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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Koutzenogii, Trubina
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Koo, Pagni, Woycheese, Stephens, Weise, Huff
Based on energy conservation and detailed heat transfer mechanisms, a simple physical model for fire spread is presented for the limit of one-dimensional steady-state contiguous spread of a line fire in a thermally-thin uniform porous fuel bed. The solution for the fire spread…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hom, Van Tuyl, Iverson
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoffman, Coulter, Luciani, Riggan
The new FireMapper® 2.0 and OilMapper airborne, infrared imaging systems operate in a 'snapshot' mode. Both systems feature the real time display of single image frames, in any selected spectral band, on a daylight readable tablet PC. These single frames are displayed to the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Meghan Salmon, Nordgren, Urbanski
Biomass burning is an important source of many atmospheric trace gases and aerosol particles. Quantitative characterization of biomass burning emissions is critical for modeling atmospheric chemistry and assessing the impact of fires on air quality, tropospheric ozone chemistry…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Masco
Boreal forests store large quantities of carbon (C) and currently act as atmospheric C sinks; however, predicted increases in temperature and fire frequency may change the boreal forest from a net C sink to a net source. This study evaluates the response of organic soil C and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lyle
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wurtz, Wiita, Weber, Pilz
Morels are edible, choice wild mushrooms that sometimes fruit prolifically in the years immediately after an area has been burned by wildfire. Wildfires are common in interior Alaska; an average of 708,700 acres burned each year in interior Alaska between 1961 and 2000, and in…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson
Over the past two decades, unprecedented levels of disturbance have occurred in the white spruce forests of Alaska. Spruce bark beetles, fires, and timber harvests have left millions of acres of dead spruce with little spruce regeneration. To assist public and private landowners…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sturtevant, Moote, Jakes, Cheng
A series of syntheses were commissioned by the USDA Forest Service to aid in fuels mitigation project planning. This synthesis focuses on collaboration research, and offers knowledge and tools to improve collaboration in the planning and implementation of wildland fire and fuels…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
A series of syntheses were commissioned by the USDA Forest Service to aid in fuels mitigation project planning. This synthesis focuses on research addressing aesthetic considerations of fuels management. A general finding is that fuels management activities can contribute to the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi, Haggstrom
Determined relative efficacy and cost of using felling and shearblading and low-severity prescribed burning to stimulate root sprouting of suckers in mature stands of quaking aspen, and crushing or other appropriate mechanical treatments, or prescribed burning to rejuvenate…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ott, Jandt
Nationally, the wildland fire threat to homes is increasing, and is often referred to as the wildland-urban interface (W-UI) fire problem (Cohen 2000). The increase in the W-UI fire problem is a result of a major population increase in or adjacent to forested areas (Davis 1990…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loomis
This report summarizes more than 30 years of the literature on net economic value of outdoor recreation on public lands. The report provides average net willingness to pay or consumer surplus per day for 30 recreation activities at the national level. Values per day by…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Barnes, Horschel
This report summarizes activities from 2002-2004 undertaken by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Alaska Fire Service and cooperating agencies to better understand the influence of forest floor moisture content on fire behavior in interior Alaska boreal spruce forest. Forest…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak, Jandt
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak, Jandt
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hennon, D'Amore, Zeglen, Grainger
The distribution of a forest decline of yellow-cedar (Callitropsis nootkatensis (D. Don) Orsted) has been documented in southeast Alaska, but its occurrence in British Columbia was previously unknown. We conducted an aerial survey in the Prince Rupert area in September 2004 to…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Helfferich
Last year's interior wildfires may provide Alaskans with a bumper crop of morels in 2005 and 2006. These sought-after mushrooms are a valuable forest product and grow profusely in the year immediately after a fire. Scientists are studying their genetics and growth patterns, and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
He, Li, Sturtevant, Yang, Shang, Gustafson, Mladenoff
LANDIS 4.0 is new-generation software that simulates forest landscape change over large spatial and temporal scales. It is used to explore how disturbances, succession, and management interact to determine forest composition and pattern. Also describes software architecture,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harmon, Fasth, Yatskov, Sexton, Trummer
Executive summary: Trees killed by beetle, fire, cutting, and the 1964 Earthquake-related flooding were sampled to determine loss of mass, volume, and soundness of wood. Preliminary estimates of the decomposition rates of primarily beetle-killed Lutz spruce trees on the Kenai…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Garber-Yonts
This analysis examines the problem of measuring demand for recreation on national forests and other public lands. Current measures of recreation demand in Forest Service resource assessments and planning emphasize population-level participation rates and activity-based economic…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Graham, McCaffrey
The geographic focus of the 'Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration' project (known as the Fuels Synthesis Project) is on the dry forests of the Western United States. Project goals include developing accessible analyses, protocols, and tools; writing peer-reviewed…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fitzgerald, Juday
The summer of 2004 was a hot and smoky one for Alaska's Interior, focusing residents' attention on fire management issues. Natural regeneration of the boreal forest after fire literally has made the forests that are managed today. Forestry professor Scott Rupp and others are…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fight, Barbour
ANNOTATION: This paper discusses the My Fuel Treatment Planner (MyFTP) software to show the effect treatment variables have on the cost and net revenue from fire hazard reduction treatments in dry forest types of the Western United States. The study is meant to help design a…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES