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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alexander
This presentation will provide an overview of existing empirical and semi-physical theories and models for predicting the development and spread of crown fires in conifer forests at the stand level, including their limitations and performance, with emphasis on practical…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Finney, Bradshaw, Forthofer, McHugh, Stratton, Jimenez
A new software tool has been developed to simulate surface wind speed and direction at the 100m to 300 m scale. This tool is useful when trying to estimate fire behavior in mountainous terrain. It is based on widely used computational fluid dynamics technology and has been…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergeron, Macdonald, Engelmark, Kuuluvainen, Shorohova
This special issue contains 11 selected papers providing information on disturbance dynamics and related phenomena in boreal forests. The first group of papers emphasizes the important roles of both fire and secondary disturbances in shaping community structure and composition.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Doane, O'Laughlin, Morgan, Miller
American society has a general cultural bias toward controlling nature (Glover 2000) and, in particular, a strong bias for suppressing wildfire, even in wilderness (Saveland et al. 1988). Nevertheless, the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy directs managers to 'allow…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cruz, Butler, Alexander
A crown fuel ignition model (CFIM) describing the temperature rise and subsequent ignition of the lower portion of tree crowns above a spreading surface fire was evaluated through a sensitivity analysis, comparison against other models, and testing against experimental fire data…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Butler, Alexander, Forthofer, Wakimoto
A model was developed to predict the ignition of forest crown fuels above a surface fire based on heat transfer theory. The crown fuel ignition model (hereafter referred to as CFIM) is based on first principles, integrating: (i) the characteristics of the energy source as…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Charnley
I evaluated the Northwest Forest Plan as a model for ecosystem management to achieve social and economic goals in communities located around federal forests in the US. Pacific Northwest. My assessment is based on the results of socioeconomic monitoring conducted to evaluate…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Thomas
Fire Management Today and its predecessors collectively have a 70-year record of publishing on all aspects of wildland fire management. While early on the emphasis was placed on subjects related to fire protection and fire suppression, it wasn't too long before articles dealing…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Apps, Shvidenko, Vaganov
This special issue contains 14 papers providing information on the adaptation and mitigation strategies of northern forest biomes as a consequence both of climatic change impacts. The first paper provides a review of the history and contributions of the International Boreal…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES