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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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de Groot, Goldammer, Keenan, Brady, Lynham, Justice, Csiszar, O'Loughlin
Wildland fires burn several hundred million hectares of vegetation every year, and increased fire activity has been reported in many global regions. Many of these fires have had serious negative impacts on human safety, health, regional economies, global climate change, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goulden, Winston, McMillan, Litvak, Read, Rocha, Elliot
We deployed a mesonet of year-round eddy covariance towers in boreal forest stands that last burned in ~1850, ~1930, 1964, 1981, 1989, 1998, and 2003 to understand how CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration change during secondary succession. We used MODIS imagery to establish that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ali, Taylor, Inubushi
CO2 efflux from tropical peat swamp substrates was measured under three different land uses (selectively logged forest, recently burned and cleared forest, and agriculture) in Jambi Province, eastern Sumatra over a six-month period that incorporated parts of both the major wet…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'Fire suppression duties today are performed in a political, cultural, and physical environment that is more challenging than ever before.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hollenshead
From the text ... 'Without clearly articulated doctrinal principles in wildland fire suppression, the agency has no consistent basis for its actions or responses.... The current risk to the agency is that improper behaviors, poor judgment, or the lack of critical decisionmaking…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The 2006 Alaska fire season started out quietly, with the first human-caused fire of the season on April 11th in the Fairbanks area. A total of 250 human-caused fires resulted in 144,811.8 acres burned. On May 15, the Little Delta fire became the first lightning fire of the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott
Quantitative scales of fire magnitude and intensity are needed to assess and publicly communicate the unbiased potential of wildland fire to cause effects-harm, damage, and ecological change. Such scales already exist for earthquakes (Richter Scale and Mercalli Scale),…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winandy, Hunt, Turk, Anderson
Following natural disasters (such as hurricanes, tornados, or tsunamis), when civilians become displaced, or when military troops are deployed overseas, temporary housing is often a critical need. The USDA Forest Products Laboratory recently developed a lightweight,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Akerelrea, Smith, O'Keefe
Natural-resource managers have used a variety of computer-mediated presentation methods to communicate management practices to diverse publics. We explored the effects of visualizing and animating predictions from mathematical models in computerized presentations explaining…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Forthofer, Finney, Bradshaw, Stratton
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technology has been used to model wind speed and direction in mountainous terrain at a relatively high resolution compared to other readily available technologies. The process termed "gridded wind"; is not a forecast, but rather represents a…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Key
Ecological definition and detection of fire severity are influenced by factors of spatial resolution and timing. Resolution determines the aggregation of effects within a sampling unit or pixel (alpha variation), hence limiting the discernible ecological responses, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wiedinmyer, Quayle, Geron, Belote, McKenzie, Zhang, O'Neill, Wynne
Fires contribute substantial emissions of trace gases and particles to the atmosphere. These emissions can impact air quality and even climate. We have developed a modeling framework to estimate the emissions from fires in North and parts of Central America (10-71 degrees N and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews
The First Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, 'Fuels Management: How to Measure Success,' was held in Portland, Ore., March 27-30. The International Association of Wildland Fire initiated a conference on this timely topic primarily in response to the needs of the U.S. National…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morton, Berg, Newbould, MacLean, O'Brien
In this article, we review the 2005 fire season on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, especially the five lightning starts in wilderness. The decision process for suppressing these fires, or not, clarifies some of the major obstacles to allowing wildland fires in wilderness.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sturtevant, McCaffrey
Managers may often wonder why some people do not choose to adopt defensible space practices despite understanding the benefits of doing so. Research has sought to understand why a new practice or innovation is or is not adopted. This paper will briefly discuss factors found to…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stewart, Radeloff, Hammer
This paper presents a map of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) in 2000 for the lower 48 States of the United States. The WUI was extensive, covering 9 percent of the land area in the lower 48 States and encompassing 38 percent of all homes. Major WUI areas are located along the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shiralipour, Monroe, Nelson, Payton
Several government agencies and other natural resource managers have instituted outreach programs to promote wildfire preparedness in wildland-urban interface (WUI) neighborhoods that complement community-wide efforts. To help these programs become more effective, research was…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Monroe, Pennisi, McCaffrey, Mileti
A series of syntheses were commissioned by the USDA Forest Service to aid in fuels mitigation project planning. This synthesis focuses on how managers can most effectively communicate with the public about fuels management efforts. It summarizes what is known about the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
Presents key social science findings from three National Fire Plan-sponsored research projects. Articles highlight information of likely interest to individuals working to decrease wildfire hazards on both private and public lands. Three general topic areas are addressed: (1)…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Bengston, Nelson, Fan
Managers have an opportunity during times of peak media coverage of wildfire to expand the discussion about defensible space from the current focus on vegetation clearing to include the full range of activities a homeowner can undertake to mitigate damage. Currently, news media…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
Public risk perception that managers may see as inappropriately low may not necessarily be a result of poor understanding but instead may be a result of self-selection and of mental balancing of benefits and risk. This study highlights the complexity of factors considered when…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Gollberg, Keane, Cook, Queen, Twery
Throughout history, bold ideas would have faded and disappeared without the tools and technology transfer necessary to help advance them. Today, a variety of tools are critical to wildland fire and fuels management. They range from the Pulaski to the latest fire behavior model.…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Gabbert, Mangan
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) will sponsor a conference to address fuels management and how to measure success. IAWF has worked with the Interagency Fule Committee on initial planning. There is general recognition of the need for such a conference. We…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The following summarizes the January 2006 revision of the Wildland Fire Qualification System Guide, PMS 310-1, and identifies major changes since the January 2000 version. This revision involved field review, solicitations of comments from state, tribal, and federal agencies…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith
This project is adding information on invasive plant species to the Fire Effects Information System (FEIS). Literature reviews covering a total of 60 nonnative invasive plant species are being added to FEIS or receiving synthesis of new information. Thirty-seven species are…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES