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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fryer, Johnson
(1)The behaviour of the August 1936 Galatea fire in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains was reconstructed with respect to the rate of spread, frontal-fire intensity and fuel consumption, and illustrates that tree mortality, seed dispersal distance into the burn and…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bethea
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan, Hartford
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini, Reinhardt
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Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mejer
Building on insights provided by Beck (1988), Pyne (1982) and others, the paper views wildland fire as an event revealing a social and scientific field in which basic dilemmas that separate nature and culture, environmental autonomy and human intervention, and the certainty of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murray, Bunting, Morgan
The subalpine vegetation zone is an extensive and important high elevation setting in the western United States. Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) is restricted to, and occurs widely in, the subalpine zone. This tree provides a valuable foodsource and shelter for a variety of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baisan, Swetnam
Four centuries of land use history were compared to fire regime characteristics along a use-intensity gradient. Changes in intensity and type of utilization varied directly with changes in fire regime characteristics near population centers, while remote areas showed little…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schuster, Cleaves, Bell
Forest Service expenditures for fire presuppression and suppression activities increased from $61 million in FY 1970 to $951 million in FY 1994. Yet, real (net of inflation) expenditures have not increased significantly since FY 1970, if FY 1994 expenditures are excluded. During…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Martin
Prescribed fire as a social issue becomes automatically an ecological, political, and economic issue. Any issue that affects us socially we take to the political arena, and its final resolution will involve the costs of different avenues to resolving the issue. Unfortunately,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Harvey
We present a method in which fundamental knowledge of natural ecosystem dynamics of the southern boreal forest may be used as a basis for a new silvicultural approach aimed at maintaining biodiversity and long-term ecosystem productivity under management. The natural disturbance…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bradshaw
The problem of fire protection in the urban/wildland interface is a complex combination of three components: fire behavior and combustion, social and political factors, and the cooperation of property owners. By examing the problem's component parts, it is easier to understand…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Call, Albini
An empirical model is presented which relates fractional reduction in loading to fuel element diameter and moisture content for surface and aerial fuels consumed near the fire front in a spreading crown fire. The model is based upon data from a series of experimental crown fires…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Phillips, George, Nelson
Presents current (1988) fireline production rates for bulldozers, by size of machine, fuel type, slope, and site conditions. Includes nomograms and a master table for estimating production rates. Describes how data were collected and production rates were calculated.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Blakely
Four commercially available forest fire retardants were studied to quantify their capabilities for flammability reduction using standard laboratory conditions and procedures. All the retardants proved to be closely matched in reducing flammability.
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander
This report represents a compilation and classification of nearly all the available written information on the CFFDRS. Plans call for a 20-year (1969-1988) annotated bibliography of CFFDRS literature to be issued as a CFS Forestry Technical Report in 1989. The present…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Fischer
The advent of 'fire management' has increased the need to understand and predict fire effects on vegetation. Such prediction is greatly complicated by the many factors that influence fire characteristics and plant response. Nevertheless, a few approaches have been developed to…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Suffling
Historical data for NW Ontario were used to determine relations between catastrophic (stand replacing) fires and landscape diversity in the boreal forest. Results showed that landscape diversity was greatest with intermediate amounts of fire disturbance. Any change of…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen, Saveland
The wildland-urban interface (W-UI) refers to residential areas surrounded by or adjacent to wildland areas. In recent years, significant W-UI residential fire losses have occurred nationwide in the United States that have focused attention on the principal W-UI problem - losses…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark, Hardy
Alaskans in general felt that fires burned communities elsewhere but not in their backyard. That all started to change after the disastrous Miller's Reach Fire in June of 1996. Now Alaskans are thinking about and discussing the hazards and destructive power of wildfire.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES