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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Abbott, Finney, Edwards, Kelts
Lake-level history for Birch Lake, Alaska, was reconstructed using seismic profiles and multiproxy sedimentary analyses including sedimentology, geochemistry, magnetic susceptibility, and palynology. Twenty-two seismic profiles (18 km total) and eight sediment cores taken from…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The purpose of this conference was to increase awareness through exploration and evaluation of global, national, and regional perspectives about the potential contributions that watershed management can make to the conservation, sustainable development, and use of natural…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Bunnell
The Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy and Program Review represents the latest stage in the evolution of wildland fire management. This policy directs changes that consolidate past fire management practices into a single direction to achieve multidimensional objectives and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Agee
Wilderness fire science has progressed since the last major review of the topic, but it was significantly affected by the large fire events of 1988. Strides have been made in both fire behavior and fire effects, and in the issues of scaling, yet much of the progress has not been…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forty-six papers are presented on the nature and management of threats to wilderness ecosystems. Five overview papers synthesize knowledge and research on wilderness fire, recreation impacts, livestock in wilderness, nonnative invasive plants, and wilderness air quality. Other…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forty-one years ago, the AMS published the Glossary of Meteorology. Containing 7900 terms, more than 10,000 copies have been sold over four decades through five printings. It is a tribute to the editors of the first edition that it has withstood the test of time and continued to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bentz
FINDIT, the Forest Insect and Disease Tally System, is an easy-to-use tool for analyzing insect and disease population information taken during stand surveys. Incidence of insects, pathogens, and other biotic and abiotic influences on forest ecosystems are summarized using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Hilbruner, Werth, Sexton, Bartlette
The 1998 wildland fire season presented conditions favoring increased wildland fire numbers and rapid expansion of area affected. This situation posed complex issues to all wildland fire management agencies in terms of firefighting resource availability, allocation, and long-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zuuring
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White
Acceptance of calculation procedures for determining fire endurance ratings for wood beams and columns has permitted the use of large wood members in applications where firerated structural members are required. As a result, the potential market for wood products increased in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Whiteman
[Excerpt from preface] Mountain Meteorology: Fundamentals and Applications aims to heighten awareness and appreciation of the weather in mountainous areas by introducing the reader to the basic principles and concepts of mountain meteorology and by discussing applications of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goode, Yokelson, Ward, Susott, Babbitt, Davies, Hao
We used an airborne Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (AFTIR), coupled to a flow-through, air-sampling cell, on a King Air B-90 to make in situ trace gas measurements in isolated smoke plumes from four, large, boreal zone wildfires in interior Alaska during June 1997.…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This photopoint data sheet is in an excel spreadsheet. It is intended for documentation and the re-creation of plot photos; including location, directions, date/time, camera information, plot description, camera placement and direction of picture, vegetation data, and fire fuels…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Interagency Fire Effects Task Group began looking at photo documentation over a year ago with an eye to developing standard methods/recommendations. The photoseries is a basic type of monitoring dataset which is used by all participating agencies in monitoring fire effects,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Windell, Bradshaw
ANNOTATION: This report contains the results of numerous interviews, a field survey, and a literature search and discusses fuel reduction equipment and methods that have been tried in the past, those that are currently being used, and those that may warrant consideration in the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pannkuk, Robichaud, Brown
Wildfires in steep forest environments can often produce disasterous runoff and soil loss after rainstorms. There is often needle cast from partially burnt conifer trees that generally falls to the soil surface within several months after the fire. These needles offer protection…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Saab, Vanderzanden, Lachowski, Brannon, Crist
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Vanderzanden, Lachowski, Saab, Donohoo
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Users communicate much of the information used by the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) through the keyword system. This system consists of a set of mnemonic words (keywords) and associated data. A single keyword and its associated numeric data make up a keyword record.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schimel, Melillo, Tian, McGuire, Kicklighter, Kittel, Rosenbloom, Running, Thornton, Ojima, Kelly, Parton, Sykes, Neilson, Rizzo
The effects of increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) and climate on net carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems of the conterminous United States for the period 1895-1993 were modeled with new, detailed historical climate information. For the period 1980-1993, results from an…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Lenihan, Bachelet
Dynamic general vegetation models (DGVMs) represent a relatively new technology and exist in several different varieties. Two broad classes are process-based and statistical-empirical. This discussion will focus on the first of these. Among process-based models there is also a…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jackson, Schenk, Jobbágy, Canadell, Colello, Dickinson, Field, Friedlingstein, Heimann, Hibbard, Kicklighter, Kleidon, Neilson, Parton, Sala, Sykes
The extent and consequences of global land-cover and land-use change are increasingly apparent. One consequence not so apparent is the altered structure of plants belowground. This paper examines such belowground changes, emphasizing the interaction of altered root distributions…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bachelet, Neilson
General warming in the Northern Hemisphere has been recorded since the end of the 1800s following the Little Ice Age. Records of glacier retreat during the last 100 years over the entire globe independently confirmed the recorded trend in global temperature rise. Several studies…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weatherspoon
Many U. S. forests, especially those with historically short-interval, low- to moderate-severity fire regimes, are too dense and have excessive quantities of fuels. Widespread treatments are needed to restore ecological integrity and reduce the high risk of destructive,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander
The year 1999 marks the 50th anniversary of the Mann Gulch Fire that occurred in western Montana on August 5, 1949 (Matthews 1999). There has been considerable interest amongst the Canadian wildland fire community in the 1949 Mann Gulch Fire ever since the publishing of MacLean…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES