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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Agovino, Cercielo, Ferraro, Garofalo
Wildfires constitute a serious threat for both the environment and human well-being. The US fire policy aims to tackle this problem, devoting a sizeable amount of resources and resorting extensively to fire suppression strategies. The theoretical literature has established a…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paveglio, Stasiewicz, Edgeley
Formal regulation of private property and exploration of 'risk transmission' across ownerships are two popular means for addressing wildfire management at landscape scales. However, existing studies also indicate that a number of barriers exist for implementing formal…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Di Cristina, Kozhumal, Simeoni, Skowronski, Rangwala, Im
The effects of freestream flow on fire spread behaviors of a discrete wooden fuel array were studied. The spacing between fuel elements was varied, and the flame spread behavior under 1, 2, and 3 m/s forced flow velocities was investigated. The fastest spread rate was not…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schneider, Betting, Patterson, Skowronski, Simeoni
There is a strong need to increase the basic understanding of the propagation mechanisms in wildfires to improve the scientific tools needed for firefighting and fire prevention. This study focuses on the fire spread mechanisms by radiation. Three contiguous trees were ignited…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Recent wildland fire disasters have attracted interest from a variety of disciplines seeking to reduce impacts of fire on people and natural resources. Architecture, insurance and reinsurance, city and county government, and engineering sectors have contributed ideas to mitigate…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Huang, Gao
Creeping fire spread under opposed airflow is a classic fundamental fire research problem involving heat transfer, fluid dynamics, chemical kinetics, and is strongly dependent on environmental factors. Persistent research over the last 50 years has established a solid framework…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moore, Butteri, Boespflug, Weddle, Cahur, Butteri, Ziel, St. Clair, Shook, Strader, Stevens
This Fire Danger Operating Plan (FDOP) guides the application of decision support tools (such as the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System) at the local level. This FDOP is supplemental to the Alaska Interagency Mobilization Guide, the Alaska Interagency Wildland Fire…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leopold
'Severe fires sometimes surround and destroy grown animals and birds and kill them outright; but the greatest damage occurs through the destruction of eggs and young, and the ruin of coverts, without which game falls an easy prey to vermin and hunters. Fire also important…
Year: 1923
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
[Excerpted from text] As is well known, certain meteorological conditions are exceptionally favorable to the inception and the spreading of fires in the forested regions of this country. These conditions, although varied and due at times to somewhat different causes, have come…
Year: 1923
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hofmann
[Excerpted from text] Meteorological factors and forest development are inseparable in nature, and progress in the establishment of a forestry practice will be measured by the extent that these factors are made inseparable in the study of the sciences.
[This publication is…
Year: 1923
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beach
The author notes that the Indians never put out their campfires, which sometimes led to forest fires.
Year: 1923
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Innes
This review summarizes the information that was available in the scientific literature as of 2021 on the biology, ecology, and effects of fire and control methods on spotted knapweed in North America.
Spotted knapweed is a nonnative, invasive forb in parts of the United States.…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES