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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hao, Urbanski
This document contains a description of the air quality forecasting system in operation at the Missoula Fire Science Laboratory. This air quality forecasting system has been steadily assimilating new techniques and algorithms as they have been developed over the past four years…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Hudak, Robichaud, Ryan
In this rapid response project, we have collected data on post-fire effects and pre-fire fuels and vegetation from 10 large fires that burned in 2003 and 2004. We use field and remotely sensed data collected during and soon after wildfires to quantify the interactions and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bujak, Burns
Overview of transfer the practical knowledge gathered from the JFSP-CWPP project to selected wildfire mitigation, community and professional practitioners, local government officials, and fire managers at all levels. The inquiry into collaboration in CWPP development is focused…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Gollberg
The goal of the Fire Research And Management Exchange System or FRAMES is to make wildland fire data, metadata, tools, and other information resources easy to find, access, distribute, compare, and use. This is an ambitious and far reaching goal that will be attained…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Kimberlin, Arbaugh, Jones, Chew, Merzenich, Wiitala, van Wagtendonk, Schaaf
Increasing the frequency and size of prescribed fires is potentially an important tool for reducing the hazard of large stand replacing wildland fires. A number of models are in various stages of development and application for understanding and predicting the effects of fuels…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Weatherspoon
Many U.S. forests, especially those with short-interval, low- to moderate severity fire regimes are more dense and have greater quantities of fuels compared to pre-settlement times. Widespread treatments are planned to restore ecological integrity and to reduce the risk of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hann, Beighley, Teensma, Sexton, Hilbruner
Analyses were conducted of fire and fuel management options for 172 million hectares (424 million acres) of Forest Service and Interior public lands in the contiguous lower 48 states. A landscape dynamics model was calibrated based on fire regime condition class (FRCC). A…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Butler
Fuels management programs are designed to reduce risks to communities and to improve and maintain ecosystem health. The International Association of Wildland Fire initiated the 1st Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference to address development, implementation, and evaluation of these…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaennel Dobbertin, Grissino-Mayer
Two new online products are available to the international tree-ring community. The Bibliography of Dendrochronology (published online in February 2003) currently has 10,000 references and is the world's largest online bibliography specializing in tree-ring research. In March…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen, Saveland
The wildland-urban interface (W-UI) refers to residential areas surrounded by or adjacent to wildland areas. In recent years, significant W-UI residential fire losses have occurred nationwide in the United States that have focused attention on the principal W-UI problem - losses…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Horel, Splitt, Pechmann, Olsen, Delgado
During the last couple of years and stemming from the year 2000 fire plan, Land Management Agencies hired 20 meteorologists nationwide to develop fire weather programs at Geographic Area Coordination Centers and to introduce and implement new programs in support of the fire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler
There is no question that fire has been and will continue to be one of Mother Nature's major land management tools. What is in question, is the ability of humans to responsibly and safely develop the ability to interact with and use fire. Fundamental fire research focuses on…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Cohen
All wildland firefighters working on or near the fireline must be able to identify a safety zone. Furthermore, they need to know how 'big' is 'big enough.' Beighley (1995) defined a safety zone as 'an area distinguished by characteristics that provide freedom from danger, risk,…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Cohen
Quantitative information regarding safety zone size for wildland firefighters is limited. We present a 3-surface theoretical model that describes the net radiant energy transfer to a firefighter standing a specified distance from a fire of specified height. Model predictions…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hann, Bunnell
Ecosystem conditions on Federal public lands have changed, particularly within the last 30 years. Wildfires in the west have increased to levels close to or above those estimated for historical conditions, despite increasing efforts and expertise in fire prevention and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jones, Webb, Jimenez, Reardon, Butler
A new one-dimensional heat conduction model for predicting stem heating during fires is presented. Themodel makes use of moisture- and temperature-dependent thermal properties for layers of bark and wood. The thermal aspects of the processes of bark swelling, desiccation, and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wang, Li, Winnady
It is commonly accepted that the fire retardant mechanism of boric acid is a physical mechanism achieved by the formation of a coating or protective layer on the wood surface at high temperature. Although a char-forming catalytic mechanism has been proposed by some researchers,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Song, Chen, Crow, LaCroix
Landscape visualization is a useful tool in understanding forest dynamics and in assessing various management practices. However, the application of this technology remains very challenging. We propose criteria for landscape visualization so that users can judge the quality of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fonda, Varner
This experiment studied burning characteristics of pine cones as a separate fuel component. Cones of fire resisters ponderosa pine, Jeffrey pine, longleaf pine, and south Florida slash pine, and cones of fire evaders Monterey pine, knobcone pine, sand pine, and pond pine were…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ryu, Chen, Crow, Saunders
Available fuel and its dynamics, both of which affect fire behavior in forest ecosystems, are direct products of ecosystem production, decomposition, and disturbances. Using published ecosystem models and equations, we developed a simulation model to evaluate the effects of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chalmers, Hartsough
The work described in this paper examines the economic costs of thinning and prescribed burning to reduce fuel loading. Thinning costing is based on measurement of productive/scheduled hours, standard machine costing, plus analysis of volumes of timber harvested, extracted, and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kobziar, Hiers, Belcher, Bond, Enquist, Loudermilk, Miesel, O'Brien, Pausas, Hood, Keane, Morgan, Pingree, Riley, Safford, Seijo, Varner, Wall, Watts
Fire ecology is a complex discipline that can only be understood by integrating biological, physical, and social sciences. The science of fire ecology explores wildland fire’s mechanisms and effects across all scales of time and space. However, the lack of defined, organizing…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES