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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lighthall, Quinn-Davidson, Hohman, Bladow, Warwick, Wheeler, Berleman, Aldern, Weir, Lasky
There is broad understanding and agreement lately that there is a need to substantially increase the use of prescribed fire to create landscape resiliency, protect communities and ensure a safe and effective wildfire response. In response, more and more Prescribed Burn…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Burri, Emelko, Rhoades
What does current science and experience tell us about the near and long-term impacts of fire on water quality and how to recover?
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Varner
PRESCRIBED FIRE SCIENCE: THE CASE FOR A REFINED RESEARCH AGENDA
In this inaugeral episode of the Association for Fire Ecology's Fire Ecology Chats Podcast Series, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane interviews Morgan Varner, Director of Fire Research and Senior Scientist at Tall…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Dumroese, Page-Dumroese, Pinto
Land managers face a mounting variety of challenges, including how to efficiently dispose of excessive woody residues on forest sites (especially in the Western United States), maintain and improve soil productivity, improve forest resilience to changes in climate (especially as…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beck, Connelly, Reese
The ability of prescribed fire to enhance habitat features for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata wyomingensis) in western North America is poorly understood. We evaluated recovery of habitat features important to…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Akema, Nurhiftisni, Suciatmih, Simbolon
The impact of forest fire in 1997 and 1998 on the mycorrhzae was studied at the dipterocarp forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. In unaffected forest more than half of total ectomycorrhizae distributed in the organic layer but in the fire-affected forest one and a half years…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins
LANDFIRE is a 5-year, multipartner project producing consistent and comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, wildland fuel, fire regimes and ecological departure from historical conditions across the United States. It is a shared project between the wildland fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jackson, Hobbs
Ecological history plays many roles in ecological restoration, most notably as a tool to identify and characterize appropriate targets for restoration efforts. However, ecological history also reveals deep human imprints on many ecological systems and indicates that secular…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuhlendorf, Engle, Kerby, Hamilton
Our understanding of fire and grazing is largely based on small-scale experimental studies in which treatments are uniformly applied to experimental units that are considered homogenous. Any discussion of an interaction between fire and grazing is usually based on a statistical…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryon, Hamin
Salvage logging, the removal for profit of standing trees that have been damaged by extensive wildfires, has been quite controversial and subject to lawsuits that can delay the logging past the time in which the lumber is still useful. It has not been clear, however, whether the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baer, Engle, Knops, Langeland, Maxwell, Menalled, Symstad
Vast areas of arable land have been retired from crop production and ''rehabilitated'' to improved system states through landowner incentive programs in the United States (e.g., Conservation and Wetland Reserve Programs), as well as Europe (i.e., Agri-Environment Schemes). Our…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McIver, Youngblood, Stephens
From the text ... 'The primary goal of the FFS study was to measure and compare the effectiveness and ecological consequences of commonly used fuel reduction treatments. Forest managers throughout the United States have asked for side-by-side comparisons of treatments to better…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kerns, Tortorelli, Day, Nietupski, Barros, Kim, Krawchuk
Exotic grasses are a widespread set of invasive species that are notable for their ability to significantly alter key aspects of ecosystem function. Understanding the role and importance of these invaders in forested landscapes has been limited but is now rising, as grasses from…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Williams, Gillespie, Contreras-Martínez, Finch
To inform future restoration efforts, we reviewed the known effects of fire and habitat management and restoration on hummingbirds in four key habitat types in North America. We examined seven species that most commonly occur west of the Rocky Mountains: Rufous (Selasphorus…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Matonis
Prescribed burning is an effective method to reduce hazardous fuels and restore ecological conditions across a variety of ecosystems. Twenty-one states have laws or policies that direct state agencies to oversee formal training programs to certify individuals in safe burning…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhuang, Rose
Prescribed fires are often used as part of a strategy for protecting forests from catastrophic wildfires. Based on agency reports, from 2003-2017 prescribed burns have been used on more than 40 million acres across the US. In this study, the researchers developed a data driven…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ager, Barros, Houtman, Seli, Day
We integrated a widely used forest growth and management model, the Forest Vegetation Simulator, with the FSim large wildfire simulator to study how management policies affected future wildfire over 50 years on a 1.3 million ha study area comprised of a US national forest and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hislop, Haywood, Jones, Soto-Berelov, Skidmore, Nguyen
The regular and consistent measurements provided by Earth observation satellites can support the monitoring and reporting of forest indicators. Although substantial scientific literature espouses the capabilities of satellites in this area, the techniques are under-utilised in…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kennedy, Fontaine
From the text ... '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-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daley, Morris, Franz, Adams
As of mid-September 2020, forest fires across the West Coast of the United States had burned down 5 million acres of forests, destroying communities and producing some of the worst air quality on the planet. How can this disaster spur reforestation efforts in North America and…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Policelli, Horton, Hudon, Patterson, Bhatnagar
Temperate and boreal forests are increasingly suffering from anthropic degradation. Ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) are symbionts with most temperate and boreal forest trees, providing their hosts with soil nutrients and water in exchange for plant carbon. This group of fungi is…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Matonis, Quinn-Davidson, Guess, Sadler, Karboski
In this webinar co-hosted by the FLN and Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils, Meg Matonis shared highlights from the recent report “Insights and Suggestions for Certified Prescribed Burn Manager Programs.” A panel gave overviews of programs in states with established programs…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ritter, Hoffman, Battaglia, Stevens-Rumann, Mell
In frequent‐fire forests, wildland fire acts as a self‐ regulating process creating forest structures that consist of a fine‐grained mosaic of isolated trees, tree groups of various sizes, and non‐treed openings. Though the self‐regulation of forest structure through repeated…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Continuum Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Fire Ecology and the International Association of Wildland Fire, was designed to cover both the biophysical and human dimensions aspects of fire along the fire continuum. This proceedings includes many of topics…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neary, Leonard
Grasslands occur on all of the continents. They collectively constitute the largest ecosystem in the world, making up 40.5% of the terrestrial land area, excluding Greenland and Antarctica. Grasslands are not entirely natural because they have formed and developed under natural…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES