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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Vaillant
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based application designed to make fuels treatment planning and analysis more efficient and effective. IFTDSS provides access to data and…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
A statement by the Wildland Fire Leadership Council and their partners relating to the benefits of prescribed fire programs.
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Raffuse, Huang, Pavlovic, Lahm, Rao
Wildland fire emissions from both wildfires and prescribed fires represent a major component of overall U.S. emissions. Obtaining an accurate, time-resolved inventory of these emissions is important for many purposes, including to account for emissions of greenhouse gases and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Varner, Hiers
“Coproduction” as a transformative model for fire science application is receiving increasing attention as wildland fire managers face increasingly complex contexts for prescribed fire applications and wildfire suppression (Hiers 2017). Among natural resource disciplines, fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melvin
The National Association of State Foresters (NASF) and the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils (CPFC) worked collaboratively to produce the 2020 National Prescribed Fire Use Report. Since 2011, the two organizations have partnered to prepare triennial reports (in 2012, 2015,…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lighthall, Quinn-Davidson, Hohman, Bladow, Warwick, Wheeler, Berleman, Aldern, Weir, Lasky
There is broad understanding and agreement lately that there is a need to substantially increase the use of prescribed fire to create landscape resiliency, protect communities and ensure a safe and effective wildfire response. In response, more and more Prescribed Burn…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Perry, Loeb, White, Weller
Part of the FIRE x FAUNA: Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife series sponsored by Forest Service Research and Development
Prescribed fire effects on bats and bat habitat in the eastern U.S., Roger Perry, Research Wildlife Biologist
What we know and don’t know about…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Harden, McAvoy, Yocom
Fire Ecology: It is everywhere around us, yet so many of us know so little. What is fire ecology? What makes fire behave the way it does? What is a fire ecologist and how does one get into that field? What are the coolest/most surprising/unique fire ecosystems on the planet?…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Varner
PRESCRIBED FIRE SCIENCE: THE CASE FOR A REFINED RESEARCH AGENDA
In this inaugeral episode of the Association for Fire Ecology's Fire Ecology Chats Podcast Series, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane interviews Morgan Varner, Director of Fire Research and Senior Scientist at Tall…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cansler, Hood, van Mantgem, Varner
Background Predictive models of post-fire tree and stem mortality are vital for management planning and understanding fire effects. Post-fire tree and stem mortality have been traditionally modeled as a simple empirical function of tree defenses (e.g., bark thickness) and fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Curcio, Mueller, Lahm, Fitch, Hyde
The Smoke and Roadway Safety Guide provides wildland fire personnel the tools and methods to effectively plan and forecast for roadway smoke impacts and to monitor, respond to, and mitigate smoke on roadways to reduce the risk to the public and fire personnel.
This publication:…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loeb
Most bat species depend on forests for roosting, foraging, and drinking during part or all of their life cycles. Many of the world’s forests are managed using a variety of silvicultural treatments and, over the past 40 years, researchers have studied the responses of bats to…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fernandes, Sil, Rossa, Ascoli, Cruz, Alexander
Wildfire environmental impacts and the threat they pose to human live and values depend of how fast it spreads, how much biomass is consumed, and how much energy it releases and at what rate. Nearly every feature of contemporary fire management relies upon the understanding and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
From the text ... 'WFU [wildland fire use] is the management of naturally ignited wildland fires to protect, maintain, and enhance resources in predefined areas outlined in fire management plans.' © 2007 by the Association for Fire Ecology.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Noson, Schmitz, Miller
We examined relationships between high-elevation sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) steppe habitats altered by prescribed fire and western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) encroachment on breeding distributions of Brewer's Sparrows (Spizella breweri), Vesper Sparrows (Pooecetes…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boucher, Mead
Forests of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska experienced widespread spruce (Picea spp.) mortality during a massive spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) infestation over a 15-year period. In 1987, and again in 2000, the U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forest…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Noss, Beier, Covington, Grumbine, Lindenmayer, Prather, Schmiegelow, Sisk, Vosick
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Holden, Morgan, Rollins, Wright
Fires create and consume snags (standing dead trees), an important structural and ecological component of ponderosa pine forests. The effects of repeated fires on snag densities in ponderosa pine forests of the southwestern USA have not been studied. Line intercept sampling was…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Donahue
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Otway, Bork, Anderson, Alexander
Fire is one of the key disturbances affecting aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forest ecosystems within western Canadian wildlands, including Elk Island National Park. Prescribed fire use is a tool available to modify aspen forests, yet clearly understanding its potential…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Branson, Joern, Sword
Grasshoppers are insect herbivores common to grassland ecosystems worldwide. They comprise important components of biodiversity, contribute significantly to grassland function, and periodically exhibit both local and large-scale outbreaks. Because of grasshoppers' potential…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hebblewhite, Merrill, Morgantini, White, Allen, Bruns, Thurston, Hurd
There is growing concern that populations of migratory ungulates are declining globally. Causes of declines in migratory behavior can be direct (i.e., differential harvest of migrants) or indirect (i.e., habitat fragmentation or land-use changes). Elk (Cervus elaphus) are an…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dether, Black
From the text ... 'Our intent is to identify potential 'weak signals' or 'early warding signs' that fire use practitioners might want to heed as they prepare for future fire use and suppression events....If we can train ourselves to notice and respond to surprises early -- while…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
From the text ... 'Where the goal is restoration of process and ecosystem health, we need to ask: Are these prescribed fires truly replicating 'natural' fire?'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sexton
From the text ... 'Line officer support and active involvement was identified as the most important common denominator of the high-performance prescribed fire programs.... This personnel interchange between units not only helps accomplish agency targets, but it enhances the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS