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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kalabokidis, Hay, Hussin
Spatial data analysis and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology offer an opportunity to improve upon spatially unresolved fire behavior models (e.g., BEHAVE) The feasibility of applying the fire spread module of BEHAVE in a spatially resolved manner was determined for a…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuglem, Danard
A major problem with weather data in complex terrain is temporal and spatial interpolation. The British Columbia Forest Service, through the services of Atmospheric Dynamics Corporation, has adapted a meso-scale weather model to provide hourly predictions out to 4.5 days for a…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frandsen
Smoldering spread rates (cm h-1) are derived from the results of an experimental evaluation of the unit area burning rate of smoldering material (g cm-2 h-1). The unit area burning rate, which is the load loss rate normal to the smoldering surface, depends only on the moisture…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Cheney, Trevitt
The term 'tree crown street' has been coined to describe the pattern of burned or partially burned tree crowns, aligned roughly parallel to the general direction of fire spread, that is often left in the wake of crowning forest fires. Within the streets the foliage of the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Eenigenburg
This paper describes an information system that uses National Weather Service computer-generated forecasts to automatically produce 1- and 2-day fire severity forecasts for 49 States. There are two computer models - the limited fine mesh model and the nested grid model. Both…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rothwell, Woodard, Samran
Ground fuels in aspen forests of central Alberta even after considerable periods of dry weather are moist and do not easily ignite, nor sustain combustion. It was hypothesized that low flammability of aspen ground fuels is significantly affected by capillary soil water flow from…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kanjanakunchorn, Woodard, McDonald
A commonly available plastic garden-type soaker hose was tested in a 'series' configuration to determine the suitability of using this hose type to contain wildland fires. The bursting strength was determined for three hose-types (the RCR-strata, 3-tube, Robinson) as part of…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirsch
The 1989 fire season was the most severe in 71-years of recorded fire history in Manitoba. A total of 1147 fires burned 3.28 million ha and cost over $63 million (CDN) to suppress. The events of 1989 resulted in the development and implementation of a new Initial Attack…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chou
Geographic Information System (GIS) is used to delineate critical zones of extremely high fire danger. The objective is to develop effective spatial strategies for the prevention and suppression of wildland fires. To minimize costs and losses due to wildland fires while within…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chase
The computer simulation process used by the National Forests and other wildland protection agencies for strategic fire planning evaluates alternatives based on the range of probable fire behavior conditions that may be expected on the unit over a total period of approxiately 10…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Burgan, Hartford, Eidenshink, Werth
The use of satellite remote sensing to assess vegetation greenness was investigated over the Western United States in 1989 and expanded to the entire conterminous United States during l990. This study utilizes the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data acquired by…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson, Lee
Linear programming techniques are used to optimally place fire suppression resources in a presuppression role. Travel times required to reach individual cells within a forest region (attack times) are calculated using fire behavior models and attack time objective sizes or…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Galbraith
Life after logging is the title and message in a series of photographic displays produced by the Canadian Forest Service's Pacific Forest Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, that have been creating a stir throughout North America and in parts of Europe and Asia. Relying on…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hironaka
Medusahead (Taeniatherum asperum) has replaced cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) and other annual grasses over extensive areas in California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington during the past 40 years. It has low palatability, injurious, and pesky awns, and completely dominates affected…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pellant
The size and frequency of wildfires are rapidly increasing on rangelands in the Intermountain area of the Western United States. One of the major contributors to increased wildfires is alien annual grasses, primarily cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum). Because these annual grasses dry…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Turner, Romme, Gardner, Hargrove
The 1988 Yellowstone fires provided a unique opportunity to examine how the geometry of fire created patches affects plant reestablishment. We initiated studies in 1990 in small (1 ha), moderate (74-200 ha), and large (480-3968 ha) crown-fire patches in each of 3 areas.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hargrove, Gardner, Turner, Romme
Future long-term (ca. 100 year) trends in fire frequency and burn patterns were investigated in the subalpine plateau of Yellowstone National Park, USA, using EMBYR, a probabilistic, spatially-explicit fire simulation model. The central subalpine plateau (85 km x 82 km) was…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gutsell, Johnson
Two key observations lead to our understanding of how fire scars form on trees. First, as a fire passes by a tree, its flame length increases on the leeward side of the tree. Second, the cambium is killed in a triangular shape, encompassing approximately half the circumference…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bridge, Johnson
Statistically acceptable fire frequency models using time since fire maps are iterative and require specialized statistical and graphical routines. We introduce an automated technique for studying fire frequency usinq Geographic Information Systems' analytical capabilities. A…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Archibald, Luke, Coneybeare
'Burning earlier in the season may reduce the need for pre-burn vegetation management treatments (e.g. herbicide application) on some sites...Burning in late spring to take advantage of low green-up levels may result in greater rates of fire spread and allow for reduced…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Allen
'The heightened recognition within the research community of the ecological linkages between Local sites and larger spatial scales has spawned increasing calls for more holistic management of landscapes (Noss 1983, Harris 1984, Risser 1985, Norse et al 1986, Agee and Johnson…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
A century of overly diligent fire suppression has left western forests in an explosive condition exacerbated by drought. The number and intensity of the fires this year has strained the resources of firefighters, making an already dangerous job more deadly than ever.
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine, Hobbs
A critical parameter for the initiation and propagation of a crown fire in the boreal forest is the height to the base of the live crown. The initiation of crown fire requires that the surface fire intensity must be sufficient to 'jump' the gap between the forest floor and the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS