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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kline
Wildland fire has been perhaps the most vexing forest management and policy issue in the United States in recent years, stirring both passionate and reasoned debate among managers, policymakers, researchers, and citizens alike. Years of fire suppression and increasing…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson
The principal goals of fuel treatments are to reduce fireline intensities, reduce the potential for crown fires, improve opportunities for successful fire suppression, and improve forest resilience to forest fires. This fact sheet discusses thinning, and surface fuel treatments…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hays
This paper analyzes fuel loading and fire danger conditions for a ten-year planning period at Malamute Drop Zone at Fort Richardson, Alaska. Malamute DZ is a 300 acre clearing in the northern boreal forest where the U.S. Army conducts training maneuvers; the East side of the DZ…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire, other disturbances, physical setting, weather, and climate shape the structure and function of forests throughout the Western United States. More than 80 years of fire research have shown that physical setting, fuels, and weather combine to determine wildfire intensity (…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fowler, Sieg
This review focused on the primary literature that described, modeled, or predicted the probability of postfire mortality in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii). The methods and measurements that were used to predict postfire tree death…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dramm, Govett, Bilek, Jackson
This publication discusses basic marketing and economic concepts, planning approach, and feasibility methodology for assessing log sort yard operations. Special attention is given to sorting small diameter and underutilized logs from forest restoration, fuels reduction, and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davies
For most overnight campers, camping and campfires seem to go together. Campfires are not only psychologically reassuring, they seem to offer an easy way to get rid of trash. But after cooking dinner, it is wise to burn the garbage in your campfire? How benign are the fumes…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butteri
This project builds and analyzes a model for predicting the occurrence of Lightning Fire Days (days on which at least one lightning fire is discovered) in interior Alaska's Tok Area Fire Management Zone. The model is developed through logistic regression analysis of historical (…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Stefner, Mason, Stocks, Hartley, Maffey, Wotton, Taylor, Lavoie, Dalrymple
This report describes in detail the various sampling methods and techniques used in quantifying the ground, surface, ladder, and crown or canopy fuel characteristics of the jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) - black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forest in the primary plots…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Omi, Rideout
A 2-year study is proposed in response to Task 3 of the second Request for Proposals authorized by the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board ('Develop, evaluate, or compare methods or approaches to incorporate wildland fuels management information into landscape scale land…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Landres, Black, Miller
We propose to develop methods that allow managers to incorporate information on the risks and benefits of wildland fuels management into landscape scale planning. Although wildland fire managers have a full spectrum of strategies available for reducing fuels, they lack…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brooks
This is a proposal soliciting support for a symposium on the inter-relationships between fire and invasive plants. This symposium is scheduled for 1:00-4:30 PM, 6 August 2002, in Tucson, Arizona, as a special session of the joint meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Caratti, Gangi, Hann, Key
Monitoring the effects of wildland fire is critical for (1) documenting fire effects, (2) assessing ecosystem damage and benefit, (3) evaluating the success or failure of a burn, and (4) appraising the potential for future treatments. Many fire managers do not collect monitoring…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Holmberg, Irwin
Forest reserves have been established to protect resources such as red-cockaded woodpeckers in the southeastern U.S., northern spotted owls and other vertebrates in the Pacific Northwest, aquatic resources such as salmon and bull trout, and the Canada lynx throughout its range.…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Jimenez, Reardon, Ryan, Webb
Current methods for predicting fire-induced plant mortality in shrubs and trees are largely empirical. These methods do not exhibit a wide range of applicability and are not readily linked to duff burning, soil heating, and surface fire behavior models. New models of duff…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brenner
Objective: The purpose/objectives of the 2: Congress is an open exchange of information between fire managers, land managers, fire ecologists and the meteorological and climatological community. As stated above, the issue of wildland fire has become one of great concern. The…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Macdonald, Bergeron
This proceedings contain 16 papers on disturbance processes in boreal forests and their ecological effects. This special issue begins with a series of papers examining the effects of fire and forest harvesting on regeneration processes, understorey community development, forest…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lynch, Clark, Stocks
The relationship between charcoal production from fires and charcoal deposition in lakes is poorly understood, which limits the interpretation of sediment charcoal records. This calibration study assessed charcoal particle production, size, and transport during the International…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lynch, Hollis, Hu
1) The response of ecosystems to past and future climatic change is difficult to understand due to the uncertainties in the direction and magnitude of changes and the relative importance of interactions between climate and local factors. In boreal ecosystems such interactions…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Li, Kaufman, Hao, Meghan Salmon, Gao
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instruments onboard the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Terra and Aqua spacecrafts have several visible and near-infrared (NIR) channels with resolutions of 250, 500, and 1 km for remote sensing of land…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee
This paper compares seed and vegetative banks, and the emergent understorey in unburned, lightly burned, and intensely burned patches within an aspen-dominated boreal forest in northeastern Alberta, Canada. Propagule banks were measured immediately after the fire, while the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Francis
A discussion of the general characteristics of shrubs as a life form and their distribution within the United States is followed by 311 short monographs containing general descriptions, ranges, ecology, reproductive habits, growth and management, and benefits to humans, animals…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wordell, Carlton
User's guide to the Cheetah 2 (Computerized Harmonic Evaluation of Episodes and Tools for Assessment of Help) computer program. Cheetah 2 was developed to support examination of fire occurrence patterns and fire suppression resource requirements at the National and Geographic…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This document describes the Personal Computer Historical Analysis software, a module of NFMAS (National Fire Management Analysis System) which allows the user to analyze historical wildland fire occurrence for wildland fire planning.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES