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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Luo, Neilson, Tian, Vorosmarty, Zhu, Liu
We have constructed a phenological model of leaf area index (LAI) of forests based on biological principles of leaf growth. Field data of maximum LAI from 794 plots with mature or nearly mature stand ages over China were used to parameterize and calibrate the model. New…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gedalof, Mantua, Peterson
Annual growth increments from trees and coral heads provide an opportunity to develop proxy records of climatic variability that extend back in time well beyond the earliest instrumental records, and in regions where records have not been kept. Here we combine five published…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Little, Calfee
Major Results: 1) The presence of YPS (sodium ferrocyanide) increased the toxicity of fire retardants. 2) Ultraviolet radiation increased the toxicity of fire retardants containing YPS. 3) Toxic cyanide concentrations were observed during stream tests. 4) Toxicity of fire…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zalatan
Description not entered.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout, Botti
A new fire management paradigm reflects broadening goals, increased responsibilities, the need for interagency systems, and heightened performance accountability. Current program analysis models developed in a previous era can no longer support the expanded responsibilities and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The site your home is on is critical to its fire safety. Nine tips help homeowners ensure that their home is situated and maintained in a way that protects it from the risk of wildfire.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee
The hard lesson that we should take away from the last decade of fire management in drier forests is that a choice to do nothing is a choice of action, not always with a desirable outcome.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Brown
Measuring hillslope erosion has historically been a costly, time-consuming practice. An easy to install low-cost technique using silt fences (geotextile fabric) and tipping bucket rain gauges to measure onsite hillslope erosion was developed and tested. Equipment requirements,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Forthofer
How close is too close when fighting a forest fire? Wind, temperature and "real" heat energy are all factors that should be considered when determining the safety zone.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
Landscapes are strongly shaped by the degree of interaction between pattern and process. This paper examines how ecological memory, the degree to which an ecological process is shaped by its past modifications of a landscape, influences landscape dynamics. I use a simulation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Machlis, Kaplan, Tuler, Bagby, McKendry
A report to NWCG based on a review of existing social science literature, an analysis of social science needs, and a needs assessment based on input from 11 workshops held around the country. The report offers a research agenda that describes what research is needed, why it is…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Spalt, Reifsnyder
It has long been obvious to foresters that trees of different ages, and of different species but the same age, respond differently to the heat of a forest fire. Ability of plants to survive a given degree of exposure to fire depends on such factors as location of heat -sensitive…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Albini, Bevins, Brittain, Butler, Catchpole, Finney
PROJECT OBJECTIVES As requested under Tasks 8 and 9, user-friendly modeling systems designed for local use will be provided for modeling smoke from wildland fires. These tools will provide a means for conducting tradeoff analyses, with a focus on emissions production, of…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Russell, Arbaugh, Kimberlin, Omi, Ottmar, Rideout, Snell, Wiitala
The project objectives are as follows: Phase I Model Development 1. Prepare a prototype FETM Version 4.0, incorporating any required revisions to the wildfire size and fire distribution algorithms. The prototype model would be used in the field test of candidate vegetation…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Burgan, Ohlen, Saveland
To provide 'first draft' basic spatial data layers, descriptive statistics, and documentation of the components listed above to enable specific risk analyses by subject matter experts, in National fuels treatment program planning, and for RPA direction.
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rideout
This project will culminate in a user-friendly value at risk (VAR) decision support system (DSS) for fire managers and planners. By assimilating and analyzing the available literature on fire effects as they relate to VARs, such information will be catalogued into a relational…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brown
GOALS: Deepen the scope of the Symposium as it addresses the relation of weather and climate to the four principle purposes of the Joint Fire Science Plan: a) fuels inventory and mapping, b) evaluation of fuels treatments, c) scheduling fuels treatments, and d) monitoring and…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hall, Hull, Johnson, McKinney, Scott
In response to the 2002 fire season's fatal aircraft accidents, the USDA Forest Service and USDI Bureau of Land Management (BLM) jointly established an independent, five-member Blue Ribbon Commission (the panel - Appendix A) to identify essential information for planning a safe…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Campbell
Description not entered.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yoshikawa, Bolton, Romanovsky, Fukuda, Hinzman
The impact to the permafrost during and after wildfire was studied using 11 boreal forest fire sites including two controlled burns. Heat transfer by conduction to the permafrost was not significant during fire. Immediately following fire, ground thermal conductivity may…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winter, Vogt, Fried
Forest fuels reduction has the best chance of success if managers understand the factors that influence public acceptance of fuel management. This article reports an analysis of focus group interviews with wildland-urban interface residents at sites selected to provide variation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vedrova, Shugalei, Stakanov
We evaluated the balance of production and decomposition in natural ecosystems of Pinus sylvestris, Larix sibirica and Betula pendula in the southern boreal forests of central Siberia, using the Yenisei transect. We also investigated whether anthropogenic disturbances (logging,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wikars
Several boreal wood-living insect species breed exclusively in recently burned forest. However, the reason for this dependence on fire is largely unknown. Here wood-living insects and other arthropods were sampled from burned and unburned logs of birch (Betula pendula) and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stone, Dutton, Harris, Longenecker
Predictions of global circulation models (GCMs) that account for increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases and aerosols in the atmosphere show that warming in the Arctic will be amplified in response to the melting of sea ice and snow cover. There is now conclusive evidence…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES