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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Welcome by Jan van Wagtendonk, President Association for Fire Ecology

van Wagtendonk
Welcome to the first issue of Fire Ecology, the Journal of the Association for Fire Ecology. Why another new journal? That is the same question we were asked when we founded the Association over four years ago, and the answer is the same. Other societies and their journals…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Using rainfall simulators to test wood shreddings for erosion control

Gronier, Foltz, Showers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service is considering alternative methods of erosion control when constructing roads, decommissioning roads, protecting lands burned by wildland fires, and reclaiming lands disturbed by other activities. This article is the second in a…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Confronting a biome crisis: global disparities of habitat loss and protection

Hoekstra, Boucher, Ricketts, Roberts
Human impacts on the natural environment have reached such proportions that in addition to an 'extinction crisis', we now also face a broader 'biome crisis'. Here we identify the world's terrestrial biomes and, at a finer spatial scale, ecoregions in which biodiversity and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Reconstructing fire history: an exercise in dendrochronology

Lafon
Dendrochronology is used widely to reconstruct the history of forest disturbances. I created an exercise that introduces the use of dendrochronology to investigate fire history and forest dynamics. The exercise also demonstrates how the dendrochronological technique of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Guide to MAGIS eXpress

Sullivan, Jones, Krueger, Zuuring, Troutwine
Presents a guide to the operation of MAGIS eXpress, a spatial decision support system. This program spatially schedules treatments and road activities for small landscapes to design vegetation management projects. MAGIS eXpress is designed to install and run on personal…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Refinement and development of fire management decision support models through field assessment of relationships between stand characteristics, fire behavior and burn severity - Joint Fire Science Program project update

Camp, Omi
Throughout interior Alaska it is well known among land managers and fire management personnel that recently burned areas of black spruce can serve as a fuel break during most wildland fires. Recently burned black spruce forests are an important tool during wildland firefighting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Predicting the risk of 'dry' lightning - fact sheet

Rorig
The objective of this work is to incorporate existing weather predictions into fire preparedness and planning by forecasting the risk of dry thunderstorms. This has been done by analyzing precipitation, upper-air, and lightning strike data to generate a rule that will be used to…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

User's guide to the Post Processors for the Forest Vegetation Simulator

Van Dyck
Post-processors are stand-alone applications that use output files produced by the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) to perform additional computations. The Suppose graphical user interface program can launch the post-processors as part of a simulation run. The post-processors…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Post-fire studies supporting computer-assisted management of fire and fuels during a regime of changing climate in the Alaskan boreal forest - Proposal to the Joint Fire Science Program

Rupp, Mann
Land managers face unique challenges in Alaska. Most of the boreal forest is currently managed as wilderness. Though largely free of direct human impacts, the boreal forest grows in a region that is now experiencing significant climate changes. In addition, the fire ecology of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Forecasting regional to global plant migration in response to climate change

Neilson, Pitelka, Solomon, Nathan, Midgley, Fragoso, Lischke, Thompson
The rate of future climate change is likely to exceed the migration rates of most plant species. The replacement of dominant species by locally rare species may require decades, and extinctions may occur when plant species cannot migrate fast enough to escape the consequences of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Managing fire with fire in Alaskan black spruce forests: impacts of fire severity on successional trajectory and future forest flammability - Proposal to the Joint Fire Science Program

Johnstone, Hollingsworth
This project aims to use data from the 2004 fires in Alaska to link pre-fire vegetation composition and soil conditions with patterns of burn severity and post-fire stand rehabilitation. The primary objective is to examine how variations in burn severity can influence patterns…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Feasibility study on the use of the Fire Effects Tradeoff Model to assist in implementing the Western Regional Air Partnership fire policies

This document summarizes a study to evaluate the feasibility of using the Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM) to assist in implementing four Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP) policies on fire, described below. This report provides the Fire Emissions Joint Forum (FEJF) with…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Development of a computer model for management of fuels, human-fire interactions, and wildland fires in the boreal forest of Alaska - Final report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Rupp, Mann
Interior Alaska contains 140 million burnable acres and includes the largest National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges in the country. On average, wildland fires burn 1,000,000 acres in Interior Alaska each year and threaten the lives, property, and timber resources of Alaska…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The 1983 Rosie Creek Fire (unpublished Powerpoint presentation for Alaska fire managers)

Alexander
Rod Norum found that Fire Behavior Fuel Model 9 Rate of Spread X 1.2 worked best for predicting head fire spread rates in Alaskan black spruce. For flame lengths and in turn fire intensities he recommended using Fire Behavior Fuel Model 5. He compared fire behavior predictions…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Verification of data on forest fires, validating methods of satellite monitoring and study of their after effects in the Angara region (in Russian)

Buriak, Bychkov, Sukhinin
Description not entered.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Urban wildfire exposure modeling in the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska

Barnwell, Rodman, Koltun
The Anchorage Wildfire Exposure Model (AFEM) is the result of a phased Municipality Anchorage, Alaska (MOA) four-year wildfire risk assessment modeling process. The AFEM and associated projects arose out of a multi-agency effort to mitigate and respond to wildfire threats in the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Characterizing interannual variations in global fire calendar using data from Earth observing satellites

Carmona-Moreno, Belward, Malingreau, Hartley, Garcia-Alegre, Antonovski, Buchshtaber, Pivovarov
Daily global observations from the Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometers on the series of meteorological satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration between 1982 and 1999 were used to generate a new weekly global burnt surface product at a…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

A social assessment of public knowledge, attitudes, and values related to wildland fire, fire risk, and fire recovery - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Bowker, Lim, Cordell, Green, Rideout-Hanzak, Johnson, Betz
This study focuses on the broad topic of public values, attitudes, and behaviors toward wildfire. More specifically, this study is intended to contribute to development of a comprehensive understanding of public values, attitudes and behaviors and to understanding public…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Techniques for creating a national interagency process for predicting preparedness levels - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Day, Guches, Heppler, Lentz, Lococo, MacGregor, Plattes, Shetler, Simos, Strohmeier, Wordell
A critical operational need exists for dispatch coordinators, fire managers and agency administrators to determine preparedness levels’ on a national, multi-agency basis. The preparedness planning processes now in place resulted from mandates and direction following the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Evaluating public responses to wildland fuels management: factors that influence acceptance of practices and decision processes - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Shindler, Brunson, Stankey, Starkey
Interdisciplinary research is essential to developing scientifically sound and publicly acceptable solutions to wildland fuel problems on federal lands across the United States. Currently, numerous fuel reduction strategies and public outreach activities are underway on federal…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Testing an approach to improving fire fuel mapping by modeling fuel structure and types based on combined satellite imagery and field data - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Zhu, Fleming
When this project was proposed, there were no good mapping tools to relate information collected on field inventory plots with remotely sensed imagery, a technique that was needed in order to produce useful wildland fuel data. The project was envisioned to develop and test an…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Demographic and geographic approaches to predicting public acceptance of fuel management at the wildland-urban interface - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Fried, Winter, Vogt
A conceptual model of how people living at the wildland-urban interface evaluate acceptability of three fuel management approaches (prescribed fire, mechanical treatment, and enforcement of defensible space ordinances) was developed from focus group interviews, and a set of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Diseases of Shrubs and Trees

Sinclair, Lyon
Diseases caused by fungi - Diseases caused by Oomycota - Bacterial diseases - Viral diseases - Diseases caused by nematodes - Plant-pathogenic algae and plants - Declines, environmental damage, and unexplained growth abnormalities - Restoration of sapwood and bark after injury…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Late-Pleistocene environments of North Pacific North America

Heusser
[from the text] The science of palynology has come a long way since the presentation of the first paper on modern pollen analysis by Lennart von Post at Oslo in 1916. Like many sciences it was initiated as a rather narrow discipline and consisted largely of interpretation of…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Photo Series for Major Natural Fuel Types of the United States, Phase II

Ottmar, Hardy, Hilbruner, Vanderlinden, Vihnanek, Wade, Weise, Wooster
The primary objective of this project is: To continue the development of the natural fuels photo series to include a maximum of 10 additional fuel types not covered by previous projects. The goals of this objective are to: (1) complete an assessment of the literature and the…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES