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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Christensen
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li, Barclay, Hawkes, Taylor
Because mountain pine beetle attack mature pine stands, an understanding of forest age class dynamics is important to managing forests within the distribution of the beetle. The assumed theoretical negative exponential forest age distribution provides an estimate when ecosystem…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kearns
From the text (p. 26) ... 'Wildfire has destroyed forests across the West. Help is needed to restore the life-giving 'natural capital' they provide. ... Wildfires are changing the landscape across the country and often not for the better. A long-standing policy of putting out…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bonn
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Girardin, Tardif
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jakes
In 15 communities across the U.S., the authors found seven keys to community wildland fire preparedness: (1) know your place, (2) draw on local knowledge and skills, (3) build on and build social capital, (4) develop agency and community partnerships, (5) communicate effectively…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li, Barclay
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Power, Codding, Taylor, Swetnam, Magargal, Bird, O'Connell
The primacy of past human activity in triggering change in earth’s ecosystems remains a contested idea. Treating human-environmental dynamics as a dichotomous phenomenon – turning “on” or “off” at some tipping point in the past – misses the broader, longer-term, and varied role…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Malevich, Guiterman, Margolis
We developed a new software package, burnr, for fire history analysis and plotting in the R statistical programming environment. It was developed for tree-ring fire-scar analysis, but is broadly applicable to other event analyses (e.g., avalanches, frost rings, or culturally…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Bradshaw, Freeborn
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wei, Larsen
Boreal forest fire history is typically reconstructed using tree-ring based time since last fire (TSLF) frequency distributions from across the landscape. We employed stochastic landscape fire simulations to assess how large a study area and how many TSLF sample-points are…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schoennagel, Godwin, Miller
The combination of frequent droughts, changing climate conditions, and longer fire seasons along with urban development expansion into wildland areas has resulted in more difficult conditions for managing wildfires. Wildfires are causing more frequent and wider-ranging societal…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Taylor
Guest Lecture for OSU fierylabs.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Fire is special. Even among the ancient elements, fire is different because it alone is a reaction. It synthesizes its surroundings; it takes its character from its context. It varies by place, by culture, and by time. It has no single expression. There is no single way to…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fisher, White, Thoman
Alaska experiences extremely variable and increasingly active wildland fire seasons, with 6.6 million acres burned in 2004 and 5.1 million in 2015 respectively. The majority of acres burn in relatively brief periods of extremely warm and dry weather. Our hypothesis is that there…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Given the nature of the deliverables - books, with copyrights - it isn't possible to reproduce the full texts here. Instead, I am including the tables of contents and prologues for the four regions the grant has touched on - oak woodlands, Pacific Northwest, North east, and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
To complement the narrative of recent fire history by writing short regional surveys under the collective title To the Last Smoke. These surveys will be focused on the Pacific Northwest, oak woodlands, and Alaska.
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hawthorne, Mitchell
In recent years a number of studies have suggested that trends in wildfire can be seen at a regional, national and global scale, and can be explained by interactions with factors such as anthropogenic activity and climate. As future susceptibility to fire is expected to be high…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Koltz, Burkle, Pressler, Dell, Vidal, Richards, Murphy
Climate change is drastically altering global fire regimes, which may affect the structure and function of insect communities. Insect responses to fire are strongly tied to fire history, plant responses, and changes in species interactions. Many insects already possess adaptive…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leys, Marlon, Umbanhower, Vannière
Grasslands are globally extensive; they exist in many different climates, at high and low elevations, on nutrient‐rich and nutrient‐poor soils. Grassland distributions today are closely linked to human activities, herbivores, and fire, but many have been converted to urban areas…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fresco
Climate change data - and future projections of related impacts - are crucial to community planners, land managers, and indeed all the people of Alaska. We depend on the landscape and its resources, and that landscape is changing. But raw data, even if freely shared, is only…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hanan, Tague, Choate, Liu, Kolden, Adam
Disturbances such as wildfire, insect outbreaks, and forest clearing, play an important role in regulating carbon, nitrogen, and hydrologic fluxes in terrestrial watersheds. Evaluating how watersheds respond to disturbance requires understanding mechanisms that interact over…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baker
Historical evidence suggests natural disturbances could allow more forest persistence, than expected from models, over 40 yr of transition to the net‐zero emissions needed to limit warming to <2.0°C (e.g., Paris Agreement). Forests must ultimately equilibrate with committed…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Singletary, Evans
This agreement is made and entered into by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Joint Fire Science Program (BLM), and the University of Nevada Reno for the purpose of Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Regional Consortia.
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES