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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Troendle, MacDonald, Luce, Larsen
There have been numerous studies worldwide demonstrating that changes in forest density can cause a change in water yield. Bosch and Hewlett (1982), Hibbert (1967), Stednick (1996) and Troendle and Leaf (1980) have summarized the findings from most of these studies. In general,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White
Use of structural composite lumber products is increasing. In applications requiring a fire resistance rating, calculation procedures are used to obtain the fire resistance rating of exposed structural wood products. A critical factor in the calculation procedures is char rate…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White
Engineered wood products, such as oriented strandboard, laminated veneer lumber, and other composite wood products, are being used more often in construction. This includes use as rim boards, which are the components around the perimeter of a floor assembly. This situation has…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ohmann, Gregory, Pierce, Wimberly, Fried
Poster presented at the Joint Fire Science Program Principal Investigator Workshop, November 2005.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fried, Ohmann, Wimberly, Pierce, Gregory
Description not entered.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tachajapong, Zhou, Mahalingam, Weise
Crown fire initiation is studied by using laboratory experiments, a semi-empirical model, and a detailed physical based on large eddy simulation (LES) to gain a better understanding of transition from ground to crown fire. In the experiments, we investigated the effects of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turner, Ritts, Cohen, Gower, Running, Zhao, Costa, Kirschbaum, Ham, Saleska, Ahl
Estimates of daily gross primary production (GPP) and annual net primary production (NPP) at the 1 km spatial resolution are now produced operationally for the global terrestrial surface using imagery from the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) sensor.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland, Black, Elliot, Miller, Neary, Pilliod, Robichaud, Sutherland
The Environmental Consequences Team is developing an information delivery system about potential environmental consequences of fuel treatment activities. Broadly, these activities include thinning and burning, and associated work. The environmental consequences of these…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Zuuring
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winandy
What materials will emerge from todays research ideas to become the commonly accepted building products of 2020? What will durable materials look like in 2020? This paper attempts to address these questions by considering some current trends and then presenting a series of ideas…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winandy, Hunt, Turk, Anderson
Following natural disasters (such as hurricanes, tornados, or tsunamis), when civilians become displaced, or when military troops are deployed overseas, temporary housing is often a critical need. The USDA Forest Products Laboratory recently developed a lightweight,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sun, Jenkins
Since the 1950s, extensive research has been conducted to investigate the relationship between near-surface atmospheric conditions and large wildfire growth and occurrence. Observational studies have demonstrated that near-surface dryness (e-g., Fahnestock 1965) and atmospheric…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Todoroki, Lowell
The silvicultural practice of pruning juvenile stems is a value-adding operation due to the formation of knot-free wood after the pruned branch stubs have healed. However it is not until after the log has been processed that the added value is realized. The motivation for this…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Theobald, Spies, Kline, Maxwell, Hobbs, Dale
How can ecologists be more effective in supporting ecologically informed rural land-use planning and policy? Improved decision making about rural lands requires careful consideration of how ecological information and analyses can inform specific planning and policy needs. We…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson
The condition of aquatic habitat and the health of aquatic species, particularly salmon, are a significant concern in the Pacific Northwest. Land management agencies use fish and riparian guidelines intended to maintain or improve aquatic habitat. Gauging whether or not those…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turner, Collins, Lugo, Magnuson, Rupp, Swanson
Long-term ecological research is particularly valuable for understanding disturbance dynamics over long time periods and placing those dynamics in a regional context.We highlighted three case studies from Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network sites that have contributed…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Weiskittel, Garber, Johnson, Maguire, Monserud
Most individual-tree based growth and yield models use a 5- to 10-year time step, which can make projections for a fast-growing species like red alder quite difficult. Further, it is rather cumbersome to simulate the effects of intensive silvicultural treatments such as thinning…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turk, Hunt
In traditional mechanics of materials, the stiffness of a beam or plate in bending is described by its cross-sectional shape as well as its material properties, primarily the modulus of elasticity. Previous work at the USDA Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, has…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Troutwine, Zuuring
Description not entered.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zuuring, Troutwine, Jones, Sullivan
Forest managers are challenged to fulfill conflicting social, biological, and commodity production objectives. To wisely use available, scarce resources for management activities, it is not enough to consider short term costs and effects of management (fuel reduction, planting,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winandy, Stark, Clemons
Wood-plastic composite decking has made major advances in material performance, processing and user acceptance. The growth of wood-plastic composite decking in North America has grown from less than 1% in mid-90's to over 10% today with growth projected by several studies to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
People have used fire to manipulate the landscape since prehistoric times. The science of using prescribed fire to manage unwanted vegetation is a fairly new phenomenon, and it recently took an important stride forward. Researchers and land managers have compiled a synthesis of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White, Weise, Mackes, Dibble
As part of efforts to address fire problems in the wildland-urban interface, the cone calorimeteris being used to measure the relative flammability of different plant species. In the first twostudies, we tested plants used to landscape homes in California and an assortment of…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Land managers must make fire management decisions considering place, history, and species, an undertaking that requires a vast amount of information that tends to be spread through many publications. The Fire Effects Information System ([FEIS] at www.fs.fed.us/database/feis)…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White, Dietenberger
The Forest Products Laboratory uses the cone calorimeter for the initial evaluation of the flammability of untreated and fire retardant treated wood products. The results of various studies are reviewed using a model presented at the 12th Annual BBC Conference on Flame…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES