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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wotton, Alexander, Taylor
This report documents a number of changes to the 1992 release of the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System, and addresses several mathematical and physical inconsistencies in its underlying models that have been identified over the last 15 years of its…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Girardin, Ali, Carcaillet, Mudelsee, Drobyshev, Hély, Bergeron
We investigated changes in wildfire risk over the 1901-2002 (ad) period with an analysis of broad-scale patterns of July monthly drought code (MDC) variability on 28 forested ecoregions of the North American and Eurasian continents. The MDC is an estimate of the net effect of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz
This presentation will provide an overview of several models and modeling systems developed by authors over the past 10 years for simulating certain aspects of crown fire behavior. Based on a wealth of high-quality fire behavior data collected over some three decades of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cruz, Alexander
Question: How can one integrate the natural variation in the variables influencing fire propagation associated with the prediction of crown fire behavior? Conclusions: The present work highlights the advantage of incorporating the uncertainty in the estimation of the variables…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Kolden, Jandt, Abatzoglou, Urban, Arp
In 2007, the Anaktuvuk River Fire (ARF) became the largest recorded tundra fire on the North Slope of Alaska. The ARF burned for nearly three months, consuming more than 100,000 ha. At its peak in early September, the ARF burned at a rate of 7000 ha d-1. The conditions…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Higuera, Brubaker, Anderson, Hu, Brown
We examined direct and indirect impacts of millennial-scale climate change on fire regimes in the south-central Brooks Range, Alaska, USA, using four lake sediment records and existing paleoclimate interpretations. New techniques were introduced to identify charcoal peaks semi-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brubaker, Higuera, Rupp, Olson, Anderson, Hu
Interactions between vegetation and fire have the potential to overshadow direct effects of climate change on fire regimes in boreal forests of North America. We develop methods to compare sediment-charcoal records with fire regimes simulated by an ecological model, ALFRESCO (…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
González-Cabán
These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the federal and state levels in the United States as well as agencies in the international community. The topics discussed at the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Long
It is widely accepted that for many North American forest ecosystems, changes in species composition and structure are associated with departures from natural disturbance regimes (e.g., fire exclusion). It also widely accepted that restoration of species composition and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Foltz, Robichaud, Rhee
We synthesized post-fire road treatment information to assist BAER specialists in making road rehabilitation decisions. We developed a questionnaire; conducted 30 interviews of BAER team engineers and hydrologists; acquired and analyzed gray literature and other relevant…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Zwolak
Wildfires and timber harvest are two of the most prevalent disturbances in North American forests. To evaluate and compare their impact on small mammals, I conducted meta-analysis on (1) the effect of stand-replacement wildfires and several types of forest harvest (clearcutting…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnstone, Boby, Tissier, Mack, Verbyla, Walker
The availability of viable seed can act as an important constraint on plant regeneration following disturbance. This study presents data on seed quantity and quality for black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.), a semiserotinous conifer that dominates large areas of North…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landres, Boutcher, Dean, Hall, Blett, Carlson, Mebane, Hardy, Rinehart, Merigliano, Cole, Leach, Wright, Bumpus
The purpose of monitoring wilderness character is to improve wilderness stewardship by providing managers a tool to assess how selected actions and conditions related to wilderness character are changing over time. Wilderness character monitoring provides information to help…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kobziar, Rocca, Dicus, Hoffman, Sugihara, Thode, Varner, Morgan
Over the last 20 years, the duties of US fire professionals have become more complex and risk laden because of fuel load accumulation, climate change, and the increasing wildland-urban interface. Incorporation of fire use and ecological principles into fire management policies…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
A pictorial poster showing many cloud formations and what these clouds mean in regards to fire weather and fire behavior.
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cova, Drews, Siebeneck, Musters
The decision of whether to evacuate or shelter-in-place (SIP) in a wildfire poses a significant challenge for emergency managers and residents in fire-prone areas. Events such as the 2007 Witch Creek Fire and 2008 Tea Fire in California highlight the option and viability of SIP…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parisien, Moritz
Despite its widespread occurrence globally, wildfire preferentially occupies an environmental middle ground and is significantly less prevalent in biomes characterized by environmental extremes (e.g., tundra, rain forests, and deserts). We evaluated the biophysical '…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Champ, Williams, Knotek
A lack of research on the conceptual intersection of leisure, place and wildland fire and its role in identity prompted this exploratory study. The purpose of this research was to gather evidence regarding how people negotiate identities under the threat of wildland fire.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goldammer, Statheropoulos, Andreae
Air pollution generated by vegetation fire smoke (VFS) is a phenomenon that has influenced the global environment in prehistoric and historic time scales. Although historic evidence of the impacts of VFS on societies is scarce, there are indications that VFS has been a factor…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Benson, Roads, Weise
Weather and climate have a profound influence on wildland fire ignition potential, fire behavior, and fire severity. Local weather and climate are affected by large-scale patterns of winds over the hemispheres that predispose wildland fuels to fire. The characteristics of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Conard, Solomon
Every year tens of millions of hectares of forests, woodlands, and grasslands burn globally. Some are burned intentionally for land conversion, pasture renewal or hazard reduction, or wildlife habitat improvement, but most are burned by uncontrolled wildfire. Estimates of burned…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beyers
Post-fire seeding is used to stabilize burned slopes by increasing plant cover, prevent invasion of burned areas by noxious weeds, replace weedy annual grasses on burned rangelands, and reestablish desirable vegetation including tree species. Fast-growing pasture grasses and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fox, Riebau
The U.S. Clean Air Act establishes the goal of preventing future and remedying existing visibility impairment in 156 Class I areas (national parks, wilderness areas, and wildlife refuges). A key element in implementing this goal is the Regional Haze Regulation (RHR). RHR is…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fujioka, Gill, Viegas, Wotton
Wildland fire occurrence and behavior are complex phenomena involving essentially fuel (vegetation), topography, and weather. Fire managers around the world use a variety of systems to track and predict fire danger and fire behavior, at spatial scales that span from local to…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The interaction between smoke and air pollution creates a public health challenge. Fuels treatments proposed for National Forests are intended to reduce fuel accumulations and wildfire frequency and severity, as well as to protect property located in the wild land-urban…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES