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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Scott, Reinhardt
Many glossaries of wildland fire terms exist. Most are extensive (many terms) rather than intensive (much information about each term). For example, the 1996 NWCG Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology contains more than 1500 terms, but each is limited to 255 characters (about 20…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Scott, Reinhardt, Helmy
Reinhardt and Scott (this conference) described methods and initial results of a field study of canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer stands. In this poster we present a preliminary stereo photo guide for estimating canopy characteristics in conifer forests derived from…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Scott, Burgan
With the publication of his surface fire spread model in 1972, Rothermel provided a listing of 11 preliminary fuel models. A fuel model is a complete set of fuel inputs needed to use the Rothermel fire spread model (load and surface-are-to-volume ratio by size class and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schwartz
This is a typed version of the speech given. This report discusses how timber wildlife species are associated with different forest stands, forest succession in general, and the relationship between a few species and forest succession.
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schwartz, Franzmann
Mortality of young moose calves (Alces alces gigas) was evaluated on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, during spring and early summer 1977 and 1978. Studies were conducted both inside and outside of a 461-ha browse-rehabilitated area (Willow Lake) where standing vegetation had been…
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Hardy, Weise, Rehm, Linn
The Core Fire Science Caucus is a self-directed team of fire scientists who are dedicated to improving the core physical science basis for fire management. Our goal is to provide fire managers with the ability to plan for and predict (in real time) the nature of the combustion…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sandberg, Chapin, Hinzman
A landscape-scale prescribed research burn in the boreal forest of interior Alaska, FROSTFIRE, was an unmitigated success for scientists and fire managers. Planning over a 5-year period culminated in a safe and successful burn during 8-15 July 1999. Within the 1,000-ha fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Samsonov, Koutzenogii, Makarov, Popova
Description not entered.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saab, Kotliar, Block
Wild and managed fires have become increasingly prevalent across North America since the 1980's. Interest and concern about the influence of fire on ecological systems has also increased (Laverty and Williams 2000, USDA 2000). We summarize a symposium on fire and avian ecology,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Russell
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rowe
Land management goals in the North ought to stem from a land ethic, a care for the terrain. They ought to take account of the historical forces that have produced landscape variety. The occurrences of fires in space and in time have created a patchwork mosaic and thus, have…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rowe
Reviews the literature on some aspects of the fire ecology of the Spruces, chiefly Picea glauca, in the boreal forest area of the north-west, where fire is an integral part of the environment and Spruces are frequently early invaders of burnt sites.
Year: 1970
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rothermel
The fire characteristics chart has been expanded and modified to indicate crown fire behavior. Any point on the chart provides a simultaneous representation of rate of spread, unit energy, fireline intensity, flame length, and power of the fire. The contrast in behavior between…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
The National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) and the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) were developed to assess and predict wildfire danger in the forests of the United States and Canada. In addition, the fire weather index components of these systems are…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
In Alaska, the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) system is used to track the effect of weather of fuel moisture conditions. The prescription of the FrostFire experimental burn (near Fairbanks) was based on the basic weather conditions as well as the FWI codes, which…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rollins, Keane, Zhu, Menakis, Hann, Shlisky
Description not entered.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roby
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
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Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Brown
Major concerns after wildfires are the increased erosion and flooding potential due to loss of the protective forest floor layer, loss of water storage, and the creation of water repellent soil conditions. Treatments to mitigate postfire erosion and runoff are commonly applied…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright
Reindeer vegetation-type selection, activity, and food habits were studied from 1976 to 1978. Results from aerial surveys and on-ground observations showed a preference for Tussock-Shrub Tundra in spring, Low-Medium Willows in early summer, and Saltgrass Meadows in mid-summer…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright
[from the text] The general effect of fire on shrubs should always be considered in relation to the ecological potential of a community. In grasslands, shrubs have a difficult time maintaining a dominant position due to competition from healthy grasses, droughts, and occasional…
Year: 1972
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Alvarado
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Ottmar, Bluhm, Vihnanek
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Alvarado, Ottmar
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES