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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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de Groot, Goldammer, Keenan, Brady, Lynham, Justice, Csiszar, O'Loughlin
Wildland fires burn several hundred million hectares of vegetation every year, and increased fire activity has been reported in many global regions. Many of these fires have had serious negative impacts on human safety, health, regional economies, global climate change, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goulden, Winston, McMillan, Litvak, Read, Rocha, Elliot
We deployed a mesonet of year-round eddy covariance towers in boreal forest stands that last burned in ~1850, ~1930, 1964, 1981, 1989, 1998, and 2003 to understand how CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration change during secondary succession. We used MODIS imagery to establish that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ali, Taylor, Inubushi
CO2 efflux from tropical peat swamp substrates was measured under three different land uses (selectively logged forest, recently burned and cleared forest, and agriculture) in Jambi Province, eastern Sumatra over a six-month period that incorporated parts of both the major wet…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wuerthner
From the Introduction (p.xv) ... 'White this book is about fire policy and fire ecology, it is also a discussion of a much larger philosophical debate over the ultimate role and influence humans should have on natural landscapes.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lentile, Holden, Smith, Falkowski, Hudak, Morgan, Lewis, Gessler, Benson
Space and airborne sensors have been used to map area burned, assess characteristics of active fires, and characterize post-fire ecological effects. Confusion about fire intensity, fire severity, burn severity, and related terms can result in the potential misuse of the inferred…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Manzello, Cleary, Shields, Yang
Firebrands or embers are produced as trees and structures burn in wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. It is believed that firebrand showers created in WUI fires may ignite vegetation and mulch located near homes and structures. This, in turn, may lead to ignition of homes and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Parisien, Peters, Wang, Little, Bosch, Stocks
The present study characterized the spatial patterns of forest fires in 10 fire-dominated ecozones of Canada by using a database of mapped fires ³= 200 ha from 1980 to 1999 (n = 5533 fires). Spatial metrics were used individually to compare measures of fire size, shape (…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arvai, Gregory, Ohlson, Blackwell, Gray
This article presents results from three studies, which seek to develop a better understanding of some of the difficulties faced by forest managers in making wildfire risk management decisions. Study I showed that both the experts and the public tend to emphasize uncontrollable…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boucher, Arseneault, Sirois
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Noss, Beier, Covington, Grumbine, Lindenmayer, Prather, Schmiegelow, Sisk, Vosick
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Taylor, Alexander
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nazzaro, Bixler, Chu, Dent, Frisch, Guinane, Jackson, Johnson, Joy, Lin, Moscovitch, Sinkfield
From What GAO Recommends ... 'GAO recommends that the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior, working with relevant state entities, provide more specific guidance on when to use particular cost-sharing methods and clarify the financial responsibilities for fires that burn…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
From the text ... 'Where the goal is restoration of process and ecosystem health, we need to ask: Are these prescribed fires truly replicating 'natural' fire?'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Muller
From the text ... 'Wildland fire use is used to implement land management objectives identified in the agency's land use plans and supported by its approved fire management plans.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Segar
From the text ... 'While prescribed fire continues to be the U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service's preferred means for managing fuels and fire-adapted habitats -- the agency started using this 'tool' to manage wildlife habitat back in the 1930s -- an…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stewart
From the text ... 'These 'problem fires' are the symptoms of a larger forest health issue in which ecological realities conflict with both social expectations and economic limitations.... Only through dedication and alignment of the full force and capabilities of integrated,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lahm
From the text ... 'This issue of Fire Management Today highlights the expanding science of smoke issues and air quality. From the discussion of Web-based tools that predict how much smoke might come from that fire and where it might go, to the growing array of monitoring…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doolin, Sitar
From the text ... 'Low-power wireless sensor technology can be successfully deployed in wildland fires to collect local environmental conditions such as temperature, relative humidity, and barometric pressure.... Testing the system required collaboration with numerous…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCaffrey
Except in remote areas, most prescribed fires will have some effect on members of the public. It is therefore important for land managers to work with the public before, during, and after a prescribed burn. To do this effectively, managers need to have an accurate idea of what…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McKenzie, O'Neill, Larkin, Norheim
Visibility impairment from regional haze is a significant problem throughout the continental United States. A substantial portion of regional haze is produced by smoke from prescribed and wildland fires. Here we describe the integration of four simulation models, an array of GIS…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ohlson, Berry, Gray, Blackwell, Hawkes
This paper provides an example of the practical application of multi-attribute trade-off analysis (MATA) to wildfire management. The MATA approach supports more informed decision-making because it exposes important trade-offs among competing management objectives (requiring…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Meyn, Feller
Forest fires in British Columbia often leave patches of unburned vegetation (forest remnants) within their perimeters. These remnants help to maintain biological diversity and structural complexity in stands. To be able to maintain patterns similar to those created by fire, we…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nadeau, Englefield
The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) is used daily across Canada for evaluating forest fire danger. Fuel-type information is one of the inputs required by the models used in the CFFDRS. In this project, three fuel-type maps with a 25 m resolution were produced…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Simard, Titman
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Baxter, Hsieh
As part of their project on linear disturbances, the Wildland Fire Operations Research Group of the Forest Engineering Research Institute of Canada (FERIC) have developed a state-of-the art user-oriented computer program for gauging the effectiveness of firebreaks in stopping…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES