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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Andrews
Rothermel's surface fire spread model was developed to use a value for the wind speed that affects surface fire, called midflame wind speed. Models have been developed to adjust 20-ft wind speed to midflame wind speed for sheltered and unsheltered surface fuel. In this report,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huntington, Goodstein, Euskirchen
Climate change incurs costs, but government adaptation budgets are limited. Beyond a certain point, individuals must bear the costs or adapt to new circumstances, creating political-economic tipping points that we explore in three examples. First, many Alaska Native villages are…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viegas, Raposo, Davim, Rossa
When two fires approach each other, convective and radiative heat transfer processes are greatly enhanced. The interaction between two linear fire fronts making an angle θoi between them is of particular interest as it produces a very rapid advance of their intersection point…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Turetsky, Bond-Lamberty, Euskirchen, Talbot, Frolking, McGuire, Tuittila
Mosses in northern ecosystems are ubiquitous components of plant communities, and strongly influence nutrient, carbon and water cycling. We use literature review, synthesis and model simulations to explore the role of mosses in ecological stability and resilience. Moss community…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sell, Livingston
The purpose of this study was to generate a physical fitness profile of an interagency hotshot crew mid-way through the wildland fire season. Twenty interagency hotshot crew firefighters completed measures of body composition, aerobic fitness, hamstring flexibility, muscular…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program: a history and overview of the first projects
In 2009, Congress passed the Forest Landscape Restoration Act, a significant new piece of legislation guiding restoration activities on competitively selected National Forest System lands. The Act established the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP), which…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robbins
From the text ... 'The United States Forest Service, which manages nearly 200 million acres of public land, believes limited thinning and burning will prevent catastrophic wildfires. The agency contracts with logging companies to cut down large and small trees across sweeping…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
North, Collins, Stephens
The USDA Forest Service is implementing a new planning rule and starting to revise forest plans for many of the 155 National Forests. In forests that historically had frequent fire regimes, the scale of current fuels reduction treatments has often been too limited to affect fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Massman
Heating any soil during a sufficiently intense wildfire or prescribed burn can alter it irreversibly, causing many significant, long-term biological, chemical, and hydrological effects. Given the climate-change-driven increasing probability of wildfires and the increasing use of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LeQuire, Hunter
From the text ... 'Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction through prescribed burning,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feng, Alfaro-Murillo, DeAngelis, Schmidt, Barga, Zheng, Ahmad Tamrin, Olson, Glaser, Kielland, Chapin, Bryant
Two models were integrated in order to study the effect of plant toxicity and a trophic cascade on forest succession and fire patterns across a boreal landscape in central Alaska. One of the models, ALFRESCO, is a cellular automata model that stochastically simulates transitions…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'After the enactment of the Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement (FLAME) Act of 2009, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) directed the development of a national cohesive strategy to address the Nation's wildland fire management issues.…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yoder, Gebert
This paper develops an econometric model that can provide predictions of fire suppression costs (per acre and in total) for a given large fire before final fire acreage is known. The model jointly estimates cost per acre and acreage equations via Maximum Likelihood, accounting…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yang
Fighting fire with fire has been given the green light by a new study of techniques used to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires. And with a rise in wildfires predicted in many parts of the country, researchers say controlled burns and other treatments to manage this risk…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Butry
Each year, wildland fires threaten structures and occupants of the wildland urban interface (WUI). Currently, wildfire ignition estimates largely exclude ignitions originating within municipal jurisdictions, which contain the majority of the US population. The objective of this…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stephens, McIver, Boerner, Fettig, Fontaine, Hartsough, Kennedy, Schwilk
The current conditions of many seasonally dry forests in the western and southern United States, especially those that once experienced low- to moderate-intensity fire regimes, leave them uncharacteristically susceptible to high-severity wildfire. Both prescribed fire and its…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Staller
From the text ... '..., in today's world with imcreasing populations, and more people living in the wildland urban interface, prescribed burn practitioners must put more emphasis on smoke management. If we don't manage our smoke and the resulting negative impacts, then the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simberloff, Souza, Nuñez, Barrios-Garcia, Bunn
The argument that the threat posed by introduced species is overblown is often buttressed by the observation that native species sometimes also become invasive. An examination of the literature on plant invasions in the United States shows that six times more nonnative species…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Linn, Canfield, Cunningham, Edminster, Dupuy, Pimont
This study was conducted to increase understanding of possible roles and importance of local three-dimensionality in the forward spread of wildfire models. A suite of simulations was performed using a coupled atmosphere-fire model, HIGRAD/FIRETEC, consisting of different…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Linn, Anderson, Winterkamp, Brooks, Wotton, Dupuy, Pimont, Edminster
Field experiments are one way to develop or validate wildland fire-behavior models. It is important to consider the implications of assumptions relating to the locality of measurements with respect to the fire, the temporal frequency of the measured data, and the changes to…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Koo, Linn, Pagni, Edminster
Firebrand transport is studied for disc and cylindrical firebrands by modelling their trajectories with a coupled-physics fire model, HIGRAD/FIRETEC. Through HIGRAD/FIRETEC simulations, the size of possible firebrands and travelled distances are analysed to assess spot ignition…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Guyette, Stambaugh, Dey, Muzika
A predictive equation for estimating fire frequency was developed from theories and data in physical chemistry, ecosystem ecology, and climatology. We refer to this equation as the Physical Chemistry Fire Frequency Model (PC2FM). The equation was calibrated and validated with…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Cruz
This state-of-knowledge review examines some of the underlying assumptions and limitations associated with the inter-relationships among four widely used descriptors of surface fire behaviour and post-fire impacts in wildland fire science and management, namely Byram's fireline…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Timmons, DeBano, Ryan
From Wildland Fire Management Recommendations ... 'The protection of cultural resources during wildland fire is more challenging than for a prescribed burn. Treatment options available to mitigate the direct impacts from wildland fire include use of water, retardant, and fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Document of related published papers to FSPro analysis in Alaska from the 2012 Fire Modeling Workshop
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES