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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Utilizing data collected in the Native Allotment Hazard Fuel Assessment, three allotments along the Wood River were mechanically treated to install holding lines in advance of a burnout. The burnout will occur prior to a scheduled prescribed burn within the Tanana Flats. By…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The assessment ranks the risk of allotments to fire damage by various threat components. Improvements are verified on the parcels and attributes are collected on the improvements with respect to the standing fuels. Each improvement is located with a global positioning system (…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
A number of fuels management and forest inventory projects are being conducted by the Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) Forestry Program. The TCC forestry program provides a wide range of forestry and fire management services to Native allotments and their owners via the trust…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
These symposia are designed to share experiences and new or changing techniques and technologies in weather and climate affecting fire, fuels, and smoke. The symposia began as a collaboration between the Society of American Foresters and the American Meteorological Society over…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
From 1990 to 2000 a massive outbreak of spruce beetles (Dendroctonus rufipennis) caused a die-off of spruce trees (Picea spp.) across more than 1.19 million ha of forests in Alaska. This natural disturbance was most pronounced among forests in south-central Alaska where a…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Finney
FARSITE has been incorporated into FlamMap and is no longer supported separately or available for download.
FARSITE is a fire behavior and growth simulator for use on Windows computers. It is used by Fire Behavior Analysts from the U.S. FS, USDI NPS, USDI BLM,…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This project synthesizes boreal forest research comparing long-term records of white spruce radial growth, seed production, climate data, and fire records to better understand growth and reproduction. Interior Alaska alternates between one- to four-decade-long periods with…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
High-latitude forests provide important feedbacks to global climate. The treeline margin between tundra and forest should be a particularly sensitive environment in which to detect climate change effects. Analysis of tree ring samples from 1155 trees older than 100 years…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This study examined the climate/growth relationship and factors that best promote and most limit growth of black spruce and Alaska birch at some sites around Interior Alaska. Birch had two opposite growth responses: positive responders grow more in warm summers, less in cool…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The boreal forest is a natural climate-driven system, but with recent warming over the past several decades, it is important to distinguish climate change (warming) effect from natural variability of this system. This project overlaps with other projects that are determining…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This long-term monitoring project measures survival and height growth of seedlings and saplings in an area burned in the 1983 Rosie Creek Fire, near Fairbanks, Alaska. The fifteenth year of measurements occurred in 2003. All seedlings belong to the 1983, 1987, or 1990 seed crops…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The Rare Event Risk Assessment Process (RERAP) helps calculate the information needed to manage prescribed fires, wildland fire use fires, and wildland fires. RERAP allows a user to dynamically calculate the risk of undesired fire movement, including how to: 1) identify high and…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Sediment traps deployed in lakes within burned (4) and unburned (1) watersheds were set out to quantify charcoal deposition at the bottom of each lake. Burned lakes are all within the 2005 King County Creek fire, and the unburned lake is located to the north of the fire. The…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rorig, Ferguson, Goodrick, Werth
Lightning causes most wildfires in the western United States, and is a major cause of fire elsewhere in the U.S. Because most lightning occurs with significant precipitation, however, simple predictions of Lightning Activity Level (LAL) do not accurately determine fire ignition…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Reinhardt, Parsons, Soedal, Tarkalson
NEXUS 2.0 is crown fire hazard analysis software that links separate models of surface and crown fire behavior to compute indices of relative crown fire potential. NEXUS can be used to compare crown fire potential for different stands, and to compare the effects of alternative…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Seven regional workshops were conducted across the country to teach land managers enough about three FERA tools so that they can go out and teach others. These workshops were three days each and attended by approximately 10-15 managers. A teaching cadre of 5 demonstrated in the…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The Native Village of Tanacross is located 12 miles west of Tok, Alaska, and is situated adjacent to the upper portion of the Tanana River. The fuels (or trees, shrubs, grass, etc.) in this area and throughout the village are primarily vast stands of white spruce and black…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Neilson
Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System Seasonal Fire Risk Forecasts (Wildland fire management agencies are increasingly interested in more long-term forecasts of fire business. Several short-term fire potential assessments are currently available ranging from Wildland Fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This project is assessing the viability of using remotely-sensed imagery to detect burn severity within black spruce (Picea mariana) stands of interior Alaska through correlations of ground-truthed data (composite burn index scores) and remotely-sensed indices (differenced…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone
This project aims to use data from the 2004 fires in Alaska to link pre-fire vegetation composition and soil conditions with patterns of burn severity and post-fire stand rehabilitation. The primary objective is to examine how variations in burn severity can influence patterns…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This study reconstructed the fire history and vegetation at a network of sites in the southcentral Brooks Range, Alaska, in order to understand how fire regimes have evolved over the past 15,000 years in relation to climate and vegetation. Lake sediment records were used to…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Ervin, Rorabaugh
KCFast is a web-based computer application that simplifies data retrieval from NIFMID (National Interagency Fire Management Integrated Database). KCFast builds the JCL (Job Control Language) required to query NIFMID for fire and weather data. KCFast is meant for use by anyone…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
As part of the Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation and Stabilization plan for Alaska's 2004 fires, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Alaska Natural Heritage Program are studying the interaction of burn severity and weed invasion in selected sites on five National…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Despite the fact that high-intensity crown fires account for an overwhelming proportion of the area burned by forest fires in Canada, fully understanding and subsequently modeling the initiation, propagation, and spread of crown fires remains an elusive goal for fire research…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This conference was held November 13-17, 2006, in San Diego, California. It focused on the science and technology that are the basis for the management of wildland fire. The plenary session addressed the context and consequences of changing fire regimes, while the concurrent…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES