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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Baumgartner, Simard
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bonnicksen, Lee
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
[no description entered]
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parsons
[no description entered]
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Niering
[no description entered]
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dahl, Pyne, Anderson, Crow
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Althaus, Mills
In analyzing fire management programs for their economic efficiency, it is necessary to assign monetary values to the changes in resource outputs caused by fire. The derivation of resource values is complicated by imperfect or nonexistent commericial market structures. The…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marsden
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The purpose of this guide is to assist in the operational monitoring and evaluation of prescribed fires. A common approach to monitoring and evaluation will enable prescribed fire managers and resource specialists in different organizations and areas to share…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chase
This note presents equations for calculating maximum spot fire distance from firebrand sources in the Intermountain West based on prevailing windspeed, vegetation cover, and terrain in the area. The equations include the capability to predict spotting distance from a torching…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Main, Straub, Paananen
From the text 'One of the missions of wildland fire management is to integrate fire with other land management activities to achieve desired objectives at the lowest cost. When fire managers know how fires are likely to behave in an area as well as that area*s associated weather…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunnell, Christophersen
The burning prescription is an integral part of the silvicultural prescription. Writing these prescriptions for site preparation objectives involves close coordination between the fire manager and silviculturist. A negotiating period during the sale planning process is necessary…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
The author presents a brief overview of current and potential future applications of computer technology in forest fire management. Problems commonly associated with the implementation of computer-based fire management decision-making aids are discussed together with comments…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'The outcome of the Southern Forestry Education Campaign was much less devisive. To begin with, its subject was not the internal distribution of agency funds but the promotion of fire protection as a concept. Nor was it concerned with the question of transient…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'It is often assumed that the American Indian was incapable of greatly modifying his environment and that he would not have been much interested in doing so if he did have the capabilities. In fact, he possessed both the tool and the will to use it. That tool…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Omi, Laven
The existing literature on wildland fire is assessed in terms of both the biological and social impacts of prescription fire on recreational wildlands. Gaps in the literature are noted and future areas of needed research are suggested, with particular emphasis on the Rocky…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis, Lyon
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moore
This guide, based on a literature review and personal contacts, offers recommendations and standards for procedures in reducing losses of residences from wildfires. Possible solutions to the problem of fire protection are discussed in the broad areas of land-use planning and…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bratten, Davis, Flatman, Keith, Rapp, Storey
FOCUS (Fire Operational Characteristics Using Simulation) is a computer simulation model for evaluating alternative fire management plans. This final report provides a broad overview of the FOCUS system, describes two major modules-fire suppression and cost, explains the role in…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mills, Bratten
The Fire Economics Evaluation System (FEES) - a simulation model - is being designed for long-term planning application by all public agencies with wildland fire management responsibilities. A fully operational version of FEES will be capable of estimating the economic…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Marty, Barney
A guidebook has been developed to assist the fire managers and planners in estimating actual economic costs, losses, and benefits resulting from fire management activities. This guidebook was developed and tested on 12 National Forests during the 1977-79 period. The procedures…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bradshaw, Fischer
This manual provides program writeups for two separate but related computer programs: RXWTHR and RXBURN. These programs are components of a system designed to aid fire managers in predicting the probable occurrence of desired prescribed fire weather conditions. The programs are…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The symposium, held at San Diego State University, provided information about the Mediterranean-type ecosystems found throughout the world. In the papers, and in brief summaries of poster displays, both researchers and managers addressed concerns relating to vegetation, fauna,…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES