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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Yuan, Wang, Wu, Gao, Sun
Traditional wildfire detection methods are of low efficiency and cannot meet user needs, a novel method based on deep time and space features along transmission line is proposed in this paper, which uses ViBe algorithm to detect movements in videos, and extracts static deep…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shinohara, Matsushima
Laboratory experiments were conducted to determine whether stationary fire whirls just downwind of a meter-scale turbulent flame are the lowest part of the counter-rotating vortex pair (CVP) of the plume from the flame. Plumes from a turbulent pool fire and air flow around the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kirsch, Rideout
Increased scruitiny of federally funded programs combined with changes in fire management has created a demand for a new fire program analysis model. There is now a need for a model that displays tradeoffs between initial attack effectiveness and alternative funding levels. The…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Acuna, Palma, Weintraub, Martell, Cui
Harvest planners often consider potential fire losses and timber production plans can influence fire management, but most timber harvest planning and fire management planning activities are carried out largely independently of each other. But road construction, timber harvesting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Elson, Simon, Kneeshaw
To determine scale-specific effects of disturbance type, soil, and topography on regenerating plant species, we compared regeneration in 10- and 50-year-old clearcuts and burns in Southeastern Labrador. Data were analyzed at three scales of resolution: subplot (5 m2), plot (398…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evett, Franco-Vizcaino, Stephens
Phytolith analysis was applied to several sites in a Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi Grev. & Balf.)-mixed conifer forest in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California, Mexico, to explore the hypothesis that the introduction of livestock in the late 18th century led to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beerling, Osborne
Savannas are a major terrestrial biome, comprising of grasses with the C4 photosynthetic pathway and trees with the C3 type. This mixed grass-tree biome rapidly appeared on the ecological stage 8 million years ago with the near-synchronous expansion of C4 grasses around the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beckage, Platt, Gross
Savanna models that are based on recurrent disturbances such as fire result in nonequilibrium savannas, but these models rarely incorporate vegetation feedbacks on fire frequency or include more than two states (grasses and trees). We develop a disturbance model that includes…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beck, Connelly, Reese
The ability of prescribed fire to enhance habitat features for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata wyomingensis) in western North America is poorly understood. We evaluated recovery of habitat features important to…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ingalsbee
From the text (p. 34) ... 'Given the fact that climate change will cause many wildfires to burn larger and longer, the real issue in the near future will not be cost reduction or even cost containment, but rather, cost management. Expenditures may still remain high as the amount…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hu, Higuera, Walsh, Chapman, Duffy, Brubaker, Chipman
Recent climatic warming has resulted in pronounced environmental changes in the Arctic, including shrub cover expansion and sea ice shrinkage. These changes foreshadow more dramatic impacts that will occur if the warming trend continues. Among the major challenges in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yamasaki, Duchesneau, Doyon, Russell, Gooding
The cumulative impacts of human and natural activity on forest landscapes in Alberta are clear. Human activity, such as forestry and oil and gas development, and natural processes such as wildfire leave distinctive marks on the composition, age class structure and spatial…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodard
Provincial forest management agencies across Canada are attempting to recover suppression costs plus losses to real property due to human-caused fires when negligence is involved. These agencies are responsible for investigating these fires, and they commonly restrict all access…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rogers, Randerson, Bonan
Fires in the boreal forests of North America are generally stand-replacing, killing the majority of trees and initiating succession that may last over a century. Functional variation during succession can affect local surface energy budgets and, potentially, regional climate.…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robichaud, Ashmun
A considerable investment in post-fire research over the past decade has improved our understanding of wildfire effects on soil, hydrology, erosion and erosion-mitigation treatment effectiveness. Using this new knowledge, we have developed several tools to assist land managers…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Liu, Goodrick, Heilman
Increasing wildfire activity in recent decades, partially related to extended droughts, along with concern over potential impacts of future climate change on fire activity has resulted in increased attention on fire-climate interactions. Findings from studies published in recent…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lin, McCarty, Wang, Rogers, Morton, Collatz, Jin, Randerson
Fires in croplands, plantations, and rangelands contribute significantly to fire emissions in the United States, yet are often overshadowed by wildland fires in efforts to develop inventories or estimate responses to climate change. Here we quantified decadal trends, interannual…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hull
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Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Habeck
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Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brotak, Reifsnyder
Fifty-two major wildland fires in the eastern half of the United States were analyzed to determine the synoptic situations involved. At the surface, 3/4 of the fires were found near frontal areas. The vast majority of fires were associated with the eastern portion of small…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
González-Cabán, McKetta
Economically sound decisions on fuel treatment require knowledge of treatment costs. Fuel treatment costs derived using an economic cost concept on two National Forests were found to be higher than reported by accounting methods. Costs are sufficiently high and variable to…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Young
'The Forest Fire Research Institute has been studying the use of air tankers in fire control for several years. The most recent project involves the development of a computer simulation model to determine air tanker productivity (Simard, 1975). As part of that project, an…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kiil
A study was made of the fuel complex in 70-year old lodgepole pine stands in west-central Alberta to facilitate measurement and prediction of weight-and-size distribution of fuel components. Results showed that the weight of the entire fuel complex increased with increasing…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Forster
'One of the most dramatic technological breakthroughs in forest fire suppression in recent years has been the development and use of airtankers...World War II surplus aircraft were available at a modest cost and many forest fire protection agencies developed an airtanker…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barney
This paper presents selected interior Alaska forest and range wildfire statistics for the period 1966-69. Comparisons are made with the decade 1956-65 and the 30-year period 1940-69, which are essentially the total recorded statistical history on wilfires availabe for Alaska.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS