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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Seamon
The Manual includes information on the organization's standard operating procedures, requirements, and guidelines regarding fire management. It also outlines the necessary steps for developing and maintaining a succesful fire management program. The Manual is a dynamic document…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Torres-Rojo, Magana-Torres, Ramirez-Fuentes
A description is made of a long run forest fire danger index. The index is based on the principle that forest fires follow a self-organized critical behavior, which establishes that under a wide variety of circumstances, forest fires maintain an exponential relationship over…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Theobald, Romme
For at least two decades, expansion of low-density residential development at the wildland-urban interface has been widely recognized as a primary factor influencing the management of US national forests. We estimate the location, extent, and trends in expansion of the wildland-…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Phua, Tsuyuki, Lee, Sasakawa
Remote sensing plays an important role in providing an estimate of burned areas for fire management. However, detecting burned areas in the tropics is a difficult task due to the heterogeneous landscape and rapidly changing land cover. The Klias Peninsula contains the largest…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haszard, Clark
Reasons for apparent declines in populations of white-winged scoters (Melanitta fusca) in the northern boreal forest are not well understood, but some evidence suggests factors associated with the breeding grounds may be responsible. Climate warming or increased forest fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Enache, Cumming
Quantitative analysis of variations in morphological types of charcoal were undertaken in sediment cores from three lakes on the Interior Plateau (BC, Canada) over the period AD 1919-2000. Seven distinct morphological types of charcoal were identified based on particle shape and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cram, Baker, Fernald, Madrid, Rummer
Increasing densities of small diameter trees have changed ecological processes and negatively impacted conservation of soil and water resources in western forests. Thinning treatments are commonplace to reduce stein density and potential fire hazard. We evaluated the impacts of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Austin, Keough, Pyle
Grazing and burning are commonly applied practices that can impact the diversity and biomass of wetland plant communities. We evaluated the vegetative response of wetlands and adjacent upland grasslands to four treatment regimes (continuous idle, fall prescribed burning followed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDonald, Yuan-Farrell, Fievet, Moeller, Kareiva, Foster, Gragson, Kinzig, Kuby, Redman
The fate of private lands is widely seen as key to the fate of biodiversity in much of the world. Organizations that work to protect biodiversity on private lands often hope that conservation actions on one piece of land will leverage the actions of surrounding landowners. Few…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gottfried, Neary, Ffolliott
Many traditional land management activities and supporting research have concentrated on one or two resources, with limited evaluations of interactions among other potential values. An ecosystem approach to land management requires an evaluation of the blend of physical and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lavoie, Pellerin
In this study, we reconstructed the long-term fire history of a set of ombrotrophic peatlands (bogs) located in a temperate region of southern Quebec (Bas-Saint-Laurent). Past and recent fire-free intervals (time interval between two consecutive fires) were compared using…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
An algorithm for wildfire occurrence is introduced for incorporation into a numerical model of drainage basin evolution. Within the model, fire return intervals are determined using a stochastic rule set and fire sizes are assigned according to a pareto distribution. A Weibull…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas
From the text ... 'A new age of forestry is needed in the United States. Recent dramatic declines in forest management have brought some undesirable consequences for forest health and wildlife.... A total preservationist approach to management has become increasingly prevalent.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'Over the past several months, vigorous discussions have surrounded our newly introduced operating philosophy called 'doctrine.' In late January 2006, the Fire Suppression Foundational Doctrine was accepted by the Chief of the Forest Service and introduced to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'These three trends -- WUI, Weather, and Wood -- along with our desire to light more fire, to allow more fire use events, and to suppress fires -- intersect in our profession.'
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Church
From the text ... 'In recent years, fatality fire tragedies such as South Canyon and Thirtymile have served as a catalyst for after-action reviews that emphasize the need for situational awareness. Recently, this led to reevaluating training tools and the 10 Standard…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Annual appropriations to prepare for and respond to wildland fires have increased substantially over the past decade, in recent years totaling about $3 billion. The Forest Service within the Department of Agriculture and four agencies within the Department of the Interior (…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The research and development (R&D) arm of the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with approximately 550 researchers in a range of biological, physical, and social science fields, seeks to better understand and describe the complex mechanisms at work in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Furniss, Clifton, Ronnenberg
This conference was attended by nearly 450 Forest Service earth scientists representing hydrology, soil science, geology, and air. In addition to active members of the earth science professions, many retired scientists also attended and participated. These 60 peer-reviewed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The International Association of Wildland Fire sponsored the second Fire Behavior and Fuels conference in Destin, Florida. The conference theme was 'Fire Environment--Innovations, Management, and Policy.' Over 450 attendees participated in presentations on the latest innovations…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Hardy
Fire scientists in the United States began exploring the relationships of fire-danger and hazard with weather, fuel moisture, and ignition probabilities as early as 1916. Many of the relationships identified then persist today in the form of our National Fire-Danger-Rating…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Garcia, Carignan, Lean
We compared the effects of natural and anthropogenic watershed disturbances on methyl mercury (MeHg) concentration in bulk zooplankton from boreal Shield lakes. MeHg in zooplankton was monitored for three years in nine lakes impacted by deforestation, in nine lakes impacted by…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nelson, Schoenau, Malhi, Gill
Wetland fringe areas in prairie agricultural landscapes may be subjected to burning of vegetation in autumn followed by cultivation in spring. The objective of this study was to examine the greenhouse gas (CO2, N2O and CH4) emissions and plant nutrient (NO3, PO4 and SO4)…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirano, Segah, Harada, Limin, June, Hirata, Osaki
Tropical peatlands, which coexist with swamp forests, have accumulated vast amounts of carbon as soil organic matter. Since the 1970s, however, deforestation and drainage have progressed on an enormous scale. In addition, El Nino and Southern Oscillation (ENSO) drought and large…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Petrone, Hinzman, Shibata, Jones, Boone
Permafrost and fire are important regulators of hydrochemistry and landscape structure in the discontinuous permafrost region of interior Alaska. We examined the influence of permafrost and a prescribed burn on concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), dissolved organic…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS