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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hamilton, Jones, Zeiler
The Multi-scale Resource Integration Tool (MRIT) was developed as an extension of ArcMap to facilitate the integration and summarization of spatial data. Simply put, MRIT characterizes the composition of feature layers (i.e., spatial themes added to an ArcMap document) within…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guidance for evaluating mass communication health initiatives: summary of an expert panel discussion
Topics discussed in this panel include: (1) the role of theory in the evaluation of health communication programs and campaigns, (2) recommended evaluation methods, strategies and statistical issues, (3) coping with budget constraints, (4) considerations pertaining to health…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arbogast
This report is the result of an extensive literature search to determine the knowledge regarding visual resource management, visual assessment, and aesthetics in landscape development (especially, industrial minerals mining and reclamation). There is public and governmental…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These two volumes contain in part papers presented at the Third International Partners in Flight Conference: A Workshop on Bird Conservation Implementation and Integration, which was held 20-24 March 2002 at the Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, California. The conference…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Malamud, Millington, Perry
Wildfires statistics for the conterminous United States (U.S.) are examined in a spatially and temporally explicit manner. We use a high-resolution data set consisting of 88,916 U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service wildfires over the time period 1970-2000 and consider…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Consalvi, Porterie, Nicolas, Loraud, Kaiss
A fast model of radiative impact on structures exposed to a fire front in the urban interface is presented. The front is viewed as a collection of turbulent diffusion flames whose properties (composition and temperature) are taken from a database previously created from a three-…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rapp
A plant species is defined as invasive if it is non-native to the ecosystem under consideration, and if it causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health. Nonnative plant invasions are generally considered to have reached the Pacific…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), United States Department of the Interior (USDI), is proposing a program to treat vegetation on up to six million acres of public lands annually in 17 western states in the continental United States (U.S.) and Alaska. As part of this program,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mitchell
ANNOTATION: This paper provides an overview of existing literature related to the harvest, communition and transport of forest residues. Past studies have investigated the systems associated with biomass harvesting. Researchers have explored whether to incorporate the biomass…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
ANNOTATION: The authors of this synthesis have implemented several studies over the years, and this CD is an attempt to compile this data in a usable format. The Executive Summary has ten primary research topic areas related to biomass: Baling/bundling; biomass harvesting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
van Wagtendonk
Welcome to the first issue of Fire Ecology, the Journal of the Association for Fire Ecology. Why another new journal? That is the same question we were asked when we founded the Association over four years ago, and the answer is the same. Other societies and their journals…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gronier, Foltz, Showers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service is considering alternative methods of erosion control when constructing roads, decommissioning roads, protecting lands burned by wildland fires, and reclaiming lands disturbed by other activities. This article is the second in a…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoekstra, Boucher, Ricketts, Roberts
Human impacts on the natural environment have reached such proportions that in addition to an 'extinction crisis', we now also face a broader 'biome crisis'. Here we identify the world's terrestrial biomes and, at a finer spatial scale, ecoregions in which biodiversity and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lafon
Dendrochronology is used widely to reconstruct the history of forest disturbances. I created an exercise that introduces the use of dendrochronology to investigate fire history and forest dynamics. The exercise also demonstrates how the dendrochronological technique of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan, Jones, Krueger, Zuuring, Troutwine
Presents a guide to the operation of MAGIS eXpress, a spatial decision support system. This program spatially schedules treatments and road activities for small landscapes to design vegetation management projects. MAGIS eXpress is designed to install and run on personal…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Camp, Omi
Throughout interior Alaska it is well known among land managers and fire management personnel that recently burned areas of black spruce can serve as a fuel break during most wildland fires. Recently burned black spruce forests are an important tool during wildland firefighting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rorig
The objective of this work is to incorporate existing weather predictions into fire preparedness and planning by forecasting the risk of dry thunderstorms. This has been done by analyzing precipitation, upper-air, and lightning strike data to generate a rule that will be used to…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Dyck
Post-processors are stand-alone applications that use output files produced by the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) to perform additional computations. The Suppose graphical user interface program can launch the post-processors as part of a simulation run. The post-processors…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Mann
Land managers face unique challenges in Alaska. Most of the boreal forest is currently managed as wilderness. Though largely free of direct human impacts, the boreal forest grows in a region that is now experiencing significant climate changes. In addition, the fire ecology of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Pitelka, Solomon, Nathan, Midgley, Fragoso, Lischke, Thompson
The rate of future climate change is likely to exceed the migration rates of most plant species. The replacement of dominant species by locally rare species may require decades, and extinctions may occur when plant species cannot migrate fast enough to escape the consequences of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Hollingsworth
This project aims to use data from the 2004 fires in Alaska to link pre-fire vegetation composition and soil conditions with patterns of burn severity and post-fire stand rehabilitation. The primary objective is to examine how variations in burn severity can influence patterns…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This document summarizes a study to evaluate the feasibility of using the Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM) to assist in implementing four Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP) policies on fire, described below. This report provides the Fire Emissions Joint Forum (FEJF) with…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Mann
Interior Alaska contains 140 million burnable acres and includes the largest National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges in the country. On average, wildland fires burn 1,000,000 acres in Interior Alaska each year and threaten the lives, property, and timber resources of Alaska…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Rod Norum found that Fire Behavior Fuel Model 9 Rate of Spread X 1.2 worked best for predicting head fire spread rates in Alaskan black spruce. For flame lengths and in turn fire intensities he recommended using Fire Behavior Fuel Model 5. He compared fire behavior predictions…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Buriak, Bychkov, Sukhinin
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES