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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Reeves, Ryan, Rollins, Thompson
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) Project is mapping wildland fuels, vegetation, and fire regime characteristics across the United States. The LANDFIRE project is unique because of its national scope, creating an integrated product suite at 30-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunnell
The decision process involved in developing any plan to manage a prescribed natural fire must consider several divergent resource and management goals. In many cases, these fires may be projected to be, and eventually become, large and long-duration events. The exact final fire…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robbins, Eckelmann, Quiñones
This paper presents a summary of the forest fire reports in the insular Caribbean derived from both management reports and an analysis of publicly available Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrodiometer (MODIS) satellite active fire products from the region. A vast difference…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kardynal, Hobson, Van Wilgenburg, Morissette
Forest harvesting strategies that approximate natural disturbances have been proposed as a means of maintaining natural species' diversity and richness in the boreal forests of North America. Natural disturbances impact shoreline forests and upland areas at similar rates.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Bernier, Bergeron, Paré, Guérine
In many northern forest ecosystems, soil organic matter accumulation can lead to paludification and forest productivity losses. Paludification rate is primarily influenced by topography and time elapsed since fire, two factors whose influence is often confounded and whose…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhang, Kondragunta, Schmidt, Kogan
Biomass burning is a major source of aerosols that affect air quality and the Earth's radiation budget. Current estimates of biomass burning emissions vary markedly due to uncertainties in biomass density, combustion efficiency, emission factor, and burned area. This study…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Henderson, Burkholder, Jackson, Brauer, Ichoku
Plume dispersion models may improve assessment of the health effects associated with forest fire smoke, but they require considerable expertise in atmospheric and fire sciences to initialize and evaluate. Products from MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer)…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gao, Xiong, Li, Wang
The 3.75-µm and 11-µm channels on the polar orbiting NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensors have saturation temperatures of approximately 325 K. They allowed limited successes in estimating the sub-pixel fire temperature and fractional area coverage. The…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sankey, Moffet, Weber
Much interest lies in long-term recovery rates of sagebrush communities after fire in the western United States, as sagebrush communities comprise millions of hectares of rangelands and are an important wildlife habitat. Little is known about postfire changes in sagebrush canopy…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Faircloth, Reid, Valentine, Eo, Terhune, Glenn, Palmer, Nairn, Carroll
We describe primers and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) conditions to amplify four dinucleotide, one trinucleotide, and three tetranucleotide microsatellite DNA loci from the bobcat (Lynx rufus). The primers were tested on 22 individuals collected from a population located…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klenk, Bull, Cohen
The emulation of natural disturbance (END) is said to be the most promising avenue for implementing sustainable forest management; however, there appears to be no consensus as to the meaning of the END. We have interviewed forest scientists across Canada and, with the use of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hall, Freeburn, de Groot, Pritchard, Lynham, Landry
The severity of a burn for post-fire ecological effects has been assessed with the composite burn index (CBI) and the differenced Normalized Burn Ratio (dNBR). This study assessed the relationship between these two variables across recently burned areas located in the western…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferber
From the text ... 'LANDFIRE can give more precise predictions than previous fire-behavior models did, allowing land managers to let beneficial fires burn, Shlisky says.The database has been tested in the northern Rockies and in central Utah; now it will expand nationwide. As…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knick, Dobkin, Rotenberry, Schroeder, Vander Haegen, Van Riper
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Menakis, Cohen, Bradshaw
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Earles, Wright, Brown, Langan
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Macdonald, Burgess, Scrimgeour, Boutin, Reedyk, Kotak
Riparian communities (those near open water) have often been shown to display high structural and compositional diversity and they have been identified as potentially serving a keystone role in the landscape. Thus, they are the focus of specific management guidelines that…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Joly, Dale, Collins, Adams
The role of wildland fire in the winter habitat use of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) has long been debated. Fire has been viewed as detrimental to caribou because it destroys the slow-growing climax forage lichens that caribou utilize in winter. Other researchers argued that…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferguson, Elkie
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller, Luce, Benda
Storm-driven episodes of gully erosion and landsliding produce large influxes of sediment to stream channels that have both immediate, often detrimental, impacts on aquatic communities and long-term consequences that are essential in the creation and maintenance of certain…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flores-Garnica, Omi
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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: TTRS
Hall, Brown
There are several monthly precipitation and drought indices and variants available in the U.S. such as the Palmer Drought Severity Index and the Standardized Precipitation Index. Each one has been designed for specific drought related questions, and most of them are utilized in…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews
Drought and fire danger rating indexes were evaluated in terms of their relationship to fire activity. The analysis was done for 15 locations throughout the U.S. Indexes include U.S. National Fire Danger Rating Energy Release Component for fuel model G (ERCg), 1000-h moisture,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS