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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mason, Trentmann, Winterrath, Yokelson, Christian, Carlson, Warner, Wolfe, Andreae
Results from two independently developed biomass-burning smoke plume models are compared. Model results were obtained for the temporal evolution of two nascent smoke plumes originating from significantly different fire environments (an Alaskan boreal forest and an African…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pengelly, Hamer
Hedysarum (Hedysarum spp.) roots are a major food for grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) over much of their Canadian and Alaskan range. In Banff National Park, grizzly bears typically dig roots of pink hedysarum (H. alpinum) in willow (Salix glauca, S. farriae) - dwarf birch (Betula…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drewa, Peters, Havstad
Relationships involving fire and perennial grasses are controversial in Chihuahuan Desert grasslands of southern New Mexico, USA. Research suggests that fire delays the resprouting of perennial grasses well after two growing seasons. However, such results are confounded by…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keyes
In combination with measured stand data and assumed environmental conditions, reasonable estimates of foliar moisture content (FMC) are necessary to determine and justify silvicultural targets for canopy fuels management strategies. FMC often is overlooked in fuels planning,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hiratsuka, Toma, Diana, Hadriyanto, Morikawa
After the 1998 forest fire in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, biomass recovery of naturally regenerated vegetation was estimated in order to evaluate the initial secondary succession patterns of the burned land. We established research plots in naturally regenerated vegetation that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ohlson, Berry, Gray, Blackwell, Hawkes
This paper provides an example of the practical application of multi-attribute trade-off analysis (MATA) to wildfire management. The MATA approach supports more informed decision-making because it exposes important trade-offs among competing management objectives (requiring…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tinner, Hu, Beer, Kaltenrieder, Scheurer, Krahenbuhl
Pollen, plant macrofossil and charcoal analyses of sediments from two Alaskan lakes provide new data for inferring Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change. The records span the past 14,700 years at Lost Lake, 240 m a.s.l., central Alaska, north of the Alaska Range and 9600…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Meyn, Feller
Forest fires in British Columbia often leave patches of unburned vegetation (forest remnants) within their perimeters. These remnants help to maintain biological diversity and structural complexity in stands. To be able to maintain patterns similar to those created by fire, we…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nadeau, Englefield
The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) is used daily across Canada for evaluating forest fire danger. Fuel-type information is one of the inputs required by the models used in the CFFDRS. In this project, three fuel-type maps with a 25 m resolution were produced…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gaughan, Piacitelli, Chen, Law, Virji, Edwards, Enright, Schwegler-Berry, Leonard, Wagner, Kobzik, Kales, Hughes, Christiani, Siegel, Cox-Ganser, Hoover
Respiratory problems are common among wildland firefighters. However, there are few studies directly linking occupational exposures to respiratory effects in this population. Our objective was to characterize wildland fire fighting occupational exposures and assess their…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan, Sharples, Matthews, Plucinski
There is currently no fundamental understanding of the effects of topography on the behaviour of fires burning over a landscape. While a number of empirical models are employed operationally around the world, the effects of negative slopes on fire spread are ignored in all but…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Strycker
From the text ... 'Noah Strycker's new book, 'The Thing with Feathers' provides a wonderful response to the relative who likes to remind you that you could have made more money working as an engineer. The inspiration the study of birds invokes may seem unusual to curmudgeonly…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Siegel
From the text ... 'Under the statute [Budget Control Act which Congress passed in 2011], when unpredictable events such as Hurricane Sandy are destructive enough to be declared disasters by the president, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is authorized to exceed its annual…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nlungu-Kweta, Leduc, Bergeron
Ongoing climate change is likely to result in shifts in successional dynamics in boreal mixedwood stands. Using data from provincial forest inventory databases, we examined the occurrence and abundance of the regeneration of various coniferous species (white spruce, black spruce…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mueller, Mell, Simeoni
Large eddy simulation (LES) based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulators have obtained increasing attention in the wildland fire research community, as these tools allow the inclusion of important driving physics. However, due to the complexity of the models, individual…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larson, Boyer, Armsworth
The effectiveness of conservation organizations is determined in part by how they adapt to changing conditions. Over the previous decade, economic conditions in the United States (US) showed marked variation including a period of rapid growth followed by a major recession. We…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lammertink
Taking the first IUCN Red List from 1988 as a starting point, I review trends in the threat status of the woodpecker species of the world, the geographical distribution of (near-) threatened woodpecker species, threat factors affecting these species, and the research output…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jeffrey
From the text ... 'As cities grow in population, they tend to expand outward into formerly undeveloped wildland areas. Since much of the expansion on the urban edge consists of residential properties, an increasing number of newer homes are located in close proximity to natural…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ghimire, Green, Poudyal, Cordell
It has been posited that participation in outdoor recreation activities increases awareness of environmental issues and support for environmental conservation. Studies have shown that different outdoor recreationists may have different environmental orientations. For example,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barbero, Abatzoglou, Steel, Larkin
Very large-fires (VLFs) have widespread impacts on ecosystems, air quality, fire suppression resources, and in many regions account for a majority of total area burned. Empirical generalized linear models of the largest fires (>5000 ha) across the contiguous United States (US…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Takai
From the text ... 'The role and tools of public information officers are in a major transition in response to the worldwide changes in communication technologies and the rise of social media networks.'
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barnett
From the text ... 'The key to successfully avoiding accidents is the development of equal parts confidence and caution.'
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barnett
From the text ... 'Forest Service manuals and handbooks are full of binding standards intended to protect and guide employees. Training, tools, and information bolster safe operational objectives. Everyone from the Chief of the Forest service to forest resource experts provide…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sullivan, McDonald
Current practices for measuring high heat flux in scenarios such as wildland forest fires use expensive, thermopile-based sensors, coupled with mathematical models based on a semi-infinite-length scale. Although these sensors are acceptable for experimental testing in…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Romps, Seeley, Vollaro, Molinari
Lightning plays an important role in atmospheric chemistry and in the initiation of wildfires, but the impact of global warming on lightning rates is poorly constrained. Here we propose that the lightning flash rate is proportional to the convective available potential energy (…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS