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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Forecasting regional to global plant migration in response to climate change

Neilson, Pitelka, Solomon, Nathan, Midgley, Fragoso, Lischke, Thompson
The rate of future climate change is likely to exceed the migration rates of most plant species. The replacement of dominant species by locally rare species may require decades, and extinctions may occur when plant species cannot migrate fast enough to escape the consequences of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Managing fire with fire in Alaskan black spruce forests: impacts of fire severity on successional trajectory and future forest flammability - Proposal to the Joint Fire Science Program

Johnstone, Hollingsworth
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: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Feasibility study on the use of the Fire Effects Tradeoff Model to assist in implementing the Western Regional Air Partnership fire policies

This document summarizes a study to evaluate the feasibility of using the Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM) to assist in implementing four Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP) policies on fire, described below. This report provides the Fire Emissions Joint Forum (FEJF) with…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Development of a computer model for management of fuels, human-fire interactions, and wildland fires in the boreal forest of Alaska - Final report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Rupp, Mann
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: Document
Source: FRAMES

The 1983 Rosie Creek Fire (unpublished Powerpoint presentation for Alaska fire managers)

Alexander
Rod Norum found that Fire Behavior Fuel Model 9 Rate of Spread X 1.2 worked best for predicting head fire spread rates in Alaskan black spruce. For flame lengths and in turn fire intensities he recommended using Fire Behavior Fuel Model 5. He compared fire behavior predictions…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Verification of data on forest fires, validating methods of satellite monitoring and study of their after effects in the Angara region (in Russian)

Buriak, Bychkov, Sukhinin
Description not entered.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Urban wildfire exposure modeling in the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska

Barnwell, Rodman, Koltun
The Anchorage Wildfire Exposure Model (AFEM) is the result of a phased Municipality Anchorage, Alaska (MOA) four-year wildfire risk assessment modeling process. The AFEM and associated projects arose out of a multi-agency effort to mitigate and respond to wildfire threats in the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Characterizing interannual variations in global fire calendar using data from Earth observing satellites

Carmona-Moreno, Belward, Malingreau, Hartley, Garcia-Alegre, Antonovski, Buchshtaber, Pivovarov
Daily global observations from the Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometers on the series of meteorological satellites operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration between 1982 and 1999 were used to generate a new weekly global burnt surface product at a…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

A social assessment of public knowledge, attitudes, and values related to wildland fire, fire risk, and fire recovery - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Bowker, Lim, Cordell, Green, Rideout-Hanzak, Johnson, Betz
This study focuses on the broad topic of public values, attitudes, and behaviors toward wildfire. More specifically, this study is intended to contribute to development of a comprehensive understanding of public values, attitudes and behaviors and to understanding public…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Techniques for creating a national interagency process for predicting preparedness levels - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Day, Guches, Heppler, Lentz, Lococo, MacGregor, Plattes, Shetler, Simos, Strohmeier, Wordell
A critical operational need exists for dispatch coordinators, fire managers and agency administrators to determine preparedness levels’ on a national, multi-agency basis. The preparedness planning processes now in place resulted from mandates and direction following the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Evaluating public responses to wildland fuels management: factors that influence acceptance of practices and decision processes - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Shindler, Brunson, Stankey, Starkey
Interdisciplinary research is essential to developing scientifically sound and publicly acceptable solutions to wildland fuel problems on federal lands across the United States. Currently, numerous fuel reduction strategies and public outreach activities are underway on federal…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Testing an approach to improving fire fuel mapping by modeling fuel structure and types based on combined satellite imagery and field data - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Zhu, Fleming
When this project was proposed, there were no good mapping tools to relate information collected on field inventory plots with remotely sensed imagery, a technique that was needed in order to produce useful wildland fuel data. The project was envisioned to develop and test an…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Demographic and geographic approaches to predicting public acceptance of fuel management at the wildland-urban interface - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Fried, Winter, Vogt
A conceptual model of how people living at the wildland-urban interface evaluate acceptability of three fuel management approaches (prescribed fire, mechanical treatment, and enforcement of defensible space ordinances) was developed from focus group interviews, and a set of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Diseases of Shrubs and Trees

Sinclair, Lyon
Diseases caused by fungi - Diseases caused by Oomycota - Bacterial diseases - Viral diseases - Diseases caused by nematodes - Plant-pathogenic algae and plants - Declines, environmental damage, and unexplained growth abnormalities - Restoration of sapwood and bark after injury…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Photo Series for Major Natural Fuel Types of the United States, Phase II

Ottmar, Hardy, Hilbruner, Vanderlinden, Vihnanek, Wade, Weise, Wooster
The primary objective of this project is: To continue the development of the natural fuels photo series to include a maximum of 10 additional fuel types not covered by previous projects. The goals of this objective are to: (1) complete an assessment of the literature and the…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Photo Series for Major Natural Fuel Types of the United States, Phase III

Ottmar, Hiers
Knowing the amount of biomass and other fuel characteristics across a landscape is becoming increasingly important to fire managers as new fuel and fire management decision support systems come on line, Often, few fuel characteristic data are available to the extent, or…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Symposium on Mixed Severity Fire Regimes: Ecology and Management

Peterson, Agee, Decker
There is relatively little scientific understanding of mixed severity fire regimes, compared to low severity fire regimes. However, mixed severity regimes widespread in the United States, and ecology and fuel treatments must be considered in the current manadate to accelerate…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Additional Work for Quantification of Canopy Fuels in Conifer Forests

Scott
The project has four general objectives: link two JFSP-funded studies, take advantage of a unique opportunity to use inventory data and stand treatments that have already been funded to enrich our study of canopy fuels, add forest types and conditions to the canopy fuels photo…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

A Workshop to Develop a Comprehensive Approach to Identifying the Essential Elements of Collaboration

Williams, Jakes
This Joint Fire Science Program proposal seeks to characterize and compare different collaborative planning efforts for community protection and ecosystem restoration related to wildfire, and to determine key elements of collaborative success (Task 2 of AFP, 2003-1). There is a…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Alaska wildfire bibliography

Extensive bibliographic list of references on Alaska wildfire from the Geophysical Institute.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Managing native invasive juniper species using fire

Ansley, Rasmussen
Junipers (Juniperus spp.) are native woody shrubs that have expanded beyond their normal historical ranges in the western and southwestern United States since the late 1800s. Most ecologists and resource managers agree that juniper has become a deleterious native invasive plant…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Earth, Water, Fire: the role and management of fire in aquatic ecosystems

Description not entered.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Longitudinal variation of radial growth at Alaska's northern treeline-recent changes and possible scenarios for the 21st century

Wilmking, Juday
The northern treeline is generally limited by available warmth. However, in recent years, more and more studies have identified drought stress as an additional limiting factor for tree growth in northern boreal forests and at treelines. Three growth responses to warming have…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Assessment of the MODIS leaf area index product (MOD15) in Alaska

Verbyla
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Leaf Area Index (LAI) Product (MOD15A2) was evaluated for the growing seasons of 2000 through 2004 in Alaska. The LAI estimate may be affected by three factors not directly related to canopy leaf area: snow melt, cloud…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Space-based burn severity mapping in Alaska's National Parks

Sorbel, Barnes
From introduction: 'Wildland fire is a powerful force of change across the landscape of Alaska. During the 2004 summer, record high temperatures and low precipitation resulted in the largest fire season in the state's recorded history, with more than six million acres burned…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES