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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Haines, Smith
During intense wildland fires a transient vortex pair sometimes occurs that may form with a near vertical axis but then bends over and becomes horizontal. Collapsing limbs of these vortex pairs threaten fire fighters. Therefore, this study simulated vortex collapse in a wind…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Laursen, Hobbs, Radke, Rasmussen
Emission factors for several trace gases were determined using airborne measurements from 13 biomass fires in North America. Emissions of methane (CH4), nonmethane hydrocarbons (NMHC), hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3) were found to be positively correlated with the ratio of…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Arno
Forest managers need basic information about the age structure of old- growth forests in which fire or other disturbances were important. Age structure information is necessary for determining appropriate strategies for perpetuating desired conditions. This paper describes a…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
Describes a theoretical model for calculating thermochemical properties of the gaseous fuel that burns in the free flame at the edge of a spreading fire in fine forest fuels. Predicted properties are the heat of combustion, stoichiometric air/fuel mass ratio, mass-averaged…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stokes
ANNOTATION: Eight countries collaborated and shared technical information on the harvesting of small trees and forest residues in a three year program. Proceedings and reports from workshops and reviews are summarized in a review of activities and harvesting systems of the…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, King, Koerper
Current projections of the response of the biosphere to global climatic change indicate as much as 50% to 90% spatial displacement of extratropical biomes. The mechanism of spatial shift could be dominated by either 1) competitive displacement of northern biomes by southern…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoyt, Putman
This report concludes that a significant amount of timber (25,408 MBF) has been impacted by spruce bark beetles in the Lower Yukon District and that bark beetle population levels have subsided from epidemic levels of the late 1980's to more endemic levels. Bark beetle attacks…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davis, Franzmann
DRAFT, to be presented at the North American Moose Conference Workshop: Extirpation of caribou from the Kenai Peninsula in the early 1900's and the subsequent increase in moose numbers is frequently cited as a classic example of a faunal change that resulted from fire-initiated…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Woddley
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stockstad
Spontaneous and piloted ignitions of rotten wood samples from ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) and subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa) were investigated in a specially designed ignition furnace. Minimum heat flux intensities required to produce…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vogl
Fire management of grasslands is best executed based on an understanding of the fundamental properties of grassland components, structures, and environments, and the nature of fire behavior in grassland fuels. The art of controlled burning combines experience, practicality,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davis
A new Forest Service policy, effective February 1978, allows some wildfires to burn under prescribed conditions, urges a multidisciplinary approach to fire control, and has applications to rural and urban situations.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nelson
The policy for dealing with fires on National Forest System lands was changed in 1977, in essence from control to management. The change was based on the knowledge and understanding that fire can result in a positive effect on wildland resources. Land managers were directed to…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Mason, Stocks
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flatman, Storey
Cost-plus-loss analysis and benefit/cost analysis are two techniques that fire managers can apply to FOCUS computer simulation output for alternate fire plans to help them choose the best plan. FOCUS (Fire Operational Characteristics Using Simulation) calculates costs and…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
Systems to enable land managers to locate, evaluate, and counter the fire threat of lightning storms are in the early stages of development. In the western U.S. and Alaska, the Bureau of Land Management has established networks of instruments that locate lightning strikes by…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
Describes a theoretical model for calculating thermochemical properties of the gaseous fuel that burns in the free flame at the edge of a spreading fire in fine forest fuels. Predicted properties are the heat of combustion, stoichiometric air/fuel mass ratio, mass-averaged…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catchpole, Alexander, Gill
Equations are presented for determining the proportion of the total perimeter and area burned for a simple elliptically shaped fire for any specified range of Byram's fireline intensities. The same principles apply to any characteristic that is dependent on fireline intensity.…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Viereck
The treeline in Alaska is usually mapped as the limit of white spruce Picea glauca (Moench) Voss along the south slope of the Brooks Range and in western Alaska and as the limit of Sitka spruce Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr. on Kodiak Island and in the Alaska Peninsula. In some…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Cleve, Weber, Viereck, Dyrness
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Swanson, Barker
Populations of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) have fluctuated greatly since their introduction to Alaska in 1891. In the 1930s, reported numbers exceeded 600,000. Presently, 38,000 reindeer graze 6.2 million ha of rangeland and woodland in Western Alaska (from 66 degrees 54'N to…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sigman
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Noga, Tikhonov
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alm, Tolonen, Vasander
The feasibility of using dendrochronology to obtain accumulation rates for recently accumulated peat was examined. Two charcoal layers originating from two forest fires were found at between 7 and 58 cm in the peat of Lakkasuo mire, Finland. Dendrochronology and the fire scars…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES