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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Alkhatib
Context. Apart from causing tragic loss of lives and valuable natural and individual properties including thousands of hectares of forest and hundreds of houses, forest fires are a great menace to ecologically healthy grown forests and protection of the environment. Every year,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jeffrey
From the text ... 'As cities grow in population, they tend to expand outward into formerly undeveloped wildland areas. Since much of the expansion on the urban edge consists of residential properties, an increasing number of newer homes are located in close proximity to natural…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The Wildfire Act is supported by the Fire Suppression Funding Solutions Partner Caucus and has been deemed especially critical in the face of global climate change. The Forest Service states that as a result of a changing climate, forest conditions are more…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Preisler
From the text ... 'In this special issue, we present a collection of papers that tackle some of the statistical issues concerned with characterizing wildfires and wildfire risk. These range from the issue of predicting locations and sizes of wildland fires at a landscape level…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maynard, Edwards, Wheeler
Environmental safety assessments for exposure of birds require the provision of acute avian toxicity data for both the pesticidal active substance and formulated products. As an example, testing on the formulated product is waived in Europe using an assessment of data for the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Dillon, Drury, Innes, Morgan, Lutes, Prichard, Smith, Strand
From the introduction ... 'Announcing the release of new software packages for application in wildland fire science and management, two fields that are already fully saturated with computer technology, may seem a bit too much to many managers. However, there have been some…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cruz, Alexander
From the text ... 'Operational guides for predicting various aspects of wildland fire behavior, including crowning, are generally dependent on mathematical models that can take a variety of forms. The degree of accuracy in predictions of crown fire behavior is dependent on the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chen, Goodwin, Prestemon
In the U.S. forest products industry, wildfire is one of the leading causes of damage and economic losses. While individual wildfire behavior is well studied, new literature is emerging on broad-scale (e.g., county-level) wildfire risks. Our paper studies wildfire risks using…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2014 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
This discussion included a project update including a basic overview, preliminary results on the efffects of fuel treatments on permafrost and fuel composition, the modeling framework, and products. They hope to simulate wildfire in response to changing fire management options.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne, Ziel
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
A brief refresher of CFFDRS from the 3-day Summit, held October 28-30 in Fairbanks.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
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
Klein, Whistler
This paper describes a system for preparing monthly outlooks for fire-weather elements in the United States. The system is based on multiple regression equations that specify monthly mean anomalies of precipitation, temperature, dewpoint, and wind speed from concurrent anomalies…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brotak
Representative soundings from 74 major wildland fires in the United States were analyzed to determine if characteristic temperature, moisture, and wind patterns were discernable prior to the occurrence of extreme fire behavior. In a previous study, OO UTC soundings were used to…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown, Turner
Objectives of this study were to test existing prediction equations for duff depth reduction, percentage of duff consumed, and mineral soil exposure to determine the limits of their applicability, and to develop if possible broadly based prediction equations for use throughout…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Galbraith
Life after logging is the title and message in a series of photographic displays produced by the Canadian Forest Service's Pacific Forest Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, that have been creating a stir throughout North America and in parts of Europe and Asia. Relying on…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner, Romme, Gardner, Hargrove
The 1988 Yellowstone fires provided a unique opportunity to examine how the geometry of fire created patches affects plant reestablishment. We initiated studies in 1990 in small (1 ha), moderate (74-200 ha), and large (480-3968 ha) crown-fire patches in each of 3 areas.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Archibald, Luke, Coneybeare
'Burning earlier in the season may reduce the need for pre-burn vegetation management treatments (e.g. herbicide application) on some sites...Burning in late spring to take advantage of low green-up levels may result in greater rates of fire spread and allow for reduced…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Litvina, Takle
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moody, Buchanan, Melcher, Wistrand
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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
Omi, Rideout, Stone, Botti
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Qu, Omi
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS