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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Brooks, Bujak, Champ, Williams
We reviewed, annotated, and organized recent social science research and developed a framework for addressing the wildland fire social problem. We annotated articles related to three topic areas or factors, which are critical for understanding collective action, particularly in…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DiTomaso, Brooks, Allen, Minnich, Rice, Kyser
Prescribed burning has primarily been used as a tool for the control of invasive late-season annual broadleaf and grass species, particularly yellow starthistle, medusahead, barb goatgrass, and several bromes. However, timely burning of a few invasive biennial broadleaves (e.g…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fire is one of the oldest tools used by humans to manage vegetation. Its use can be traced back to pre-historic times when it was used to manipulate vegetation to improve opportunities for hunting wildlife and to increase production of plant species that were used for food,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mason, Lippke, Zobrist, Bloxton, Ceder, Comnick, McCarter, Rogers
ANNOTATION: Although large trees can be removed for valuable products, the market value for the smaller logs may be less than the harvest and hauling charges, resulting in a net cost for thinning operations. However, failure to remove these small logs results in the retention of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pilliod, Shick, Velasquez
This paper describes the Wildlife Habitat Response Model (WHRM), a web-based computer tool for evaluating the potential effects of fuel reduction projects on terrestrial wildlife habitats in dry coniferous forests of the western United States. WHRM uses species-habitat…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
How should we think about fire? An answer is not obvious. It is testimony to the immense significance of fire that humanity has for so long chosen not only to anthropomorphize it but to grant it a substantive identity it does not deserve. Early philosophers considered it a god,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bataineh, Oswald, Bataineh, Unger, Hung, Scognamillo
Fire ecologists face many challenges regarding the statistical analysis of their studies. Hurlbert (1984) brought the problem of pseudoreplication to the scientific community's attention in the mid 1980's. Now, there is a new issue in the form of spatial autocorrelation. Spatial…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Key
Ecological definition and detection of fire severity are influenced by factors of spatial resolution and timing. Resolution determines the aggregation of effects within a sampling unit or pixel (alpha variation), hence limiting the discernible ecological responses, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Yedinak, Forthofer, Cohen, Finney
One of the many features of a spreading fire is the shape of the combustion interface. We hypothesize that the shape of the flame profile within burning fuel is key to fire propagation because it reflects the mechanisms of energy transfer to the unburned fuels. Most laboratory…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kovalev
An iterative method for determining slope in noisy lidar data is considered based on the use of a corrected ('shaped') inverted function and an assumed behavior of the unknown function of interest (an 'image function'). The method is utilized for extracting extinction-…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsinger, Keane, Steele, Reeves, Pratt
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Prototype Project, or LANDFIRE Prototype Project, began in April of 2002 and ended in April of 2005. The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior. The…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nasiatka, Christenson
How can a unit learn in everyday fuels programs and from program reviews? How can a unit move from living in the 'report card' culture to discovering more effective ways to improve what it knows and how it learns? Six specific tasks are critical to organizational learning…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, DeMeo, Jones, Zeiler, Hutter
Knowledge of ecological departure from a range of reference conditions provides a critical context for managing sustainable ecosystems. Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) is a qualitative measure characterizing possible departure from historical fire regimes. The FRCC Mapping…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cary, Keane, Gardner, Lavorel, Flannigan, Davies, Li, Lenihan, Rupp, Mouillot
The relative importance of variables in determining area burned is an important management consideration although gaining insights from existing empirical data has proven difficult. The purpose of this study was to compare the sensitivity of modeled area burned to environmental…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chakrabarty, Moosmüller, Garro, Arnott, Walker, Susott, Babbitt, Wold, Lincoln, Hao
The morphology of particles emitted by wildland fires contributes to their physical and chemical properties but is rarely determined. As part of a study at the USFS Fire Sciences Laboratory (FSL) investigating properties of particulate matter emitted by fires, we studied the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lynn, Gerlitz
Wildfires and related government roles and responsibilities for federal wildland management are prominent in our national consciousness because of the increased severity in the last decade of fires on and around public lands. In recent years, laws, strategies, and implementation…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reeves, Kost, Ryan
The LANDFIRE project is a collaborative interagency effort designed to provide seamless, nationally consistent, locally relevant geographic information systems (GIS) data layers depicting wildland fuels, vegetation and fire regime characteristics. The LANDFIRE project is the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parisien, Junor, Kafka
This study used a rule-based approach to prioritize locations of fuel treatments in the boreal mixedwood forest of western Canada. The burn probability (BP) in and around Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan was mapped using the Burn-P3 (Probability, Prediction, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Opperman, Gould, Finney, Tymstra
There is currently no spatial wildfire spread and growth simulation model used commonly across New Zealand or Australia. Fire management decision-making would be enhanced through the use of spatial fire simulators. Various groups from around the world met in January 2006 to…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan, Lee, Rollins, Zhu, Smith, Johnson
Managers are faced with reducing hazardous fuel, restoring fire regimes, and decreasing the threat of catastrophic wildfire. Often, the comprehensive, scientifically-credible data and applications needed to test alternative fuel treatments across multi-ownership landscapes are…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williamson
United States wildland fire policy and program reviews in 1995 and 2000 required reduction of hazardous fuel and recognition of fire as a natural process. Although an existing policy, Wildland Fire Use (WFU), permitted managing natural ignitions to meet resource benefits, most…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Bengston, Fan, Nelson
The Healthy Forests Initiative (HFI) and Healthy Forests Restoration Act (HFRA) represent major policy and legislative responses to the fuels management problem in the United States. This study examined the nature and evolution of the public discussion and debate about these…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Frary, Crook, Fay, Koppenol, Lasko
The application and use of wildland fire for a range of beneficial ecological objectives is rapidly expanding across landscapes supporting diverse vegetative complexes and subject to multiple societal uses. Wildland fire use originated in wilderness and has become a proven…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xanthopoulos, Caballero, Galante, Alexandrian, Rigolot, Marzano
Current fuel management practices vary considerably between European countries. Topography, forest and forest fuel characteristics, size and compartmentalization of forests, forest management practices, land uses, land ownership, size of properties, legislation, and, of course,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gould
Although Australia and New Zealand have quite different fire climates and fuels, the common understanding of fire behaviour underlies many facets of fire management in both countries. Fire management is the legal responsibility of various government land management agencies that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES