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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ottmar
The National Wildfire Coordinating Group's (NWCG) Fire Use Working Team has assumed overall responsibility for sponsoring the development and production of this revised Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed and Wildland Fire (the 'Guide'). The Mission Statement for the Fire Use…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Reinhardt
Wildland firefighting presents many hazards to fireline workers, including inhalation exposure to smoke (Sharkey 1998; Reinhardt and Ottmar 1997; Sharkey 1997). Many experienced fireline personnel consider this to be only an inconvenience, occasionally causing acute cases of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Latham, Williams
Lightning ignition of wildland fuels plays a major role in the maintenance and evolution of ecosystems. Lightning not only ignites fire but also weakens trees, facilitating insect and disease attack, causes physical damage, and kills trees and groups of trees (Taylor, 1973).…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leuschen, Wade, Seamon
The success of a fire use program is in large part dependent on a solid foundation set in clear and concise planning. The planning process results in specific goals and measurable objectives for fire application, provides a means of setting priorities, and establishes a…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hoff, Ferguson, McDonald, Keane
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Hermann, Mutch
In this section we outline both ecological and societal aspects of wildland and prescribed fire. We review the historical role and extent of fire and the effects of settlement and land use changes. The influence of fire exclusion policies on historical disturbance processes is…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Hermann, Core
In the past, smoke from prescribed burning was managed primarily to avoid nuisance conditions objectionable to the public or to avoid traffic hazards caused by smoke drift across roadways. While these objectives are still valid, today's smoke management programs are also likely…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
Once smoke enters the atmosphere, its concentration at any one place or time depends on mechanisms of transport and dispersion. By transport, we mean whatever carries a plume vertically or horizontally in the atmosphere. Dispersion simply is the scattering of smoke. Vertical…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
Smoke dispersion prediction systems are becoming increasingly valuable tools in smoke management. There are a variety of potential applications that can help current management issues. These include screening, where methods and models are used to develop 'worst-case' scenarios…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dickinson, Johnson
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lenton
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thonicke, Venevsky, Sitch, Cramer
Disturbances from fire, wind-throw, insects and other herbivores are, besides climate, CO2, and soils, critical factors for composition, structure and dynamics of most vegetation. To simulate the influence of fire on the dynamic equilibrium, as well as on potential change, of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ponomarenko, Anderson
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhuang, McGuire, Harden, O'Neill, Romonanvsky, Yarie
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Amiro
Disturbances by fire and harvesting are thought to regulate the carbon balance of the Canadian boreal forest over scales of several decades. However, there are few direct measurements of carbon fluxes following disturbances to provide data needed to refine mathematical models.…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Fyles, Paré, Nguyen-Xuan
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moritsuka, Yanai, Kosaki
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gonzalez-Vila, Tinoco, Almendros, Martin
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lardner, Wright, Cohen, Curry, MacFarlane
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi, Bridge
The explanation often given for the large wildfires that have burned each year in North America in the last two decades is that fire suppression after the 1950s produced a buildup of fuel and changed the landscape-age mosaic (e.g., Gayton 1998; Smalley et al. 2000), creating…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hinzman, Yoshikawa, Fukuda, Romanovsky, Petrone, Bolton
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Schmidt, Menakis, Sampson
Spatial data products are most often developed to support resource management decisions. Rarely can the data stand by themselves as spatially-explicit risk assessments. We discuss the technical aspects of true risk assessments, and the contrast between risk assessments and the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gollberg, Neuenschwander, Ryan
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gollberg, Neuenschwander, Ryan
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gedalof, Smith
In this paper we review the ecology and physiology of mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana (Bong.) CarriFre) in the context of a dendroclimatological analysis. To better understand the relationship between mountain hemlock growth and climate variability throughout its range we…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES