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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Perera, Buse
An overview of the concept behind the emulating natural forest disturbance, a management approach suited for ecosystems that are disturbance driven; i.e., fire-driven boreal forests, fire-driven montane forest savannas, and floodplain forests, including a working definition, and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Ottmar, Vihnanek
From 'Purpose' section: 'The purpose of this study was to assess forest floor reduction and overstory, understory, woody fuel and forest floor biomass consumption during a prescribed burn, in relation to forest floor moisture and weather conditions. Data from this burn will be…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Myers, O'Brien, Mehlman, Bergh
Description not entered.
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
Harden, Meier, Silapaswan, Swanson, McGuire
Soil drainage, as defined by water-holding capacity, hydraulic conductivity, and position of seasonal water table, is closely associated with soil C storage because of controls on plant production, decomposition, fire severity, and fire frequency. As an initial regional…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Graham, McCaffrey
[From the summary] Fuels management can reduce negative impacts of fire, benefit forest health, and provide social and economic benefits. Forest thinning and prescribed burning are two land-management techniques long employed by foresters and others to maintain forest health and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cortner, Field, Jakes, Buthman
The 2000 and 2002 fire seasons resulted in increased political scrutiny of the nation's wildland fire threats, and given the fact that millions of acres of lands are still at high risk for future catastrophic fire events, the issues highlighted by the recent fire seasons are not…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Barnston, Roads, Martin, Wolter, Garfin
On February 25, 2003, climate experts from the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI), the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC), the NOAA/NCEP/NWS Climate Prediction Center (CPC), the NOAA/CIRES Climate…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boucher
Between 1977 and 1997, 4000 ha were burned to promote regeneration of tree and shrub species used for browse by moose (Alces alces) in the Kenai Mountains. Species composition was documented along burned and unburned transects at 17 prescribed burn sites. Relationships among…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Otway
The Drought Code (DC), a component of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI), is an index of the amount of moisture in the deep forest floor. Its slow response time requires that allowances must be made for fall conditions and the overwinter snow fall in determining spring…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Keane
The primary objective of this project is: To revise the FOFEM computer model so new research results and computer technology are integrated into a complete and comprehensive fire effects prediction system suitable for supporting fuels management, environmental assessment, and…
Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Description not entered.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Fraser, Jin, Abuelgasim, Csiszar, Gong, Pu, Hao
This paper presents an evaluation of advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR)-based remote sensing algorithms for detecting active vegetation fires [Li et al., 2000a] and mapping burned areas [Fraser et al., 2000] throughout North America. The procedures were originally…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt
FOFEM 5.0 (First Order Fire Effects Model) is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. FOFEM predicts tree mortality from surface fire, based on flame length or scorch height,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shlisky
Altered fire regimes pose great threats to biodiversity. Fire managers recognize the need to reduce hazardous fuel loads, restore sustainable fire regimes and ecosystems, and decrease the threat of catastrophic wildfires to community values. The United States Department of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-148) (HFRA) was signed into law in December 2003. HFRA, as it is known, contains a variety of provisions to speed up hazardous-fuel reduction and forest-restoration projects on specific types of Federal land that are at risk…
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
The Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) simulates fuel dynamics and potential fire behaviour over time, in the context of stand development and management. Existing models of fire behavior and fire effects were added to FVS to form this…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Groisman, Knight, Heim, Razuvaev, Sherstyukov, Speranskaya
Significant climatic changes over the high latitudes in the 20th century have been reflected in many atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial variables. Changes in surface air temperature, precipitation, growing season duration, and snow cover cause changes in numerous derived…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gould, Hudak, González, Hollingsworth
Description not entered.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu
Smoke from wildland fires is one of the sources of atmospheric anthropogenic aerosols. it can dramatically affect regional and global radiative balance. Ross et al. (1998) estimated a direct radiative forcing of nearly -20 Wm-2 for the 1995 Amazonian smoke season (August and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Liu
Description not entered.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson, Ruthford, Rorig, Sandberg
Moisture in organic forest floor material for boreal ecosystems plays on important role in fire behavior. Therefore, data from in situ moisture sensors were compared with sampled moisture data and weather information to assess moisture dynamics in feather mosses (Hylocomium spp…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES