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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Weihs, Small
Multiple nuclear weapon bursts in an urban area could lead to separate large area fires. If sufficiently far apart, each fire burns independently and little, if any, fire spread is expected. For small separations, the flow fields generated by each fire can interact and fire…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McMahon, Tsoukalas
The occurrence of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in the combustion products of carbonaceous fuels is a well known phenomenon. Several PAW are known to be carcinogenic in animals. Benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) is the most well-known and studied compound of those classified by the…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer
Provides a standard format and checklist to guide the land manager through the important steps for prescribed hurning. Describes the kind of information necded to prepare fire prescriptions and burning plans. Identifies the elements of a fire prescriptlon, a burning plan, and a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lavdas
A numerical index that estimates the atmosphere's capacity to disperse smoke from prescribed burning is described. The physical assumptions and mathematical development of the index are given in detail. A preliminary interpretation of dispersion index values is offered. A…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sirois, Ashmore
ANNOTATION: The principal focus of biomass harvesting in the past has been the use of chipping systems to reduce a wide variety of woody materials down to small pieces for easier handling and transporting. However, chipping systems have several short comings that limit their…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Horn, Medema, Schuster
Since its introduction in 1979, CHEAPO, a computer based economic analysis program, has allowed users of the Stand Prognosis Model to evaluate silvicultural alternatives from an economic point of view. Subsequent modifications to the Prognosis Model have rendered CHEAP0 obsolete…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wykoff
Differences between Prognosis Model versions 4.0 and 5.0 are described. Additions to version 5.0 include an event monitor that schedules activities contingent on stand characteristics, a regeneration establishment model that predicts the structure of the regeneration stand…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
Predictions of wildland fire behavior are used in various aspects of fire management: prescribed fire planning, presuppression planning, real-time fire suppression activities. Methods for calculating fire behavior covered here represent continued improvement of the packaging of…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arno
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Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire area and perimeter length tables for Canadian forest fire behavior prediction system fuel types
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Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bevins, Martin
The slash (I) fuel model of the 1972 National Fire Danger Rating System was evaluated for homogeneity within the model and for differences from other fuel models. Clearcut slash is different from partial cut slash at the 1-percent level of confidence. Pacific Northwest clearcut…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor, Cortner, Gardner, Daniel, Zwolinski, Carpenter
Data from three separate but related surveys address the linkages between recreation and public perception of attitudes toward fire management. Recreation ranks high among alternative forest resource uses and is a serious concern vis-a-vis fire effects. Public acceptance of new…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parsons, Graber, Agee, van Wagtendonk
An evolving understanding of ecological processes, together with ambiguities in National Park Service policy, have led to multiple interpretations of the role of management in our large natural area National Parks. National Park Service management policies must be dynamic and…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hankin, Sawhney
Recently, a method for determining moisture in soil using a microwave oven was described by Miller, Smith, and Biggar (1974). This procedure requires special beakers and, in some cases, long times for heating. We describe here a simplified method for soil moisture determination…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney
Adapted from a paper presented at the Joint Rocky Mountain Fire Council and Intermountain Fire Research Council Meeting, Rangeland Management and Fire held November 1-3, 1977 at Casper, Wyoming.
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parmeter
Dwarf mistletoes are markedly host specific, perennial, obligate parasites. The success of mistletoe populations is tied not only to the suitability of the environment, but also to the availability and conditions of the hosts they infect. Thus, the dynamics of forest stand…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zasada, Norum
Broadcast burning following harvesting of flood plain sites in Alaska substantially decreased residual organic material and increased exposed mineral soil. Two forest types were studied: white spruce/alder/feathermoss and white spruce/alder/lingenberry/feathermoss. The latter…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Young, Marty
A group of wild moose from Manitoba, Canada, were documented as having excessive tooth wear. Replicas of one incisor tooth were collected from 16 individuals and from 19 controls for comparison by volumetric and scanning electron microscopic analysis. All animals were aged from…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wong
The atmospheric input of carbon dioxide from burning wood, in particular from forest fires in boreal and temperate regions resulting from both natural and man-made causes and predominantly from forest fires in tropical regions caused by shifting cultivation, is estimated to be 5…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wolff
Productivity and utilization of browsed and unbrowsed Scouler willow (Salix scoulerina) was measured in a 1971 burn and in an adjacent 70-year-old mature black spruce (Picea mariana) forest. Production of available willow browse in the burn increased from 8 kg/ha in 1973 to 22.6…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tiedemann, Helvey, Anderson
During the first 3 years after a severe wildfire in 1970, maximum concentrations of nitrate-N (NO3-N) in stream water increased from prefire levels of <0.016 to 0.$6 mg/liter on a burned, unfertilized watershed and to 0.54 and 1.47 mg/liter on two watersheds that were burned…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thomas, Hervieux
Rumen samples from 104 barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) collected in March 1980 and 1981 at 18 sites on the winter range in south-central Northwest Territories (NWT) and northern Saskatchewan were examined microscopically for relative occurrence of plant…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, James
In a series of prescribed burns of low intensity and short duration in southern Ontario, wind speed, amount of fuel, and fuel moisture were important environmental controls of fire severity. A heterogenous pattern of burning, related to clumping in the vegetation and to a…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skogland
Density dependent effects of food limitation on productivity have been documented for >12 species of large ungulates. In wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) a decrease in recruitment rate and adult female body size (although not in adult survival rate) develops in response to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES