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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hessburg
It's no secret that wildfires in the west have been drastically increasing in size and destructive power. But what, if anything, can be done about it? Join world-renown and award-winning USFS research ecologist Dr. Paul Hessburg as he explains how we got here and restores our…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hessburg
We have all seen the news - hotter summers, and bigger, badder wildfires. What's going on? How did we get here? Paul tells a fast-paced story of western US forests - unintentionally yet massively changed by a century of management. He relates how these changes, coupled with a…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Page-Dumroese, Coleman, Thomas
Biochar may be useful for restoring or revitalizing degraded forest soils and help with carbon sequestration, nutrient leaching losses, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, biochar is not currently widely used on forested lands across North America. This chapter…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yamaguchi
A hoist–puller (come-along) or a scissor jack can be used to extract stuck increment borers from trees. An electric drill is also helpful for removing jammed wood from the inside of borers.
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A Resource from the Western Regional Air Partnership's (WRAP) Fire Emissions Joint Forum (FEJF)In December 2002 the FEJF issued a request for proposal for a bibliography and summary table on Emission Reduction Techniques for agricultural burning and wildland fire in support of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
This document provides nominal or representative DBH and Tree Height values needed to be assigned to each of the the coniferous (C) and mixedwood (M) fuel types found in the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System used in implementing Albini’s (1979) model for…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Viereck, Werdin-Pfisterer, Yoshikawa, Adams
The 1971 Wickersham fire burned 6,313 ha in an open black spruce forest underlain with permafrost and provided an opportunity to study fire effects on the rate and patterns of permafrost recovery. When wildfire burns through a northern black spruce forest there is usually a…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Mutch, Davis, Bucks
The "Wildland Fires" chapter incorporates the latest information on developments in the field based on research findings and real-world events.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turner, Romme, Gardner
The 'bloom' of annual and perennial plants following fire in the chaparral is well documented, but there is controversy over what factors cause this burst of new growth. I examined the relative importance of fire, competition, and herbivory in seedling germination and…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schwartz, Hermann
We present evidence that fire suppression may have contributed to the fungal decline of torreya (Torreya taxifolia). During the 1950's torreya suffered a catastrophic die-back. The torreya die-back was probably caused by needle pathogens induced through environmental stress.…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morber, Miyanishi
Canopy closure by trees such as Prunus serotina and p. virginiana is presently threatening the survival of the herbaceous component of an oak savanna in Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario. Prescribed burning has recently been instituted in an attempt to open up the canopy to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keeley
Mortality patterns are diverse for chaparral shrubs under periods > 100 years without fire. Ceanothus often suffer the highest mortality under extended fire-free conditions and this is best interpreted as density dependent thinning rather than senescence. Intraspecific…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
De Grandpre, Gagnon
The changes observed in the composition and abundance of shrubs, herbs and mosses were investigated following fire in the southern boreal forest of the Abitibi region, Quebec. Ten plots of 100m2 were sampled at each of eight sites varying in age from 26 to 230 years after fire (…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hatch, Yokelson, Stockwell, Veres, Simpson, Blake, Orlando, Barsanti
Multiple trace-gas instruments were deployed during the fourth Fire Lab at Missoula Experiment (FLAME-4), including the first application of proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-TOFMS) and comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-time-of-flight…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Why is calibrating the fire behavior models important to predicting fire behavior - an interview with Mark Finney a Research Scientist at the RMRS Fire Sciences Lab. Mark highlight's considerations an analyst should make when validating fire behavior models to fire behavior.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Why use FSPro - an interview with Mark Finney - This tool was developed to help inform risk based decisions associated with values at risk and probability of fire impacts to those values.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Finney
What makes a good analyst - some thoughts from Mark Finney and his perspective of what makes a good analyst. An analyst is curious about fire behavior, they use judgement and interpretation to communicate and validate models in relation to the actual fire behavior.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Mark Finney provides some considerations when setting up FSPro analyses - What is it you want to know from the analysis - is it the likely hood something is going to happen or is it the potential something is going to happen? These are different questions and the analyst can…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bergeron, Flannigan, Gauthier, Leduc, Lefort
Over the past decades, there has been an increasing interest in the development of forest management approaches that are based on an understanding of historical natural disturbance dynamics. The rationale for such an approach is that management to favor landscape compositions…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron
Over the past decade, there has been an increasing interest in the development of forest management approaches that are based on an understanding of historical natural disturbance dynamics. The rationale for such an approach is that management to favour landscape compositions…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferber
From the text ... 'LANDFIRE can give more precise predictions than previous fire-behavior models did, allowing land managers to let beneficial fires burn, Shlisky says.The database has been tested in the northern Rockies and in central Utah; now it will expand nationwide. As…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fight, Barbour, Christensen, Pinjuv, Nagubadi
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stokstad
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peters, Macdonald, Dale
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viegas
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS