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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCarthy, Wood
The Jemez Mountains Project is a part of the North American Fire Learning Network (FLN), a collaborative venture of the USDA Forest Service, the Department of the Interior and The Nature Conservancy. Project partners include Bandelier National Monument; the Jemez Mountains Field…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bockheim, O'Brien, Munroe, Hinkel
Balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera) groves occur north of the Brooks Range and treeline in arctic Alaska in a region of continuous permafrost and tundra vegetation. A poplar grove near the Ivishak River (69°06'N, 147°53'W) that we studied in detail contains 11 clones within 350…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kremens, Faulring, Gallagher, Seema, Vodacek
An Autonomous Fire Detector (AFD) is a miniature electronic package combining position location capability [using the Global Positioning System (GPS)], communications (packet or voice-synthesized radio), and fire detection capability (thermal, gas, smoke detector) into an…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This FIRESTAT User's Guide shows you how to enter Individual Fire Report information using form FS-5100-29 and other sources. It is organized to help you locate and perform specific FIRESTAT functions quickly and easily.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright, Vihnanek, Ottmar
Wildland fire professionals require accurate, detailed fuels information to effectively plan and implement a whole range of fuels and fire management actions. The Natural Fuels Photo Series, a photo guide designed for field use, is a source of high quality fuels data for a wide…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Camp, Omi
The Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plan promulgates policy objectives that recognize the ecological importance of perpetuating natural fire regimes. The same policy also directs land managers to balance the protection of ecological principles with appropriate risk management…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
The Fuelbed Characteristic Classification System, or FCCS, (Sandberg and Ottmar 2002) is a systematic catalog of inherent physical properties of any wildland fuelbed. FCCS is designed to provide the best possible fuel estimates and potential fire parameters based on as much or…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wright, Ottmar, Ferguson, Vihnanek
Research to quantify fuel consumption and flammability in shrub-dominated ecosystems has received little attention despite the widespread occurrence of fire-influenced, shrub-dominated landscapes across the arid lands of the western United States. While some research has…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Juday, Barber, Rupp, Zasada, Wilmking
This volume (Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Sites), in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series would present the work that has been done and the understanding and database that have been developed by work on climate…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lists the conference proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management (Nov. 11-16, 2003 in Orlando, Florida).
Year: 2003
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Amiro, Chen
The mapping of Canadian fires is a large effort supported by provincial, territorial, and federal agencies. Remote sensing techniques can aid in mapping, especially in remote areas and during busy fire seasons. The SPOT-VEGETATION (SPOT-VGT) sensor has previously shown promise…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander, Thomas
In an effort to unbury the past and to increase both institutional memory and organizational learning within the wildland fire community, the authors approached the editorial staff of Fire Management Today with the idea of republishing a selection of these past fire-behavior-…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riebau, Fox
Fires can be catastrophic, but only when the weather permits. Predicting the weather more than a few hours into the future with accuracy, precision and reliability is an on-going challenge to researchers. Accurate and precise forecasting for more than a few hours into the future…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ottmar, Sandberg
Research to quantify fuel consumption in boreal forest types is critical for effective modeling of fire effects. There is considerable amount of forest floor consumption research completed in the contiguous United States; however, the unique lichen, moss, and duff forest floor…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Rollins, Parsons
The LANDFIRE (LANDscape and FIRE Management Planning System, www.landfire.gov) project was initiated to provide scientifically credible, comprehensive and critical mid-scale data for prioritization and planning to implement the National Fire Plan, both at the national and local…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The fire monitoring program described in this Fire Monitoring Handbook (FMH) allows the National Park Service to document basic information, to detect trends, and to ensure that each park meets its fire and resource management objectives. From identified trends, park staff can…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schulz
The forests of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, underwent a major spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby)) outbreak in the 1990s. A repeated inventory of forest resources was designed to assess the effects of the resulting widespread mortality of spruce trees, the dominant…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Meyers, Cole
Daubenmire canopy cover transects established in 1981 were monitored in 1995 using the same methods. This data provided a comparison of range conditions over a 14-year span during which the Western Arctic Caribou Herd increased from 140,000 to 450,000 animals. Percent lichen…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
This is a compilation, by geographic area, of fire effects monitoring and research activities that BLM Alaska Fire Service conducted, assisted, or consulted with during the FY2003.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Benson, Key, Lutes
A sampling strategy for monitoring fire effects must provide for the integration and linkage of ecosystem response across these multiple time and space scales to provide meaningful data to fire management. Includes FIREMON documents for Plot Description, Tree Data, Fuel Load,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chojnacky, Mickler, Heath
Available and accessible data on components of down woody materials (DWMs) are needed for managing global carbon storage of forests. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA) program currently measures variables related to DWMs on a subsample of plots in…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldammer
The increasing incidence, extent and severity of uncontrolled burning globally, together with its many adverse consequences, has brought fire into the international environmental policy arena, with growing calls for international action leading to greater control of burning,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar, Sandberg, Prichard, Riccardi
The ongoing development of sophisticated fire behavior, fire effects, and carbon balance models and the implementation of large landscape assessments has demonstrated the need for a comprehensive system of fuelbed classification that more accurately captures the structural…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hinzman, Fukuda, Sandberg, Chapin, Dash
The FROSTFIRE research project conducted a prescribed burn of a 970 ha watershed in interior Alaska. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first experimental burn of a watershed and the most thoroughly documented prescribed fire in history. Although extensive fire research…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES