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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Salazar
Stylized fuel models, or numerical descriptions of fuel arrays, are used as inputs to fire behavior simulation models. These fuel models are often chosen on the basis of generalized fuel descriptions, which are related to field observations. Site-specific observations of fuels…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Komarek
A keynote speaker has a unique advantage. Somewhat like a historian, he can look backward in time and also discuss the present. Unlike the historian, he may also point to the future. A keynote speaker also can ramble more or less all over the countryside. He doesn't have to have…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A compilation of 11 papers in which authorities discuss the impacts of fire on wildlife habitat and wildlife populations. Presentations cover bobwhite quail, nongame birds, white-tailed deer, bighorn and Stone's sheep; and the response to burning of curlleaf cercocarpus, aspen,…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sirois, Stokes
ANNOTATION: This paper presents an overview of sources and forms of raw materials for wood energy use and the types of machines available to convert them to the desired form for boiler fuel. Both the fuel source or raw material, and the combustion furnace will dictate the…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
A simplified model for predicting total biomass consumption and particulate emission yield for slash burning in western Washington and western Oregon is developed by combining results from earlier studies by the Forest Fire and Atmospheric Sciences Research team. The model…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moeur
The COVER extension to the Stand Prognosis Model predicts tree canopy closure, crown volume, crown profile area, and foliage biomass within vertical height classes, and the probability of occurrence, height, and cover of shrubs in forest stands. The model may be used to produce…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright
There are many uses for prescribed burning in the management of forests, chaparral, grasslands, watersheds, and wildlife. Some of these uses have been pointed out in this paper. There are also many dangers in using fire, both in its application and in its results. To minimize…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weaver
[from the text] As we walked onto the beach at Bandon, Oregon that evening in late August 1933, we beheld to the north a tremendous wall of yellow smoke, thousands of feet high. It extended out over the ocean, seemingly to infinity, and slightly to the right of the setting sun.…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wright
Both the landforms and the vegetation of the earth develop to states that are maintained in dynamic equilibrium. Short-term equilibrium of a hillslope or river valley results from intersection between erosional and depositional tendencies, controlled by gravitational force and…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McLean, Wikeem
Bluebunch wheatgrass (Agropyron spicatum Pursh) Scribn. & Smith) response to various clipping regimes which incorporated different times, frequencies, and intensities of defoliation was examined in southern British Columbia. The experiment was repeated for 3 consecutive…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lancaster
Increased capabilities of the National Fire Danger Rating System have given fire managers new tools for evaluating various facets of fire management problems. Examples of suggested approaches for use of NFDR numbers in prevention, presuppression planning, and in initial attack…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nautiyal, Doan
The existing levels of fire protection expenditures, if considered adequate by the forest manager, give an idea of the nonwood values of a forest as seen by him. The decisions regarding future protection expenditures can be improved by considering them together with the…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergen
The linear correlation computed for 22 points in a lodgepole pine canopy suggests independence between the point-to-point variations in speed at any level and variations of total canopy cover.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bacon, Dell
This publication entitled National Forest Landscape Management Volume 2, Chapter 6, Fire, is part of the National Forest Landscape Management series, issued in 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, and 1980 by the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. This chapter's purpose is to…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lancaster
Increased capabilities of the National Fire Danger Rating System have given fire managers new tools for evaluating various facets of fire management problems. These new tools require familiarization processes and new techniques for best and effective application. Suggested…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alden, Zasada
Lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta Dougl. is the most widely distributed conifer in North America. Cones of northern populations of the interior variety latifolia are highly serotinous and retain vigorous seed for more than 50 years. Average annual cone production is relatively…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zoltai, Pettapiece
Earth hummocks occur on vast areas of perennially frozen mineral soils in the western Canadian subarctic regions. Different vegetation grows on different parts of the hummocks. The tops of the hummocks are vegetated by plants that have no roots (lichens, mosses) or by short-…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Holsten
Direct solar radiation to the bark surface of white spruce, Picea glauca (Moench) Voss, is the primary environmental factor influencing the developmental rate of spruce beetles, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby), in Alaska. A phloem threshold temperature of 16.5 degree C is…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wein, Bliss
Description not entered.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Webber, Barney
Describes the use of the Franklin wheeled skidder instead of crawler tractors to construct firelines (to reduce damage to the soil in the tundra). The basic skidder was equipped with 2000-gal tanks to carry fire retardant, and a spreader bar to lay the retardant or water. A…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck
Description not entered.
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Telfer
Extensive stands of the boreal forest of Canada in the late successional stages provide a suitable habitat for some birds and for caribou but are unsuitable for many other species. Deer, moose, beaver, ruffed grouse and many other birds and mammals require the greater amounts of…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skogland
(1) The population dynamics of eight reindeer herds in Norway, including the high arctic, were studied in relation to food abundance and population density. (2) Density-dependent effects were manifested through winter food…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES