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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Kolden
Considerable evidence exists that climate impacts wildfires and that climate change will continue to provide challenges for fire management. For fire managers, a key step in meeting those challenges is to identify ways to utilize climate information in order to both mitigate…
Year: 2011
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Maikawa, Kershaw
The postfire recovery sequence in spruce woodland growing on drumlins in the Abitau-Dunvegan Lakes area of the Northwest Territories is described. Four phases are recognized: year 1 to year 20, the Polytrichum phase dominated by P. piliferum, and Lecidea granulosa and L.…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lynham, Wickware, Mason
In 1975 and 1976, an experimental burning programme was conducted in an immature stand of boreal jack pine (Pinus banksiana) growing on level, granitic outwash sands in northern Ontario, Canada. Nine 0.4-ha plots were burned under a range of fire weather conditions and sampling…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landhausser, Wein
A fire of unusually great severity (deep burning) burned across the forest-tundra ecotone near Inuvik, Northwest Territories from August 8 to 18, 1968. Burned-unburned paired study sites around the fire perimeter, which had been established in both tundra and forest-tundra in…
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kuuluvainen, Aapala, Ahlroth, Kuusinen, Lindholm, Sallantaus, Siitonen, Tukia
This paper outlines the general principles and approaches such as controlled use of fire, and creating small gaps and dead trees for the restoration of boreal forest and peatland ecosystems, which are largely based on experiences in Finland.
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kou, Baker
Accurate fire-history data are needed if local management of fire or costly national plans for restoring and managing fire and forest structure are to succeed. Fire-history researchers often use fire scars and the composite fire interval method to reconstruct parameters of past…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Robichaud, Ashmun
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Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson, Ascher, Toman
Despite the importance of effective communication about forest and fuel management, little is known about how best to frame information to facilitate public understanding and increase support. The results presented here indicate that framing a fuel management plan as necessary…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arno
Major forest types that are characterized by nonlethal understory fire regimes include those where ponderosa pine or Jeffrey pine has been a major component either as a fire-maintained seral type or as the self-perpetuating climax (table 5-1). This includes extensive areas…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Saab, Powell
We summarize the findings from 10 subsequent chapters that collectively review fire and avian ecology across 40 North American ecosystems. We highlight patterns and future research topics that recur among the chapters. Vegetation types with long fire-return intervals, such as…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lavender, Parish, Johnson, Montgomery, Vyse, Willis, Winston
The book provides silviculturalists with a broad reference to the science and technology of reforestation in British Columbia, the single most diverse forest region in North America. It includes experience gained from practical reforestation projects and from scientific studies…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeBano, Neary, Ffolliott
A comprehensive exploration of the effects of fires - in forests and other environments - on soils, watersheds, vegetation, air and cultural resources.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee
[From the text] Fire has been an integral part of America's wildlands for millions of years. The only environments not experiencing fire as a significant ecological factor were those that remained very cold, very wet, or very dry, and even in these regions, extreme variation in…
Year: 1974
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This state-of-knowledge review of information on relationships between wildland fire and nonnative invasive plants can assist fire managers and other land managers concerned with prevention, detection, and eradication or control of nonnative invasive plants. The 16 chapters in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on flora and fuels can assist land managers with ecosystem and fire management planning and in their efforts to inform others about the ecological role of fire. Chapter topics include fire regime classification,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fires affect animals mainly through effects on their habitat. Fires often cause short-term increases in wildlife foods that contribute to increases in populations of some animals. These increases are moderated by the animals' ability to thrive in the altered, often simplified,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Shlisky
Altered fire regimes pose great threats to biodiversity. Fire managers recognize the need to reduce hazardous fuel loads, restore sustainable fire regimes and ecosystems, and decrease the threat of catastrophic wildfires to community values. The United States Department of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hann, Bunnell
Ecosystem conditions on Federal public lands have changed, particularly within the last 30 years. Wildfires in the west have increased to levels close to or above those estimated for historical conditions, despite increasing efforts and expertise in fire prevention and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Guay, Weber
Part 3 of this series covered: Remote sensing indices (NDVI, NBR); Post fire planning (BAER); Demo of RECOVER Decision Support System.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Knelman, Graham, Ferrenberg, Lecoeuvre, Labrado, Darcy, Nemergut, Schmidt
While past research has studied forest succession on decadal timescales, ecosystem responses to rapid shifts in nutrient dynamics within the first months to years of succession after fire (e.g., carbon (C) burn-off, a pulse in inorganic nitrogen (N), accumulation of organic…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hakala, Seemel, Richey, Kurtz
During summer 1969, fires burned 86,000 acres of the Kenai National Moose Range, south-central Alaska; two fires accounted for 99 percent of the burned area. Suppression efforts involved nearly 5,000 men; 135 miles of catline were constructed, and 822,000 gallons of retardant…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cruz, Alexander, Wakimoto
Model evaluation should be a component of the model development process, leading to a better understanding of model behavior and an increase in its credibility. In this paper a model evaluation protocol is proposed that encompasses five aspects: 1) model conceptual validity, 2)…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bolstad
Severe erosion has resulted in the past from bulldozer-constructed firelines in permafrost terrain. In an attempt to reduce erosion and gullying, several water-barring techniques and seeding treatments were tested on permafrost and nonpermafrost catlines. Standard water bars and…
Year: 1971
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Boerner
Ecosystem restoration in most terrestrial North American ecosystems focuses on establishing a plant community that either resembles closely the pre-alteration vegetation or meets established guidelines for plant cover or density. Such an approach is based on the assumption that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Lear, Wurtz
Forest restoration, in a general sense, suggests a transition from a degraded state to some 'natural' condition, presumably devoid of human influence (Stanturf, this volume). Yet, because nearly all temperate and boreal forests have been influenced to varying and unknown degrees…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES