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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
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
Smith
ANNOTATION: The framework for harvesting and utilization opportunities for forest residues includes a number of long standing as well as recently enacted statutes. Air and water quality standards as set forth in legislation also have an effect on utilization opportunities. A…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephenson
ANNOTATION: This paper provides an overview of the concept, development, and technology of flail debarkers.
Year: 1989
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
Hartsough, Stokes
ANNOTATION: In this study a database of North American harvesting systems was developed. Parameters for each system included site, material and product characteristics, equipment mix and production rate. Onto-truck and delivered costs per green tonne, and breakeven oil prices…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stokes, McDonald, Kelley
ANNOTATION: High transport costs are a factor to consider in the use of forest residues for fuel. Costs can be reduced by increasing haul capacities, reducing high moisture contents, and improving trucking efficiency. The literature for transpirational drying and the economics…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sturos
ANNOTATION: Three processes have been developed in the United States, one in Canada, and one in Finland for improving the quality of whole-tree and forest residue chips. They have potential application individually or in combination. Two of them have been applied commercially by…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ter-Mikaelian, Korzukhin
ANNOTATION: The paper presents a comprehensive review of the biomass equations for 65 North American tree species. All equations are of the form M = aDb, where M is the oven-dry weight of the biomass component of a tree (kg), D is diameter at breast height (DBH) (cm), and a and…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Windell, Bradshaw
ANNOTATION: This report contains the results of numerous interviews, a field survey, and a literature search and discusses fuel reduction equipment and methods that have been tried in the past, those that are currently being used, and those that may warrant consideration in the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wynsma, Aubuchon, Len, Daugherty, Gee
ANNOTATION: This paper is intended to be a reference guide to local land managers regarding locating and collaborating with biomass stakeholders. Give suggestions on how to use current National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) planning tools to start up and maintain a biomass-…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hall
ANNOTATION: This paper describes how most wood bioenergy crop systems in the United States are still in the early stages of development, with a wide variety of approaches under test in different regions of the country. In the United States, dedicated wood biomass cropland is…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
ANNOTATION: There is a substantial global need for development of biofuels, bioenergy, and bioproducts systems and technologies that can economically and sustainably produce short rotation crops across multiple temporal and spatial scales. Topic areas in these proceedings were…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fresco, Chapin
ANNOTATION: In this study, the feasibility of switching from fossil fuels to wood energy in rural Alaskan villages in forested regions of interior Alaska are assessed. This analysis demonstrated that conversion to biomass fuels is economically viable and socially beneficial for…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
ANNOTATION: These case studies show that all aspects of woody biomass removals, from markets to mechanization, are evolving. This report identifies the building blocks for successful biomass projects-including public involvement, partnerships with contractors, and judicious…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Removing hazardous fuels to reduce the risk of wildfire has become a priority for land managers across the United States. Utilizing biomass taken from forests to cover the cost of fuel reduction is an attractive ideal. Effective utilization could also address important national…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Withen
This paper offers an analysis of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in the risk management process, decision support systems (DSSs), and other types of decisionmaking, including recognition primed decisionmaking, bricolage with the goal of improving DSSs and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Burns, Cheng, Saeli, Brummel, Grayzeck-Souter, Sturtevant, Williams
Community wildfire protection plans (CWPPs) are being developed and implemented in communities across the United States. In a series of case studies, researchers found that the process of developing a CWPP can lead to benefits beyond those associated with fuels reduction,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ingalsbee, Fox, Withen
Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology (FUSEE) is a nonprofit organization promoting safe, ethical, ecological wildland fire management. FUSEE believes firefighter and community safety are ultimately interdependent with ethical public service, wildlands protection,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sabel
PAM-12 is a recycled office paper byproduct made into a spreadable mulch with added Water Soluble Polyacrylamide (WSPAM), a previously difficult polymer to apply. PAM-12 is extremely versatile and can be applied through several methods. In a field test, PAM-12 outperformed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eza, McMinn, Dress
ANNOTATION: The Wood Residue Distribution Simulator (WORDS) attempts to find a least-cost allocation of residues from local sources of supply to local sources of demand, given the cost of the materials, their distribution, and the distribution of demand. The results are useful…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jimenez, Forthofer, Reardon, Butler
Fire behavior characteristics (such as temperature, radiant and total heat flux, 2- and 3-dimensional velocities, and air flow) are extremely difficult to measure insitu. Although insitu sensor packages are capable of such measurements in realtime, it is also essential to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
May
A useful method of modeling threats from hazards and documenting their disaster causation sequences is called cascading threat modeling. This type of modeling enables emergency planners to address hazard and risk assessments systematically. This paper describes a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paul, Dozier, Chan
The Georgia Forestry Commission has developed an Internet-based, user friendly version of a USDA Forest Service smoke dispersion model called 'VSMOKE.' The program provides an easy to use method to quickly evaluate what areas will likely be impacted by smoke from a wild or…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergman, Zerbe
ANNOTATION: This paper explains and describes the concepts of wood energy on a residential, commercial, and industrial scale in the United States so that the Forest Service can help meet the demands of communities involved in the forest-products industry. In addition,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES