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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Anderson
An understanding of fire spread is important to the development of improved methods and systems for the control of free burning fires. Gaining knowledge about fire spread in forest fuels is complex because many variables are involved and because we still lack full understanding…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
George
Studies of the performance of fire retardant delivery systems for fixed-wing aircraft have indicated that performance can be significantly improved by modifying delivery systems to allow the selectable and controllable flow of retardant from the tank. The report describes…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barney
Field personnel in all forest fire protection agencies need some simple but reasonably accurate method for evaluating severity of the fire season as it progresses and of comparing severity of the current season with that of preceding fire seasons. This paper proposes use of…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loftsgaarden, Andrews
Logistic regression was used in examining the relationship between National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) indexes and historical fire occurrence data. Basic techniques of constructing and testing logistic regression models are presented at a modest mathematical level. The…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel
The fire behavior nomograms are excerpted from How to Predict the Spread and Intensity of Forest and Range Fuel, by Richard C. Rothermel, with the exception of the nomogram for fuel model #7 which was updated for this publication.
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Countryman
The control of large fires is a problem of continuing concern to the Forest Service, other public agencies, and private owners of forest and rangeland. A few large fires each year account for all but a small share of the Nation's forest fire losses. In time of war, this problem…
Year: 1964
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
Schroeder, Glovinsky, Hendricks, Hull, Jacobson, Krueger, Mallory, Oertel, Reese, Sergius, Syverson
Mass fires are likely to spread rapidly and burn intensely when strong winds are combined with low humidities and high temperatures, particularly after a rainless period. To identify synoptic weather types that create such periods of critical fire weather, the 48 contiguous…
Year: 1964
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
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
Johnson
INTRODUCTION: Fire in the interior basin of Alaska is commonplace. Lightning- and man-caused fires have burned and reburned millions of acres. Despite their commonness and extensiveness, the specific history and characteristics of a fire as the relate to fules and weather have…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, 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
Hess, Scott, Ledosquet
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Year: 1964
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
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
Spencer, Hakala
From page 11: 'Fires in the boreal forest have a profound effect on the welfare of moose populations. People of many interests and backgrounds have observed and variously interpreted the resulting ecology. The inadvertent firing of a tract of land dedicated primarily to moose…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Komarek
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heimer
The classic concept of nutritional carrying capacity tends to complicate management of Dall sheep (Ovis dalli dalli) populations because they often exist at relatively constant populations sizes over extended periods. The fundamental axiom taught in the wildlife management…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Youngblood, Max
The seasonal and spatial patterns of dispersal of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) seed were studied from 1986 to 1989 in floodplain stands along the Tanana River near Fairbanks, Alaska. Analysis of the 1987 crop showed that production of filled seed was strongly…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck, Dyrness, Batten, Wenzlick
The Alaska vegetation classification presented here is a comprehensive, statewide system that has been under development since 1976. The classification is based, as much as possible, on the characteristics of the vegetation itself and is designed to categorize existing…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Hees
Forest inventory data collected in 1987 fTom sample plots established on the Kenai Peninsula were analyzed to provide point-in-time estimates of the trend and current status of a spruce beetle infestation. Ground plots were categorized by stage of infestation. Estimates of…
Year: 1992
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES