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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Andrews, Heinsch, Schelvan
A fire characteristics chart is a graph that presents primary related fire behavior characteristics-rate of spread, flame length, fireline intensity, and heat per unit area. It helps communicate and interpret modeled or observed fire behavior. The Fire Characteristics Chart…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Macias Fauria, Michaletz, Johnson
Accurate process-based prediction of climate change effects on wildfires requires coupling processes across orders of magnitude of time and space scales, because climate dynamic processes operate at relatively large scales (e.g., hemispherical and centennial), but fire behavior…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Olson, Duffy
Interest in the emergence of graminoid vegetation as a dominant ecosystem type across Alaska has recently increased. This is due to both analysis of remotely sensed vegetation products and anecdotal observations from field work. This work serves as a component of a larger effort…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks, Alexander, Wotton, Stefner, Flannigan, Taylor, Lavoie, Mason, Hartley, Maffey, Dalrymple, Blake, Cruz, Lanoville
Four of the vertical fuel profiles presented in Fig. 3a on page 1552 of this paper were inadvertently mislabelled (i.e., Plot 5 is Plot 8, Plot 6 is Plot 5, Plot 7 is Plot 6, and Plot 8 is Plot 7). Thus, Fig. 3a and its associated caption should have appeared as below. The…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cobb, Morissette, Jacobs, Koivula, Spence, Langor
In Canada and the United States pressure to recoup financial costs of wildfire by harvesting burned timber is increasing, despite insufficient understanding of the ecological consequences of postfire salvage logging. We compared the species richness and composition of deadwood-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ager, Vaillant, Finney
Wildland fire risk assessment and fuel management planning on federal lands in the US are complex problems that require state-of-the-art fire behavior modeling and intensive geospatial analyses. Fuel management is a particularly complicated process where the benefits and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
USGS research botanist Matt Brooks and National Wildlife Refuges invasive species coordinator Michael Lusk have compiled a handbook titled Fire Management and Invasive Plants, with support from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Refuge System, USGS and the Joint Fire…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dover, Dahale, Shotorban, Mahalingam, Weise
Since wildland fires occur in living vegetation, the fuel moisture content must be considered in order to correctly predict the behavior of the fire. One facet of combustion of pyrolysis gases that has not been considered in previous research is the effect of moisture on the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Smith, Hardy
On September 12, 1960, the brand new Northern Forest Fire Laboratory was dedicated in Missoula, MT. The fire lab's mission was-and is-to improve scientific understanding of wildland fire so it can be managed more safely and effectively in the field. The first scientists to work…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander
The third installment in the International Association of Wildland Fire's (IAWF) Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference series was held in Spokane, WA, October 25-29, 2010, and commemorated the 100th anniversary of the 1910 fires in the Northern Rocky Mountains. The theme of the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Foss
The Veterans Fire Corps is a collaborative initiative of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), Veterans Green Jobs, and various conservation corps that engage recent-era veterans on priority hazardous fuels projects. The program…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brackley, Parrent
Description: An extensive literature review failed to locate any information relative to the pelleting characteristics of hemlock species-western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.) and mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) Carr. )-that grow in Alaska. To determine…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fundamentally different from the rest of the forest types in the United States, Alaska's boreal forest covers a significant amount of acreage in an increasingly variable climate. With its high latitude location, predictions reveal that this region will be the first to experience…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This chapter gives users the information needed to enter and manipulate station information, Special Interest Group (SIGs), and Access Control Lists (ACLs). User menu options and functions depend on account type and access level. Tasks described in this chapter are not available…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin, Smail, Napoli, Bastian, Fay
Participants at the workshop represented experts from state, local and federal agencies, tribal organizations, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and private contractors with knowledge of vegetation types and their relationships to fuels and fire behavior. Attendees provided…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holden, Jolly
Fire danger rating systems commonly ignore fine scale, topographically-induced weather variations. These variations will likely create heterogeneous, landscape-scale fire danger conditions that have never been examined in detail. We modeled the evolution of fuel moistures and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reich, Frelich, Voldseth, Bakken, Adair
Understanding the relationship between species diversity and productivity is central to linking compositional and functional aspects of terrestrial ecosystems, and little is known about such issues in boreal forests. We used structural equation modelling (SEM) to test several…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Raaflaub, Valeo, Johnson
Investigations were made on the influence of slope on the spatial variations in duff moisture, the decomposing organic matter of the forest floor. Relationships between duff and soil moisture along hillslopes were identified from field measurements over various moisture…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lafleur, Paré, Fenton, Bergeron
Context: Following forest harvest, mechanical site preparation (MSP) is commonly used to regenerate harvested sites. In boreal forested peatlands, however, the effectiveness of MSP to regenerate harvested sites is likely to be hampered by thick organic layers. Aim: We sought to…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kitzberger, Aráoz, Gowda, Mermoz, Morales
The generalization that plant communities increase in flammability as they age and invariably lead to resilient self-organized landscape mosaics is being increasingly challenged. Plant communities often exhibit rapidly saturating or even hump-shaped age-flammability trajectories…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Beck, Goetz
To assess ongoing changes in high latitude vegetation productivity we compared spatiotemporal patterns in remotely sensed vegetation productivity in the tundra and boreal zones of North America and Eurasia. We compared the long-term GIMMS (Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Ottmar, Butler
Concerns about wildland fuel levels and a growing wildland-urban interface (WUI) have pushed wildland fire risk mitigation strategies to the forefront of fire management activities. Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinning) fuel treatments have become the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hilbruner, Peterson
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werth, Potter, Clements, Finney, Goodrick, Alexander, Cruz, Forthofer, McAllister
The National Wildfire Coordinating Group definition of extreme fire behavior (EFB) indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Knapp, Varner, Busse, Skinner, Shestak
Mechanical mastication converts shrub and small tree fuels into surface fuels, and this method is being widely used as a treatment to reduce fire hazard. The compactness of these fuelbeds is thought to moderate fire behaviour, but whether standard fuel models can accurately…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS