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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hawkes, Lawson
Fuel complexes resulting from power-saw spacing in young coastal Douglas-fir and interior lodgepole pine stands were quantitatively assessed for loading and duration of hazard. Fuel appraisal data were combined with fire weather regimes to derive fire behavior predictions for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robinson, Kurz, Pollack, Listar
A metric variant of Prognosis (also known as the Forest Vegetation Simulator) has been linked to the Western Root Disease extension, and used to explore the interaction between partial harvesting, Armillaria root disease and productivity in 24 stratified combinations of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the Preface ... 'The conference organizers hoped to accomplish three primary objectives. First was to document how forest vegetation simulation is being incorporated into project-level analysis, watershed analysis, and strategic planning. This provided a forum to learn…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gonzalez
Prescribed burning costs are extemely variable, even if conditions are similar. This variability complicates planning and evaluation of prescribed burning programs and budgets, resulting in imprecise projecions of their economic benefits. Evaluating the worth of prescribed…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sheppard, Farnsworth
Fire has been a global disturbance agent for thousands of years. As an ecological process that helped shape the floral and faunal communities of western North America, fire also maintained the health and diversity of forest until European settlers arrived. Since presettlement,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murphy, Cole
From the text... "Futurist biologists have stated that the success of Endangered and Threatened Species recovery programs is not to keep habitats in original and/or untouched conditions (De Blieu 1993). A practical goal is to "Reshape habitats so they can exist in a thickly…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Myers
Fire regimes are sets of recurring conditions of fire that characterize given fife-maintained ecosystems. On any given area, a fire regime is also a unique fire history. In biodiversity conservation, one should distinguish between the concept of a "natural” fire regime and a…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stanton
Most ecosystems in North America evolved with the aid of periodic fires. Managers of natural areas, including prairies and wetlands, who seek to maintain ecologically diverse sites will at some point explore the use of fire in their management program. This article introduces…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The number of wildland fires in Canada has been increasing steadily since 1960 and the area burned appears to have tripled since 1980. There are many possible reasons for the apparent trend. A workshop of Canadian fire experts was convened to 'understand the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schuster, Cleaves, Bell
Forest Service expenditures for fire presuppression and suppression activities increased from $61 million in FY 1970 to $951 million in FY 1994. Yet, real (net of inflation) expenditures have not increased significantly since FY 1970, if FY 1994 expenditures are excluded. During…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bradshaw, Law
PCDANGER is a personal computer application of the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) that calculates both 1978 and 1988 version fire danger indexes from daily weather observations and forecasts. Its computational routines (NFDRCALC) are the same as those used in the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bevins, Roussopoulos
In this paper, we offer a general overview of the design and status of the NFIL. We discuss the structure of the Fuels Inventory Database, the function of the various database management programs available in the Management Software Package, and the current contents of the…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roussopoulos, Yancik, Radloff
'We have developed a prototype National Fire Occurrence Data Library (NF0DL) to help fire managers interact with resource managers in meeting the new planning requirements of the Resources Planning Act and the National Forest Management Act. The data library provides means for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
This report evaluates 24 computer-aided decision support systems (DSS) that can support management decision-making in forest ecosystems. It compares the scope of each system, spatial capabilities, computational methods, development status, input and output requirements, user…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuquay
The National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) (Deeming and others 1972) has been updated; the revised system will be in use in l978 (Deeming and others 1977). One of the changes in the NFDRS is treatment of lightning-caused fires. A model based on physical and stochastic…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Egging, Barney, Thompson
Offers a system for land management planning that enables managers to include and evaluate the effects of wildfire or prescribed burning on resources. Diagrams important considerations and decision-making steps.
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kessell, Fischer
Forest managers can model and predict the postfire succession of plant communities using existing and/or readily obtainable data. The methods presented require neither computation nor computer analysis. Examples are provided from the Northern Rocky Mountains, but the methods are…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, Fischer
Describes a user-oriented computer system that allows fire managers to analyze climatological data for the purpose of predicting the probable occurrence of desired prescribed fire conditions. Provides instruction for use of the system and documents all programs. A computer…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Andrews, Bradshaw, Chase, Hartford, Latham
The Fire Behavior Research Work Unit (RWU) of the Intermountain Research Station has been developing the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) since 1994. The WFAS will eventually combine the functionality of the current fire-danger rating system (Deeming et al. 1977) and the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Latham, Burgan, Chase, Bradshaw
Lightning location data are superimposed on lightning ignition potential and on fire danger as experimental phase 1 map products of the Wildland Fire Assessment System. As pilot components of this next generation fire danger/fire behavior system, the maps are designed to help…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Albini, Chase
Presents simplified equations for solving the fire containment problem. Equations can be used on a programmable pocket calculator to derive the burned area, given forward rate of spread, initial area, fire shape length/width ratio, and control-line construction rate. Equations…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown
A First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) was developed to predict the direct consequences of prescribed fire and wildfire. FOFEM computes duff and woody fuel consumption, smoke production, and fire-caused tree mortality for most forest and rangeland types in the United States.…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw
A computer program, FIRES: Fire Information Retrieval and Evaluation System, provides methods for evaluating the performance of fire danger rating indexes. The relationship between fire danger indexes and historical fire occurrence and size is examined through logistic…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer
The Chief of the USDA's Forest Service considers fire equal to such perennial controversies as inflation, herbicies, log exports and timber management practices. The revised USFS fire policy calls for fire management; the previous policy specified fire control. The ultimate…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martell
The author describes a stochastic model of forest stand rotation which can be used to determine the optimal planned rotation interval for flammable forest stands. The model can also be used to estimate the value of fire management activities in terms of the potential enhanced…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS