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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Schroeder
Reducing risk of loss due to wildfire in enhanced when forest fuels surrounding communities and individual structures are properly managed and are a part of the FireSmart concept. This report describes two test burns where a crown fire was burned into a fuel-managed plot…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Nenana Ridge Experimental Fuels Treatment Research Project was funded by the Joint Fire Science Program and supported with additional contributions from local state and federal agencies. This project was designed to quantify the effects of fuels reduction treatments on fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2010 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak
Workshop attendees were encouraged to share what fuels related projects were going on in their area or zone, the goals of the projects, and any interesting or helpful lessons learned.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rettig
A new wood energy project in Tok has turned surrounding forests from a fire hazard into renewable fuel. The Tok School lit a new wood chip-fired boiler for the first time several weeks ago. The 5.5-million-BTU steam boiler produces the school's heat, saving the school district…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyke, Brooks, D'Antonio
Wildfires change plant communities by reducing dominance of some species while enhancing the abundance of others. Detailed habitat-specific models have been developed to predict plant responses to fire, but these models generally ignore the breadth of fire regime characteristics…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnstone, Chapin, Hollingsworth, Mack, Romanovsky, Turetsky
In the boreal forests of interior Alaska, feedbacks that link forest soils, fire characteristics, and plant traits have supported stable cycles of forest succession for the past 6000 years. This high resilience of forest stands to fire disturbance is supported by two…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gagnon, Passmore, Platt, Myers, Paine, Harms
Pyrogenic plants dominate many fire-prone ecosystems. Their prevalence suggests some advantage to their enhanced flammability, but researchers have had difficulty tying pyrogenicity to individual-level advantages. Based on our review, we propose that enhanced flammability in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cruz, Alexander
Abstract: This document contains the slides for the crown fire portion of the fire behaviour short course presentation, outlined as follows: I. Introduction to Crown Fires; II. Understanding of Crown Fire Behavior From Experimental Fire and Wildfire Observations; III. Crown Fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The foliar moisture content (FMC) of coniferous trees is estimated within the context of the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System on the basis of an empirical method that is limited to the forest regions of Canada and immediately adjacent areas of the United States.…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Hollingsworth, Chapin, Mack
Predicting plant community responses to changing environmental conditions is a key element of forecasting and mitigating the effects of global change. Disturbance can play an important role in these dynamics, by initiating cycles of secondary succession and generating…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Koo, Pagni, Weise, Woycheese
Spotting ignition by lofted firebrands is a significant mechanism of fire spread, as observed in many large-scale fires. The role of firebrands in fire propagation and the important parameters involved in spot fire development are studied. Historical large-scale fires, including…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Renner
The Western Governors' Association's Forest Health Advisory Committee (FHAC) sought answers to questions on how large scale forest treatment collaboratives are doing throughout the West. They were particularly interested in finding out where groups of different stakeholders were…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander, Wakimoto
Reinhardt et al. (E. Reinhardt, J. Scott, K. Gray, and R. Keane, Can. J. For. Res. 36: 2803?2814, 2006) questioned the validity of the regression equations for estimating canopy base heights in coniferous forest fuel types developed by Cruz et al. (M.G. Cruz, M.E. Alexander, and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz
Cruz et al. (2003) developed regression equations for estimating canopy base height (CBH), canopy fuel load (CFL) and canopy bulk density (CBD) for use in assessing crown fire potential in four broad coniferous forest fuel types found in western North America. The Cruz et al. (…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan, Harmon, Birdsey, Giardina, Heath, Houghton, Jackson, McKinley, Morrison, Murray, Pataki, Skog
Forests play an important role in the U.S. and global carbon cycle, and carbon sequestered by U.S. forest growth and harvested wood products currently offsets 12-19% of U.S. fossil fuel emissions. The cycle of forest growth, death, and regeneration and the use of wood removed…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Fettig
This special issue of Forest Science features the national Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS), a niultisite, multivariate research project that evaluates the ecological consequences of prescribed fire and its mechanical surrogates in seasonally dry forests of the United States…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This document summarizes the 2010 AFSC workshop. Topics included the Tanacross Shaded Fuel Break project, the Nenana Ridge Experimental Fuels Treatment project, climate change in Alaska, fire mapping methods using SAR, and potential research needs in Alaska and the method of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuel and fire managers perform fuel treatments to manage and restore ecosystems and protect resources. In order to plan effective fuel treatments that accomplish objectives, managers need to analyze fuel conditions and document the expected fire behavior and fire effects both…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mell
The wildland-urban interface fire dynamics simulator (WFDS) extends the fire dynamics simulator (FDS), which has been developed for structural fires, to account for the presence of terrain and/or vegetation and the spread of fires through vegetation. This extension of FDS is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hosseini, Cocker, Weise, Miller, Shrivastava, Miller, Mahalingam, Princevac, Jung
Particle size distribution from biomass combustion is an important parameter as it affects air quality, climate modelling and health effects. To date, particle size distributions reported from prior studies vary not only due to difference in fuels but also difference in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lavoie, Alexander, Macdonald
Descriptions of fuels and their quantification are used in several aspects of forest management and research. However, collecting site-specific data can be tedious, time-consuming, and expensive. Fuel photo guides, with their pictorial catalogs and accompanying fuel descriptions…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark, Fletcher, Linn
The chemical processes of gas phase combustion in wildland fires are complex and occur at length-scales that are not resolved in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models of landscape-scale wildland fire. A new approach for modelling fire chemistry in HIGRAD/FIRETEC (a landscape…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Linn, Winterkamp, Weise, Edminster
Slope and fuel structure are commonly accepted as major factors affecting the way wildfires behave. However, it is possible that slope affects fire differently depending on the fuel bed. Six FIRETEC simulations using three different fuel beds on flat and upslope topography were…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hood
This report synthesizes the literature and current state of knowledge pertaining to reintroducing fire in stands where it has been excluded for long periods and the impact of these introductory fires on overstory tree injury and mortality. Only forested ecosystems in the United…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES