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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
The National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) and the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) were developed to assess and predict wildfire danger in the forests of the United States and Canada. In addition, the fire weather index components of these systems are…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rollins, Keane, Zhu, Menakis, Hann, Shlisky
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roberts, Dennison
Wildfire is one of the most significant forms of natural disturbance, impacting a wide range of ecosystems ranging from boreal forests to Mediterranean shrublands and tropical rainforest. One of the greatest uncertainties in assessing fire danger is our knowledge of fuels. Fuel…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Landres, Miller
The management of natural fire and fuels in wilderness areas of the United States presents a significant dilemma to federal land managers.Wilderness fire management requires balancing mandates to both preserve natural conditions and minimize the impacts of human activities.It…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Sandberg, Prichard, Riccardi
The ongoing development of sophisticated fire behavior, fire effects, and carbon balance models and the implementation of large landscape assessments has demonstrated the need for a comprehensive system of fuelbed classification that more accurately captures the structural…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Sandberg
Research to quantify fuel consumption in boreal forest types is critical for effective modeling of fire effects. There is considerable amount of forest floor consumption research completed in the contiguous United States; however, the unique lichen, moss, and duff forest floor…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Recent fires have spawned intense interest in fuel treatment and ecological restoration activities. Scientists and land managers have been advocating these activities for years, and the recent fires have provided incentives for federal, state, and local entities to move ahead…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Current federal wildland fire policy recognizes wildland fire as an important natural process and emphasizes the need to reintroduce fire into ecosystems. The policy also recognizes that hazardous fuel accumulations may need to be reduced on vast acreages of land before fire can…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Menakis, Cohen, Bradshaw
The threat of wildland fire burning flammable structures is a national issue. Every year the risk increases from the accumulation of wildland fuel and the building of flammable structures adjacent to wildlands. Flammable structures are structures that have a low resistance to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Menakis, Hann, Miller, Bunnell
Over the last couple of decades, we have seen a tremendous increase in the size, number, and intensity of wildfires in the United States, resulting in Congress implementing the National Fire Plan and Forest Service and Department of Interior writing Cohesive Strategies to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lutes, Keane, Caratti, Gangi, Key, Benson, Sutherland
FIREMON is a fire effects monitoring and inventory protocol developed for interagency use through a grant from the Joint Fire Science Program. It is designed to help the fire manager determine how plots should be placed on the landscape and what sampling methods should used at…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Long, Rollins, Hann
LANDFIRE's objectives are to provide broad scale, comprehensive information about the distribution of fuel characteristics and fire regimes across the United States based on the best available geographic and wildland fire science. This information will be fine-grained enough for…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Rollins, Parsons
The LANDFIRE (LANDscape and FIRE Management Planning System, www.landfire.gov) project was initiated to provide scientifically credible, comprehensive and critical mid-scale data for prioritization and planning to implement the National Fire Plan, both at the national and local…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jakes
A collection of papers presented at the Ninth International Symposium on Society and Resource Management highlight research findings from studies supported by the National Fire Plan. These studies focus on the human dimensions of wildfire, and look at the perceptions and actions…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Theisen
Past disruptions of natural fire cycles, as well as other management practices, have resulted in wildfires of increasing intensity and severity. Treatment of hazardous fuel will help reduce the impacts of wildfires on communities and restore health to fire-adapted ecosystems.…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schulz
The forests of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, underwent a major spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby)) outbreak in the 1990s. A repeated inventory of forest resources was designed to assess the effects of the resulting widespread mortality of spruce trees, the dominant…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Ottmar, Vihnanek
From 'Purpose' section: 'The purpose of this study was to assess forest floor reduction and overstory, understory, woody fuel and forest floor biomass consumption during a prescribed burn, in relation to forest floor moisture and weather conditions. Data from this burn will be…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Graham, McCaffrey
[From the summary] Fuels management can reduce negative impacts of fire, benefit forest health, and provide social and economic benefits. Forest thinning and prescribed burning are two land-management techniques long employed by foresters and others to maintain forest health and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Keane
The primary objective of this project is: To revise the FOFEM computer model so new research results and computer technology are integrated into a complete and comprehensive fire effects prediction system suitable for supporting fuels management, environmental assessment, and…
Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brenner, Masters
In order to keep our focus and avoid unnecessary mission creep that could ultimately prevent us from achieving our objectives, we plan to invite specific personnel and agencies to this work shop. Our plan is to place three focal points at the workshop to represent the…
Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt
FOFEM 5.0 (First Order Fire Effects Model) is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. FOFEM predicts tree mortality from surface fire, based on flame length or scorch height,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-148) (HFRA) was signed into law in December 2003. HFRA, as it is known, contains a variety of provisions to speed up hazardous-fuel reduction and forest-restoration projects on specific types of Federal land that are at risk…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) simulates fuel dynamics and potential fire behaviour over time, in the context of stand development and management. Existing models of fire behavior and fire effects were added to FVS to form this…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Groisman, Knight, Heim, Razuvaev, Sherstyukov, Speranskaya
Significant climatic changes over the high latitudes in the 20th century have been reflected in many atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial variables. Changes in surface air temperature, precipitation, growing season duration, and snow cover cause changes in numerous derived…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS