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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Dickinson, Robinson, Harrod, Gessler, Smith
The conditions necessary for the combustion of canopy fuels are not well known but are assumed to be highly influenced by the volume through which the canopy fuels are dispersed, known as canopy bulk density (CBD). Propagating crown fire is defined as a continuous wall of flame…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Butler, Anderson, Catchpole
Data demonstrate the effect of slope on heading and backing fires burning through woody fuels. The data indicate that the upper limit of heading fire rate of spread is defined by the rate of spread up a vertical fuel array, and the lower limit is defined by the rate of spread of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bishop
The FireLine Assessment MEthod (FLAME) provides a fireline-practical tool for predicting significant changes in fire rate-of-spread (ROS). FLAME addresses the dominant drivers of large, short-term change: effective windspeed, fuel type, and fine-fuel moisture. Primary output is…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Nasiatka, Christenson
How can a unit learn in everyday fuels programs and from program reviews? How can a unit move from living in the 'report card' culture to discovering more effective ways to improve what it knows and how it learns? Six specific tasks are critical to organizational learning…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Barrett, DeMeo, Jones, Zeiler, Hutter
Knowledge of ecological departure from a range of reference conditions provides a critical context for managing sustainable ecosystems. Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) is a qualitative measure characterizing possible departure from historical fire regimes. The FRCC Mapping…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Cary, Keane, Gardner, Lavorel, Flannigan, Davies, Li, Lenihan, Rupp, Mouillot
The relative importance of variables in determining area burned is an important management consideration although gaining insights from existing empirical data has proven difficult. The purpose of this study was to compare the sensitivity of modeled area burned to environmental…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Chakrabarty, Moosmüller, Garro, Arnott, Walker, Susott, Babbitt, Wold, Lincoln, Hao
The morphology of particles emitted by wildland fires contributes to their physical and chemical properties but is rarely determined. As part of a study at the USFS Fire Sciences Laboratory (FSL) investigating properties of particulate matter emitted by fires, we studied the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lynn, Gerlitz
Wildfires and related government roles and responsibilities for federal wildland management are prominent in our national consciousness because of the increased severity in the last decade of fires on and around public lands. In recent years, laws, strategies, and implementation…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Cruz, Alexander, Fernandes
We describe the development of a model system to predict fire behaviour over the full range of potential fire behaviour in the various types of fuel complexes found in exotic pine plantations in relation to environmental conditions. The proposed system integrates a series of sub…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Reeves, Kost, Ryan
The LANDFIRE project is a collaborative interagency effort designed to provide seamless, nationally consistent, locally relevant geographic information systems (GIS) data layers depicting wildland fuels, vegetation and fire regime characteristics. The LANDFIRE project is the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Parisien, Junor, Kafka
This study used a rule-based approach to prioritize locations of fuel treatments in the boreal mixedwood forest of western Canada. The burn probability (BP) in and around Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan was mapped using the Burn-P3 (Probability, Prediction, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Opperman, Gould, Finney, Tymstra
There is currently no spatial wildfire spread and growth simulation model used commonly across New Zealand or Australia. Fire management decision-making would be enhanced through the use of spatial fire simulators. Various groups from around the world met in January 2006 to…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ryan, Lee, Rollins, Zhu, Smith, Johnson
Managers are faced with reducing hazardous fuel, restoring fire regimes, and decreasing the threat of catastrophic wildfire. Often, the comprehensive, scientifically-credible data and applications needed to test alternative fuel treatments across multi-ownership landscapes are…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Trethewey
A helicopter comparison index was developed to incorporate cost and benefit information for individual helicopters for large wildland fire suppression operations. The costs and benefits for individual helicopters are unique. Costs consist of daily availability and hourly flight…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Williamson
United States wildland fire policy and program reviews in 1995 and 2000 required reduction of hazardous fuel and recognition of fire as a natural process. Although an existing policy, Wildland Fire Use (WFU), permitted managing natural ignitions to meet resource benefits, most…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Johnson, Bengston, Fan, Nelson
The Healthy Forests Initiative (HFI) and Healthy Forests Restoration Act (HFRA) represent major policy and legislative responses to the fuels management problem in the United States. This study examined the nature and evolution of the public discussion and debate about these…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Zimmerman, Frary, Crook, Fay, Koppenol, Lasko
The application and use of wildland fire for a range of beneficial ecological objectives is rapidly expanding across landscapes supporting diverse vegetative complexes and subject to multiple societal uses. Wildland fire use originated in wilderness and has become a proven…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Xanthopoulos, Caballero, Galante, Alexandrian, Rigolot, Marzano
Current fuel management practices vary considerably between European countries. Topography, forest and forest fuel characteristics, size and compartmentalization of forests, forest management practices, land uses, land ownership, size of properties, legislation, and, of course,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Gould
Although Australia and New Zealand have quite different fire climates and fuels, the common understanding of fire behaviour underlies many facets of fire management in both countries. Fire management is the legal responsibility of various government land management agencies that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The Canadian Wildland Fire Strategy (CWFS) provides a vision for a new, innovative, and integrated approach to wildland fire management in Canada. It was developed under the auspices of the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers and seeks to balance the social, ecological, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Sexton
There is no doubt that wildland fuel conditions on large portions of federal wildlands in the United States have changed significantly over the last 100 years. The changes include: Increased density of woody species; Artificial fragmentation of fuel mosaics; Exotic species…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Williams
Over time, events that would not have been disasters, or even emergencies, are now major catastrophes. The increase in world population, the movement of this population to vulnerable areas, has created a situation where 100's of thousands of people die, and 100's of billions of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Scott
A complete set of nomographs for estimating surface fire rate of spread and flame length for the original 13 and new 40 fire behavior fuel models is presented. The nomographs allow calculation of spread rate and flame length for wind in any direction with respect to slope and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Parsons, Heyerdahl, Keane, Dorner, Fall
We assessed accuracy in point fire intervals using a simulation model that sampled four spatially explicit simulated fire histories. These histories varied in fire frequency and size and were simulated on a flat landscape with two forest types (dry versus mesic). We used three…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Kovalev, Hao, Wold, Adam
An experimental method for determining the presence and the level of systematic distortions in lidar data is considered. The method has been developed on the basis of two years of field experiments with the Fire Sciences Laboratory elastic scanning lidar. The influence of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES