail the reduction of accumulated fuels (flammable organic materials) found across large areas in many American…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Miller, Landres
The goal of this project was to develop methods to help wildland fire managers design long term, landscape scale management plans. Although wildland fire managers have a full spectrum of strategies available for reducing fuels, they lack tools for applying these strategies at…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES