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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Jennings, Craig, Erdos, Filiter, Crowell, Macuda
Helicopters are widely used in daytime forest fire suppression, conducting diverse tasks such as spotting, re-supply, medical evacuation and airborne delivery. However, they are not used at night for forest fire suppression operations. There would be many challenges when…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Barnes, Jandt
We propose to expand the Northwest Fire Research Clearinghouse (FIREHouse) (see http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/ fera/firehouse) to include projects relevant specifically to fire management in Alaska. FIREHouse was originally funded by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in 2003 (…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Toman, Kruger, Stankey
This report provides a detailed summary of research conducted in multiple forest communities throughout the U.S. by forest social scientists at Oregon State University. Project work was supported by the USDA/USDI Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in cooperation with the USDA…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Renschler, Elliot
Objectives: 1. Develop a database for soils and vegetation in formation based on the existing nationwide WEPP climate, soils and management specifically to support fuel management activities. 2. Transfer the GeoWEPP tool from ArcView (widely distributed earlier version of a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Youngblood, Agee, Barbour, Boerner, Edminster, Fettig, Fiedler, Haase, Hart, Keeley, Knapp, Lehmkuhl, McIver, Otrosina, Outcalt, Skinner, Stephens, Waldrop, Yaussy, Zack
The national Fire and Fire Surrogate Study (FFS) was designed to develop and provide managers with better information on the consequences of alternative fuel reduction treatments in forest ecosystems. The study was initiated in early March 2000 with support by the USDA/USDI…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson, Hoadley, Larkin
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) provides a web interface to a twice-daily, 40-year database of wind speed, mixing height and ventilation index for the United States at a spatial resolution of approximately 5km (Ferguson et al. 2003). This provides smoke…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barbour
The mission of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) is to produce high quality research findings to inform wildland fire and fuel managers’ decisions. Since its inception in 1998, the program has funded nearly 400 studies and has generated a tremendous amount of information and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Zouhar
This task has written a General Technical Report entitled Wildland Fire in Ecosystems-- Fire and Nonnative Invasive Plants, the 6th volume of the Rainbow Series. The report has received peer review, statistical review, and policy review, and is approved for publication. It is…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Campbell, Morgan, Lentile, Smith, Hudak
This project was designed to synthesize state-of-the-knowledge on remote sensing of active fire and post-fire effects, and to design and deliver online courses for academic credit. The courses were designed as an innovative technology transfer effort for multiple ongoing and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barbour
Since its inception in 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has funded over 350 projects. The Joint Fire Science Program has long recognized that the investments made in wildland fire science need to be accompanied by an emphasis on science interpretation and delivery.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hollingsworth, Johnstone, Chapin, Mack, Schuur, Verbyla
Wildfires are the dominant large-scale disturbance in the Alaskan boreal forest and highly flammable black spruce forests cover over 40% of interior Alaska. In the summer of 2004, Alaskans experienced the largest fire year in recorded history; 6.7 million acres burned mostly in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bytnerowicz
The interaction between smoke and air pollution creates a basic conflict between public health and fuels treatments. Fuels treatments (prescribed fire and mechanical removal) proposed for the National Forest lands are intended to reduce fuel accumulations and wildfire frequency…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Miller, Wright, Walker, Ballard, Nasiatka, Fay, Chappell, Calkin
The principal objectives were to: 1) increase distribution and awareness of FEPF. We met this through on-site visits, web-based training and explanatory materials, trainings and workshops); 2) develop a stand-alone training module for FEPF that can be integrated into existing…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Porterie, Consalvi, Loraud, Giroud, Picard
A physics-based forest fire model, based on a multiclass description of two-phase flow, is developed to study fire behavior and the response of structures to fire-induced thermal stress. The model is three-dimensional and considers the coupled physicochemical processes that take…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
This handbook provides detailed information specific to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) policies, standards, and procedures used in the Burned Area Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation (ES&R) programs. This Handbook is intended to be the primary guidance to BLM ES&…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mercer
Largely in response to the 2004 Alaska wildfire season, local fire managers have begun to install fuel treatments in mature black spruce forests around wildland-urban interface areas. The objectives of these fuel treatments are to reduce fuel load and to promote hardwoods. Local…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Girod, Hurtt, Frolking, Aber, King
Fire risk and carbon storage are related environmental issues because fire reduction results in carbon storage through the buildup of woody vegetation, and stored carbon is a fuel for fires. The sustainability of the U.S. carbon sink and the extent of fire activity in the next…
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
Bieniek
Wildfires burn an average of 3,760km2 each year in Alaska, but varies greatly from year to year. These fires, started by human and natural causes, can endanger life and property when they approach populated areas. The relationship between seasonal area burned and monthly and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kerby, Fuhlendorf, Engle
Fire and grazing are ecological processes that frequently interact to modify landscape patterns of vegetation. There is empirical and theoretical evidence that response of herbivores to heterogeneity is scale-dependent however the relationship between fire and scale of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Porterie, Zekri, Clerc, Loraud
The small world network model is extended to study fire spread through forest fuels. The proposed model includes the short-range radiative and convective effects from the flame as well as the long-range “spotting” effect of firebrands. It uses a weighting procedure on network…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McDaniel
FSPro is a spatial model that maps the probability of free-burning fire spread for a set period of time. RAVAR is an economic model that provides dollar estimates of values (structures, infrastructure and more) threatened by a fire, as well as assessments of non-monetary values…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turquety, Logan, Jacob, Hudman, Leung, Heald, Yantosca, Wu, Emmons, Edwards, Sachse
The summer of 2004 was one of the largest fire seasons on record for Alaska and western Canada. We construct a daily bottom-up fire emission inventory for that season, including consideration of peat burning and high-altitude (buoyant) injection, and evaluate it in a global…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES