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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Beckage, Platt, Gross
Savanna models that are based on recurrent disturbances such as fire result in nonequilibrium savannas, but these models rarely incorporate vegetation feedbacks on fire frequency or include more than two states (grasses and trees). We develop a disturbance model that includes…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beck, Connelly, Reese
The ability of prescribed fire to enhance habitat features for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata wyomingensis) in western North America is poorly understood. We evaluated recovery of habitat features important to…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dube
Literature shows that at a global scale, fire activity increased from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present. There is incremental evidence indicating that climate defines the regional boundary conditions for fire. Human influence on ignitions depends on climate and has, since…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Page
From the text ... 'To foster these programs at a local scale, fire management organizations must work with local organizations in addition to fire management agencies.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'Fire and Aviation Management developed the Fire Suppression Doctrine to promote an informed, shared-learning culture in which firefighters avoid unnecessary risk. Doctrine is the body of foundational principles that guide how firefighters think and act when…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ray, Seymour, Scott, Keeton
From the text ... 'Like all forests, we recognize the multiple benefits to society of forests as a renewable resource when managed skillfully. Forestry deserves to compete (and be provided with similar levels of assistance that other 'green' technologies are receiving) for a…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weaver
From the text ... 'Fire education specialists are joining with college graduate students and education majors to present a 3-day fire ecology and management program that involves both field and classroom exercises to fourth-through eighth-grade students.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sachs
From the text ... 'The purpose of ESF4 [Emergency Support Function 4] is to provide Federal support for the detection and suppression of wildland, rural, and urban fires resulting from, or occurring coincidentally with, an incident requiring a coordinated Federal response for…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Legarza
From the text ... ''In recent years, we have wanted and seen both organizational and systematic changes in Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management. Although they understand that change is constant and transformation takes time, even the most experienced fire managers may…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carr
From the text ... 'More than half the initial projects proposed for the Forest Service's billion dollars of funding through the ARRA [American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009] were for wildland fire management.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Sutcliffe, Barton
From the text ... 'AARs [After-Action Review] typically ask four questions regarding fire-response operations: what did we set out to do; what actually happened; why is there a difference between the first two; and what should we continue, and what should we change?'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
An answer to a burning question: what will the Forest Service spend on Fire suppression this summer?
From the text ... 'Our models show that suppression costs can be statistically estimated largely from previous years' suppression costs, climate, drought conditions, and a time trend.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wells
From the text ... 'The Joint Fire Science Program, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group Fuels Management Committee, and Sonoma Technology, Inc. are unveiling the prototype of a new planning environment that will help fuels specialists negotiate the confusing array of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moss, Hermanutz
Although fire is the primary mechanism driving regeneration in open black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) lichen woodland, there are limited data concerning the sources of seedling mortality across the range of burn severity. We monitored planted seedlings in areas of high…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Le Goff, Flannigan, Bergeron
The main objective of this paper is to evaluate whether future climate change would trigger an increase in the fire activity of the Waswanipi area, central Quebec. First, we used regression analyses to model the historical (1973-2002) link between weather conditions and fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Soja, Al-Saadi, Pouliot, Kittaka, Zhang, Raffuse, Wiedinmyer
Area burned is one of four primary parameters necessary for estimating biomass burning emissions, and it is a parameter than remains illusive, particularly if we include all area burned. In this report, we compare the intensive 2002 ground-based data for the western United…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simmons, Legra
We undertook a 3-week expedition to Papua New Guinea in April-May 2007 to assess the breeding, threats and Population densities of the Papuan Harrier Circus spilonotus spilothorax and to determine a first global Population estimate for this almost entirely unknown species. Two…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larkin, O'Neill, Solomon, Raffuse, Strand, Sullivan, Krull, Rorig, Peterson, Ferguson
Smoke from fire is a local, regional and often international issue that is growing in complexity as competition for airshed resources increases. BlueSky is a smoke modeling framework designed to help address this problem by enabling simulations of the cumulative smoke impacts…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Klenner, Walton
We used the TELSA forest landscape model to examine the long-term consequences of applying different forest management scenarios on indicators of wildlife habitat, understory productivity, crown fuel hazard, timber yield and treatment costs. The study area was a dry forest…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Euskirchen, McGuire, Rupp, Chapin, Walsh
In high latitudes, changes in climate impact fire regimes and snow cover duration, altering the surface albedo and the heating of the regional atmosphere. In the western Arctic, under four scenarios of future climate change and future fire regimes (2003-2100), we examined…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Betts, Jones
With climatic warming, wildfire occurrence is increasing in the boreal forest of interior Alaska. Loss of catchment vegetation during fire can impact streams directly through altered solute and debris inputs and changed light and temperature regimes. Over longer time scales,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barker, Amiro, Kwon, Ewers, Angstmann
The Canadian boreal forest consists of a mosaic of landscapes of varying soil drainage and forest age driven by wildfire. The hydrological consequences are complicated by plant responses to soil moisture and forest age, both potentially influencing evapotranspiration.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson, Englefield, Little, Reuter
This paper presents an operational approach to predicting fire growth for wildland fires in Canada. The approach addresses data assimilation to provide predictions in a timely and efficient manner. Fuels and elevation grids, forecast weather, and active fire locations are…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zinck, Grimm
Understanding the dynamics of wildfire regimes is crucial for both regional forest management and predicting global interactions between fire regimes and climate. Accordingly, spatially explicit modeling of forest fire ecosystems is a very active field of research, including…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wyshynski, Nudds
Policy direction to emulate natural disturbance in managed boreal forests has spurred a need to contrast the dynamics of biota on landscapes originating from timber harvest and from wildfire (hereafter, ''managed'' and ''natural''). Typically, emphasis is on pattern emulation,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS