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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Loeffler, Brandt, Morgan, Jones
This annotated bibliography is a synthesis of information products available to land managers in the western United States regarding economic and financial aspects of forestry-based woody biomass removal, a component of fire hazard and/or fuel reduction treatments. This…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ingalsbee
From the text (p. 34) ... 'Given the fact that climate change will cause many wildfires to burn larger and longer, the real issue in the near future will not be cost reduction or even cost containment, but rather, cost management. Expenditures may still remain high as the amount…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Henderson, Ichoku, Burkholder, Brauer, Jackson
Wildfire emissions are challenging to measure and model, but simple and realistic estimates can benefit multiple disciplines. We evaluate the potential of MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) data to address this objective. A total of 11,004 fire pixels detected…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Havstad, James
Prescribed burning is a commonly advocated and historical practice for control of woody species encroachment into grasslands on all continents. However, desert grasslands of the southwestern United States often lack needed herbaceous fuel loads for effective prescriptions,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... '..., we have established cooperative agreements with state and many local entities and outlined how each will respond and provide mutual aid and cost-effective fire protection for public lands and their surrounding communities. Additional partnerships include…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gleason
From the text ... 'As the only agency managing lands in all 50 states and every U.S. territory, the FWS [Fish and Wildlife Service] manages fire on the greatest number of units with the smallest fire budget of any federal agency.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
D'Amico, Halainen
From the text ... ''Fire is fire' is a familiar catch-phrase in the fire management community, recognizing that fire is both a tool and a process that shapes the landscape. Today, National Park Service managers use the goals and objectives established in their fire management…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bagne, Finch
Mechanical and fire treatments are commonly used to reduce fuels where land use practices have encouraged accumulation of woody debris and high densities of trees. Treatments focus on restoration of vegetation structure, but will also affect wildlife populations. Small mammal…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service manages fire to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats, while first ensuring human safety and then protecting our facilities and neighboring communities. Prescribed fire and other means…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ravi, D'Odorico, Huxman, Collins
Shrub encroachment in arid and semiarid rangelands, a worldwide phenomenon, results in a heterogeneous landscape characterized by a mosaic of nutrient-depleted barren soil bordered by nutrient-enriched shrubby areas known as ''fertile islands.'' Even though shrub encroachment is…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Platt
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where human-built structures and infrastructure abut or mix with naturally occurring vegetation types. Wildfires are of particular concern in the WUI because these areas comprise extensive flammable vegetation, numerous structures,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gross, Romo
Historically, fires occurred throughout the year in the Fescue Prairie of Canada, but little is known about plant community responses to burning at different times of the year. Composition of plant communities was determined annually for 6 years after burning one or three times…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Surface fire spread potential in trembling aspen during summer in the Boreal Forest Region of Canada
In Canada, the importance of seasonality in forest fire danger rating associated with phenological changes in deciduous tree leaves and lesser ground vegetation has historically been taken into account by dividing the fire season into three distinct periods (i.e., spring, summer…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lasko
From the text ... 'A revision to the 2003 Interagency Strategy removes the distinction between wildland fire use and wildfire. This will enhance a fire manager's ability to implement Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy by allowing consideration of the full range of positive…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kwart, Warthin
From the Conclusion ... 'Managing naturally ignited wildfires specifically for natural resource benefits allows land managers to maintain the important role of fire across the Alaskan landscape even as they protect values at risk -- whether homes at the wildland-urban interface…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'All fires have risks, but we have developed sophisticated tools that will assist us in predicting what a fire will do.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weise, Wotton
This paper gives an overview of fire in the wildland-urban interface.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Russell, Lehmkuhl, Buckland, Saab
We quantified changes in density of red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) in response to prescribed fire in mixed coniferous forests of Idaho and Washington, USA, using a Before-After-Control-Impact design. We found no evidence that low-severity prescribed fires affected…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mell, Manzello, Maranghides, Butry, Rehm
Wildfires that spread into wildland-urban interface (WUI) communities present significant challenges on several fronts. In the United States, the WUI accounts for a significant portion of wildland fire suppression and wildland fuel treatment costs. Methods to reduce structure…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dietenberger
Effective mitigation of external fires on structures can be achieved flexibly, economically, and aesthetically by (1) preventing large-area ignition on structures by avoiding close proximity of burning vegetation; and (2) stopping flame travel from firebrands landing on…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schneider, Fernando
In land change science studies, a cover type is defined by land surface attributes, specifically including the types of vegetation, topography and human structures, which makes it difficult to characterize land cover as discrete classes. One of the challenges in characterizing a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McIver, Weatherspoon
The National Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) study is described, from its conceptual stage in early 1996 to the completion of its short-term phase in May 2006. Comprising 12 sites, the FFS study is a comprehensive multidisciplinary experiment designed to evaluate the economics and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kortello, Ham
Fuel management for wildfire protection is becoming increasingly common in the wildland-urban interface and may have conservation implications for species with restricted distributions and limited dispersal abilities. To evaluate the impact of forest fuel management on the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Farris, Zack, Amacher, Pierson
We examined the short-term response of the bark-foraging bird community to mechanical thinning, prescribed fire, and thinning/prescribed fire combination treatments designed to reduce fuel loads at study sites throughout the continental United States as part of the national Fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Côté, Tittler, Messier, Kneeshaw, Fall, Fortin
Forest management has been criticised in the last 20 years for its negative impact on the native species, structures and functions of the forest. Of many possible alternatives proposed to minimize these effects, the functional zoning (or TRIAD) approach is gaining popularity in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS