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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Westfall, Woodall
An efficient and accurate inventory of forest fuels at large scales is critical for assessment of forest fire hazards across landscapes. The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the USDA Forest Service conducts a national inventory of fuels along with blind…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shapcott, Rakotoarinivo, Smith, Lysakova, Fay, Dransfield
Madagascar has a highly distinctive flora and is one of the world biodiversity hot spots. There are more than 170 species of palms, the majority of which are vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered endemics. Palms are utilized for many human uses, many of which lead to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Choi, Fernando
Vegetation fires emit a number of air pollutants, thus impacting air quality at local, regional and global scales. One such pollutant is the particulate matter (PM) that is known to trigger adverse health effects. In this study, the CALPUFF/CALMET/MM5 modeling system is employed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bate, Yanoff, McCarthy, Bradley
The Nature Conservancy is working with the Bureau of Land Management to assess multiple indicators of ecological condition, including fire regime, across grasslands and shrublands in southern New Mexico. The purpose of the assessment is to identify restoration opportunities and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gao, Xiong, Li, Wang
The 3.75-µm and 11-µm channels on the polar orbiting NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensors have saturation temperatures of approximately 325 K. They allowed limited successes in estimating the sub-pixel fire temperature and fractional area coverage. The…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
I've often been asked by both fire managers and other fire researchers how to sample the fuel weight in woody debris piles and windrows. Certainly, the planar (Anderson 1978; Brown 1974; Brown and others 1982) or line intersect techniques (McRae and others 1979; Taylor 1997; Van…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Westfall, Woodall
An efficient and accurate inventory of forest fuels at large scales is critical for assessment of forest fire hazards across landscapes. The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the USDA Forest Service conducts a national inventory of fuels along with blind…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The research and development (R&D) arm of the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with approximately 550 researchers in a range of biological, physical, and social science fields, seeks to better understand and describe the complex mechanisms at work in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eidenshink, Schwind, Brewer, Zhu, Quayle, Howard
Elected officials and leaders of environmental agencies need information about the effects of large wildfires in order to set policy and make management decisions. Recently, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC), which implements and coordinates the National Fire Plan (NFP…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hudak, Thode, van Wagtendonk
Fire is a primary change agent in many terrestrial ecosystems. Appreciation is growing for the essential role fire plays in fire-adapted ecosystems. Nevertheless, humans living in the wildland urban interface (WUI) understandably regard fires as a threat to their safety, their…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Heyerdahl, Keane, Dorner, Fall
We assessed accuracy in point fire intervals using a simulation model that sampled four spatially explicit simulated fire histories. These histories varied in fire frequency and size and were simulated on a flat landscape with two forest types (dry versus mesic). We used three…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wright, Vihnanek, Ottmar
The Digital Photo Series (DPS) is a web-based application that provides access to the Natural Fuels Photo Series database and photographs. The DPS works through a user's internet browser, but has also been designed to work as a stand-alone application when the computer is…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lentile, Morgan, Hardy, Hudak, Means, Ottmar, Robichaud, Sutherland, Szymoniak, Way, Fites-Kaufman, Lewis, Mathews, Shovik, Ryan
Rapid Response Research is conducted during and immediately after wildland fires, in coordination with fire management teams, in order to collect information that can best be garnered in situ and in real-time. This information often includes fire behavior and fire effects data,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Whether the goal is to improve wildlife habitat, gauge the effects of prescribed burns or wildfire, or assess the unaccustomed conditions and hidden dangers of fallen trees in the aftermath of hurricanes, a suite of tools developed by the Fire and Environmental Research…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lentile, Morgan, Hardy, Hudak, Means, Ottmar, Robichaud, Sutherland, Way, Lewis
In recent years, more researchers are collecting data either on active wildfires or immediately after wildfire occurrence. Known as Rapid Response Research, this important undertaking provides real-time information, useful data, and improved tools for managers.
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riaño, Moreno-Ruiz, Isidoro, Ustin
An analysis of the spatial and temporal patterns of global burned area with the Daily Tile US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer Pathfinder 8 km Land dataset between 1981 and 2000 is presented. Nine distinct temporal and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wirth, Pyke
Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation (ES&R) and Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) treatments are short-term, high-intensity treatments designed to mitigate the adverse effects of wildfire on public lands. The federal government expends significant resources…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kennedy
After an unintended fire retardant drop into a small lake near Hughes on the Hughes Creek #199 fire, BLM hydrologist collected serial water samples to assess impacts on water quality parameters of water temperature, conductivity, pH, and dissolved oxygen.
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yarie, Kane, Mack
Calculation of forest biomass requires the use of equations that relate the mass of a tree or its components to physical measurements that are relatively easy to obtain. The equations presented in this report represent a compilation of aboveground biomass data collected within…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ononye, Vodacek, Saber
Remotely sensed infrared images are often used to assess wildland fire conditions. Separately, fire propagation models are in use to forecast future conditions. In the Dynamic Data-Driven Application System (DDDAS) concept, the fire propagation model will react to the image data…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Abbott, Alexander, MacLean, Leblon, Beck, Staples
We assessed how well the fuel moisture codes of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System can be used to predict forest floor moisture in burned and in mature, unburned jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) stands in Canada's Northwest Territories. Moisture content sampled at…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This document provides basic protocols to monitor and inventory Alaska fuels and/or fire effects. This protocol provides sampling guidance to meet common fire effects monitoring objectives; however, each project lead should consider how well this protocol meets specific project…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Gessler, Jain, Lannom, Robichaud, Ryan
We propose a rapid response project to collect fire behavior, fire effects, and fuels data from five 2003 active 2004 wildfires across the US. It is critical that field and remotely sensed data be collected soon (two weeks to the first growing season) after wildfires are burning…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Babbitt, Ferguson, Vihnanek
Many areas of the boreal forest of Alaska contain deep layers of moss, duff, and peat, resulting in a large pool of biomass that potentially can burn and smolder for long periods of time creating hazardous smoke episodes for local residents and communities and causing…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (PNW) completed a total of eight 3-day regional fuels workshops and six ½-day 'mini-workshops' that demonstrated the use of the Natural Fuels Photo Series, Digital Photo Series, Fuel Characteristic Classification System, and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES