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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ross, Daterman, Boughton, Quigley
A spruce beetle outbreak of unprecedented size and intensity killed most of the spruce trees on millions of acres of forest land in south-central Alaska in the 1990s. The tree mortality is affecting every component of the ecosystem, including the socioeconomic culture dependent…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Knapman
In Interior Alaska, firelines are often constructed to help control and contain wildfires. In the early 1960's and early 1970's, the firelines were built, as in the western states, by tractors with bulldozer blades that scraped off the organic mat, knocked down trees, and pushed…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jandt, Meyers, Cole
Daubenmire canopy cover transects established in 1981 were monitored in 1995 using the same methods. This data provided a comparison of range conditions over a 14-year span during which the Western Arctic Caribou Herd increased from 140,000 to 450,000 animals. Percent lichen…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Summary of treatments, including photos before and after rehabilitation of Fire B222. Also includeds assessment of resource risk based on soils/vegetation.
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hourdequin
This reference list provides an overview of key literature relating to fire restoration and management in wilderness and similarly protected areas. This list, which centers on the United States, should be helpful to managers or researchers new to the topic, or to those seeking…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak
Description not entered.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Graham, McCaffrey
The geographic focus of the 'Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration' project (known as the Fuels Synthesis Project) is on the dry forests of the Western United States. Project goals include developing accessible analyses, protocols, and tools; writing peer-reviewed…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bolstad
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Year: 1973
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
From the summary: 'Our dying spruce forests will have economic impacts to many resource values important to Alaskans. With all indicators considered, action to prevent the damage or to rehabilitate dead areas using the existing wood value to pay for treatments will be more cost…
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Current post-fire assessment procedures require identification and valuation of values-at-risk (VAR), such as human life and safety, cultural and ecological resources, land use, and existing infrastructure, from potential secondary effects (e.g., increased runoff, erosion,…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
This glossary provides the wildland fire and fire use communities a single source for wildland fire, prescribed fire, fire use and incident management terminology commonly used by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) and its Working Teams. The NWCG has directed that…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM) is a disturbance effects model designed to simulate the tradeoffs between alternative land management practices over long periods of time (up to 300 years) and under diverse environmental conditions, natural fire regimes, and fuel and fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Effects Information System is an online collection of reviews of the scientific literature about fire effects on plants and animals and about fire regimes of plant communities in the United States. FEIS reviews are based on thorough literature searches, often…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
FEAT is a comprehensive, relational database management system that was developed to support immediate and long-term monitoring and reporting of fire effects in the National Park Service units. The system will make monitoring data readily available at the Park level, with the…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Allows automated data entry into Incident Command System Form ICS-209, Incident Status Summary. Transmits summaries from reporting units to regional and national databases. Improves timely and complete reporting for use in strategic decision making. Generates automated ICS-209…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Brooks
This is a proposal soliciting support for a symposium on the inter-relationships between fire and invasive plants. This symposium is scheduled for 1:00-4:30 PM, 6 August 2002, in Tucson, Arizona, as a special session of the joint meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Parsons
Unroaded areas and areas managed as wilderness provide unique opportunities for applying wildland fire use (WFU) as a fuels management strategy and as a method for restoring historical fire regimes. But can WFU successfully restore historical fire regimes? An untested but common…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Randall, Ryan, Saveland
This proposal addresses Tasks 1 & 2 of Joint Fire Sciences AFP 2003-4: Develop information structures, tools, or decision support systems for accessing, disseminating, and applying wildland fire and fuels research results ... Produce readily understandable and useable…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Evaluation of Post-Wildfire Debris Flow Mitigation Methods and Development of Decision-Support Tools
The production of debris flows can be one of the most hazardous consequences of wildfires in the urban/wildland interface. Debris flows can occur with little warning, are capable of transporting large material over relatively gentle gradients, and may develop momentum and impact…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Maus
Mapping bum severity after wildfire events has been the focus of burn rehabilitation crews for decades. Burn severity can vary depending upon the type of fuel present and the duration of the fire in a given location, typically, burn severity is mapped as high, medium, or low.…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Barbour
With the creation of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) came an expectation of the rapid and systematic delivery of solutions to the technical and scientific problems associated with planning for (including managing fuels), fighting, and recovering from wildfires. Although it…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Foltz, Robichaud
Recent expansions in post-fire rehabilitation research have increased the knowledge base and opened the door to more informed decision making and successful post-fire rehabilitation efforts. Although there are many tools which have been developed to estimate peak flows and road…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Sims
Escalating costs of post-fire emergency stabilization treatments and the lack of available treatment effectiveness information were recently highlighted in two Government Accounting Office reports. Research and monitoring results from the past decade are providing the needed…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Foltz, Showers
The increased size and severity of wildland fires require increasingly effective BAER treatments. A commonly used BAER treatment is mulching, the spreading of agricultural straw by hand or from the air using a helicopter. While widely used and fairly reasonably effective at…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
We propose development of a new methodology that can be used by forest and fire managers and planners to consider the potential effects of all aspects of fire management (i.e., fuels reduction to post-fire restoration) on native stream fishes and their habitats. State-of-the-art…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES