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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Keane, Holsinger, Pratt
The range and variation of historical landscape dynamics could provide a useful reference for designing fuel treatments on today's landscapes. Simulation modeling is a vehicle that can be used to estimate the range of conditions experienced on historical landscapes. A landscape…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak
The Alphabet Hills prescribed fire (AA30) was ignited on August 10, 2004 by the BLM Alaska Fire Service and burned approximately 37,500 acres. Two vegetation and consumption plots were established in 2001 on the west side of Porkchop Lake. Both transects were burned in 2004,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland, Pilliod
The Wildlife Habitat Response Model (WHRM) is a web-based tool meant to assist fuel treatment planners in evaluating the effects of fuel treatment alternatives on wildlife habitats. WHRM does not provide estimates of wildlife population changes or viability. WHRM is based on…
Year: 2006
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Kokaly, McAdams, Root, Walker
For the past several decades, prescribed fire has proven to be a valuable tool for managing federal lands. It is an economical and efficient way to reduce accumulated fuel loads resulting from prolonged policies of suppressing wildfires, Prescribed fire helps to control the…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Munger, Randall, Ryan, Smith, Sutherland, Zouhar
This project will update and increase the information on invasive plant species available in the Fire Effects Information System (FEIS), link FEIS to other Internet sites with high-quality information on invasive species, and report on information gaps in the scientific…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Randall, Ryan, Saveland
This proposal addresses Tasks 1 & 2 of Joint Fire Sciences AFP 2003-4: Develop information structures, tools, or decision support systems for accessing, disseminating, and applying wildland fire and fuels research results ... Produce readily understandable and useable…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Gabbert, Mangan
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) will sponsor a conference to address fuels management and how to measure success. IAWF has worked with the Interagency Fule Committee on initial planning. There is general recognition of the need for such a conference. We…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
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: FRAMES
Lecomte, Simard, Bergeron
The effects of fire severity and initial post-fire tree composition on long-term stand structural development were investigated in the Picea mariana-feathermoss bioclimatic domain of northwestern Québec. Paleoecological methods were used to categorize the severity of the last…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lance, Howell, Lance, Howlin, Suring, Goldstein
Changes in structure and function of spruce forests occurred following a recent spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) epidemic in the temperate forests of south-central Alaska, USA. To assess the effects of this infestation and the subsequent land management practices used to…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kou, Baker
Accurate fire-history data are needed if local management of fire or costly national plans for restoring and managing fire and forest structure are to succeed. Fire-history researchers often use fire scars and the composite fire interval method to reconstruct parameters of past…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Holsten
This pest leaflet gives an overview of tree damage caused by the spruce budworm as well as a discussion of the life history of the insect and guidelines for reducing budworm damage.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Song, Wang, Williams, Mladenoff, Chen, Gustafson, Hom, Crow
Book Description: The idea for this book grew out of: (1) the realization that development of the theory of landscape ecology has now reached the point where rigorous field work is required to validate models, test assumptions and ideas of scaling theory, and refine our…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Meyers
The focus of the paper is on fire as an element affecting the conservation of biodiversity and maintaining sustainable resources and ecosystem services for people. Thusly, emphasis is placed on the management of fire at places identified for their conservation value. Effective…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaufmann, Shlisky, Marchand
The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts, according to forester, philosopher, and hunter Aldo Leopold. Leopold was thinking about wildfire 50 years ago when he also was questioning his own role in exterminating large predators, wondering how their removal might…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Butler
Fuels management programs are designed to reduce risks to communities and to improve and maintain ecosystem health. The International Association of Wildland Fire initiated the 1st Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference to address development, implementation, and evaluation of these…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gercke, Stewart
In 2005, eight U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management interdisciplinary teams participated in a test of strategic placement of treatments (SPOTS) techniques to maximize the effectiveness of fuel treatments in reducing problem fire behavior, adverse fire effects, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Modeling and experiments have suggested that spatial fuel treatment patterns can influence the movement of large fires. On simple theoretical landscapes consisting of two fuel types (treated and untreated) optimal patterns can be analytically derived that disrupt fire growth…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Computerized and manual systems for modeling wildland fire behavior have long been available (Rothermel 1983, Andrews 1986). These systems focus on one-dimensional behaviors and assume the fire geometry is a spreading line-fire (in contrast with point or area-source fires).…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boerner, Huang, Hart
Functional properties of the microbial assemblage were assessed as rates of N mineralization, nitrification (both of which were considered in the previous presentation), and the activity rates of a number of exoenzymes, principally acid phosphatase and phenol oxidase. Community…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Finney, Bradshaw, Forthofer, McHugh, Stratton, Jimenez
A new software tool has been developed to simulate surface wind speed and direction at the 100m to 300 m scale. This tool is useful when trying to estimate fire behavior in mountainous terrain. It is based on widely used computational fluid dynamics technology and has been…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bergeron, Macdonald, Engelmark, Kuuluvainen, Shorohova
This special issue contains 11 selected papers providing information on disturbance dynamics and related phenomena in boreal forests. The first group of papers emphasizes the important roles of both fire and secondary disturbances in shaping community structure and composition.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Anderson, Anderson
Understanding and calculating fire behaviour in various fuel types is essential for effective fire management, including wildfire suppression and fuels management. Fire spread in grassland fuel is affected by the curing level, the amount of dead fuel expressed as a percentage of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pratt, Holsinger, Keane
A critical component of the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Prototype Project, or LANDFIRE Prototype Project, was the development of a nationally consistent method for estimating historical reference conditions for vegetation composition and structure and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES