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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Todoroki, Lowell
The silvicultural practice of pruning juvenile stems is a value-adding operation due to the formation of knot-free wood after the pruned branch stubs have healed. However it is not until after the log has been processed that the added value is realized. The motivation for this…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson
The condition of aquatic habitat and the health of aquatic species, particularly salmon, are a significant concern in the Pacific Northwest. Land management agencies use fish and riparian guidelines intended to maintain or improve aquatic habitat. Gauging whether or not those…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weiskittel, Garber, Johnson, Maguire, Monserud
Most individual-tree based growth and yield models use a 5- to 10-year time step, which can make projections for a fast-growing species like red alder quite difficult. Further, it is rather cumbersome to simulate the effects of intensive silvicultural treatments such as thinning…
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
Hennon, D'Amore, Wittwer, Johnson, Schaberg, Hawley, Beier, Sink, Juday
Yellow-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) is a valuable tree species that has been experiencing concentrated mortality known as yellow-cedar decline on 200,000 ha of largely pristine forests in Southeast Alaska. Mature trees that regenerated and grew during the Little Ice Age…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The danger of being entrapped or burned over and possibly killed or seriously injured by a wildfire is very real threat for people living, working or visiting rural areas subject to wildfires. Sometimes there may be no chance to easily escape an approaching wildfire. Injuries…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grissino-Mayer
FHX2 is software developed for analyzing the fire history of forest ecosystems based on fire scars and other fire-related injuries found in the annual growth rings of trees.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keyes
In combination with measured stand data and assumed environmental conditions, reasonable estimates of foliar moisture content (FMC) are necessary to determine and justify silvicultural targets for canopy fuels management strategies. FMC often is overlooked in fuels planning,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Manzello, Cleary, Shields, Yang
An experimental apparatus has been built to investigate the ignition of fuel beds as a result of impact with burning firebrands. The apparatus allowed for the ignition and deposition of both single and multiple firebrands onto the target fuel bed. The moisture content of the…
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
Brooks, Bujak, Champ, Williams
We reviewed, annotated, and organized recent social science research and developed a framework for addressing the wildland fire social problem. We annotated articles related to three topic areas or factors, which are critical for understanding collective action, particularly in…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DiTomaso, Brooks, Allen, Minnich, Rice, Kyser
Prescribed burning has primarily been used as a tool for the control of invasive late-season annual broadleaf and grass species, particularly yellow starthistle, medusahead, barb goatgrass, and several bromes. However, timely burning of a few invasive biennial broadleaves (e.g…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fire is one of the oldest tools used by humans to manage vegetation. Its use can be traced back to pre-historic times when it was used to manipulate vegetation to improve opportunities for hunting wildlife and to increase production of plant species that were used for food,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mason, Lippke, Zobrist, Bloxton, Ceder, Comnick, McCarter, Rogers
ANNOTATION: Although large trees can be removed for valuable products, the market value for the smaller logs may be less than the harvest and hauling charges, resulting in a net cost for thinning operations. However, failure to remove these small logs results in the retention of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pilliod, Shick, Velasquez
This paper describes the Wildlife Habitat Response Model (WHRM), a web-based computer tool for evaluating the potential effects of fuel reduction projects on terrestrial wildlife habitats in dry coniferous forests of the western United States. WHRM uses species-habitat…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
How should we think about fire? An answer is not obvious. It is testimony to the immense significance of fire that humanity has for so long chosen not only to anthropomorphize it but to grant it a substantive identity it does not deserve. Early philosophers considered it a god,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bataineh, Oswald, Bataineh, Unger, Hung, Scognamillo
Fire ecologists face many challenges regarding the statistical analysis of their studies. Hurlbert (1984) brought the problem of pseudoreplication to the scientific community's attention in the mid 1980's. Now, there is a new issue in the form of spatial autocorrelation. Spatial…
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
Yedinak, Forthofer, Cohen, Finney
One of the many features of a spreading fire is the shape of the combustion interface. We hypothesize that the shape of the flame profile within burning fuel is key to fire propagation because it reflects the mechanisms of energy transfer to the unburned fuels. Most laboratory…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kovalev
An iterative method for determining slope in noisy lidar data is considered based on the use of a corrected ('shaped') inverted function and an assumed behavior of the unknown function of interest (an 'image function'). The method is utilized for extracting extinction-…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsinger, Keane, Steele, Reeves, Pratt
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Prototype Project, or LANDFIRE Prototype Project, began in April of 2002 and ended in April of 2005. The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior. The…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nasiatka, Christenson
How can a unit learn in everyday fuels programs and from program reviews? How can a unit move from living in the 'report card' culture to discovering more effective ways to improve what it knows and how it learns? Six specific tasks are critical to organizational learning…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, DeMeo, Jones, Zeiler, Hutter
Knowledge of ecological departure from a range of reference conditions provides a critical context for managing sustainable ecosystems. Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) is a qualitative measure characterizing possible departure from historical fire regimes. The FRCC Mapping…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cary, Keane, Gardner, Lavorel, Flannigan, Davies, Li, Lenihan, Rupp, Mouillot
The relative importance of variables in determining area burned is an important management consideration although gaining insights from existing empirical data has proven difficult. The purpose of this study was to compare the sensitivity of modeled area burned to environmental…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chakrabarty, Moosmüller, Garro, Arnott, Walker, Susott, Babbitt, Wold, Lincoln, Hao
The morphology of particles emitted by wildland fires contributes to their physical and chemical properties but is rarely determined. As part of a study at the USFS Fire Sciences Laboratory (FSL) investigating properties of particulate matter emitted by fires, we studied the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES