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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Harpster, Douglas
'...Whether in controlling the buildup index or in supressing fires once they are in progress, the techniques of weather modification must be considered -- at least at this point in their development -- as a potential supplement to other fire control techniques already in use.'
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kerr
'...With that impressionistic gallop through history as a backdrop, let me touch upon some of the technical material that has come to light as a result of urban fires and the research devoted to their prevention and cure. Perhaps the dominant area of uncertainty and of study…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fosberg
'Fuel moistures are among the most important environmental factors required in fire danger rating evaluations. Direct observations of fuel moisture such as with fuel sticks or other analog devices are desirable for evaluation of the current fire danger because they integrate all…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dixon
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kill
Sixty-three lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. var. latifolia Engelm.) trees were measured on the ground, felled, and their crowns and stems were weighed. The combined independent variables on tree height and crown width gave the most precise estimate of fuel components. No…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson, Dell
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lawton, Mayo
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Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Joly, Jandt
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) began studies of the winter range of the Western Arctic Caribou Herd (WACH) in 1981. Twenty permanent vegetation transects were deployed within the Buckland River valley on the northeastern side of the Seward Peninsula. Additional sites added…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vining, Merrick
Because American national forests are managed for all citizens, it is important that researchers explore the differences and similarities between citizens living both near and far from publicly managed land. We surveyed residents living at various distances from nationally…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butry, Donovan
Climate change, increased wildland fuels, and residential development patterns in fire-prone areas all combine to make wildfire risk mitigation an important public policy issue. One approach to wildfire risk mitigation is to encourage homeowners to use fire-resistant building…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Brown, Dale
A recent series of severe fire seasons in the United States has contributed to sharply rising wildfire suppression costs. These increasing costs have caught the attention of policymakers, but so far the responses have not focused clearly on the incentive structures that allow or…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon, Donovan
Making input decisions under climate uncertainty often involves two-stage methods that use expensive and opaque transfer functions. This article describes an alternative, single-stage approach to such decisions using forecasting methods. The example shown is for preseason fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Myers-Smith, Harden, Wilmking, Fuller, McGuire, Chapin
To determine the influence of fire and thermokarst in a boreal landscape, we investigated peat cores within and adjacent to a permafrost collapse feature on the Tanana River Floodplain of Interior Alaska. Radioisotope dating, diatom assemblages, plant macrofossils, charcoal…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Waldrop, Harden
Boreal forests contain significant quantities of soil carbon that may be oxidized to CO2 given future increases in climate warming and wildfire behavior. At the ecosystem scale, decomposition and heterotrophic respiration are strongly controlled by temperature and moisture, but…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hollingsworth
In this overview, I present extensive studies looking at the structure and function of the black spruce (Picea mariana) ecosystem of the boreal region of interior Alaska. One of the studies provides a classification of black spruce communities, the most abundant forest type in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Erickson, White
Soils are fundamental to a healthy and functioning ecosystem. Therefore, forest land managers can greatly benefit from a more thorough understanding of the ecological impacts of fire and fuel management activities on the vital services soils provide. We present a summary of new…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Hollingsworth, Chapin
Black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill) B.S.P) is the dominant forest cover type in interior Alaska and is prone to frequent, stand-replacing wildfires. Through impacts on tree recruitment, the degree of fire consumption of soil organic layers can act as an important determinant of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This powerpoint presentation was the invited keynote address presented at the 4th Plenary Fire Paradox Meeting, June 9-13, 2008, Chania, Crete, Greece. The main points of discussion of this presentation were origins of fire behavior research, fire behavior research, and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Butler
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) is a non-profit, professional association representing members of the global wildland fire community. The purpose of the association is to facilitate communication and leadership for the wildland fire community. Since 1997,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Wilderness medicine is the practice of providing medical attention when definitive care is further that 1 hour's travel time to provide medical treatment. In very remote locations, it can take days or weeks for rescuers to reach victims. The practice of wilderness medicine comes…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These research topics were distributed throughout the interagency fire and land management agencies in 2008. Respondents prioritized the topics within each category. The AWFCG Research Committee recommended rankings for topics which had no clear ranking dominance to the AWFCG. '…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This manual is a first approximation of methods for monitoring forested ecosystems in the Yukon. Monitoring is a critical element of sustainable forest management. The protocols herein are intended for use in various inventories and research projects and may be carried out by a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wirth, Lichstein, Dushoff, Chen, Chapin
Local distributions of black spruce (Picea mariana) and white spruce (Picea glauca) are largely determined by edaphic and topographic factors in the interior of Alaska, with black spruce dominant on moist permafrost sites and white spruce dominant on drier upland sites. Given…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Estimating post-fire organic soil depth in the Alaskan boreal forest using the Normalized Burn Ratio
As part of a long-term moose browse/fire severity study, we used the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) with historic Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery to estimate fire severity from a 1983 wildfire in interior Alaska. Fire severity was estimated in the field by measuring the depth…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tinner, Bigler, Gedye, Gregory-Eaves, Jones, Kaltenrieder, Krahenbuhl, Hu
Recent observations and model simulations have highlighted the sensitivity of the forest-tundra ecotone to climatic forcing. In contrast, paleoecological studies have not provided evidence of tree-line fluctuations in response to Holocene climatic changes in Alaska, suggesting…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES