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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Feltz, Moreau, Prins, Claid-Cook, Brown
Over the past 15 years meteorological satellites have been increasingly used for land surface applications, including fire detection and monitoring. Several automated algorithms now provide satellite derived fire products in near real time for hazards applications and to better…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murphy, Long
Environmental education plays a critical role in wildland fire management, particularly in fire-adapted ecosystems. The success of Smokey Bear and his fire prevention message has influenced fire management and policy in the United States over the last half century. As our…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fieldhouse, Dickinson
The extent of extreme fire behavior in the last several fire seasons has highlighted the susceptibility of current forested vegetation stands to crown fire, bringing it to the forefront of national attention. Though much attention has been given towards the wildland urban…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cruz, Butler, Viegas
Fire behavior models are essential components of fire management decision support systems (DSS). Such models allow the estimation of fire behavior characteristics; information that is needed for prescribed fire planning, tactical decision support during ongoing wildfires and the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gaines, Golberg
The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) program has demonstrated leadership in biological information management. The NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools maintained by NBII partners and collaborators…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Finney, Seli, Andrews
Modeling capabilities of the FARSITE fire area simulator have been expanded to include post-frontal combustion and smoke production. FARSITE previously simulated only fire growth, with the focus on the fire perimeter. The BURNUP model was adapted to account for smoldering and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt
FOFEM 5.0 is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. FOFEM predicts tree mortality from surface fire, based on flame length or scorch height, and tree species and size. It…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller, Davis, Black
We developed a GIS model, BurnPro, to estimate the probability of burning over a landscape. BurnPro estimates the annual probability of burning across the landscape from information on ignitions, rate of spread through fuels, historical weather, topography, and length of the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jain, Graham
Burn severity (also referred to as fire severity) is not a single definition, but rather a concept and its classification is a function of the measured units unique to the system of interest. The systems include: flora and fauna, soil microbiology and hydrologic processes,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Narog, Wilson
Sonoran desert vistas supporting Giant Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea) cacti attract millions of visitors to the Tonto National Forest (TNF), Arizona each year. Unfortunately fires occurring during the last few decades burned large portions of mature saguaro habitat--landscapes now…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paragi, Haggstrom
Fire suppression and limited timber markets are hindering maintenance of early-successional broadleaf forest for wildlife habitat near settlements in interior Alaska. During 1999-2002 we evaluated the efficacy of felling and shearblading (with and without debris removal) and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morton
Members of two caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) herds periodically winter in lichen habitat on the Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in north central Alaska, providing an important subsistence resource for residents of nearby villages. Fire is often considered detrimental…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wolfson, Kolb, Sieg, Clancy
We hypothesized that diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa) germination and seedling growth respond positively to fire in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests. We are the first to address this hypothesis in pine forests of the Southwestern US. With an increase in the size and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wildland urban interface hazard reduction in interior Alaska -- challenges, partnerships and success
Wildland Urban Interface Hazard reduction activities in Interior Alaska pose unique challenges for land managers. Villages requiring hazard reduction are remote. Subsistence lifestyles and traditions must be woven into the equation. Extremely cold winter temperatures and short…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Miller, Landres
Most land management agencies are locked into a reinforcing feedback cycle in which perceived risks lead to fire suppression, leading to increased risks and further fire suppression. Existing tools and approaches for planning fire and fuels management perpetuate this cycle by…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar, Vihnanek, Wright
Photo series are useful tools for quickly and inexpensively evaluating vegetation and fuel conditions in the field. The natural fuels photo series is a collection of data and photographs that collectively display a range of natural conditions and fuel loadings in a wide variety…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fire ecology assessment tool -- monitoring wildland fire and prescribed fire for adaptive management
Prescribed fire has been recognized for years as an effective for tool managing wildlands. However, there are many resource managers who remain sceptical that fire is the appropriate tool for managing some ecosystems and especially some specific natural or cultural resources.…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDowell
The Academy's fourth study of the federal land management agencies' wildfire issues will be delivered to Congress and the agencies in January 2004. It is a follow-up to three recommendations of the previous study on containing wildfire suppression costs. The three elements of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flores-Garnica
This paper present one of the first attempts to define the spatial distribution of the effects of wildfires under the intermediate disturbance hypothesis in a Mexican forest ecosystem. Although fire is one of the most important factors of disturbance on a forest ecosystem, not…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Berg, Anderson, De Volder
The Kenai Peninsula has a low incidence of lightening and humans have caused virtually all historically documented fires. Nevertheless, our fire history studies show that, on a scale of decades to centuries, fire has been an important process on the landscape, second only to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maier, Ver, McGuire, Bowyer, Maier, Saperstein
Moose (Alces alces) play a major role in the dynamics of boreal forest ecosystems and are an important resource for subsistence users. Fire is a major disturbance of boreal forests in interior Alaska, but how the age and juxtaposition of fires affects the density and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rinne
Until recently, the effects of wildfire on aquatic ecosystems in the southwestern USA have been given little attention. Wildfires in the early 90s and their impact on threatened and endangered fishes and their habitats increased concern for this management issue. In summer 2002…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boucher
The Gila National Forest got involved in 2003 with wildland fire use in mid April. The Forest received good winter and early spring moisture associated with a mild El Nino Southern Oscillation. In previous years with this pattern the Gila was able to conduct large-scale fuels…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zimmerman
Managing wildland fires for resource benefits requires significant documentation to chronicle the decision process of Agency Administrators and fire managers. This documentation process has been the cornerstone of successful applications of prescribed natural fire, alternative…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cook, Zimmerman
As Federal wildland fire management agencies plan and implement management of long-duration wildland fires, the need for specialized organizational resources to address the development of strategic needs and to oversee implementation is expanding. Past actions for these kinds of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS