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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Seagle
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Verner, Morrison, Ralph
[no description entered]
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Simmerman, Keane
Describes a method for developing a general-purpose ecological model of community types and successional relationships within a forest habitat type (potential vegetation). This model is based upon data collected from a large number of seral stands, and it is intended for use in…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel
[no description entered]
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stocks
[no description entered]
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Prescribed fire planners working in the boreal mixedwood slash of the Northern Clay Belt Region face some unique problems not associated with other drier sites in Ontario. At times, poor fuel continuity and poor drainage can be major impediments to fire spread. Guidelines for…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hawkes
[no description entered]
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
González-Cabán, McKetta
Economically sound decisions on fuel treatment require knowledge of treatment costs. Fuel treatment costs derived using an economic cost concept on two National Forests were found to be higher than reported by accounting methods. Costs are sufficiently high and variable to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
González-Cabán, Shinkle, Mills
Evaluating economic efficiency of fire management program options requires information on the firefighting inputs, such as vehicles and crews, that would be needed to execute the program option selected. An algorithm was developed to translate automatically dollars allocated to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prentice
Vegetation responses to climatic change can be studied retrospectively by utilizing the Quaternary fossil record. There has been controversy over the extent to which major changes in vegetation patterns at the continental scale lag behind the climatic changes that drive them,…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Susott
Describes how to compute indexes and components for the 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System using the Hewlett-Packard 71B handheld calculator and custom memory. Predicting fire behavior with the HP-71B is described in a separate publication, "Fire Behavior Computations with…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Susott, Burgan
This report describes the operation of the fire behavior prediction program available as a Custom Read Only Memory (CROM) for the Hewlett-Packard model 71B handheld calculator. Worked examples are given for each of the 13 program modules, and the inputs and outputs are…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burgan, Susott
If your Texas Instruments TI-59 is nearing its last gasp, you can replace it with a newer calculator and enjoy the use of improved fire danger and fire behavior programs. The Hewlett-Packard HP-71B handheld calculator has been selected to replace the TI-59 and is now available…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
Describes BURN Subsystem, Part 1, the operational fire behavior prediction subsystem of the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system. The manual covers operation of the computer program, assumptions of the mathematical models used in the calculations, and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Anderson, Hales
The critical path method (CPM) of network analysis (a) depicts precedence among the many activities in a project by a network diagram; (b) identifies critical activities by calculating their starting, finishing, and float times; and (c) displays possible schedules by…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weihs, Small
Multiple nuclear weapon bursts in an urban area could lead to separate large area fires. If sufficiently far apart, each fire burns independently and little, if any, fire spread is expected. For small separations, the flow fields generated by each fire can interact and fire…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lavdas
A numerical index that estimates the atmosphere's capacity to disperse smoke from prescribed burning is described. The physical assumptions and mathematical development of the index are given in detail. A preliminary interpretation of dispersion index values is offered. A…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Horn, Medema, Schuster
Since its introduction in 1979, CHEAPO, a computer based economic analysis program, has allowed users of the Stand Prognosis Model to evaluate silvicultural alternatives from an economic point of view. Subsequent modifications to the Prognosis Model have rendered CHEAP0 obsolete…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wykoff
Differences between Prognosis Model versions 4.0 and 5.0 are described. Additions to version 5.0 include an event monitor that schedules activities contingent on stand characteristics, a regeneration establishment model that predicts the structure of the regeneration stand…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
Predictions of wildland fire behavior are used in various aspects of fire management: prescribed fire planning, presuppression planning, real-time fire suppression activities. Methods for calculating fire behavior covered here represent continued improvement of the packaging of…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire area and perimeter length tables for Canadian forest fire behavior prediction system fuel types
[no description entered]
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parsons, Graber, Agee, van Wagtendonk
An evolving understanding of ecological processes, together with ambiguities in National Park Service policy, have led to multiple interpretations of the role of management in our large natural area National Parks. National Park Service management policies must be dynamic and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothermel, Wilson, Morris, Sackett
A model, based on the Canadian Fine Fuel Moisture Code, was modified to account for solar heating of fuels and to predict diurnal trends in fine fuel moisture. The model was tested against actual moisture data from general fuel types in Texas, Arizona, Idaho and Alaska. Moisture…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie
The primary environmental variable that appears to regulate the function and, to some extent, the structure of Alaskan taiga ecosystems is soil temperature (Van Cleve et al. 1983, Van Cleve and Dyrness 1983). The structural and functional changes that occur in relation to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harmon, Franklin, Swanson, Sollins, Gregory, Lattin, Anderson, Cline, Aumen, Sedell, Lienkaemper, Cromack, Cummins
Publisher Summary: Coarse woody debris (CWD) is an important component of temperate stream and forest ecosystems. This chapter reviews the rates at which CWD is added and removed from ecosystems, the biomass found in streams and forests, and many functions that CWD serves. CWD…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS