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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Episode 2 of the Fire Danger Learning Series discussing the forthcoming 2016 revision to the US National Fire Danger Rating System.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lutes
FOFEM - A First Order Fire Effects Model - is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McRae, Lynham, Frech
The alarming loss of forested areas containing red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) and eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) in eastern Canada is a situation that must be addressed promptly by changing management approaches. Since the ecological role of fire in the regeneration and…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Angelstam
Summary (p.499-500) ... 'Fire is an important natural and anthropogenic factor in the dynamics of the boreal forest system. The ecological and environmental impacts of boreal fires depend on fire weather, fuel availability, fire behavior and history of stand development (…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Levine
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pimont, Parsons, Rigolot, deColigny, Dupuy, Dreyfus, Linn
Scientists and managers critically need ways to assess how fuel treatments alter fire behavior, yet few tools currently exist for this purpose. We present a spatially-explicit-fuel-modeling system, FuelManager, which models fuels, vegetation growth, fire behavior (using a…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fischer, Spies, Steelman, Moseley, Johnson, Bailey, Ager, Bourgeron, Charnley, Collins, Kline, Leahy, Littell, Millington, Nielsen-Pincus, Olsen, Paveglio, Roos, Steen-Adams, Stevens, Vukomanovic, White, Bowman
Wildfire risk in temperate forests has become a nearly intractable problem that can be characterized as a socioecological 'pathology': that is, a set of complex and problematic interactions among social and ecological systems across multiple spatial and temporal scales.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drury, Rauscher, Banwell, Huang, Lavezzo
The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based software and data integration framework that organizes fire and fuels software applications into a single online application. IFTDSS is designed to make fuels treatment planning and analysis more…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balch, Nagy, Archibald, Bowman, Moritz, Roos, Scott, Williamson
Humans use combustion for heating and cooking, managing lands, and, more recently, for fuelling the industrial economy. As a shift to fossil-fuel-based energy occurs, we expect that anthropogenic biomass burning in open landscapes will decline as it becomes less fundamental to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Steelman
There are fundamental spatial and temporal disconnects between the specific policies that have been crafted to address our wildfire challenges. The biophysical changes in fuels, wildfire behavior, and climate have created a new set of conditions for which our wildfire governance…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Waring, Coops
A lengthening of the fire season, coupled with higher temperatures, increases the probability of fires throughout much of western North America. Although regional variation in the frequency of fires is well established, attempts to predict the occurrence of fire at a spatial…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wei, Rideout, Kirsch, Kernohan
Hazard fuel reduction and wildland fire preparedness programs are two important budgeting components in the US National Park Service strategic wildland fire planning. During the planning process, each national park independently conducts analysis to understand the benefits from…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Breen
Alaska Fire Science Consortium Workshop | Thursday, October 13, 2016Presenter: Amy Breen
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Created through the Wildfire Disaster Recovery Act of 1989 (PL 101-286), in response to the destructive western fire season of 1987 and the Yellowstone fires of 1988, the Commission was asked to consider the environmental and economic effects of disastrous wildfires through…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Grilz, Romo
Bromus inermis Leyss (smooth brome) is an invasive perennial grass in Fescue Prairie in North America. Prescribed burning is a potential method of controlling this exotic, but its responses to burning in this grassland are not known. This study was conducted to determine the…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Velázquez
Multivariate analysis was used to describe the composition and distribution of vegetation types on the slopes of the volcanoes Tláloc and Pelado, Mexico. These volcanoes are situated in the transitional zone between the Holarctic and Neotropical floristic regions, which offers a…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sampson
From the text: 'Authorities pinpoint certain western forests so stressed and vulnerable that catastrophic fires threaten this summer. With over 10 million acres of forest showing serious stress in the West, wildfire is an enormous concern everywhere. That concern heightens…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pitman, Adjei
Most grasslands have developed under burning, and the dominant grasses are tolerant of burning (Roberts 1979; Hodgkinson 1986). Roberts (1979) suggested that burning provided advantages to grasses over desirable pasture legumes, whereas Pressland (1982) considered that native…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
The capture of fire by the genus Homo changed forever the natural history of the Earth. Even today fire appears at the core of many popular scenarios for an environmental apocalypse. Yet the larger history of fire - the varied ways human society have sought to use and control…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
Spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) has defoliated the balsam fir (Abies balsamea) component of many eastern North American forests, resulting in widespread mortality of these trees. Consequently, managers have become concerned about the potential for severe forest fires…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weber, Wells
From the text... 'One of the potential problems with the use of prescribed burning in the past has been the lack of any systematic investigation into the ecological effects of this forest management practice on the ecosystem. In 1991, the planning process to address this issue…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jensen, Hann, Keane, Caratti, Bourgeron
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Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palmer, Goodale, Martin
Large, free-burning fires do not burn steadily. As most experienced fire personnel know, fire behavior varies significantly with time. It frequently can be described as pulsating. This pulsing is caused by a process called layer-replacement. As the burning creates a zone of hot…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radke, Ward
Planning prescribed fires for optimal periods which results in emissions reduction is an extremely useful air quality management technique. New information suggests that one more useful tool in smoke management may involve using the capacity of the atmosphere to remove smoke…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Titus, Adams, Woodard
An interactive microcomputer environment, the Forester's Workspace, is introduced and used to illustrate the estimation of residual fuel biomass for lodgepole pine and white spruce trees and stands in Alberta. Estimates are made for individual trees using the prediction…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: TTRS