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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Youngblood, McIver
This proposal seeks supplemental funding for the Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) Study, for the purpose of interdisciplinary and multi-site analyses. Initial funding for the FFS study was provided by the JFSP in March 2000, and has allowed full treatment implementation and data…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Caratti, Gangi, Hann, Key
Monitoring the effects of wildland fire is critical for (1) documenting fire effects, (2) assessing ecosystem damage and benefit, (3) evaluating the success or failure of a burn, and (4) appraising the potential for future treatments. Many fire managers do not collect monitoring…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Gessler, Jain, Lannom, Robichaud, Ryan
We propose a rapid response project to collect fire behavior, fire effects, and fuels data from five 2003 active 2004 wildfires across the US. It is critical that field and remotely sensed data be collected soon (two weeks to the first growing season) after wildfires are burning…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hood
This project will synthesize the literature and current state of knowledge of burning duff mounds and the impact on tree mortality.
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Yokel
Permanent transects, including 2 paired control transects, were established following unusually large and severe North Slope tundra burn.
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Both of these Chena Lakes projects were designed to determine fuel treatment effectiveness, prescribed burn severity, and post-burn vegetative succession. Incident to the sampling, some tree cross-sections were collected in 2001 to determine approximate stand ages, and in one…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Camp, Omi, Cronan, Huffman
This JFSP-funded project assessed the relationship between stand age and fire behavior in the black spruce forest type of interior Alaska. Forest canopy and substrate data were collected from sites representing a time sequence of stand age ranging from two to 227 years. These…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) has officially been used in Alaska since 1992. The CFFDRS is comprised of two major subsystems: the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System and the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System. The FWI…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Three pairs of burned and recent unburned plots were established after the Noatak 2004 Uvgoon Cr (Fire #127 - A35A) to study the effects of tundra fires on vegetation and permafrost. Six plots (3 burned in 2004 and 3 'controls') were established. The goals of the study are to…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The purpose of the NPS Alaska Fire Ecology Program is to understand the ecological effects of fire on the landscape. Information is collected and analyzed about the effects of fire on vegetation, fuels, soil, and wildlife habitat. Information is also collected on the fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This long-term monitoring project measures survival and height growth of seedlings and saplings in an area burned in the 1983 Rosie Creek Fire, near Fairbanks, Alaska. The fifteenth year of measurements occurred in 2003. All seedlings belong to the 1983, 1987, or 1990 seed crops…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Seven regional workshops were conducted across the country to teach land managers enough about three FERA tools so that they can go out and teach others. These workshops were three days each and attended by approximately 10-15 managers. A teaching cadre of 5 demonstrated in the…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This project is assessing the viability of using remotely-sensed imagery to detect burn severity within black spruce (Picea mariana) stands of interior Alaska through correlations of ground-truthed data (composite burn index scores) and remotely-sensed indices (differenced…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone
This project aims to use data from the 2004 fires in Alaska to link pre-fire vegetation composition and soil conditions with patterns of burn severity and post-fire stand rehabilitation. The primary objective is to examine how variations in burn severity can influence patterns…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
As part of the Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation and Stabilization plan for Alaska's 2004 fires, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Alaska Natural Heritage Program are studying the interaction of burn severity and weed invasion in selected sites on five National…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Despite the fact that high-intensity crown fires account for an overwhelming proportion of the area burned by forest fires in Canada, fully understanding and subsequently modeling the initiation, propagation, and spread of crown fires remains an elusive goal for fire research…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
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 regimes, while the concurrent…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
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 issues of wildland fire, such as…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This conference was held November 27 - December 1, 2000, in San Diego, California. Fire research and management are greatly changing and the tasks of the fire management organizations are much broader than they were just a few years ago. Fire management is now in the forefront…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
FROSTFIRE was a landscape-scale prescribed research burn in the boreal forest of interior Alaska that occurred July 8-15, 1999. Within the 2200-acre perimeter, fire mimicked natural conditions by burning 900 acres of mostly black spruce, leaving the hardwoods standing. Boreal…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
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 paired vegetation plots in…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
During and after the 2004 Woodchopper Fire (A5ZE), fire effects monitoring plots were established to study how fire burned through varying vegetation types and the effects of fire on vegetation and permafrost. Seven plots (4 black spruce and 3 paper birch) were established to…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
During the 1999 fire season approximately 120 thousand acres within Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve were burned by wildfires. To evaluate the long-term impacts of these fires on the preserve, 15 randomly located permanent plots were established in September 1999 within…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The boreal forest of interior Alaska contains approximately 60 million burnable hectares. Fire is the dominant disturbance mechanism and statistical modeling has shown that for the period 1950-2003 roughly 80% of the inter-annual variability in the logarithm of area burned in…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
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, the relationship between…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES