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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The first ever Landscape State-and-Transition Simulation Modeling Conference was held from June 14-16, 2011, in Portland Oregon. The conference brought together over 70 users of state-and-transition simulation modeling tools-the Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT), the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Price
Prescribed burning for fuel reduction is a major strategy for reducing the risk from unplanned fire. Although there are theoretical studies suggesting that prescribed fire has a strong negative influence on the subsequent area of unplanned fire (so-called leverage), many…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
González-Cabán, Rodríguez-Trejo, Nolasco Morales, Rodríguez y Silva, Frausto Leyva, Gallegos Mora
This symposium brings together a broad community of wildland fire managers, practitioners, researchers, academics, policy makers, and students from around the world to provide the opportunity to share research and ideas on the economics, planning, and policies of wildland fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McAllister, Grenfell, Hadlow, Jolly, Cohen
The most unpredictable and uncontrollable wildfires are those that burn in the crowns of live vegetation. The fuels that feed these crown fires are mostly live, green foliage. Unfortunately, little is known about how live fuels combust. To understand how live fuels burn, piloted…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scarff, Gray, Westoby
Some plants have traits that cause them to be more flammable than others, influencing wildfire spread and fire regimes. Some of these plant traits have been identified through laboratory-scale experiments. We built a numerical model that could quantify the extent of these…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
In 2010, 12 task statements were solicited resulting in 134 proposals requesting almost $37 million. After peer review, 33 proposals were selected, and $8.7 million was awarded. In-kind contributions garnered another $5.5 million, or 63 percent, in additional financial support…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Miller, McMillan, Hrobak
The AWFCG Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee and the Alaska Fire Science Consortium sponsored a fuel moisture sampling field training workshop on May 17, 2012. The purpose of this workshop was to provide step by step instruction for collecting samples and processing moisture…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Erickson, Youngblood
Principal findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) study are presented in an annotated bibliography and summarized in tabular form by site, discipline (ecosystem component), treatment type, and major theme. Composed of 12 sites, the FFS is a comprehensive…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This state-of-knowledge review provides a synthesis of the effects of fire on cultural resources, which can be used by fire managers, cultural resource (CR) specialists, and archaeologists to more effectively manage wildland vegetation, fuels, and fire. The goal of the volume is…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stratton
Instructions for overlaying a fuel model image in Google Earth, derived from a PNW fire behavior workshop in Vancouver, WA.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Hadlow
Foliar moisture content is an important factor regulating how wildland fires ignite in and spread through live fuels but moisture content determination methods are rarely standardised between studies. One such difference lies between the uses of rapid moisture analysers or…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McKenzie, French, Ottmar
In recent years, wildfires have emerged as an important part of the global environment. Carbon released from fires during combustion alters the global carbon balance. Smoke emissions are a health hazard to nearby communities [Wegesser et al., 2009], can impair air quality and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cochrane, Moran, Wimberly, Baer, Finney, Beckendorf, Eidenshink, Zhu
Human land use practices, altered climates, and shifting forest and fire management policies have increased the frequency of large wildfires several-fold. Mitigation of potential fire behaviour and fire severity have increasingly been attempted through pre-fire alteration of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hicke, Johnson, Hayes, Preisler
Millions of trees killed by bark beetles in western North America have raised concerns about subsequent wildfire, but studies have reported a range of conclusions, often seemingly contradictory, about effects on fuels and wildfire. In this study, we reviewed and synthesized the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Payeur-Poirier, Coursolle, Margolis, Giasson
Forest harvest and subsequent stand development can have major effects on the carbon cycle of boreal stands. Carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes of a three-point black spruce harvest chronosequence located in the boreal forest of eastern North America were measured over a one-year…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Hoy
A method was developed to estimate carbon consumed during wildland fires in interior Alaska based on medium-spatial scale data (60 m cell size) generated on a daily basis. Carbon consumption estimates were developed for 41 fire events in the large fire year of 2004 and 34 fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Contreras, Parsons, Chung
Land managers have been using fire behavior and simulation models to assist in several fire management tasks. These widely-used models use average attributes to make stand-level predictions without considering spatial variability of fuels within a stand. Consequently, as the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moles, Flores-Moreno, Bonser, Warton, Helm, Warman, Eldridge, Jurado, Hemmings, Reich, Cavender-Bares, Seabloom, Mayfield, Sheil, Djietror, Peri, Enrico, Cabido, Setterfield, Lehmann, Thomson
1. We provide a brief overview of progress in our understanding of introduced plant species. 2. Three main conclusions emerge from our review: (i) Many lines of research, including the search for traits that make species good invaders, or that make ecosystems susceptible to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey, Olsen
As part of a Joint Fire Science Program project, a team of social scientists reviewed existing fire social science literature to develop a targeted synthesis of scientific knowledge on the following questions: 1. What is the public's understanding of fire's role in the ecosystem…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
This paper is the second of two reviewing scientific literature from 100 years of research addressing interactions between the atmosphere and fire behaviour. These papers consider research on the interactions between the fuels burning at any instant and the atmosphere, and the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Potter
This paper is the first of two reviewing scientific literature from 100 years of research addressing interactions between the atmosphere and fire behaviour. These papers consider research on the interactions between the fuels burning at any instant and the atmosphere, and the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bahn, Wright, MontBlanc, Thode
Fire and fuels management have become increasingly challenging in the last three decades due to climate change, invasive species, urbanization and development, increased land use, and the effects of these factors on fire size and frequency (Westerling et al. 2007; D'Antonio and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sikkink, Keane
Fire severity classifications have been used extensively in fire management over the last 30 years to describe specific environmental or ecological impacts of fire on fuels, vegetation, wildlife, and soils in recently burned areas. New fire severity classifications need to be…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hansen
In wildland fires where water is used as the primary extinguishing agent, one of the issues of wildfire suppression is estimating how much water is required to extinguish a certain section of the fire. In order to use easily distinguished and available indicators, the flame…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Marino, Dupuy, Pimont, Guijarro, Hernando, Linn
Fuel bulk density and fuel moisture content effects on fire rate of spread were assessed in shrub fuels, comparing experimental data observed in outdoor wind tunnel burns and predictions from the physically-based model FIRETEC. Statistical models for the combined effects of bulk…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES