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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Natural fire frequency for the eastern Canadian boreal forest: consequences for sustainable forestry
Given that fire is the most important disturbance of the boreal forest, climatically induced changes in fire frequency (i.e., area burnt per year) can have important consequences on the resulting forest mosaic age-class distribution and composition. Using archives and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mah, Tackaberry, Egger, Massicotte
Morphological and molecular (polymerase chain reaction — restriction fragment length polymorphism) methods were used to assess ectomycorrhiza (ECM) diversity in naturally regenerating and planted Picea engelmannii Parry ex Engelm. x Picea glauca (Moench) Voss seedlings in two…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrett
From the text ... 'For some forests burned in 2000, still on a natural fire cycle, forest health was not an issue.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shay, Kunec, Dyck
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schroeder, Perera
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drury
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arevalo, Fernandez-Palacios, Jimenez, Gil
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hess, Scott, Hufford, Fleming
Examining the relationship of El Niño to weather patterns in Alaska shows wide climate variances that depend on the teleconnection between the tropics and the northern latitudes. However, the weather patterns exhibited in Alaska during and just after moderate to strong El Niño…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Queen
Fire modeling and information system technology play an important supporting role in fuel and fire management. Modeling is used to examine alternative fuel treatment options, project potential ecosystem changes, and assess risk to life and property. Models are also used to…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bobbe, Lachowski, Maus, Greer, Dull
The use of information based upon remotely sensed data is a central factor in our 21st Century society. Scientists in land management agencies especially require accurate and current geospatial information to effectively implement ecosystem management. The increasing need to…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Conard, Hartzell, Hilbruner, Zimmerman
Attitudes and policies concerning wildland fire, fire use, and fire management have changed greatly since early European settlers arrived in North America. Active suppression of wildfires accelerated early in the 20th Century, and areas burned dropped dramatically. In recent…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rude, Jones
This bibliography is a by-product of a joint effort between the National Park Service and the USFS Fire Sciences Lab to produce a review of knowledge on fire effects on cultural resources. The bibliography does include some references on the historical and traditional uses of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joyce, Aber, McNulty, Dale, Hansen, Irland, Neilson, Skog
Forests cover nearly one-third of the US,providing wildlife habitat, clean air and water, cultural and aesthetic values,carbon storage, recreational opportunities such as hiking, camping, fishing,and autumn leaf tours,and products that can be harvested such as timber, pulpwood,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dale, Joyce, McNulty, Neilson, Ayres, Flannigan, Hanson, Irland, Lugo, Peterson, Simberloff, Swanson, Stocks, Wotton
This article examines how eight disturbances influence forest structure, composition, and function, and how climate change may influence the severity, frequency, and magnitude of disturbances to forests. We focus on examples from the United States, although these influences…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The purpose of the Fire and Invasive Species workshop was to assess the state of knowledge of the interactions of fire and invasive plants, including fire management practices related to control and susceptibility, influence of invasive species on fire regimes, influence of fire…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Racine, Jandt
After extensive wildfires burned on the Seward Peninsula in 1977, a study was initiated to determine the effects of these fires on tundra soils and vegetation (Racine 1978). Fifteen permanent 10m x 1m belt transects were established at four different burn sites. One site (Imuruk…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilmore
The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System's Fire Weather Index (FWI) System models 3 levels of fuel moisture within the forest floor using simple environmental inputs. Wildland fire managers in interior Alaska have expressed concern that the FWI system does not take…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kimmerer, Lake
This article highlights the findings of the literature on aboriginal fire from the human- and the land-centered disciplines, and suggests that the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples be incorporated into plans for reintroducing fire to the nation's forests. Traditional…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brownlie
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Fujioka
Objectives: Bring together key decision makers, information providers, researchers, and managers concerned about climate implications for management of forest fire hazards and prescribed burning. Evaluate the 2000 fire season in the context of information presented at our…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Neuenschwander, Ryan
This fuels mapping project has one main objectives. To develop methods for creating spatial fuels layers for fire behavior and fire effects prediction systems and hazard and risk assessment The primary goal of this objective is to develop methods and protocols for creating high…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Belnap, Kaltenecker, Rosentreter, Williams, Leonard, Eldridge
In arid and semi-arid lands throughout the world, vegetation cover is often sparse or absent. Nevertheless, in open spaces between the higher plants, the soil surface is generally not bare of autotrophic life, but covered by a community of highly specialized organisms. These…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wurtz, Zasada
We present 27-year results from a comparison of clear-cutting and shelterwood harvesting in the boreal forest of Alaska. Three patch clear-cut and three shelterwood units were harvested in 1972; about 100 dispersed white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) leave trees per…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sturm, Racine, Tape
The warming of the Alaskan Arctic during the past 150 years has accelerated over the last three decades and is expected to increase vegetation productivity in tundra if shrubs become more abundant; indeed, this transition may already be under way according to local plot studies…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES