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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reeves, Mitchell
Rangeland extent is an important factor for evaluating critical indicators of rangeland sustainability. Rangeland areal extent was determined for the coterminous United States in a geospatial framework by evaluating spatially explicit data from the Landscape Fire and Resource…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Faircloth, Reid, Valentine, Eo, Terhune, Glenn, Palmer, Nairn, Carroll
We describe primers and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) conditions to amplify four dinucleotide, one trinucleotide, and three tetranucleotide microsatellite DNA loci from the bobcat (Lynx rufus). The primers were tested on 22 individuals collected from a population located…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palacios-Orueta, Chuvieco, Parra, Carmona-Moreno
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neugarten, Wolf, Stedman, Tear
Large-scale sell-offs of industrial timberlands in the United States have prompted public and private investments in a new class of ''working forest'' land deals, notable for their large size and complex divisions of property rights. These transactions have been pitched as ''win…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gass, Robinson
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Epting, Verbyla
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodall, Williams
The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the USDA Forest Service conducts a national inventory of forests of the United States. A subset of FIA permanent inventory plots are sampled every year for numerous indicators of forest health ranging from soils to understory…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Toomey, Vierling
Broad-scale monitoring of varying moisture levels of leaves has ramifications for understanding fire potential, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem dynamics. Five different shortwave infrared (SWIR)-derived spectral indices, principal components analysis (PCA), and the tasseled cap…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parent
Vegetation health can be monitored using a time series of remotely sensed images by calculating the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). We assessed temporal trends throughout an NDVI time series with three sensors: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This metadata field form documents collected GPS data for any incident.
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes
Fires can exert landscape-scale controls on vegetation structure and composition, permafrost dynamics, water quality, air quality, nutrient cycling, primary productivity for herbivores, and biodiversity. In addition, the natural fire regime (fire frequency, fire extent and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sorbel, Barnes
Wildland fire is a powerful force of change across the landscape of Alaska. During the 2004 summer, record high temperatures and low precipitation resulted in the largest fire season in the state's recorded history, with more than six million acres burned. While the extent of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Iwata, Ueyama, Harazono
[From the text] Wildfire is a major disturbance in boreal forests. It attracts research attention not only because it instantaneously releases a large amount of carbon into the atmosphere, but also because it significantly alters hydrology and carbon exchange at the land surface…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This report highlights key findings from the most recent (2004-2008) data collected by the Forest Inventory and Analysis program across all ownerships in southeast and south-central Alaska. We present basic resource information such as forest area, ownership, volume, biomass,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Csiszar, Denis, Giglio, Justice, Hewson
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on board the NASA Earth Observing System Terra and Aqua satellites provides global fire observations of unprecedented quality. This paper presents spatial and temporal distributions of active fires from 2001 and 2002, the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Woodall, Lutes
Weight per unit area (load) estimates of Down Woody Material (DWM) are the most common requests by users of the USDA Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program's DWM inventory. Estimating of DWM loads requires the uniform compilation of DWM transect data for…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has always been large in scale. The depth and breadth of the research conducted here, however, may surprise even many who are engaged in it. Our research programs have a wide geographical and temporal scope, an…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rykhus, Lu
Twenty-five C-band Radarsat-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images acquired from the summer of 2002 to the summer of 2005 are used to map a 2003 boreal wildfire (B346) in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska under conditions of near-persistent cloud cover. Our…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reich, Frelich, Voldseth, Bakken, Adair
Understanding the relationship between species diversity and productivity is central to linking compositional and functional aspects of terrestrial ecosystems, and little is known about such issues in boreal forests. We used structural equation modelling (SEM) to test several…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Raaflaub, Valeo, Johnson
Investigations were made on the influence of slope on the spatial variations in duff moisture, the decomposing organic matter of the forest floor. Relationships between duff and soil moisture along hillslopes were identified from field measurements over various moisture…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Ottmar, Butler
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., thinning) fuel treatments have become the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hunter
Resource managers often need data about surface live fuels (i.e., grasses, forbs, and shrubs) for a variety of purposes. For example, a range manager will want to know about grass biomass to gauge the amount of available forage for livestock. Likewise, a wildlife biologist may…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Camp, Omi
Throughout interior Alaska it is well known among land managers and fire management personnel that recently burned areas of black spruce can serve as a fuel break during most wildland fires. Recently burned black spruce forests are an important tool during wildland firefighting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zahn, Henson
This desk guide is a synthesis of accepted methods, practices, and equipment currently used by many agencies across the United States to collect and process fuel moisture samples., This synthesis fulfills four primary goals: (1) Provide a fuel moisture sampling desk guide that…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES