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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lentile, Morgan, Hardy, Hudak, Means, Ottmar, Robichaud, Sutherland, Szymoniak, Way, Fites-Kaufman, Lewis, Mathews, Shovik, Ryan
Rapid Response Research is conducted during and immediately after wildland fires, in coordination with fire management teams, in order to collect information that can best be garnered in situ and in real-time. This information often includes fire behavior and fire effects data,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Whether the goal is to improve wildlife habitat, gauge the effects of prescribed burns or wildfire, or assess the unaccustomed conditions and hidden dangers of fallen trees in the aftermath of hurricanes, a suite of tools developed by the Fire and Environmental Research…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lentile, Morgan, Hardy, Hudak, Means, Ottmar, Robichaud, Sutherland, Way, Lewis
In recent years, more researchers are collecting data either on active wildfires or immediately after wildfire occurrence. Known as Rapid Response Research, this important undertaking provides real-time information, useful data, and improved tools for managers.
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berg
Introduction to the December 2007 Special Forum on the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) which includes 7 articles related to FCCS.
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Barnes, Jandt
We propose to expand the Northwest Fire Research Clearinghouse (FIREHouse) (see http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/ fera/firehouse) to include projects relevant specifically to fire management in Alaska. FIREHouse was originally funded by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in 2003 (…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Barbour
The mission of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) is to produce high quality research findings to inform wildland fire and fuel managers’ decisions. Since its inception in 1998, the program has funded nearly 400 studies and has generated a tremendous amount of information and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Zouhar
This task has written a General Technical Report entitled Wildland Fire in Ecosystems-- Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants, the 6th volume of the Rainbow Series. The report has received peer review, statistical review, and policy review, and is approved for publication. It is…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Campbell, Morgan, Lentile, Smith, Hudak
This project was designed to synthesize state-of-the-knowledge on remote sensing of active fire and post-fire effects, and to design and deliver online courses for academic credit. The courses were designed as an innovative technology transfer effort for multiple ongoing and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hollingsworth, Johnstone, Chapin, Mack, Schuur, Verbyla
Wildfires are the dominant large-scale disturbance in the Alaskan boreal forest and highly flammable black spruce forests cover over 40% of interior Alaska. In the summer of 2004, Alaskans experienced the largest fire year in recorded history; 6.7 million acres burned mostly in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Miller, Wright, Walker, Ballard, Nasiatka, Fay, Chappell, Calkin
The principal objectives were to: 1) increase distribution and awareness of FEPF. We met this through on-site visits, web-based training and explanatory materials, trainings and workshops); 2) develop a stand-alone training module for FEPF that can be integrated into existing…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wirth, Pyke
Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation (ES&R) and Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) treatments are short-term, high-intensity treatments designed to mitigate the adverse effects of wildfire on public lands. The federal government expends significant resources…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This handbook provides detailed information specific to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) policies, standards, and procedures used in the Burned Area Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation (ES&R) programs. This Handbook is intended to be the primary guidance to BLM ES&…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mercer
Largely in response to the 2004 Alaska wildfire season, local fire managers have begun to install fuel treatments in mature black spruce forests around wildland-urban interface areas. The objectives of these fuel treatments are to reduce fuel load and to promote hardwoods. Local…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Girod, Hurtt, Frolking, Aber, King
Fire risk and carbon storage are related environmental issues because fire reduction results in carbon storage through the buildup of woody vegetation, and stored carbon is a fuel for fires. The sustainability of the U.S. carbon sink and the extent of fire activity in the next…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turquety, Logan, Jacob, Hudman, Leung, Heald, Yantosca, Wu, Emmons, Edwards, Sachse
The summer of 2004 was one of the largest fire seasons on record for Alaska and western Canada. We construct a daily bottom-up fire emission inventory for that season, including consideration of peat burning and high-altitude (buoyant) injection, and evaluate it in a global…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor
FULL TEXT: In the summer of 2005, wildfires raged over 3.4 million hectares of Alaska and Canada's northern boreal forests, according to combined figures from the Canadian Large Fire Database and the Alaska Large Fires Database. It was the region's second worst fire season on…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stewart, Radeloff, Hammer, Hawbaker
Federal wildland fire policy in the United States has been substantially revised over the past 10 years and new emphasis has been given to the wildland- urban interface (WUI), which creates a need for information about the WUI's location and extent. We operationalized a policy…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Soja, Tchebakova, French, Flannigan, Shugart, Stocks, Sukhinin, Varfenova, Chapin, Stackhouse
For about three decades, there have been many predictions of the potential ecological response in boreal regions to the currently warmer conditions. In essence, a widespread, naturally occurring experiment has been conducted over time. In this paper, we describe previously…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Chen, Olson, McGuire
Projected climatic warming has direct implications for future disturbance regimes, particularly fire-dominated ecosystems at high latitudes, where climate warming is expected to be most dramatic. It is important to ascertain the potential range of climate change impacts on…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Riccardi, Schaaf
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) is a systematic catalog of inherent physical properties of wildland fuelbeds that allows land managers, policy makers, and scientists to build and calculate fuel characteristics with complete or incomplete information. The…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pu, Li, Gong, Csiszar, Fraser, Hao, Kondragunta, Weng
Fires in boreal and temperate forests play a significant role in the global carbon cycle. While forest fires in North America (NA) have been surveyed extensively by U.S. and Canadian forest services, most fire records are limited to seasonal statistics without information on…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi, Haggstrom
Fire suppression and limited timber markets presently hinder maintenance of the early successional broad-leaved forest for wildlife habitat near settlements in interior Alaska. During 1999-2003, we evaluated the efficacy of prescribed burning, felling, and shearblading (with and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Sandberg, Riccardi, Prichard
We present an overview of the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS), a tool that enables land managers, regulators, and scientists to create and catalogue fuelbeds and to classify those fuelbeds for their capacity to support fire and consume fuels. The fuelbed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ononye, Vodacek, Saber
Remotely sensed infrared images are often used to assess wildland fire conditions. Separately, fire propagation models are in use to forecast future conditions. In the Dynamic Data-Driven Application System (DDDAS) concept, the fire propagation model will react to the image data…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Natcher, Calef, Huntington, Trainor, Huntington, DeWilde, Rupp, Chapin
Although wildfire has been central to the ecological dynamics of Interior Alaska for 5000 yr, the role of humans in this dynamic is not well known. As a multidisciplinary research team, together with native community partners, we analyzed patterns of human-fire interaction in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS