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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Johansen
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Agee
Evaluations of fire management programs have been based primarily on ecological criteria rather than on cost-effectiveness. Determining cost-effectiveness poses several problems: current budgeting practices do not encourage such evaluations, assessment of the net value changes…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Johnston
Fuel loading, fireline intensity, and expected fire size were determined after harvesting small-stem lodgepole pine stands. Curves relating predicted fireline intensity to slash fuel loading and windspeed are presented. Removing about 15 tons per acre of residues reduced…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schmidt
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guth
The subtitle ... 'The American dream of a home in the woods is going up in smoke for more and more people. Here's how to keep it from happening to you.' Published by American Forests. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mackie
During late 1982 and early 1983 wild fires swept through more than 3.5 Mha in the lowlands of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The immediate causes of the conflagration were a combination of severe drought, destructive logging practices, and slash and burn agriculture. Although the…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flowers, Shinkle, Cain, Mills
'Estimates of the timber net value change and timber output change resulting from wildfre were calculated for 9828 situation-specific fire and management conditions in the northern Rocky Mountains. After slight aggregation across the less sensitive situation parameters,…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
'Considering that most of us in the fire business are involved in management of at least some public land and that, regardless of land status, many of our actions or inactions are subject to public view and often public criticism, an awareness of the political scene, what it…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilcove
Restricted in size and surrounded by a modified, even alien environment, fragmented ecosystems can suffer a loss of biological diversity, most noticeably through the extinction of species. The extinction process that occurs as result of gragmentation can be divided into four…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chambers
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chase
[no description entered]
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Donoghue
Describes, from a historical perspective, methods used to characterize fire prevention problems and evaluate prevention programs and discusses past research efforts to bolster these analytical and management efforts. Highlights research on the sociological perspectives of the…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carpenter, Taylor, Cortner, Gardner, Zwolinski, Daniel
Data from three independently conducted surveys indicate a high level of support for management practices initiated and controlled by the manager. Additional analysis performed on one of the data sets further reveals the extent to which sociodemographic characteristics and…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alden, Zasada
Lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta Dougl. is the most widely distributed conifer in North America. Cones of northern populations of the interior variety latifolia are highly serotinous and retain vigorous seed for more than 50 years. Average annual cone production is relatively…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Provides information on fire management policy, programs, and issues in parks, wildernesses, and other natural areas. In more than 100 papers, poster papers, and workshop summaries, both researchers and managers explore basic wilderness management philosophies, explain current…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Juday
An account of the progress and control of a fire started on 29 May 1983 following an unusually dry and mild early spring, and lasting 18 days covering nearly 10,000 acres of forest and involving losses of over $5 million. Measures included the use of bulldozed control lines…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES