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Name: 2nd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference: Fire Behavior Fundamentals and Applications
Description: The 2nd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference will be held from March 26-30, 2007 in Destin, Florida. It will focus on the fire environment - the 'fire environment' consists of fire weather, fire behavior, fire danger rating, predictive services, fuels,...
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Name: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress
Description: This conference was held in conjunction with the Fifth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, November 16-20, 2003 in Orlando, Florida. Land management agencies and organizations and private landholders are increasingly faced with the complex...
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Name: 3rd International Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress
Description: This conference was held November 13-17, 2006, in San Diego, California. It focused on the science and technology that are the basis for the management of wildland fire. The plenary session addressed the context and consequences of changing fire...
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Name: A National Study of the Consequences of Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments
Description: Objectives of the project are as follows: 1. Quantify the initial effects (first five years) of fire and fire surrogate treatments on a number of specific core response variables within the general groupings of (a) vegetation, (b) fuel and fire...
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Name: Alaska Birch and Black Spruce Tree Growth and Climate
Description: This study examined the climate/growth relationship and factors that best promote and most limit growth of black spruce and Alaska birch at some sites around Interior Alaska. Birch had two opposite growth responses: positive responders grow more in...
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Name: Alaska NPS Fire Effects Paired Plots Study
Description: The fire effects paired plot project began in 1982 under the direction of Gary Ahlstrand - NPS Alaska Regional Research Ecologist. The purpose of the project was to assess vegetation change and succession as a result of fire. Fire teams established...
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Name: Anaktuvuk River Fire Monitoring
Description: Permanent transects, including 2 paired control transects, were established following unusually large and severe North Slope tundra burn.
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Name: Analysis of Alaskan Burn Severity Patterns Using Remotely Sensed Data (2)
Description: Wildland fire is the dominant large-scale disturbance mechanism in the Alaskan boreal forest, and it strongly influences forest structure and function. In this research, patterns of burn severity in the Alaskan boreal forest are characterized. First,...
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Name: Anchor River Watershed Spruce Bark Beetle Project
Description: Tree cores were collected from white and Lutz spruce affected by spruce bark beetles. Sampling occurred during 2004-2005 in the Anchor River Watershed on the Kenai Peninsula.
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Name: Applied Wildland Fire Research in Support of Project Level Hazardous Fuels Planning - Economics and Utilization
Description: The Economics and Utilization Team is clarifying the economic requirements of NEPA analysis and developing a summary of the existing scientific information on costs and revenues associated with hazardous fuels treatments. It isl also providing tools,...
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