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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Chrosciewicz
Moisture contents of organic forest-floor materials were studied by strata on a clear-cut jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) site in relation to slash distribution and changes in both duff moisture code and fine fuel moisture code, the two weather-based components of the Canadian…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schroeder, Chandler
From tabulated frequency distributions of fire danger indexes for a nationwide network of 89 stations, the probabilities of four types of fire behavior ranging from 'fire out' to 'critical' were calculated for each month and are shown in map form.
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morton
A short session on vortices in the atmosphere and other rotating systems was included in the I.U.T.A.M. Symposium on Concentrated Vortex Motions in Fluids held at Ann Arbor. During this session it appeared that fluid dynamicists were interested in the behaviour of tornadoes,…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Welker, Sliepcevich
The bending of a flame by wind influences the amount of heat transferred by radiation and convection, the fuel burning rate, and the flame spread rate. To what extent will a flame be bent by wind? The author presents correlations of data taken from liquid pool fires, which…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pryor, Yuill
A program was undertaken to define the life hazard in a mass fire environment resulting from nuclear attack. The nature of casualties and hazards in peacetime and wartime fires was reviewed, and experimental efforts to simulate mass fire situations were studied. This state-of-…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hull, O'Dell, Schroeder
Weather is one of the dominant factors responsible for uncontrollable spread of mass fires in both urban and rural areas. Identification of the weather types causing critical burning conditions in 14 contiguous regions of the United States was the subject of the previous report…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephenson
ANNOTATION: This paper provides an overview of the concept, development, and technology of flail debarkers.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmoldt
Residential encroachment into wildland areas places an additional burden on fire management activities. Prevention programs, fuel management efforts, and suppression strategies, previously employed in wildland areas, require modification for protection of increased values at…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fritts, Swetnam
This chapter reviews basis for some fundamental techniques, principles, and practices of dendroecology. Dendroecology refers to applications of dendrochronological techniques to problems in ecology. The important ecological problems for which dendroecological techniques are well…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Arno
This paper attempts to survey timberlines of western North America in a manner primarily designed to serve public interpreters of natural history, such as park naturalists. Hopefully, this broad discussion of the timberlines will also be of interest to biologists and some…
Year: 1966
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simpson
Basic geograpahic information systems and spatial analysis techniques are freqeuntly used in order to gain environmental understanding as a basis for landscape planning. While technical descriptions of such techniques are common, little has been written regarding their…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, de Groot
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
West
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Salazar, Nilsson
Wildland fire managers and planners rely heavily on information that describes environmental and sociological factors. Complex and dynamic interactions among these factors are commonplace, but difficult to model and portray in a useable and understandable way. And when dealing…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks
The expanding use of prescribed fire to achieve North American land management objectives has led, in recent years, to the increased use of helicopter-ignition, large-scale controlled burns. These mass-ignition convection burns often generate extremely intense and erratic fire…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
A scheme is presented for dealing with the full range of fire behavior in conifer forests. It is based on empirical data from fires in Canadian forests plus a theory to describe the physical conditions for the transition from surface to crown fire. In its ideal form, the model…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Mead
Describing structural aspects of forest vegetation is now routine in forest inventories in Alaska. The biomass structure of understory vegetation is considered a necessary part of the inventory process. In this study twig, foliar and combined (twig plus foliar) biomass were…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks, Lawson, Alexander, Van Wagner, McAlpine, Lynham, Dube
Forest fire danger rating research in Canada was initiated by the federal government in 1925. Five different fire danger rating systems have been developed since that time, each with increasing universal applicability across Canada. The approach has been to build on previous…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schwartz, Franzmann
We compared population dynamics for moose (Alces alces) and black bear (Ursus americanus) in an older (1947) and recent (1969) burn from 1978-1988. Moose densities in the 1947 burn were moderately high in early years of study (1.3 moose/km2) but declined dramatically in later…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Risenhoover
I studied the botanical composition and nutritional qualities of moose (Alces alces) winter diets in subalpine habitats in Denali National Park and Preserve (DNPP), Alaska during January-April 1983 and 1984. Feltleaf willow (Salix alaxensis), diamondleaf willow (S. arbusculoides…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pavlov
Notes on article (do not cite): The article focuses on regeneration of the soil and vegetation cover in hummocky tundra with unsorted circles in a mountainous area of Chukotka after a fire. The morphology, soils, and vegetation prior to the fire are analyzed in detail, and…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morneau, Payette
A 250-yr postfire plant chronosequence in well-drained sites at the northern limit of the boreal forest in the Grande riviere de la Baleine area, N. Quebec, was reconstructed from 9 sites associated with the development of the lichen/spruce (Cladina stellaris/Picea mariana)…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
A close relationship between organic-carbon content and bulk density was utilized to develop equations for predicting the bulk densities of inorganic soils around the Gulf of Alaska. Most of the samples used in developing these equations were from B and C horizons, but they…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES