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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Marchand
When tundra vegetation remains free from fires and other disruptions, the long-lived sedges form large clumps that are often drier than the surrounding soil and eventually become colonized by lichens, mosses, willow shrubs, and alders. These invaders slowly crowd out their…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lumley, Gignac, Currah
Fallen logs of trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) and white spruce (Picea glauca) at various stages of decomposition were sampled from undisturbed and 1-, 14-, and 28-year-old post-fire and post-harvest sites in northern Alberta, Canada, and studied for differences in the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Sturgess
This study examined the role of logs, stumps, and root throws on the understorey composition of aspen (Populus tremuloides) dominated boreal forests. Measures of microsite coverage and suitability, and vascular plant composition and abundance were taken from 28-year-old wildfire…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leblon, Alexander, Chen, White
The objective of this study was to assess the potential of remote sensing from satellites for monitoring forest fire danger in northern Canadian boreal forests. In Canada, daily forest fire danger is rated by the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System. One of its components…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Laberge, Payette, Pitre
Black spruce (Picea mariana) is the dominant tree species across the North American boreal forest. In the northernmost parts of its natural range, the species thrives in the form of scattered or aggregated stunted clones (krummholz) in winter-exposed subarctic and arctic sites.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grissino-Mayer
Many studies us the temporal record of dendrochronologically-dated fire scars to document properties of fire regimes before human interference (e.g. fire suppression, logging, and agriculture) became pervasive. Such reconstructions provide vital information that can be used by…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kumagai, Daniels
This annotated bibliography is collected from professional journals in natural resource management and sociology, conference proceedings, and technical reports. It is categorized into thirteen sections: acceptability, fire in wilderness, general, history, institutions, media,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kneeshaw
Boreal forest dynamics have been long characterized as being controlled by large-scale fire regimes. When fire cycles are short, trees are killed and recruited primarily due to these events. However, where fire cycles exceed the longevity of the trees, gap dynamics will shape…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Achtemeier, Jackson, Brenner
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Krebs, Boutin, Boonstra
In this book we describe the Kluane Boreal Forest Ecosystem Project which operated from 1986 to 1996 in the southwestern Yukon. We begin by describing the area and its physical setting, and then describe the background of the project and the wisdom that had accumulated to 1986…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Miyanishi
From preface: 'Since the 1950s, the body of literature on fire behavior has been growing in journals of engineering, geophysics, meteorology, etc. Foresters and ecologists have not used much of this literature on the physical aspects of fire behavior to understand fire effects…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The CrownMass program within Fuels Management Analyst facilitates: (1) the calculation of the loading of foliage and woody biomass by tree species from plot data consisting of a minimum of tree species, tree diameter breast high, tree height, tree canopy ratio and tree…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This document describes the password management and new fire reports available using KCFAST.
Year: 2001
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
Chalmers, Hartsough
The work described in this paper examines the economic costs of thinning and prescribed burning to reduce fuel loading. Thinning costing is based on measurement of productive/scheduled hours, standard machine costing, plus analysis of volumes of timber harvested, extracted, and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hao
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gagnon
In the Canadian Northeast (Quebec, Ontario and Newfoundland), black spruce (Picea mariana) is the dominant species of tree in the boreal zone, where it forms large and often monospecific natural virgin stands. This spruce is present only in North America. The integration of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dennis, Miles
A consequence of past fire management practices in U. S. Forests is the excessive accumulation of fuel. In order to avoid severe and catastrophic fires, resource managers employ a number of treatments to diminish fuel loads. Alternative treatments include prescribed burns and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cohen
Research results indicate that the home and its immediate surroundings within 100-200 feet (30-60 meters) principally determines the home ignition potential during severe wildland-urban fires. Research has also established that fire is an intrinsic ecological process of nearly…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen, Butler
Residential losses associated with wildland fires have become a serious international fire protection problem. The radiant heat flux from burning vegetation adjacent to a structure is a principal ignition factor. A thermal radiation and ignition model estimated structure…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bartlette
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Awada
We studied white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) population dynamics in the mixedwood section of boreal forest in Saskatchewan, Canada, using 35 stands along a chronosequence ranging from less than one year to more than 200 years after fire. We determined the spatial pattern…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Croft, Watts, Potter, Reed
Since the Haines Index (HI) was introduced in 1988, it has been used as a tool to aid fire managers with their decision-making in assessing fire risk. The HI is a lower atmospheric severity index for wildfire severity (growth potential) based upon environmental lapse rates and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Cohen
Safety zones are a primary component of firefighter safety. A theoretical study has been presented suggesting burn injury can be avoided if safety zones provide a minimum separation distance between the fire and the firefighter equal to 4 times the average flame height. In this…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Peterson, Leenhouts, Core
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES