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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Vanderlinden
Stand replacement prescribed burning has been applied in Alaska on several occasions. Based on that experience, perspectives can be provided, issues can be discussed, and keys to success can be identified that are applicable to stand replacement prescribed burning activities in…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Parsons, Botti
Over the past century, policies related to the management of fire in U.S. National Parks have evolved fiom efforts to eliminate all fire to recognition of the importance of restoring and maintaining fire as a natural ecological process. Prior to their formal designation by…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee
Fire has been an important evolutionary influence in forests, affecting species composition, structure, and functional aspects of forest biology. Restoration of wildland forests of the future will depend in part on restoring fire to an appropriate role in forest ecosystems. This…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mutch, Cook
Periodic forest, grassland, and shrubland fires are part of the natural environment-as natural and vital as rain, snow, or wind (Heinselman 1978). Evidence of past fires is found in charcoal layers in lakes and bogs, and in the fire-scarred cross sections of trees. Recurring…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arno
In September 1995, the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) held its Annual Meeting at the University of Washington in Seattle. The meeting included two dozen conferences and several symposia and field trips dealing with various aspects of applying ecological restoration on…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The 26 papers in this document address the current knowledge of fire as a disturbance agent, fire history and fire regimes, applications of prescribed fire for ecological restoration, and the effects of fire on the various forested ecosystems of the north-western United States.…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eenigenburg
Presents TI-59 programs that use fire arrival times to calculate the rate and direction of spread of a fire across a triangular or square plot.
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud
Considerable attention has been focused on the impacts of forest management decisions on the environment in recent decades. Burning after timber harvest is a common site preparation technique and its effect on soil erosion is of increasing concern, particularly on steep terrain…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Running
Chapter 23 in the book titled, Global change and terrestrial ecosystems.
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Breyfogle, Ferguson
Several smoke-dispersion models, which currently are available for modeling smoke from biomass burns, were evaluated for ease of use, availability of input data, and output data format. The input and output components of all models are listed, and differences in model physics…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chesemore
In 1951 and 1954, vegetation study plots and observations on wildlife reactions to the forest fire of 1950 along the upper Porcupine River, Alaska, were begun by members on the Alaska Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit. Periodically, the study areas were visited and data on…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lavdas
This is a user's manual for VSMOKE, a computer program for predicting the smoke and dry weather visibility impact of a single prescribed fire at several downwind locations. VSMOKE is a FORTRAN 77 program that depends on the input in file VSMOKE.IPT to generate output in file…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
We begin our study of wildland fire with the basic principles and mechanisms of the combustion process-fire fundamentals. In the next chapter we look at wildland fire as an event. Fire behavior is what a fire does, the dynamics of the fire event. In later chapters we move up the…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini
The motion of a strong line thermal in an unstratified atmosphere is modeled to estimate a bound for its capability to lift firebrand particles. It is found that the maximum height of a viable firebrand is roughly proportional to the square root of thermal strength. The…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frandsen
Sufficient data exist within the literature to allow the woody biomass of two subspecies of Artemisia tridentata, basin big sagebrush Artemesia tridentata ssp. tridentata), and Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata ssp. wyomingensiis), to be classified into 3 standard fuel…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
This paper presents a system for locating lightning strikes and predicting the number of fire ignitions on forests and rangelands. This system uses variables representing weather and fuels and real-time lightning locations as inputs. Outputs from the system consist of printouts…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Albini
In this paper a mathematical description of flow into the forest edge is proposed and used as a basis for a detailed reexamination of experimental results from the scale model studies of Kawatania and Sadeh (1971). It is the intention here to use the experimental data to guide…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
Four 0.8-ha plots south of Tucson, Ariz., were burned November 12, 1975, in a pasture where cattle had not grazed for 12 months. The fire top-killed most small mesquites, killed almost all of the burroweed and much of the cactus, except in unburned patches. Within 5 years…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson
The burnout of large-sized woody fuels, 1 to 6 inches thick, is being measured at the USDA Forest Service Northern Forest Fire Laboratory in Missoula, Mont. Physical properties of the fuel bed are varied to determine threshold for interactive burning, periods of flaming and…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doerksen
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Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zackrisson, Nilsson, Wardle
Wildfire is a major disturbance factor in boreal forests where it is important in rejuvenating soil properties and encouraging tree regeneration and growth. However, the mechanisms behind these effects are poorly understood and little is known as to the ecological effects of…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Van Cleve
Changes in foliar chemistry resulting from changes in forest-floor and mineral-soil moisture availability, forest-floor microbial energy supply, and nitrogen availability were investigated across the successional sequences in both upland and floodplain landscape positions. Three…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie
The structure and function of taiga ecosystems over a 3,600,000 ha area of northeastern interior Alaska was shown to be consistent with a hypothesis relating vegetative structure and dynamics to site nutrient status and soil temperature. Ordination of modal community…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Van Cleve
A total of 58 trees was sampled from eight stands across a large area of interior Alaska. Regression equations were developed to estimate standing aboveground biomass for 22 white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) stands. Aboveground standing biomass of white spruce in mature…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES