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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Page-Dumroese, Coleman, Thomas
Biochar may be useful for restoring or revitalizing degraded forest soils and help with carbon sequestration, nutrient leaching losses, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, biochar is not currently widely used on forested lands across North America. This chapter…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Freeman, Kobziar, Rose, Cropper
Prescribed fire is widely accepted as a conservation tool because fire is essential to the maintenance of native biodiversity in many terrestrial communities. Approaches to this land-management technique vary greatly among continents, and sharing knowledge internationally can…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ebel, Martin
Hydrologic recovery after wildfire is critical for restoring the ecosystem services of protecting of human lives and infrastructure from hazards and delivering water supply of sufficient quality and quantity. Recovery of soil-hydraulic properties, such as field-saturated…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dove, Hart
Soil fungal communities perform many functions that help plants meet their nutritional demands. However, overall trends for fungal response to fire, which can be especially critical in a post-fire context, have been difficult to elucidate. We used meta-analytical techniques to…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Allaby, Juday, Young
Post-harvest regeneration failure of white spruce (Picea glauca Moench [Voss]), has led to concerns of 'de-coniferization' on productive site in the Alaskan boreal forest. Forest management in the region sought historically to increase spruce composition after harvest through…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Urgenson, Ryan, Halpern, Bakker, Belote, Franklin, Haugo, Nelson, Waltz
Collaborative approaches to natural resource management are becoming increasingly common on public lands. Negotiating a shared vision for desired conditions is a fundamental task of collaboration and serves as a foundation for developing management objectives and monitoring…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paci, Gelfand, Beamonte, Rodrígues, Pérez-Cabello
Recently, there has been increased interest in the behavior of wildfires. Behavior includes explaining: incidence of wildfires; recurrence times for wildfires; sizes, scars, and directions of wildfires; and recovery of burned regions after a wildfire. We study this last problem…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Loehman, Saperstein, Miller, Hrobak, Loboda, Veraverbeke, Hoy
From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Andison, Marshall
British Columbia, along with most of the rest of North America, is becoming preoccupied with emulating natural landscape patterns under the auspices of ecosystem management. With their Biodiversity Guidebook, BC developed one of the first collections of rules for landscape…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Knight
From the text...”Summary: Limber pine and ponderosa pine typically occur on escarpments and in the foothills of mountain ranges, environments that are cooler and more mesic than the adjacent grasslands and shrublands below and warmer and drier than the forests above. The…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heikens
From the text ...'Summary: It appears that Ozark savannas, barrens, and glades have undergone substantial degradation since settlement due to fire suppression, overgrazing, agricultural practices, and logging. The once widespread and picturesque oak openings currently are…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wisdom, Wales, Holthausen, Hargis, Saab, Hann, Rich, Lee, Rowland
From the text...Summary: 'Haibtats for the majority of early and late-seral dependent species of wildlife have declined strongly from historical to current periods across large areas of th Interior Columbia Basin (Wisdom et al. in press). Strongest declines were for species…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guldin, Loewenstein
From the Key Findings (No. 7)...'The use of prescribed burning as a tool for managing intermediate stands has increased nearly four-fold over the past 5 years and exceeded 100,000 ac in 1997 (due primarily to actions on the Ouachita National Forest). The Ouachita National Forest…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guldin, Thompson, Richards, Harper
From the text...'This chapter provides information about the vegetation cover of the Assessment area. The types and areal extent of vegetation in the Highlands are of interest for many reasons. Vegetation cover largely determines the availability of habitat for terrestrial…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rodríguez-Trejo
From the text...'The worst fire season in Mexican history was in 1998. Drought conditions precipitated by a strong El Niño led to unusual fire activity, including crown fires, fire whirls, and rapid spread rates. A total of 14,302 fires burned 2,099,412 acres (849,632 ha) - 3.6…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davies, Unam
Atmospheric composition, local climate and sapling gas exchange were monitored to assess the short-term effects of smoke-haze from the 1997 Indonesian forest fires. Atmospheric concentrations of particulate matter, SO2, CO, CH4 and CO2, and relative humidity were elevated, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gobster
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Revegetation with native species: proceedings, 1997 Society of Ecological Restoration annual meeting
The seven papers in this proceedings address the current state of knowledge and application of ecological restoration in the Western United States. They provide an overview of: rangeland revegetation lessons as they apply to ecological restoration today; USDI National Park…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rapai, McColl, McMullin
The development of habitat restoration techniques for restoring critical woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) winter habitat will play an important role in meeting the management thresholds in woodland caribou recovery plans. The goal is to restore disturbed environments…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout
Doug Rideout discusses STARfire - a spatial planning and budgeting system integrating fuels, preparedness, and risk assessment guided by ROI. Scaleable from planning unit to regional to national levels.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Donnelly, Boyd, Lund, Holt, Siok
A key goal of both hazard mitigation and recovery is increasing resilience. Although these two activities differ in many respects, this shared objective of increased resilience allows mitigation and recovery planning to reinforce one another and leverage greater benefits within…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
The Western Governors’ Association hosted the webinar, Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges on Dec. 19, 2017 as part of the series for the National Forest and Rangeland Management Initiative. Prescribed fire is a tool for land managers to address wildfire…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
West, Legarza, Jolly, Emanuel, Knight
Join us in a discussion on how climatic changes can influence wildland fire activity across the globe and how these critical fire weather variables have changed over the last 40 years. These changes in key weather variables have combined to both lengthen the fire season and…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnett
This webinar highlights results from a study on the effects of fuel treatments and previously burned areas on subsequent fire management costs. Presenter Kevin Barnett and his colleagues, Helen Naughton, Sean Parks, and Carol Miller, built models explaining variation in daily…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES