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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Schneider, Gudgel-Holmes, Dalle-Molle
The overall goal of this project is to provide park managers with information useful in understanding the land uses of the north additions. The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) (Public Law 96-487, December 2, 1980) added additions to the former Mount…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Susott
Differential scanning calorimetry has been applied to three woody laboratory fuels studied in current wildland fire modeling research. The heat required to increase a fuel's temperature to ignition is an important modeling parameter affecting the rate of fire spread. Below 200Â…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Phillips, Barney
Provides tables and performance curves for estimating rates of fireline construction for bulldozers built between 1965 and 1983. Data are derived from productivity indexes furnished by bulldozer manufacturers and have not been confirmed by field trials. Construction rates are…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This conference provided an arena for identifying common key issues that are shaping wildland fire research. Commonly identified desired outcomes include: research, integrated across disciplines, and management form partnerships; communication between management and research is…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sadovnik, Manasson, Chapman, Mino, Kiseliov
Lack of reliable fire warning and detection systems for urban/wildland interface, large area industrial facilities and transportation systems result each year in a loss of millions of dollars worth of property; it also endangers lives. Typical optical fire detection sensor do…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickmann, Rollinger
The exclusion of fire from ecosystems to which it was a frequent visitor has produced profound alterations in historic ecological conditions; therefore, fire must be an integral component of ecosystem management. That was the overwhelming message conveyed by speakers at the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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
Chase
Extends equations for calculating the maximum spot fire distance to include wind-driven fires burning in surface fuels as a firebrand source. Predictions are based upon prevailing windspeed, vegetational cover, and local terrain. The equations can be used on a programmable…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel
Aerial ignition devices are being used which can start fires by a succession of point sources or by a line of fire. Through the use of these devices, the fire manager has considerable control of the fire situation. Control of the ultimate fire behavior depends on the ignition…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Boyd
Literature review of 40 articles related to research in landscape and woodland perceptions, aesthetics and experience.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
[Excerpted from text] During a period of three days in mid-February 1983, bushfires swept over 400,000 ha in southern Australia, killing 74 people, destroying more than 2,000 homes, and burning out 7 towns. This tragic repetition of the fires of January 1939, in which 71 people…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Rothermel
This manual documents the fuel modeling procedures of BEHAVE--a state-of-the-art wildland fire behavior prediction system. Described are procedures for collecting fuel data, using the data with the program, and testing and adjusting the fuel model.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS), implemented in 1972, has been revised and reissued as the 1978 NFDRS. This report describes the full developmental history of the NFDRS, including purpose, technical foundation, and structure. Includes an extensive bibliography and…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer
Outlines a procedure for fire management planning for parks; wilderness areas; and other wild, natural, or essentially undeveloped areas. Discusses background and philosophy of wilderness fire management, planning concepts, planning elements, and planning methods.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Chase, Bradshaw
This CD-ROM contains GIF images of four vegetation greenness themes derived from Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data for the years 1989 through 1998 and three fire danger themes for 1996 and 1998. CD Only - Not available online.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donoghue, Paananen
Presents an overview of the American legal system; describes the relations and interactions between the Forest Service and legal system components and processes; discusses how individuals enter, move through, and leave the legal system; and describes the current status of Forest…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
ANNOTATION: This report examines the domestic and international markets for biopower. Domestic and foreign markets present fundamentally different challenges to private power developers. The domestic challenge lies in finding economically viable opportunities for biopower.…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eza, McMinn, Dress
ANNOTATION: The Wood Residue Distribution Simulator (WORDS) attempts to find a least-cost allocation of residues from local sources of supply to local sources of demand, given the cost of the materials, their distribution, and the distribution of demand. The results are useful…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dixon
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a software tool available to forest managers to evaluate stand density management alternatives. FVS is widely used in the United States for this and other purposes. Use of FVS in Canada is limited because metric based variants calibrated…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sohngen, Mendelsohn, Neilson
This paper compares transient carbon fluxes to and from forests during climatic change in a pure natural model of ecosystem adjustment and also in a model that captures the human response to these changes. Both models incorporate forest dieback and regeneration, forest…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shriner, Street, Ball, D'Amours, Duncan, Kaiser, Maarouf, Mortsch, Mulholland, Neilson, Patz, Scheraga, Titus, Vaughan, Weltz
Description not entered.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Prentice, Smith, Kittel, Viner
Description not entered.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Drapek
Feedback interactions between terrestrial vegetation and climate could alter predictions of the responses of both systems to a doubling of atmospheric CO2. Most previous analysis of biosphere responses to global warming have used output from equilibrium simulations of current…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bachelet, Brugnach, Neilson
This paper presents the changes in vegetation distribution and hydrological balance resulting from a change in soils input data to the biogeography model MAPSS (Neilson 1995). The model was run for the conterminous United States using three different sets of soil characteristics…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES