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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Aber, Neilson, McNulty, Lenihan, Bachelet, Drapek
The purpose of this article is to review the state of prediction of forest ecosystem response to envisioned changes in the physical and chemical climate. These results are offered as one part of the forest sector analysis of the National Assessment of the Potential Consequences…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
The Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP), as the successor to the Grand Canyon Visibility Transport Commission (GCVTC), is charged with implementing the GCVTC Recommendations as well as addressing broader air quality issues, such as the Regional Haze Rule. The Regional Haze…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greenough
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson, Peterson, Acheson
Smoke management is becoming increasingly complex as the use of fire to preserve or maintain forest health and reduce hazardous fuels is increasing and as smoke from forest and rangeland burning is combining with smoke from traditional agricultural fires to compete for airshed…
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
Barnes, Jandt
During the summer of 2000 and spring of 2001 Alaska Fire Service (AFS) completed three hazard fuel break projects on military owned lands adjacent to three residential areas (Shannon Park, Hamilton Acres, and Clear Creek Subdivision West). Shaded fuel breaks were created to…
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
Watson, Borrie, Burchfield, Wakimoto
There is currently limited understanding of the social acceptability of the various means of treatment of forest or grassland fuels. Either through the application of prescribed fire or mechanical means, the social and economic implications of fuel treatments can be decisive in…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
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
Boham
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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
Simberloff
Many new concepts for managing production forests so as to preserve biodiversity have found their way into management procedures without much testing to make them most effective. In most regions, the general framework for a new approach has been ecosystem management, although…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Silapaswan, Verbyla, McGuire
Vegetation on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, which is characterized by transitions from tundra to boreal forest, may be sensitive to the influences of climate change on disturbance and species composition. To determine the ability to detect decadal-scale structural changes in…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Senkowsky
Here in Delta Junction, a stand of black spruce once cut a classic postcard profile against the snow-capped backdrop of the Alaska Range. But in 1999, it burned in the Donnelly Flats wildfire, a blaze that consumed 18,000 acres of forest. What's left looks like a field of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sandberg, Ottmar, Cushon
The ongoing development of sophisticated fire behavior and effects models has demonstrated the need for a comprehensive system of fuel classification that more accurately captures the structural complexity and geographic diversity of fuelbeds. The Fire and Environmental…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Reinhardt, Keane, Brown
Fire effects are modeled for a variety of reasons including: to evaluate risk, to develop treatment prescriptions, to compare management options, and to understand ecosystems. Fire effects modeling may be conducted at a range of temporal and spatial scales. First-order fire…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Radke, Ward, Riggan
Forestry, conservation, wildfire risk reduction, and agricultural uses of planned or prescribed fires as a tool for meeting the needs of wildland managers are increasingly in collision at the air pollution control and climate change cross-roads. The inevitable conflict resulting…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Potter, Martin
The University of Wisconsin-Madison produces Web-accessible, 24- and 48-hour forecasts of the Haines Index (a tool used to measure the atmospheric potential for large wildfire development) for most of North America using its nonhydrostatic modeling system. The authors examined…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pietikainen, Hiukka, Fritze
Prescribed burning is known to reduce the size of the microbial biomass in soil, which is not explained by preceding clear-cutting or the effects of ash deposition. Instead, burning induces an instant heat shock in the soil, which may either directly kill soil microbes or…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES