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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bella
Vegetation cover and structure was measured in five plots in each of three bluejoint reedgrass (Calamagrostis canadensis L.) treatment plot sites (Griner, Mile 149, Kenai, Figure 1, Table 1) on the western Kenai Peninsula on August 1st, 2013. Plots were circular one meter area…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfire hazard is a growing threat to communities around the United States. In 2011, the National Interagency Fire Center reported nearly 75,000 wildfires in the U.S., the majority of which were a result of human activities. Preferences for second homes, suburban lifestyles,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey, Toman, Stidham, Shindler
As with other aspects of natural-resource management, the approach to managing wildland fires has evolved over time as scientific understanding has advanced and the broader context surrounding management decisions has changed. Prior to 2000 the primary focus of most fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kreye, Varner, Dugaw, Cao, Szecsei, Engber
The ignition and combustion of forest floor duff are poorly understood yet have been linked to soil heating and overstory tree mortality in many temperate coniferous forests. Research to date has focused on the characteristics of duff that facilitate ignition and spread,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hudak, Ottmar, Vihnanek, Brewer, Smith, Morgan
White ash results from the complete combustion of surface fuels, making it a logically simple retrospective indicator of surface fuel consumption. However, the strength of this relationship has been neither tested nor adequately demonstrated with field measurements. We measured…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hawbaker, Radeloff, Stewart, Hammer, Keuler, Clayton
National-scale analyses of fire occurrence are needed to prioritize fire policy and management activities across the United States. However, the drivers of national-scale patterns of fire occurrence are not well understood, and how the relative importance of human or biophysical…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte
From the Introduction ... 'Wildfires generally are getting larger and causing more damage. The past decade has seen the six worst fire seasons of the past half-century....Wildfire protection is also getting more costly. Bigger fires cost more to control, but an additional factor…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Butler, Ottmar, Rupp, Jandt, Miller, Howard, Schmoll, Theisen, Vihnanek, Jimenez
Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinning) fuel treatments have become the preferred strategy of many fire managers and agencies for reducing fire hazard in boreal forests. This study attempts to characterize the effectiveness of four fuel treatments through…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Busby, Amacher, Haight
In this article, we consider wildfire risk management decisions using a dynamic stochastic model of homeowner interaction in a setting where spatial externalities arise. Our central objective is to apply observations from the social science literature about homeowner preferences…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andersen, Chapman, Artz
Even though large extents of boreal peatlands are still in a pristine condition, especially in North America, extensive areas have been affected by natural or anthropogenic disturbances that change some of the systems from being sinks to sources of carbon dioxide and shift the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Urbanek
Soil structure is often severely affected during high intensity burning, while low intensity prescribed burning has often been thought to have a low or neutral effect on soil aggregation. In this issue of Plant and Soil, (Albalasmeh et al. 2012) report a novel mechanism of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Toledo, Sorice, Kreuter
Fire suppression in grassland systems that are adapted to episodic fire has contributed to the recruitment of woody species in grasslands worldwide. Even though the ecology of restoring these fire prone systems back to grassland states is becoming clearer, a major hurdle to the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hansen, Naughton
Climate warming is causing the frequency, extent, and severity of natural disturbances to increase. To develop innovative approaches for mitigating the potential negative social consequences of such increases, research is needed investigating how people perceive and respond to…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferster, Coops, Harshaw, Kozak, Meitner
Wildfire management in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) protects property and life from wildland fire. One approach that has potential to provide information about the amount and location of fuels to forest managers and, at the same time, increase public knowledge and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whitman, Rapaport, Sherren
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the region where development meets and intermingles with wildlands. The WUI has an elevated fire risk due to the proximity of development and residents to wildlands with natural wildfire regimes. Existing methods of delineating WUI are…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gordon, Gruver, Flint, Luloff
Despite a broad literature addressing the human dimensions of wildfire, current approaches often compartmentalize results according to disciplinary boundaries. Further, relatively few studies have focused on the public's evolving perceptions of wildfire as communities change…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bar-Massada, Stewart, Hammer, Mockrin, Radeloff
The wildland urban interface (WUI) delineates the areas where wildland fire hazard most directly impacts human communities and threatens lives and property, and where houses exert the strongest influence on the natural environment. Housing data are a major problem for WUI…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan, Knapp, Varner
Whether ignited by lightning or by Native Americans, fire once shaped many North American ecosystems. Euro-American settlement and 20th Century fire suppression practices drastically altered historic fire regimes, leading to excessive fuel accumulation and uncharacteristically…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gross
The social dynamics of wildfire management can help us understand and improve fire management strategies that provide for safety, ecological processes, and economically efficient management. A 2012 paper by McCaffrey and others summarized the results of 200 social science…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Information about status and trend of wildlife habitat is important for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service to accomplish its mission and meet its legal requirements. As the steward of 193 million acres (ac) of Federal land, the Forest Service needs to evaluate…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wade
Moisture is the overriding factor governing fuel flammability. It determines whether ignition will take place and to what depth the forest floor will be consumed. If one uses enough torch mix, he/she can ignite the immediate area, but if fuel moisture is much above 22% in pine…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wade
Achieving natural resource objectives typically requires the application of periodic fire because fire is truly THE ECOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE! But how does one measure success or failure? Determining how close a fire came to meeting your objective(s) is a difficult but crucial part…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wade
The prescribed burner has numerous tools at his/her disposal to start fire. Ground ignition devices continue to be developed and refined and include a wide range of options from kitchen matches to state-of-the-art hand-held 'ping-pong ball' launchers. This fact sheet describes…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wade
The term 'backfire' refers to a commonly used method for prescribed burning in which the igniter sets a line of fire that slowly backs into the wind. This technique should not be confused with the colloquial use of the term 'backfire' for 'suppression fire,' which refers to any…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Toledo, Sorice, Kreuter
Fire suppression in grassland systems that are adapted to episodic fire has contributed to the recruitment of woody species in grasslands worldwide. Even though the ecology of restoring these fire prone systems back to grassland states is becoming clearer, a major hurdle to the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES