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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Williams
From the text ... 'Removing American Indians from the land effectively ended wildland burning practices that had lasted for millennia. ...The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management together administer several hundred million acres of grassland and other grazing land where…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrett
From the text ... 'Crossing the Bitterroot Mountains on the Lolo Trail was a daunting experience for the historic Lewis and Clark Expedition. ...Historically, fires occurred somewhere along the 50-mile trail corridor at least every two decades, on average... Over the last five…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson
From the text ... 'We are only now relearning the need to have a sound land management policy based on a thorough understanding of fire's ecological role.'
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cruz
From the text ... 'I think we'll be utilizing fire a lot more than we have in the past in order to bring our ecosystems back into balance. ... FIRE 21 will help the Forest Service reach the desired future condition for our national forests by using fire management expertise to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The Ten Standard Firefighting Orders: 1. Fight fire agressively, but provide for safety first. 2. Initiate all action based on current and expected fire conditions. 3. Recognize current weather conditions and obtain forecasts. 4. Ensure that instructions are…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
The Region 5 Hotshots currently have a request to the Mobil Fire Equipment Sub-Committee to address the issue of shortening the service life of crew carriers in the 308 vehicle class, from the current 14 year policy. The issue is supported by the mechanic representatives of this…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crookston, Kurz, Reinhardt
Project Objectives: We request support from the JFSP to: 1. adapt FFE-FVS to support fire-related economic analysis by linking FFE-FVS to IASELECT (Wiitala 1992) and CHEAPOII (Horn and others 1986). IASELECT quantifies the optimal economic performance of a fire organization in…
Year: 2000
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
MacGregor, González-Cabán
Federal fire management agencies are required by policy to conduct a Wildland Fire Situation Analysis (WFSA) for all fire incidents that have not been suppressed by initial attack efforts. A survey-based study of senior fire and natural resource managers revealed that while the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harden, Maines, Ottmar, Sandberg, Valentine
The forest floor contributes the majority of carbon and nitrogen emitted by boreal forest fires. Therefore, estimates of C and N emissions require characterization of volumetric C and N storage of mature stands. Sampling the forest floor by <5-cm depth increments, we have…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rosencraz
The challenge of managing wildland fire on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is increasing in complexity and magnitude. Catastrophic wildfire now threatens millions of acres, particularly where vegetation patterns have been altered by past land-use practices…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Starr
The scientific literature on logging after wildfire is reviewed, with a focus on environ-mental effects of logging and removal of large woody structure. Rehabilitation, the practice of planting or seeding after logging, is not reviewed here. Several publications are cited that…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fires affect animals mainly through effects on their habitat. Fires often cause short-term increases in wildlife foods that contribute to increases in populations of some animals. These increases are moderated by the animals' ability to thrive in the altered, often simplified,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The Fuels Management Analyst Suite of programs facilitates: (1) the viewing of published and locally generated Photo Series and the searching of published and locally generated Photo Series for photos that meet defined criteria; (2) the reduction of fuels inventory data gathered…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Botelho, Rego, Ryan
The use of prescribed burning as a tool for forest fire prevention is becoming a more common practice in Pinus pinaster plantations of Northern Portugal. Prescribed fire is used to reduce the understory vegetation with the goal of reducing fuel hazard and the potential for stand…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lyon, Huff, Telfer, Schreiner, Smith
The literature describing animals’ behavioral responses to fire, discussed in chapter 3, is limited. Furthermore, short-term responses do not provide insights about the vigor or sustainability of the species in an area. Studies of animal populations and communities are more…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Grissom, Alexander, Cella, Cole, Kurth, Malotte, Martell, Mawdsley, Roessler, Quillin, Ward
Abstract from introduction: 'Over the next 50-100 years, the predicted doubling of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is expected to increase summer temperatures up to 4-6 degrees C at higher latitudes (Boer et al. 1992: Maxwell 1992: Ferguson 1995). In a 2 x CO2…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Brown
This chapter presents a broader, more fundamental view of the ecological principles and shifting fire regimes described in the previous chapters that have important implications for ecosystem management. Also included are strategies and approaches for managing fire in an…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kasischke
This paper discusses the overall effects fire has on the carbon budget of boreal forests. Studies on using the boreal forest as a means to sequester carbon have not adequately accounted for these effects. Among other approaches, it has been suggested that suppression of fire in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Houghton, Hackler, Lawrence
1 Areas burned annually in the United States between 1700 and 1990 were derived from published estimates of pre-European burning rates and from wildfire statistics of the US Forest Service. Changes in live and dead vegetation following fire and fire exclusion were determined for…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Changes in terrestrial carbon storage in the United States. 1: The roles of agriculture and forestry
Changes in the areas of croplands and pastures, and rates of wood harvest in 7 regions of the USA, including Alaska, were derived from historical statistics for the period 1700-1990. These rates of land-use change were used in a cohort model, together with equations defining the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cohen
Wildland-urban interface (W-UI) fires are a significant concern for federal, state, and local land management and fire agencies. Research using modeling, experiments, and W-UI case studies indicates that home ignitability during wildland fires depends on the characteristics of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES