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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Graham, McCaffrey
The geographic focus of the 'Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration' project (known as the Fuels Synthesis Project) is on the dry forests of the Western United States. Project goals include developing accessible analyses, protocols, and tools; writing peer-reviewed…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fight, Barbour
ANNOTATION: This paper discusses the My Fuel Treatment Planner (MyFTP) software to show the effect treatment variables have on the cost and net revenue from fire hazard reduction treatments in dry forest types of the Western United States. The study is meant to help design a…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Daniel, Valdiserri, Daniel, Barro, Jakes
A series of syntheses were commissioned by the USDA Forest Service to aid in fuels mitigation project planning. This synthesis focuses on research for assessing the social acceptability of fuels treatments. The synthesis is structured around six important considerations for any…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Campbell, Van Hees, Mead
This publication presents highlights of a recent south-central Alaska inventory conducted by the Pacific Northwest Research Station Forest Inventory and Analysis Program (USDA Forest Service). South-central Alaska has about 18.5 million acres, of which one-fifth (4 million acres…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland, Sutherland, Miller
The Understory Response Model is a species-specific computer model that qualitatively predicts change in total species biomass for grasses, forbs, and shrubs after thinning, prescribed fire, or wildfire. The model examines the effect of fuels management on plant survivorship (…
Year: 2005
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Parsons
Unroaded areas and areas managed as wilderness provide unique opportunities for applying wildland fire use (WFU) as a fuels management strategy and as a method for restoring historical fire regimes. But can WFU successfully restore historical fire regimes? An untested but common…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hesseln, Loomis, Rideout
This study is an integrated economic assessment of alternative fuels treatments. We examine ecological, economic and financial aspects of alternative fuels treatments paying particular attention to market and non-market costs and benefits, property damage, smoke, air quality,…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Omi, Hunter, Kalkhan, Martinson
We propose the first standardized investigation of the relationships among fuels, wildfire severity, exotic plant invasions, and post-fire fuel flammability in grasslands, shrublands, and forests across the western US. This proposal responds to the 2000-1 Request for Proposals (…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Brunson
This study is designed to evaluate the public's understanding and acceptance of different wildland fuel treatments in federal forest and rangeland settings. Specifically, its purpose is to 1) identify the factors that influence the acceptability of fuels reduction strategies and…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Zhu, Fleming, Hoppus, Ohlen, van Wagtendonk
This project addresses requirements by the current RFP for more accurate, efficient, and cost-effective development of data for fire fuel research and management (Task 3). By focusing on development of fire fuel input layers, we propose to develop a simple and innovative…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Elliot, Pierson, Wohlgemuth
The specific objectives to accomplish this goal are: 1. To adapt existing technology and incorporate new information into an integrated management tool for predicting erosion risk from fire and fuel management practices. 2. To determine hillslope characteristics that govern dry…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Adams, Dale, Mann, Vanderlinden
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: Project
Source: FRAMES
Gould, González, Hudak
Landscape fragmentation creates an increasingly complex environment in which to manage forests in the United States. The effects of fragmentation on productivity, mortality, and decomposition in forests vary with fragment size, forest type, and climate. Fragmentation can affect…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Beyers, Elliot, Pierson
The recent dramatic increase in spending for post-fire rehabilitation treatments has caused concern regarding the appropriate use of various treatments for reducing erosion risk and downstream flooding and sedimentation. Our current Joint Fire Science project, RISK ASSESSMENT OF…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ott
Wildland fire is the dominant disturbance agent of the boreal forest of Alaska, which covers about 114 million ac. of the southcentral and interior regions. Currently, about 80% of the population of Alaska resides in communities potentially at risk from wildland fire. The…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Legare, Bergeron, Paré
In the western boreal forest of Quebec, black spruce stand productivity is approximately 1 m(3)/ha/year. The low productivity of these stands is often attributed to the paludification process, which is sustained by low quality black spruce litter and the influence of black…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lavoie, Paré, Fenton, Groot, Taylor
The Clay Belt region of Quebec and Ontario supports a large forest resource and an important forest industry. In this region, the majority of the harvested volume allotted to forest companies is in forested peatlands and boreal forests prone to paludification. Paludification is…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kukavskaya
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saab, Powell
We summarize the findings from 10 subsequent chapters that collectively review fire and avian ecology across 40 North American ecosystems. We highlight patterns and future research topics that recur among the chapters. Vegetation types with long fire-return intervals, such as…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The Quadrennial Fire and Fuel Review (QFFR) represents a first time effort to produce a unified fire management strategic vision for the five federal natural resource management agencies under the Departments of Interior and Agriculture. This inaugural effort emphasizes key…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Burgan
This report describes a new set of standard fire behavior fuel models for use with Rothermel's surface fire spread model and the relationship of the new set to the original set of 13 fire behavior fuel models. To assist with transition to using the new fuel models, a fuel model…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Omi, Martinson, Hunter, Chong, Kalkhan, Stohlgren
This project investigated spatial relationships among fuels, wildfire severity, non-native plant invasions, and post-fire fuel flammability in three mixed-conifer forests of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico. We employed a dual approach that involved: (1) assessment…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Williams
The JFS Executive Summary Brochure contains general information about the project, including its history, objectives and principle investigators. HFRA encourages the development of Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) that identify and set priorities for fuels reduction…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
The Guide to Fuel Treatments analyzes a range of potential silvicultural thinnings and surface fuel treatments for 25 representative dry-forest stands in the Western United States. The guide provides quantitative guidelines and visualization for treatment based on scientific…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt
FFE-FVS is a model linking stand development, fuel dynamics, fire behavior and fire effects. It allows comparison of mid- to long-term effects of management alternatives including harvest, mechanical fuel treatment, prescribed fire, salvage, and no action. This fact sheet…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES