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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Foote, Deines
The Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in interior Alaska undertook a prescribed burning program in 1985. Fire is considered a natural part of the boreal ecosystem, necessary to maintain the diversity of the habitat. Usually this is accomplished by using managed wildland fires…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Daily, Mahalingam, Milford, Khunatorn, Clark, Coen, Radke, Sandberg, Riggan
To guide development of coupled atmosphere-fire models, a suite of instruments was assembled to examine the dynamics of wildfires. Visible and Infrared (IR) imaging and UV through near IR spectral observations were made of the Frostfire prescribed burn carried out 8-10 July 1999…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The six standard relative numerical ratings of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System associated with a prescribed fire previously reported on in the literature (Woodard, P.M., Bentz, J.A., Van Nest, T., 1983. Producing a prescribed crown fire in a subalpine forest…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Lanoville
Several fuel treatment demonstration trials or case studies were carried out as part of the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), Northwest Territories: 1) demonstrating the value of fully leafed-out trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) stands as fuelbreaks…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Braathe
The effects of prescribed burning on organic matter, soil nutrients, pH, and spruce and pine establishment, growth and N content were studied. Burning had a beneficial effect on Calluna areas, where a thick raw humus layer occurs, but was not generally beneficial on Myrtillus…
Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Botelho, Rego, Ryan
The use of prescribed burning as a tool for forest fire prevention is becoming a more common practice in Pinus pinaster plantations of Northern Portugal. Prescribed fire is used to reduce the understory vegetation with the goal of reducing fuel hazard and the potential for stand…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baker, Hao, Dingley
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baker, Hao
Although the boreal forest in Siberia, Russia contains approximately one-fourth of the world's terrestrial biomass, emissions data from biomass burning in Siberia is scarce. Five experimental fires of varying intensity were conducted in Central Siberia in 2000 and 2001. The…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bevins
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is based on a collection of models that describe fire behavior, fire effects, and the fire environment. BehavePlus is the successor to the BEHAVE fire behavior prediction and fuel modeling system (Andrews 1986, Andrews and Chase 1989, Andrews…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Andrews
A computer program, called DYNAMICS, was developed to illustrate changes in a forest type adapted to short-interval fire. Managementoptions include natural fire occurrence, fire exclusion, and a silviculture-fire management approach. During a 500-year simulation, fireoccurrence…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ferguson
With the increasing use of prescribed fire, predicting the potential impacts are becoming more and more important. Of great concern are the effects of smoke on human health and visibility. To help land managers anticipate and plan for potential trajectories and dispersion of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Achtemeier
Forest and agricultural burning release chemical compounds and particulate matter into the atmosphere. Although most of this material contributes to visibility reductions through haze and provides chemical constituents available for reactions with other atmospheric pollutants,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rundel
The subject of fire as an ecological factor is an exceedingly broad and complex one. The literature on fire in nature currently numbers hundreds of papers annually and seems to be growing at an exponential rate. It is certainly impossible to compress even a small amount of the…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Peterson, Leenhouts, Core
Description not entered.
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The National Wildfire Coordinating Group's (NWCG) Fire Use Working Team has assumed overall responsibility for sponsoring the development and production of this revised Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed and Wildland Fire (the 'Guide'). The Mission Statement for the Fire Use…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Reinhardt
Wildland firefighting presents many hazards to fireline workers, including inhalation exposure to smoke (Sharkey 1998; Reinhardt and Ottmar 1997; Sharkey 1997). Many experienced fireline personnel consider this to be only an inconvenience, occasionally causing acute cases of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lyon, Huff, Telfer, Schreiner, Smith
The literature describing animals’ behavioral responses to fire, discussed in chapter 3, is limited. Furthermore, short-term responses do not provide insights about the vigor or sustainability of the species in an area. Studies of animal populations and communities are more…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke, O'Neill, French, Bourgeau-Chavez
As discussed in the introduction to this section, fire serves an important ecological role in the boreal forest, especially in those processes controlling the exchange of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases with the atmosphere. One of the key requirements for quantifying…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Leuschen, Wade, Seamon
The success of a fire use program is in large part dependent on a solid foundation set in clear and concise planning. The planning process results in specific goals and measurable objectives for fire application, provides a means of setting priorities, and establishes a…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Heinselman
In the primeval wilderness - where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man - periodic forest, grassland, and tundra fires are part of the natural environment - as natural and vital as rain, snow, or wind In Minnesota, for example - fire has clearly been…
Year: 1978
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Hermann, Mutch
In this section we outline both ecological and societal aspects of wildland and prescribed fire. We review the historical role and extent of fire and the effects of settlement and land use changes. The influence of fire exclusion policies on historical disturbance processes is…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
This chapter presents a broader, more fundamental view of the ecological principles and shifting fire regimes described in the previous chapters that have important implications for ecosystem management. Also included are strategies and approaches for managing fire in an…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Tinkham, Smith, Higuera, Hatten, Brewer, Doerr
Soil organic matter plays a key role in the global carbon cycle, representing three to four times the total carbon stored in plant or atmospheric pools. Although fires convert a portion of the faster cycling organic matter to slower cycling black carbon (BC), abiotic and biotic…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Santin, Doerr, Preston, Gonzalez-Rodriguez
Wildfires release substantial quantities of carbon (C) into the atmosphere but they also convert part of the burnt biomass into pyrogenic organic matter (PyOM). This is richer in C and, overall, more resistant to environmental degradation than the original biomass, and,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar
Fuel consumption specifies the amount of vegetative biomass consumed during wildland fire. It is a two-stage process of pyrolysis and combustion that occurs simultaneously and at different rates depending on the characteristics and condition of the fuel, weather, topography, and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS