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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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, Mitchell
Rangeland extent is an important factor for evaluating critical indicators of rangeland sustainability. Rangeland areal extent was determined for the coterminous United States in a geospatial framework by evaluating spatially explicit data from the Landscape Fire and Resource…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zinck, Pascual, Grimm
Ecosystems driven by wildfire regimes are characterized by fire size distributions resembling power laws. Existing models produce power laws, but their predicted exponents are too high and fail to capture the exponent's variation with geographic region. Here we present a minimal…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
White
From the text ... 'For suppression and prescribed fire operations, accurate RH information can be critical.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weir, Limb
From the text ... 'If waste motor oil could be used in drip torches, fire managers may have a new way to dispose of oil, reduce stockpiles of waste petroleum products, and offset some of the fuel costs associated with conducting prescribed burns.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sutton
From the text ... 'While many individuals are involved in wildland firefighting operations, we don't really know much about how the human mind works when on the fireline. Which actions are intentional or conscious, and which actions are automatic or unconscious? How much of what…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pence, Zimmerman
From the text ... 'Federal agency policy requires documentation and analysis of all wildland fire response decisions. In the past, planning and decision documentation for fires were completed using multiple unconnected processes, yielding many limitations. In response,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Holdsambeck
From the text ... 'How managers and supervisors react to an accident can either move the organization toward or away from a learning culture. In this regard, a 'Just Culture' cultivates a learning culture. Traditionally, we have approached accidents the same way as we look at…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Holdsambeck
From the text ... 'A Just Culture asserts that all human factors must be acknowledged and should be open for fair, honest analysis and criticism. If our employees involved in an accident feel that intentional unnecessary risk-taking was acceptable, it may be much more important…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hanks
From the text ... 'Risk management is on center stage as an example of the shift in culture for fire and aviation managers.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coen
From the text ... '... Understanding the interplay of factors -- particularly with the most variable one: weather -- can help explain and anticipate fire phenomena, a necessary part of managing an evolving fire situation. Changing our perspective from seeing just the fire to…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, McKinley
From the text ... 'One of the BAER [Burned Area Emergency Response] team's first tasks is to develop a soil burn severity map that highlights the areas of low, moderate, and high burn severity within a wildfire perimeter.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Apicello
From the text ... 'Fire suppression doctrine recognizes that, where there is increased empowerment, there is also increased responsibility and accountability.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhang
The MOPITT (Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere) CO measurements over a 10-year period (2000-2009) reveal consistently positive trends on the order of 0.13-0.19 x 1016 mol cm-2 per month in CO total column concentrations over the entire globe and the hemispheres. Two…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wells
From the test ... 'In this issue of Fire Science Digest, we explore the career and preparation challenges faced by forest and rangeland fire professionsls, both new and seasoned. As the job description grows moe complex, a well-rounded background in current and emerging areas of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wallenius
Steep decline in forest fires about a century ago occurred in coniferous forests over large areas in North America and Fennoscandia. This poorly understood phenomenon has been explained by different factors in different regions. The objective of this study is to evaluate the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomson, Rose
Introduction: Environmental contaminants are groups of unwanted, ubiquitous chemicals, found in food via weathering of the earth's crust, combustion (natural or anthropogenic), industrial uses or as unwanted bi-products of manufacturing processes. Evidence suggests that the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Calkin
Wildland fire management is subject to manifold sources of uncertainty. Beyond the unpredictability of wildfire behavior, uncertainty stems from inaccurate/missing data, limited resource value measures to guide prioritization across fires and resources at risk, and an incomplete…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Calkin, Finney, Ager, Gilbertson-Day
The spatial, temporal, and social dimensions of wildfire risk are challenging U.S. federal land management agencies to meet societal needs while maintaining the health of the lands they manage. In this paper we present a quantitative, geospatial wildfire risk assessment tool,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Teste, Lieffers, Landhausser
There are concerns that large-scale stand mortality due to mountain pine beetle (MPB) could greatly reduce natural regeneration of serotinous Rocky Mountain (RM) lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia) because the closed cones are held in place without the fire cue for…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Soverel, Coops, Perrakis, Daniels, Gergel
Wildfire is a complex and critical ecological process that is an integral component of western Canadian terrestrial ecosystems. Therefore, Canadian land management agencies such as Parks Canada require detailed burn severity data for the monitoring and managing of both wildland…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Simberloff
It would be an exaggeration to argue that most invasions produce ecosystem impacts, and the term should be reserved for cases in which many species in an ecosystem are affected. However, certain facts suggest that true ecosystem impacts are more common than is normally assumed.…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shenoy, Johnstone, Kasischke, Kielland
There has been a recent increase in the frequency and extent of wildfires in interior Alaska, and this trend is predicted to continue under a warming climate. Although less well documented, corresponding increases in fire severity are expected. Previous research from boreal…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Seidl, Fernandes, Fonseca, Gillet, Jönsson, Merganicova, Netherer, Arpaci, Bontemps, Bugmann, González-Olabarria, Lasch, Meredieu, Moreira, Schelhaas, Mohren
Natural disturbances play a key role in ecosystem dynamics and are important factors for sustainable forest ecosystem management. Quantitative models are frequently employed to tackle the complexities associated with disturbance processes. Here we review the wide variety of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rissman, Butsic
Achieving conservation goals in protected areas hinges on continual monitoring, enforcement, and legal defense. In an era of devolved governance, nonprofit land trusts have become increasingly important. Yet, their approaches to legal defense of conserved areas are relatively…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parsons, Mell, McCauley
Crown fire endangers fire fighters and can have severe ecological consequences. Prediction of fire behavior in tree crowns is essential to informed decisions in fire management. Current methods used in fire management do not address variability in crown fuels. New mechanistic…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS