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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Raoelison, Valenca, Lee, Karim, Webster, Poulin, Mohanty
Surface runoff mobilizes the burned residues and ashes produced during wildfires and deposits them in surface waters, thereby deteriorating water quality. A lack of a consistent reporting protocol precludes a quantitative understanding of how and to what extent wildfire may…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
East, AghaKouchak, Caprarelli, Filippelli, Florindo, Luce, Rajaram, Russell, Santín, Santos
Fire has always been an important component of many ecosystems, but anthropogenic global climate change is now altering fire regimes over much of Earth's land surface, spurring a more urgent need to understand the physical, biological, and chemical processes associated with fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Murphy, Alpers, Anderson, Banta, Blake, Carpenter, Clark, Clow, Hempel, Martin, Meador, Mendez, Mueller-Solger, Stewart, Payne, Peterman, Ebel
Wildfires pose a risk to water supplies in the western U.S. and many other parts of the world, due to the potential for degradation of water quality. However, a lack of adequate data hinders prediction and assessment of post-wildfire impacts and recovery. The dearth of such data…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ebel, Shephard, Walvoord, Murphy, Partridge, Perkins
Wildfire is a growing concern as climate shifts. The hydrologic effects of wildfire, which include elevated hazards and changes in water quantity and quality, are increasingly assessed using numerical models. Post-wildfire application of physically based distributed models…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Dickman, Jonko, Linn, Altintas, Atchley, Bär, Collins, Dupuy, Gallagher, Hiers, Hoffman, Hood, Hurteau, Jolly, Josephson, Loudermilk, Ma, Michaletz, Nolan, O'Brien, Parsons, Feltrin, Pimont, de Dios, Restaino, Robbins, Sartor, Schultz-Fellenz, Serbin, Sevanto, Shuman, Sieg, Skowronski, Weise, Wright, Xu, Yebra, Younes
Wildfires are a global crisis, but current fire models fail to capture vegetation response to changing climate. With drought and elevated temperature increasing the importance of vegetation dynamics to fire behavior, and the advent of next generation models capable of capturing…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nim, Morris, Tekasakul, Dejchanchaiwong
Peatland fires are one of the major global sources of atmospheric particles. Emission factors for fine (PM1 and PM2.5) and ultrafine (PM0.1) particles and particle-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from plants in the peat swamp forest (PSF), including Melaleuca…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zema, Parhizkar, Plaza-Álvarez, Xu, Lucas-Borja
Prescribed fire is a viable practice to reduce the wildfire risk in forests, but its application may lead to increased surface runoff and soil erosion. Several hydrological and erosive models have been proposed and evaluated to predict the changes in soil hydrology and erosion…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhang, Ni, Wei, Chen
Vegetation fire frequently occurs globally and produces two types of water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) including black carbon WSOC (BC-WSOC) and smoke-WSOC, they will eventually enter the surface environment (soil and water) and participate in the eco-environmental processes…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lamborn, Smith
In a rapidly changing environment where fires are becoming more frequent and severe, scientists and managers need information and tools to enhance understanding of the numerous ways in which fire can affect fisheries. We used Ostrom's social–ecological systems framework to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Samonte, Cao, Miesel, Xu
Wildfires can release pyrogenic dissolved organic matter (pyDOM) into the forest watershed, which may pose challenges for water treatment operations downstream due to the formation of disinfection by-products (DBPs). In this study, we systematically assessed the physio-chemical…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larsen, Rupp, Swanson, Hill
Mean annual air temperature has been increasing in Alaska since the 1970s and is expected to continue to increase through the current century, resulting in significant environmental changes (e.g., permafrost thaw, shifts in vegetation community composition and distribution,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[Executive Summary] The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) presents this Addendum Update, to spotlight wildland fire critical emphasis areas and challenges that were not identified or addressed in depth in the 2014 National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moore, Richardson
Forest disturbance agents, such as wildfire and windthrow, often differ in magnitude and frequency between upland and riparian zones. Riparian forests may be subject to additional disturbance agents that do not affect uplands, including debris flows, floods, bank erosion, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Romo, Grilz, Redmann, Driver
The impacts of autumn or spring burning on Symphoricarpos occidentalis were studied in Fescue Prairie in central Saskatchewan. Symphoricarpos density increased two- to three-fold over preburn density in the 1st 2 growing seasons following a burn. Individual shoot weights were…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
DeLay, O'Conner, Ryan, Currie
From the Executive Summary: Current Status: Pondberry is listed as an endangered species. A total of 36 naturally occurring populations are extant. The species is currently known from Arkansas (10 populations), Georgia (4 populations), Mississippi (13 populations), Missouri (1…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peterson, Allen, Baron, Fagre, McKenzie, Stephenson, Fountain, Hicke, Malanson, Ojima, Tague, van Mantgem
Mountains in western North America are beginning to see changes in ecosystem processes primarily from climate-forced changes in water dynamics. With earlier snowmelt and increasing proportions of rain versus snow (Mote 2003; Stewart et al. 2005; Knowles et al. 2006), drought…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Medley-Daniel, Davis
Forest Service policies and programs promote the integration of forest and watershed restoration with local economic development. For example, the Collaborative Landscape Restoration Program, stewardship contracting, and the Watershed Condition Framework all explicitly link…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Medley-Daniel, Davis
The Watershed Condition Framework (WCF) asks Forest Service program managers and line officers to plan and implement integrated watershed restoration. Collaborating to restore watershed can help you, as a national forest or grassland staff member, achieve diverse benefits. In…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Davis
Across multiple presidential administrations, forest and watershed restoration has become an increasingly important focus of the USDA Forest Service. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, for example, has made restoring watershed and forest health the primary objective of the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dyrness, Van Cleve
Surface soils on recently deposited alluvium along the Tanana River, Alaska, have an elevated pH and are high in salts such as calcium carbonate and calcium sulfate. With advancing plant succession surface soil chemistry changes, and when the alder - balsam poplar stage is…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Foltz, Showers
The increased size and severity of wildland fires require increasingly effective BAER treatments. A commonly used BAER treatment is mulching, the spreading of agricultural straw by hand or from the air using a helicopter. While widely used and fairly reasonably effective at…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
We propose development of a new methodology that can be used by forest and fire managers and planners to consider the potential effects of all aspects of fire management (i.e., fuels reduction to post-fire restoration) on native stream fishes and their habitats. State-of-the-art…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Ashmun
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gajewski, Payette, Ritchie
1. Pollen analysis of sediment cores from the four zones that comprise the forest-tundra transition in northern Quebec provide a history of the vegetation that can be compared with extensive macrofossil data from the region. Basal radiocarbon dates indicate that the entire reion…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: TTRS