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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rowell, Hajny, Young
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lyon
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Year: 1929
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber
A 20-year-old aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) ecosystem was subjected to two cutting and two burning treatments. Cutting and prescribed burning were carried out on separate areas. One cutting and one burning treatment was applied both before and after spring leaf flush. An…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lutz
Uncontrolled fires, sweeping over vast areas of the interior nearly every summer, place in jeopardy the future economic development of that portion of Alaska. The area involved is vast but the resources that can be used in perpetuity, even under wise management, are relatively…
Year: 1953
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Identifying indicators of state change and forecasting future vulnerability in Alaskan boreal forest
This research is designed to understand the mechanistic connections among vegetation, the organic soil layer, and permafrost ground stability in Alaskan boreal ecosystems. Understanding these linkages is critical for projecting the impact of climate change on permafrost in…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Fox
After nearly a century of avid fire suppression, land managers are substantially increasing prescribed burning to meet ecosystem management objectives. As scientists and managers we need to accurately quantify the capacity of airsheds to assimilate smoke and related atmospheric…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Page-Dumroese
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Bioenergy production from forest biomass offers a solution to reduce wildfire hazard fuel levels, decrease insect and disease outbreaks, and reduce the incidence of invasive species while producing a useful…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rogers, Dempster, Hawkins, Johnston, Boxall, Rolfe, Kragt, Burton, Pannell
Prioritising investments to minimise or mitigate natural hazards such as wildfires and storms is of increasing importance to hazard managers. Prioritisation of this type can be strengthened by considering benefit and cost impacts. To evaluate benefits and costs, managers require…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Campbell
'The United States obtains approximately 2.7 quads of energy per year from biomass while producing 1.5-3.0 million tons of ash. In the future, energy from biomass should increase to 4 quads, and perhaps it will go as high as 10-20 quads (1). Most of this energy comes from paper…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sydes, Miller
[no description entered]
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fahnestock
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sanford, Wang, Kenward
Alaska, the great northern frontier of America, is being reshaped by climate change. While rising temperatures are altering its character and landscape, they are also bringing the ravages of wildfires. In the past 60 years, Alaska has warmed more than twice as fast as the rest…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lewandrowski, Kim, Aillery
Economic studies have demonstrated that agricultural landowners could mitigate significant quantities of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through afforestation. The associated carbon, however, must remain stored in soils or biomass for several decades to achieve substantial…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Prichard, Sandberg, Ottmar, Eberhardt, Andreu, Eagle, Swedin
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) is a software module that records wildland fuel characteristics and calculates potential fire behavior and hazard potentials based on input environmental variables. The FCCS 3.0 is housed within the Integrated Fuels Treatment…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riccardi, Prichard, Ottmar, Sandberg
Wildfires are a natural, reoccurring, and essential component of ecological communities worldwide. Decades of fire exclusion and altered fire regimes have had substantial ecological consequences, including increased fuel loads. Fuel loads are diverse in their physical attributes…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ottmar, Wright, Prichard
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (FERA) of the Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, is an interdisciplinary team of scientists that conduct primary research on wildland fire and provide decision support for fire hazard and smoke management.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Land-use change and carbon sinks: econometric estimation of the carbon sequestration supply function
When and if the United States chooses to implement a greenhouse gas reduction program, it will be necessary to decide whether carbon sequestration policies ù such as those that promote forestation and discourage deforestation ù should be part of the domestic portfolio of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
From the text... 'Wildand-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…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bowman, Balch, Artaxo, Bond, Carlson, Cochrane, D'Antonio, DeFries, Doyle, Harrison, Johnston, Keeley, Krawchuk, Kull, Marston, Moritz, Prentice, Roos, Scott, Swetnam, Van der Werf, Pyne
Fire is a worldwide phenomenon that appears in the geological record soon after the appearance of terrestrial plants. Fire influences global ecosystem patterns and processes, including vegetation distribution and structure, the carbon cycle, and climate. Although humans and fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gisborne
Our job of fire control can be done, in fact has been done, in several ways: By brute strength and little attention to the conditions we are attempting to control; by observation of what is happening but with little or no understanding of why the fire is behaving as it does; or…
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Babrauskas
The heat of combustion of burning trees is often used in forest-fire hazard modeling to relate mass-loss results to the heat produced; therefore reliable values are needed. Experimental results for the effective heat of combustion of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.)…
Year: 2006
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