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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Johnstone, Olsen, Rupp
This is a powerpoint slide presentation about modeling future successional trajectory and landscape flammability using the 2004 Boundary Fire in Alaska.
Year: 2007
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
El humo de los incendios forestales puede causar problemas de salud para todos, pero especialmente para las personas que padecen de enfermedades cardiacas y pulmonares, los adultos de mayor edad y los ninos.
Year: 2007
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wildfire smoke can cause health problems for anyone, especially those with heart and lung conditions, older adults, and children.
Year: 2007
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
More and more people are making their homes in woodland settings in or near forests, rural areas, or remote mountain sites - areas in which wildfires are more likely to occur. Wildfires often begin unnoticed. They spread quickly, igniting brush, trees, and homes. CDC recommends…
Year: 2007
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Over 2,200 wildfires occur in the United States each year. In March of 2006 residents in the Texas panhandle suffered through over a week of devastating wildfires that took 12 lives and damaged over $16 million in property. In 2004, wildfires burned 8 million acres in 40 states.
Year: 2007
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This Synthesis Report is based on the assessment carriedout by the three Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It provides an integrated view of climate change as the final part of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (AR4).
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding of the human and natural drivers of climate change, observed climate change, climate processes and attribution, and estimates of projected future climate change. It builds…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The assessment is of current scientific understanding of the impacts of climate change on natural, managed and human systems, the capacity of these systems to adapt and their vulnerability. It builds upon past IPCC assessments and incorporates new knowledge gained since the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) focuses on new literature on the scientific, technological, environmental, economic and social aspects of mitigation of climate change, published since the IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) and the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walsh
Power point presentation at Governor's Climate Change Sub-Cabinet Meeting, 22 May 2007
Year: 2007
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Simard
From the Introduction:'Research in the field of forest fire protection almost inevitably necessitates a requirement for meteorological data. While many projects utilize on-site observations taken concurrently with the experiment, there also exists a considerable requirement for…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the introduction...'If left indefintely in a constant atmospheric environment, dead vegetation material tends toward a characteristic equilibrium moisture content. since atmospheric conditions in nature usually vary appreciably on a scale of hours, it is only fast-drying…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ponto
Slash components and organic matter from alpine fir, Lodgepole pine, and white spruce stands and clearcuts were ovendried to determine elapsed drying time. Weighings at specific intervals showed that each fuel component dried exponentially and that the time required to ovendry…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the text: 'The purpose of this Report is to present the heats of combustion of some forest fuels at Petawawa, and to discuss the reductions necessary to arrive at a practical heat yield suitable for calculating a fire's energy output rate.'
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wagner
From the introduction ... 'In this paper a detailed, general review of the toxic species evolved over a wide range of conditions is given, along with an outline of the physiological responses to the common fire gases and liquids. Published reviews appear to be few1-3; for the…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson
From the text ... 'The results of this study show that under certain conditions direct seeding can be a satisfactory method of establishing black spruce following prescribed burning of a balsam fir cutover. The most important limiting factor is the depth of the organic mantle.…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lafferty
From the text ... 'Objectives of the study 1) To compare pre— and postburn plant communities. 2) To determine vegetal succession patterns after fires of different intensities. 3) To relate successional patterns to natural and artificial regeneration after fires of different…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Koeppen
From the text ... 'Charcoal is largely unaffected by fungi or other woods destroying organisms. Consequently, it will persist in soil for great periods of time and often turns up in archaeological diggings and paleobotanical studies. The identification of such charcoal is often…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson
From the conclusions ... 'The results of this experiment have shown that Sitka spruce can be satisfactorily established on fresh to moist burned cutovers with shallow organic mantels, in Forest Section B28a by broadcast seeding without ground preparation. Within the range of…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harmathy
This is the first part of a two-part paper which the author has endeavored to present all available information on compartment fires in a consistent theoretical framework. This well-documented review of the state of the art should serve as a valuable reference for researchers…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harmanty
This is the second part of a two-part paper in which the author has endeavored to present all available informtion on compartment fires in a consistent theoretical framework. This well-documented review of the state of the art should serve a valuable reference for reseachers for…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Telfer
A reconnaissance survey of aboveground biomass of the understory w:is made in stands of five forest types in southwestern Nova Scotia. In most types, seedlings of arboreal species, mostly conifers, constituted about half the biomass. Mosses contributed the greatest share of the…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodland
Eucalyptus viminalis leaves that were oven-dried (85oC) differed strikingly in colour and odour from those that were freeze-dried. Nevertheless, no differences in dry weights or calorific values were discernible. It appears that both methods of drying higher plant material are…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Walker, Stocks
Two wildfires in Ontario in 1971 are analyzed with respect to fire weather, fuel conditions and fire behavior, including rate of spread, fuel consumption and fire intensity. No attempt is made to assess suppression techniques or to discuss fire control costs.
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Glascock
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS