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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Siegel
From the text ... 'Under the statute [Budget Control Act which Congress passed in 2011], when unpredictable events such as Hurricane Sandy are destructive enough to be declared disasters by the president, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is authorized to exceed its annual…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barnett
From the text ... 'Forest Service manuals and handbooks are full of binding standards intended to protect and guide employees. Training, tools, and information bolster safe operational objectives. Everyone from the Chief of the Forest service to forest resource experts provide…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The Wildfire Act is supported by the Fire Suppression Funding Solutions Partner Caucus and has been deemed especially critical in the face of global climate change. The Forest Service states that as a result of a changing climate, forest conditions are more…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rideout, Ziesler, Kernohan
Assessing the value of fire planning alternatives is challenging because fire affects a wide array of ecosystem, market, and social values. Wildland fire management is increasingly used to address forest restoration while pragmatic approaches to assessing the value of fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kreye, Adams, Escobedo
Forests protect water quality by reducing soil erosion, sedimentation, and pollution; yet there is little information about the economic value of conserving forests for water quality protection in much of the United States. To assess this value, we conducted a meta-analysis of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christensen
Eugene Odum's 1969 paper, The Strategy of Ecosystem Development, marks a watershed moment in approaches to the study of succession, ecosystem change caused by discrete disturbances. He argued that succession is unique from other kinds of change with regard to mechanisms (…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Dillon, Drury, Innes, Morgan, Lutes, Prichard, Smith, Strand
From the introduction ... 'Announcing the release of new software packages for application in wildland fire science and management, two fields that are already fully saturated with computer technology, may seem a bit too much to many managers. However, there have been some…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goeken
From the text ... 'Destruction of forest property by federal firefighters could entitle owner to just compensation.' Published by Forest Landowners Association. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2014 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peppin, Mottek-Lucas, Fulé
Recent reviews have brought into question the effectiveness of post-fire seeding in mitigating soil erosion and non-native plant invasions, yet millions of dollars continue to be spent annually on post-fire seeding as a primary post-fire rehabilitation response. Overall policy…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Engel
Wildfire is on the rise. The United States is witnessing a spectacular increase in acres lost to catastrophic wildfires, a phenomenon fed by the generally hotter and dryer conditions associated with climate change. In addition to losses in lives, property, and natural resources…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pinno, Landhausser, Chow, Quideau, MacKenzie
Forest land reclamation after oil sands mining requires the re-establishment of self-sustaining boreal forest ecosystems consisting of native forest plant species. This greenhouse study examined germination, growth, and nutrient uptake of fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium (L.)…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sample, Halofsky, Peterson
Recent policy changes in the USA direct agencies managing federal forests to analyze the potential effects of climate change on forest productivity, water resource protection, wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and other values. This paper describes methods developed to (1) assess…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carroll, Paveglio, Ellison, Abrams, Moseley
The wildfire dilemma in the United States (and particularly in the U.S. West) has been well documented and its broad parameters are well understood. A very small fraction of wildfire igniting in wildland settings each year turn into major conflagrations that burn homes and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roy, Hudson, Visser, Johnson
Grasslands have been lost and degraded in the United States since Euro-American settlement due to agriculture, development, introduced invasive species, and changes in fire regimes. Fire is frequently used in prairie restoration to control invasion by trees and shrubs, but may…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The Fourth Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference was held in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, February 18-22, 2013. The theme for this conference was At The Crossroads: Looking Toward the Future in a Changing Environment. Joint sponsorship of the conference was by the International…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced action to help 94 national forest areas in 35 states to address insect and disease threats that weaken forests and increase the risk of forest fire. These areas are receiving an official designation that will provide the Forest…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olsen, Spies, Shindler
This report is a deliverable to share the impact of travel funding awarded by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in support of a workshop focused on fire-prone coupled human and natural systems (CHANS). From August 4th-7th 2014, twenty-six scientists convened in Bend, Oregon…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In the past two decades, a rapid escalation of extreme wildfire behavior, accompanied by significant increases in risk to responders and citizens, home and property losses, costs, and threats to communities and landscapes have been observed. In the Federal Land Assistance,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kirkey
In some regions of the West, quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) has been declining after more than a century of changing human land-use patterns associated with urbanization, fire suppression, predator extirpation, and agriculture. More recently, episodes of large-scale decline…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Interagency Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation Procedures Guide (PMS 484) provides standardized procedures specifically associated with planning and implementation of prescribed fire. These procedures meet all policy requirements described in the 2009 Guidance for…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Bowman, Bond, Pyne, Alexander
[From description] Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of life's history. Few processes are as…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring Program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Caon, Vallejo, Ritsema, Geissen
High-intensity and fast-spreading wildfires are natural in the Mediterranean basin. However, since 1960, wildfire occurrence has increased because of changes in land use, which resulted in extensive land abandonment, increases in the fuel load and continuity in the landscape.…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Archer, Predick
The vegetation of semi-arid and arid landscapes is often comprised of mixtures of herbaceous and woody vegetation. Since the early 1900s, shifts from herbaceous to woody plant dominance, termed woody plant encroachment and widely regarded as a state change, have occurred world-…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES