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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Racine, Patterson, Dennis
Description not entered.
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quirk, Sykes
In a south-facing subbasin of Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, several mature white spruce stringers, apparent relics of extensive stands that have escaped fires, were studied. Tree-ring investigations show that the mature spruce stringers have remained…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pu, Gong, Fraser, Csiszar, Hao
Fires in boreal and temperate forests play a significant role in the global carbon cycle. While forest fires in North America (NA) have been surveyed most extensively by US and Canadian forest services, most fire records are limited seasonal statistics without information on…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon, Butry
Wildland arson makes up the majority of fire starts in some parts of the United States and is the second leading cause of fires on Eastern United States Federal forests. Individual arson fires can cause damages to resources and communities totaling over a hundred million dollars…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Preisler, Grulke, Bytnerowicz
Description not entered.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prasil
Description not entered.
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pouliot
Description not entered.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Winkler, Wilhelm, Shadbolt
The Haines Index is a frequently used tool in wildfire weather forecasting and monitoring. Introduced in 1988 as the 'Lower Atmospheric Severity Index,' this index is a function of temperature and dewpoint in the lower troposphere, and has three different versions (referred to…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Goodrick, Brown
Fire managers and forecasters must have tools, such as fire indices, to summarize large amounts of complex information. These tools allow them to identify and plan for periods of elevated risk and/or wildfire potential. This need was once met using simple measures like relative…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Potter
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
Recent discussions of the Haines Index have suggested that the relationship between the mixed layer and the layer used to calculate the Haines Index is important. The relationship influences how the Index layer interacts with the surface in terms of dynamics, and it has been…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pegau
Trend of the Nelchina caribou range was determined from vegetation examinations of 36 ten and fifteen year old exclosures. Condition of climax lichen stands, primarily Cladonia alpestris, began to degenerate with two to three years of use and has declined substantially in the…
Year: 1975
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Payette
The long term fire history at the treeline in Northern Quebec can be evaluated by ecological surveys of the major ecosystems. Available data suggest that fires are presently climate-controlled, and therefore may be used as paleoclimatic indicators. During a cold climatic…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Parsons
Efforts to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of fuels treatments are hampered by inconsistencies between the spatial scale at which fuel treatments are implemented and the spatial scale, and detail, with which we model fire and fuel interactions. Central to this scale…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Landres, Miller
The management of natural fire and fuels in wilderness areas of the United States presents a significant dilemma to federal land managers.Wilderness fire management requires balancing mandates to both preserve natural conditions and minimize the impacts of human activities.It…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons
The restoration of fire to its natural role in wilderness has proven to be a significant challenge to the United States Federal wilderness management agencies. Although both natural (lightning) ignitions and management-ignited fires have been generally accepted as appropriate…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons
Despite clear legislative and policy direction to preserve natural conditions in wilderness, the maintenance of fire as a natural process has proven to be a significant challenge to federal land managers. As of 1998, only 88 of the 596 designated wilderness areas in the United…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Park, Lee, Hong, Moon
A series of forest fires in Kangwon Province in April 2000, was one of the most serious ones in Korea in recent years. A set of multi-temporal RADARSAT data was used to identify the burned area from the undamaged background forest. First, the backscattering coefficient (âa0) of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parisien, Kafka, Todd, Hirsch, Lavoie
The aim of this study is to examine the spatial relationship between large recent burns and their effect on landscape flammability, as expressed by burn probability (BP), in the western boreal forest of Canada. The BP provides an estimate of the present likelihood that a given…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi, Smart, Worum, Haggstrom
From introduction: 'In the mosaic of stand types and stand ages in boreal forest, conifer food webs are often characterized by invertebrates and their avian predators, whereas young deciduous or broadleaf forest is more generally the forage base for mammalian food webs (Pastor…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Sandberg, Prichard, Riccardi
The ongoing development of sophisticated fire behavior, fire effects, and carbon balance models and the implementation of large landscape assessments has demonstrated the need for a comprehensive system of fuelbed classification that more accurately captures the structural…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Sandberg
Research to quantify fuel consumption in boreal forest types is critical for effective modeling of fire effects. There is considerable amount of forest floor consumption research completed in the contiguous United States; however, the unique lichen, moss, and duff forest floor…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Wright
Small-log utilization or thinning operations followed by a fuel treatment such as prescribed fire can be used to change the composition and structure of fuelbeds, thereby mitigating deleterious fire effects and reducing the potential for catastrophic wildfires in some forested…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oswald, Senyk, Brown
Vegetation analysis, classification, and mapping are being conducted in Yukon Territory for the primary objectives of determining productivity of forests, to elucidate successional sequences, to provide data for wildlife habitat evaluations, and to provide baseline data for…
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES