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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Sims
Governments provide technical, political, and financial incentives to encourage timber harvesting for the purpose of mitigating natural forest disturbance. To provide guidance concerning these incentives, this paper integrates a natural disturbance regime into a dynamic model of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schleeweis, Goward, Huang, Masek, Moisen, Kennedy, Thomas
The history of forest change processes is written into forest age and distribution and affects earth systems at many scales. No one data set has been able to capture the full forest disturbance and land use record through time, so in this study, we combined multiple lines of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan, Opperman
LANDFIRE is the working name given to the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project (http://www.landfire.gov). The project was initiated in response to mega-fires and the need for managers to have consistent, wall-to-wall (i.e., all wildlands regardless of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan, Knapp, Varner
Whether ignited by lightning or by Native Americans, fire once shaped many North American ecosystems. Euro-American settlement and 20th Century fire suppression practices drastically altered historic fire regimes, leading to excessive fuel accumulation and uncharacteristically…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Vaillant, Cruz
This workshop was held in conjunction with the 4th Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, 18-22 February 2013, Raleigh, NC. The goal of this workshop was to provide participants with a summary of the results emanating from the Joint Fire Science Program sponsored project "Crown…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Fire has been an integral feature of our planet for over 400 million years. It has defined human culture from the beginning; it is something without which we cannot survive. While among the most destructive forces on Earth, fire displays equally tremendous powers of cleansing…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
In this short but powerful paper authors Mann, Rupp, Olson and Duffy look for evidence that Alaska’s forests are already responding to changes in fire regime. They use a tool that was developed in lock-step with Alaska fire management agencies called Boreal ALFRESCO. (Click HERE…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Norman
Presented by Steve Norman, USFS Southern Research Station, and sponsored by the US Forest Service, Research and Development. The Landscape Science Webinar Series occurs monthly on a Tuesday at 1 pm Eastern providing a forum to communicate research findings, promote awareness of…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Sicafuse, Maletsky, Evans, Singletary
The National Evaluation of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Consortia aims to assess the processes and outcomes of consortia programming at the aggregate national level. This ongoing evaluation includes four components: An online survey, targeting the fire science…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Identifying indicators of state change and forecasting future vulnerability in Alaskan boreal forest
The slideshow for this project was presented at the February 2013 Bonanza Creek Long-term Ecological Research Symposium.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Simard
From the Introduction:'Research in the field of forest fire protection almost inevitably necessitates a requirement for meteorological data. While many projects utilize on-site observations taken concurrently with the experiment, there also exists a considerable requirement for…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the introduction...'If left indefintely in a constant atmospheric environment, dead vegetation material tends toward a characteristic equilibrium moisture content. since atmospheric conditions in nature usually vary appreciably on a scale of hours, it is only fast-drying…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ponto
Slash components and organic matter from alpine fir, Lodgepole pine, and white spruce stands and clearcuts were ovendried to determine elapsed drying time. Weighings at specific intervals showed that each fuel component dried exponentially and that the time required to ovendry…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
From the text: 'The purpose of this Report is to present the heats of combustion of some forest fuels at Petawawa, and to discuss the reductions necessary to arrive at a practical heat yield suitable for calculating a fire's energy output rate.'
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wagner
From the introduction ... 'In this paper a detailed, general review of the toxic species evolved over a wide range of conditions is given, along with an outline of the physiological responses to the common fire gases and liquids. Published reviews appear to be few1-3; for the…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson
From the text ... 'The results of this study show that under certain conditions direct seeding can be a satisfactory method of establishing black spruce following prescribed burning of a balsam fir cutover. The most important limiting factor is the depth of the organic mantle.…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lafferty
From the text ... 'Objectives of the study 1) To compare pre— and postburn plant communities. 2) To determine vegetal succession patterns after fires of different intensities. 3) To relate successional patterns to natural and artificial regeneration after fires of different…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Koeppen
From the text ... 'Charcoal is largely unaffected by fungi or other woods destroying organisms. Consequently, it will persist in soil for great periods of time and often turns up in archaeological diggings and paleobotanical studies. The identification of such charcoal is often…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson
From the conclusions ... 'The results of this experiment have shown that Sitka spruce can be satisfactorily established on fresh to moist burned cutovers with shallow organic mantels, in Forest Section B28a by broadcast seeding without ground preparation. Within the range of…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harmathy
This is the first part of a two-part paper which the author has endeavored to present all available information on compartment fires in a consistent theoretical framework. This well-documented review of the state of the art should serve as a valuable reference for researchers…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harmanty
This is the second part of a two-part paper in which the author has endeavored to present all available informtion on compartment fires in a consistent theoretical framework. This well-documented review of the state of the art should serve a valuable reference for reseachers for…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Telfer
A reconnaissance survey of aboveground biomass of the understory w:is made in stands of five forest types in southwestern Nova Scotia. In most types, seedlings of arboreal species, mostly conifers, constituted about half the biomass. Mosses contributed the greatest share of the…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodland
Eucalyptus viminalis leaves that were oven-dried (85oC) differed strikingly in colour and odour from those that were freeze-dried. Nevertheless, no differences in dry weights or calorific values were discernible. It appears that both methods of drying higher plant material are…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Walker, Stocks
Two wildfires in Ontario in 1971 are analyzed with respect to fire weather, fuel conditions and fire behavior, including rate of spread, fuel consumption and fire intensity. No attempt is made to assess suppression techniques or to discuss fire control costs.
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Glascock
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS