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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lynn, Gerlitz
Wildfires and related government roles and responsibilities for federal wildland management are prominent in our national consciousness because of the increased severity in the last decade of fires on and around public lands. In recent years, laws, strategies, and implementation…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reeves, Kost, Ryan
The LANDFIRE project is a collaborative interagency effort designed to provide seamless, nationally consistent, locally relevant geographic information systems (GIS) data layers depicting wildland fuels, vegetation and fire regime characteristics. The LANDFIRE project is the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parisien, Junor, Kafka
This study used a rule-based approach to prioritize locations of fuel treatments in the boreal mixedwood forest of western Canada. The burn probability (BP) in and around Prince Albert National Park in Saskatchewan was mapped using the Burn-P3 (Probability, Prediction, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Opperman, Gould, Finney, Tymstra
There is currently no spatial wildfire spread and growth simulation model used commonly across New Zealand or Australia. Fire management decision-making would be enhanced through the use of spatial fire simulators. Various groups from around the world met in January 2006 to…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan, Lee, Rollins, Zhu, Smith, Johnson
Managers are faced with reducing hazardous fuel, restoring fire regimes, and decreasing the threat of catastrophic wildfire. Often, the comprehensive, scientifically-credible data and applications needed to test alternative fuel treatments across multi-ownership landscapes are…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williamson
United States wildland fire policy and program reviews in 1995 and 2000 required reduction of hazardous fuel and recognition of fire as a natural process. Although an existing policy, Wildland Fire Use (WFU), permitted managing natural ignitions to meet resource benefits, most…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Bengston, Fan, Nelson
The Healthy Forests Initiative (HFI) and Healthy Forests Restoration Act (HFRA) represent major policy and legislative responses to the fuels management problem in the United States. This study examined the nature and evolution of the public discussion and debate about these…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Frary, Crook, Fay, Koppenol, Lasko
The application and use of wildland fire for a range of beneficial ecological objectives is rapidly expanding across landscapes supporting diverse vegetative complexes and subject to multiple societal uses. Wildland fire use originated in wilderness and has become a proven…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xanthopoulos, Caballero, Galante, Alexandrian, Rigolot, Marzano
Current fuel management practices vary considerably between European countries. Topography, forest and forest fuel characteristics, size and compartmentalization of forests, forest management practices, land uses, land ownership, size of properties, legislation, and, of course,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gould
Although Australia and New Zealand have quite different fire climates and fuels, the common understanding of fire behaviour underlies many facets of fire management in both countries. Fire management is the legal responsibility of various government land management agencies that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Canadian Wildland Fire Strategy (CWFS) provides a vision for a new, innovative, and integrated approach to wildland fire management in Canada. It was developed under the auspices of the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers and seeks to balance the social, ecological, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sexton
There is no doubt that wildland fuel conditions on large portions of federal wildlands in the United States have changed significantly over the last 100 years. The changes include: Increased density of woody species; Artificial fragmentation of fuel mosaics; Exotic species…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williams
Over time, events that would not have been disasters, or even emergencies, are now major catastrophes. The increase in world population, the movement of this population to vulnerable areas, has created a situation where 100's of thousands of people die, and 100's of billions of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barkley
A University of Idaho Extension publication explaining the causes, mechanics, behavior and suppresion of wildfire. Identifies potential effects on vegetation, wildlife, soils and watersheds and offers a postfire management plan.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McDaniel
'The number one challenge we face in our fire management and fuels treatment program here in western Colorado is communication and public involvement,' says Tim Foley, fire management officer for the Bureau of Land Management in the western slope of Colorado. 'From working with…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Hollingsworth
Land managers in Alaska are faced with the challenge of managing fire in a way that preserves human life and property while at the same time conserving the key ecological processes driven by fire. Because managers have little capacity to alter fire behavior by direct fuel…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
ALMS allows you to download near real time lightning location information from the Bureau of Land Management lightning data server on the Internet and then view thatdata using ArcMap 9.x.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berg
For the past 2500 years there has been no connection between SBB outbreaks and wildfire. Our fire history and SBB outbreak history studies indicate that white/Lutz spruce (Picea glauca and P. x lutzii )forests burn with a mean fire return interval (MFI) of 400-600 years, whereas…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Rupp
Fire and fuels management goals in Alaska are hindered by a limited understanding of fire history and the controls of fire regimes. Nowhere is this statement more accurate than in tundra ecosystems that cover nearly one-third of the state. Over 60 communities and 348 native…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Ottmar
Concerns about wildland fuel levels and a growing wildland-urban interface (WUI) have pushed wildland fire risk mitigation strategies to the forefront of fire management activities. Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinnings) fuel treatments have become the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiedinmyer, Tie, Guenther, Neilson, Granier
Isoprene is emitted from vegetation to the atmosphere in significant quantities, and it plays an important role in the reactions that control tropospheric oxidant concentrations. As future climatic and land-cover changes occur, the spatial and temporal variations, as well as the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Malcolm, Liu, Neilson, Hansen, Hannah
Global warming is a key threat to biodiversity, but few researchers have assessed the magnitude of this threat at the global scale. We used major vegetation types (biomes) as proxies for natural habitats and, based on projected future biome distributions under doubled-C02…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stratton
There is an increasing need for spatial wildland fire analysis in support of incident management, fuel treatment planning, wildland-urban assessment, and land management plan development. However, little guidance has been provided to the field in the form of training, support,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rapp
Over the last several decades, the overall air quality goal in the United States has been to protect public health and clear skies by reducing emissions. At the same time, however, the risk of catastrophic fire has been rising in forests around the country as overly dense trees…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cushman, McKenzie, Peterson, Littell, McKelvey
Reliable predictions of the effects changing climate and disturbance regimes will have on forest ecosystems are crucial for effective forest management. Current fire and climate research in forest ecosystem and community ecology offers data and methods that can inform such…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES