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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Finney, Andrews
Fire growth simulation is the modeling of fire spread and behavior across landscapes with heterogeneous fuels, weather, and topography. FARSITE is a computer program designed to simulate fire growth using existing models of fire behavior found in BEHAVE (Andrews 1986) and in the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
The Waring Mountains Wildfire of 1988 burned 209,366 acres (84,727 ha) of the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge in NW Alaska, transecting the migration route of the Western Arctic Caribou herd. This study was undertaken to describe and follow the response of the vegetation after…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adkisson
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beck
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Komarek
From the Conclusion ... 'The natural history of lightning wherever studied has shown a preponderance of evidence that:(1) Lightning is an inherent component of the earth's atmosphere and is ecologically fully as important as such better known factors as temperature, rainfall,…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Requa
From the text ... 'The Yukon Forest Service, a section of the Resources Division, Northern Administration Branch, Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources is responsible for forest fire protection and forest management in the Territory. This includes fire prevention…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Spencer, Hakala
From the 'Summary of Fire and Moose Relationships ... 1. Vegetation immediately following the 1947 Burn was largely determined by the previous stand. Revegetation was through both vegetative and seeding reproduction. Types following the fire were numerous and variable in…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bruhn
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McIlroy
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arnold, Jameson, Reid
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gauvin
Gives observations to date on 5 plots. Populus tremuloides and Betula papyrifera predominate in many areas; regeneration of Abies Balsamea and Picea Mariana is patchy.
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Darling
From the text...'In this Alaskan reconnaissance, I believe we were the first workers to point out that the caribou was a creature of climax vegetation-the lichen tundra-and the moose one of mid-successional vegetation. We became aware of the liberation of the shrub growth of…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Byram, Clements, Elliott, George
The first part of this report presents the results of further tests of fires in wood cribs. In one series of tests cribs of the same height and structure but with different areas, or horizontal cross-sections, were burned in still air to determine the effect of size of burning…
Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brayshaw
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Year: 1964
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
McFadzen, Hejl
Abstract only...'Practices of wildfire suppression and salvage logging of burned forests have prompted concern among biologists for fire-associated bird species in the northern Rocky Mountains. Therefore, in May 1997, we initiated a five-year study to examine the responses of…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartos
From the text...'Bartos and Campbell (1998) have identified five risk factors to help resource managers prioritize critical areas in need of treatment. If any of these factors exist, it is incumbent on the manager to consider treatment - particularly if their objective is to…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stuart
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Donovan, Noordijk
From the text ... 'Wildfires consume budgets and put the heat on fire managers to justify and control suppression costs. ...We used data from the 2002 fire season to determine how WFSA-predicted outcomes compared to actual outcomes. ...Fire managers often underestimated the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sole, Keyser
From the text ... 'The following information described what is considered to be the single biggest problem facing bobwhite quail and other grassland birds throughout a major portion of their range. This is an area encompassing from southern Maryland to northern South Carolina,…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS