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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Arno
The fire ecology of Scandinavian forests and its management implications have many parallels to forests of the American West. As in the United States, the policy of fire exclusion has yielded to a broader understanding of fire ecology, and both silviculture and prescribed fire…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Leenhouts
ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery, and ecological fire regime…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alvarado, Sandberg, Pickford
Large wildfires can have significant impacts on natural, social, and economic systems. Future climatic scenarios call for an increase in the risk of more severe fires in western forest. Most forest fires are small and do little damage, but they do not occur frequently. In…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
A computer simulation model, FARSITE, includes existing fire behavior models for surface, crown, spotting, point-source fire acceleration, and fuel moisture. The model’s components and assumptions are documented. Simulations were run for simple conditions that illustrate the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Zoltai, Morrissey, Livingston, de Groot
Boreal peatlands occupy about 1.14 x 106 km2 in North America. Fires can spread into peatlands, burning the biomass, and if moisture conditions permit, burning into the surface peat. Charred layers in peat sections reveal that historically bogs in the subhumid continental…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Weber, Stocks
The boreal forest is the largest forest region in Canada, occupying approximately 315 million ha. Within this forest region the long-term average annual area burned is 1.3 million ha, with extreme fire years being common, and covering up to 7 million ha in a single fire season.…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dissing, Verbyla
Preliminary results of this study was highlighted in the December 12th, 1998 issue of the New Scientist Magazine (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16021643.900.html): The majority of the circumpolar region is covered by boreal forest. Boreal forest is the second largest…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simmerman, Smith, Miller, Howard
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) is a computerized encyclopedia that summarizes the general ecology and effects of fire on more than 1,000 plant and animal species and plant communities. These 'summaries' synthesize current information in an easy-to-use format and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Boles
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
See
The Kenai Peninsula is in the midst of a large spruce beetle infestation affecting approximately 2 million acres of forest lands. This forest land is owned by the State of Alaska, municipalities, private entities, and the Federal Government. The state and federal lands are…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Conard, Davidenko
Boreal forests and woodlands comprise about 29% of the world's forest cover. About 70% of this forest is in Eurasia, mostly in the Russian Federation. Boreal forests contain about 45% of the world's growing stock and are an increasingly important part of global timber production…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lenihan, Daly, Bachelet, Neilson
Simulating the impact of fire in a broad-scale Dynamic Vegetation Model (DGVM) used for global change impact assessments requires components and concepts not part of existing fire modeling systems. The focus shifts from fire behavior and danger at the small scale to the system-…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
A computer simulation model, FARSITE, includes existing fire behavior models for surface, crown, spotting, point-source fire acceleration, and fuel moisture. The model’s components and assumptions are documented. Simulations were run for simple conditions that illustrate the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Butler
There is no question that fire has been and will continue to be one of Mother Nature's major land management tools. What is in question, is the ability of humans to responsibly and safely develop the ability to interact with and use fire. Fundamental fire research focuses on…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Cohen
Quantitative information regarding safety zone size for wildland firefighters is limited. We present a 3-surface theoretical model that describes the net radiant energy transfer to a firefighter standing a specified distance from a fire of specified height. Model predictions…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
González-Cabán, MacGregor
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Andrews
A computer program, called DYNAMICS, was developed to illustrate changes in a forest type adapted to short-interval fire. Managementoptions include natural fire occurrence, fire exclusion, and a silviculture-fire management approach. During a 500-year simulation, fireoccurrence…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Stocks
In 1995, the Canadian Forest Service published two wall posters related to the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System, both of which will be displayed during this poster paper presentation. One, jointly produced with the Alaska Division of Forestry entitled 'Head…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McCullough, Werner, Neumann
Fire and insects are natural disturbance agents in many forest ecosystems, often interacting to affect succession, nutrient cycling, and forest species composition. We review literature pertaining to effects of fire-insect interactions on ecological succession, use of prescribed…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Flannigan, Bergeron, Engelmark, Wotton
Despite increasing temperatures since the end of the Little Ice Age (ca. 1850), wildfire frequency has decreased as shown in many field studies from North America and Europe. We believe that global warming since 1850 may have triggered decreases in fire frequency in some regions…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burgan, Klaver, Klaver
A national 1-km resolution fire danger fuel model map was derived through used of previously mapped land cover classes and ecoregions, and extensive ground sample data, then refined through review by fire managers familiar with various portions of the U.S. The fuel model map…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lynham, Wickware, Mason
In 1975 nd 1976, an experimental burning program was conducted in an immature stand of boreal jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) growing on level, granitic outwash sands in northern Ontario. Nine 0.4-ha plots were burned under a range of fire weather conditions and sampling was…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Liski, Ilvesniemi, Makela, Starr
Potential causes for changes in the amounts of carbon (C) stored in the soils of boreal forests were studied by measuring the C in the soil along a 5000-year chronosequence in coastal western Finland and using a simple dynamic model of decomposition. The amount of soil C…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS