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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Smith
A pair of three-day workshops were held in 2008 and 2009, designed for fire managers responsible for communicating and negotiating with state and local air quality regulators. The workshops were organized by the NWCG Smoke Committee, coordinated by the University of Idaho, and…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Hrobak, Barnes
Fire effects monitoring officers report of the experimental prescribed burn in fuel treatments in interior Alaska black spruce. See also the project page at Alaska Fire Science Consortium website: https://www.frames.gov/afsc/projects/nenana-ridge
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The fourth meeting of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Working Party S07.02.09, Phytophthoras in Forests and Natural Ecosystems provided a forum for current research on Phytophthora species worldwide. Seventy-eight submissions describing papers…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
A whole host of computerized decision support systems and tools have emerged in recent years for use in wildland fire and fuel management (Peterson and others 2007). Few would argue with the notion that models and modeling are an integral component of modern day management…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jandt
The A-Unit of the Nenana Ridge burn project was ignited with a test burn at 13:40 on 6/17/09. This report highlights the chronology of the burn, fuel conditions, and fire effects and fuel treatment effectiveness of the experimental burn in the Alaskan boreal forest.
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zwolak
Wildfires and timber harvest are two of the most prevalent disturbances in North American forests. To evaluate and compare their impact on small mammals, I conducted meta-analysis on (1) the effect of stand-replacement wildfires and several types of forest harvest (clearcutting…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Landres, Boutcher, Dean, Hall, Blett, Carlson, Mebane, Hardy, Rinehart, Merigliano, Cole, Leach, Wright, Bumpus
The purpose of monitoring wilderness character is to improve wilderness stewardship by providing managers a tool to assess how selected actions and conditions related to wilderness character are changing over time. Wilderness character monitoring provides information to help…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The interaction between smoke and air pollution creates a public health challenge. Fuels treatments proposed for National Forests are intended to reduce fuel accumulations and wildfire frequency and severity, as well as to protect property located in the wild land-urban…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The promise of wildland fire use (WFU) is that, over time, the fires will play a more natural role, creating a jigsaw-puzzle pattern of burned and regrowing patches over a landscape and gradually moving it closer to the stand structure and species composition that prevailed…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickinson, Robinson, Gessler, Harrod, Smith
The canopy bulk density metric is used to describe the fuel available for combustion in crown fire models. We propose modifying the Van Wagner crown fire propagation model, used to estimate the critical rate of spread necessary to sustain active crown fire, to use foliar biomass…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Petters, Parsons, Prenni, DeMott, Kreidenweis, Carrico, Sullivan, McMeeking, Levin, Wold, Collett, Moosmüller
Biomass burning is a significant source of carbonaceous aerosol in many regions of the world. When present, biomass burning particles may affect the microphysical properties of clouds through their ability to function as cloud condensation nuclei or ice nuclei. We report on…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
People have used fire to manipulate the landscape since prehistoric times. The science of using prescribed fire to manage unwanted vegetation is a fairly new phenomenon, and it recently took an important stride forward. Researchers and land managers have compiled a synthesis of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McMillin, Fettig
Native tree-killing bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) are a natural component of forest ecosystems. Eradication is neither possible nor desirable and periodic outbreaks will occur as long as susceptible forests and favorable climatic conditions co-exist.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Omi
Fuel treatments can be categorized by objective (e.g., hazard reduction vs. ecological restoration), treatment type (mechanical vs. prescribed fire or other fire use activities), and scale (project vs. landscape), among other criteria. Tradeoffs with fire suppression activities…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loomis, González-Cabán
This paper traces the origin and evolution of the application of nonmarket valuation techniques to fire management within the USDA Forest Service. The motivation for contingent valuation (CVM) studies that quantify existence value is traced to the need for monetary benefits of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
An important component of the wildland fire problem in the United States is the growing number of people living in high fire hazard areas. How people in these areas contribute to fire risk-or potentially decrease it-will be shaped by their attitudes and beliefs toward different…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Knapp, Estes, Skinner
Prescribed burning may be conducted at times of the year when fires were infrequent historically, leading to concerns about potential adverse effects on vegetation and wildlife. Historical and prescribed fire regimes for different regions in the continental United States were…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bartuszevige, Kennedy
The results of this synthesis illustrate several important lessons. First, current forest structure is the result of decades of fire-suppression activities, and so restoration will require multiple treatments to bring forests to within the range of historic variation. Second,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Youngblood, Stephens
This Invited Feature focuses on the U.S. national Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS), a multi-site multidisciplinary research project that evaluates the ecological consequences of prescribed fire and its mechanical surrogates, treatments that are intended to reduce fire risk…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kennedy, Fontaine
Dry forests throughout the United States are fire-dependent ecosystems, and much attention has been given to restoring their ecological function. As such, land managers often are tasked with reintroducing fire via prescribed fire, wildland fire use, and fire-surrogate treatments…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eberhardt
The Fire Emission Production Simulator (FEPS) is a user-friendly computer program designed for scientists and resource managers. The software manages data concerning consumption, emissions, and heat release characteristics of prescribed burns and wildland fires. The original…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stratton
With the advent of LANDFIRE fuels layers, an increasing number of specialists are using the data in a variety of fire modeling systems. However, a comprehensive guide on acquiring, critiquing, and editing (ACE) geospatial fuels data does not exist. This paper provides guidance…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Keeley, Aplet, Christensen, Conard, Johnson, Omi, Peterson, Swetnam
This synthesis provides an ecological foundation for management of the diverse ecosystems and fire regimes of North America based on scientific principles of fire interactions with vegetation, fuels, and biophysical processes. Although a large amount of scientific data on fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weir
Landowners and managers, municipalities, the logging and livestock industries, and conservation professionals all increasingly recognize that setting prescribed fires may reduce the devastating effects of wildfire, control invasive brush and weeds, improve livestock range and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krivtsov, Vigy, Legg, Curt, Rigolot, Lecomte, Jappiot, Lampin-Maillet, Fernandes, Pezzatti
Wildfires are a serious problem affecting many terrestrial ecosystems and causing substantial economic damage. Understanding the variation in structure of fuels (which are predominantly represented by plant litter and live vegetation) is key to understanding the behaviour of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS