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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Angelstam
Summary (p.499-500) ... 'Fire is an important natural and anthropogenic factor in the dynamics of the boreal forest system. The ecological and environmental impacts of boreal fires depend on fire weather, fuel availability, fire behavior and history of stand development (…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beaty
The transport of stream bedload sediment was monitored continuously in a small stream from 1975 to 1982 following forest fires in 1974 and 1980. The stream is located in the east subcatchment (170 ha) of Lake 239 in the Experimental Lakes Area, northwestern Ontario.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Created through the Wildfire Disaster Recovery Act of 1989 (PL 101-286), in response to the destructive western fire season of 1987 and the Yellowstone fires of 1988, the Commission was asked to consider the environmental and economic effects of disastrous wildfires through…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sampson
From the text: 'Authorities pinpoint certain western forests so stressed and vulnerable that catastrophic fires threaten this summer. With over 10 million acres of forest showing serious stress in the West, wildfire is an enormous concern everywhere. That concern heightens…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The National Weather Service Fire Weather Program provides weather forecasting and meteorological support services to state and federal wildland fire management agencies. An Intergovernmental Fire Weather User's Summit, sponsored by the National Weather Service (NWS) and the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
The capture of fire by the genus Homo changed forever the natural history of the Earth. Even today fire appears at the core of many popular scenarios for an environmental apocalypse. Yet the larger history of fire - the varied ways human society have sought to use and control…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Smith, Reifsnyder
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Price, Rind
Each year lightning ignites approximately 10,000 wildland fires in the United States alone. Therefore, when considering how climate change may affect wildland fires, one needs to consider possible changes in lightning activity. With the aid of satellite cloud and lightning…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Meisner, Fujioka
The United States Historical Climatology Network (HCN) database was compiled by the National Climatic Data Center in response to a compelling interest in climate change. The database contains monthly temperature and precipitation data for approxiamtely 1200 stations in the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roads, Ueyoshi, Alpert, Fujioka
Recently, Fosberg and Fujioka (1987) emphasized the potential importance that accurate long-range weather forecasts would have on national and regional land and fire management. In particular, they described a national research plan to integrate present day medium/long-range…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch
The 1989 fire season was the most severe in 71-years of recorded fire history in Manitoba. A total of 1147 fires burned 3.28 million ha and cost over $63 million (CDN) to suppress. The events of 1989 resulted in the development and implementation of a new Initial Attack…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hargrove, Gardner, Turner, Romme
Future long-term (ca. 100 year) trends in fire frequency and burn patterns were investigated in the subalpine plateau of Yellowstone National Park, USA, using EMBYR, a probabilistic, spatially-explicit fire simulation model. The central subalpine plateau (85 km x 82 km) was…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Allen
'The heightened recognition within the research community of the ecological linkages between Local sites and larger spatial scales has spawned increasing calls for more holistic management of landscapes (Noss 1983, Harris 1984, Risser 1985, Norse et al 1986, Agee and Johnson…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas
'Documentation and analysis for fire behavior events should become a standard practice with Fire Behavior Analysts, and not 'a nice to do project'. The FBA has a responsibility bfore leaving a fire to tabulate pertinent data and to write a report that summarizesthe key factors…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gleason
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
PLUMP is a general -purpose, one-dimensional plume rise model for wildfire and prescribed fire planning. It calculates the characteristics of fire plu8mes, including vertical velocity, water content, excess temperature, rain, and ice. The model can also be used to determine the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moody, Buchanan, Melcher, Wistrand
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae, Weirich, Johnson
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lawson, Armitage, Dalrymple
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heilman, Eenigenburg, Main
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fujioka, Meisner, McCutchan
[no description entered]
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch, Hoskins, Hoskins
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS