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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McWilliams
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak, Rogers
Almost 80 percent of the human population in Alaska currently lives in a wildland urban interface surrounded by black spruce, an extremely flammable fuel type. Shaded fuel breaks, constructed by thinning tree stands, have been utilized throughout Alaska as a proactive fire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Howard
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Howard
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Howard, McWilliams
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) provides information on the Internet about the biology, ecology, and effects of fire on about 1,000 plant species, animal species, and vegetation types. FEIS summarizes the scientific literature regarding fire effects on most dominant…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Preisler, Grulke, Bytnerowicz
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
MacGregor, González-Cabán
Although the vast majority of wildland fires are suppressed effectively in initial or extended attack, on relatively rare occasions fires become exceptionally large, resulting in unusual resource damages, significant financial impacts and/or loss of life. Understanding how to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kukavskaya, Ivanov
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krasnoshchekova, Bezkorovainaya
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Kruger, Monroe, Nelson, Sturtevant
By almost any measure, the past decade has been severe in terms of wildland fire in the United States. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) maintains a list of 'Historically Significant Wildfires' in the U.S. - fires that are significant in terms of acres burned, value of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ivanov
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ichoku, Kaufman, Hao, Habib
The radiative energy emitted by large fires and the corresponding smoke aerosol loading are simultaneously measured from the MODIS sensor from both the Terra and Aqua satellites. Quantitative relationships between the rates of emission of fire radiative energy and smoke are…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsinger, Parsons, Rollins, Karau, Keyser
Biophysical settings describe site-specific physical and biotic conditions from which landscape composition, structure and function can be predicted, and represent a key starting point on the road to predicting fire regimes across landscapes. Previous efforts to map biophysical…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hrobak
Fire is a critical disturbance that maintain boreal ecosystems. Black spruce (Picea mariana) trees are very flammable and have high crowning potential. Stands are thinned to create shaded fuelbreaks used to slow the rate of fire spread (Agee et al. 2000) and protect towns and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Drobyshev
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz
This thesis describes a two-part study aimed at understanding the physical processes leading to the ignition of forest canopy fuels above a spreading surface fire. The study comprises a theoretical component focusing on the development of a crown fuel ignition model based on…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wittwer
Aerial detection mapping is conducted annually to document the location and extent of active forest insect and disease damage. Each of these surveys (southeast Alaska, interior Alaska, and south-central Alaska) covers approximately one-fifth of the forested land in the State.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein, Joly
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rummer
Mastication, or mulching, is a mechanical fuel treatment that changes the structure and size of fuels in the stand. This fact sheet describes the kinds of equipment available, where mastication should be used, and treatment factors affecting cost.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Myers, Wade, Bergh
From 2-7 February 2003, a team of fire management and fire ecology experts visited the islands of Andros, Abaco, and New Providence in the Bahamas to gain insight into the fire issues facing the conservation of the Caribbean pine forests, which cover large percentages of each…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Musslewhite, Wipfli
We examined the transport of invertebrates and coarse organic detritus from headwater streams draining timber harvest units in a selective timber harvesting study, alternatives to clearcutting (ATC) in southeastern Alaska. Transport in 17 small streams (mean measured discharge…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Outcalt
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Outcalt
Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) is an interagency, standardized tool for determining the degree of departure from reference condition vegetation, fuels and disturbance regimes. Assessing FRCC can help guide management objectives and set priorities for treatments.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mileti
Within the past 10 years, breakthrough research has identified factors that are most important for effectively communicating about wildland fire hazards. This fact sheet discusses seven 'Laws' of effective public communication that should be considered in any state-of-the-art…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES