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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Beck, Connelly, Reese
The ability of prescribed fire to enhance habitat features for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata wyomingensis) in western North America is poorly understood. We evaluated recovery of habitat features important to…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sachs
From the text ... 'The purpose of ESF4 [Emergency Support Function 4] is to provide Federal support for the detection and suppression of wildland, rural, and urban fires resulting from, or occurring coincidentally with, an incident requiring a coordinated Federal response for…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carr
From the text ... 'More than half the initial projects proposed for the Forest Service's billion dollars of funding through the ARRA [American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009] were for wildland fire management.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Sutcliffe, Barton
From the text ... 'AARs [After-Action Review] typically ask four questions regarding fire-response operations: what did we set out to do; what actually happened; why is there a difference between the first two; and what should we continue, and what should we change?'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wells
From the text ... 'The Joint Fire Science Program, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group Fuels Management Committee, and Sonoma Technology, Inc. are unveiling the prototype of a new planning environment that will help fuels specialists negotiate the confusing array of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larkin, O'Neill, Solomon, Raffuse, Strand, Sullivan, Krull, Rorig, Peterson, Ferguson
Smoke from fire is a local, regional and often international issue that is growing in complexity as competition for airshed resources increases. BlueSky is a smoke modeling framework designed to help address this problem by enabling simulations of the cumulative smoke impacts…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Swallow, Quideau, MacKenzie, Kishchuk
Forest floor chemistry and microbial communities can be influenced by forest land management, such as harvesting and prescribed burning. Here, we used phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) and multiple carbon-source substrate-induced respiration (MSIR) analyses to characterize…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scheintaub, Derner, Kelly, Knapp
Fire is an important driver of ecological pattern and process in grasslands worldwide, although its role in semi-arid systems is less well known. We used published studies and new experimental research to 1) provide a synthesis of existing knowledge of fire in the semi-arid…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boateng, Heineman, Bedford, Harper, Nemec
The 19-20-year effects of mechanical site preparation, windrow burning, chemical site preparation, and postplanting vegetation control on survival and growth of planted white spruce are reported from two boreal sites in British Columbia, Canada. Survival differed between…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beverly, Herd, Conner
Strategic modification of forest vegetation has become increasingly popular as one of the few preemptive activities that land managers can undertake to reduce the likelihood that an area will be burned by a wildfire. Directed use of prescribed fire or harvest planning can lead…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hitchcock
From the text ... 'Since 1975, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and of the Interior have had an interagency master agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) that allows DOD to provide firefighting support to the wildland fire management agencies when needed.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Akema, Nurhiftisni, Suciatmih, Simbolon
The impact of forest fire in 1997 and 1998 on the mycorrhzae was studied at the dipterocarp forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. In unaffected forest more than half of total ectomycorrhizae distributed in the organic layer but in the fire-affected forest one and a half years…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sullivan
In recent years, advances in computational power have led to an increase in attempts to model the behaviour of wildland fires and to simulate their spread across landscape. The present series of articles endeavours to comprehensively survey and précis all types of surface fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sullivan
In recent years, advances in computational power have led to an increase in attempts to model the behaviour of wildland fires and to simulate their spread across the landscape. The present series of articles endeavours to comprehensively survey and précis all types of surface…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sullivan
In recent years, advances in computational power have led to an increase in attempts to model the behaviour of wildland fires and to simulate their spread across landscape. The present series of articles endeavours to comprehensively survey and précis all types of surface fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins
LANDFIRE is a 5-year, multipartner project producing consistent and comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, wildland fuel, fire regimes and ecological departure from historical conditions across the United States. It is a shared project between the wildland fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuhlendorf, Engle, Kerby, Hamilton
Our understanding of fire and grazing is largely based on small-scale experimental studies in which treatments are uniformly applied to experimental units that are considered homogenous. Any discussion of an interaction between fire and grazing is usually based on a statistical…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abt, Prestemon, Gebert
The US Forest Service and other land-management agencies seek better tools for anticipating future expenditures for wildfire suppression. We developed regression models for forecasting US Forest Service suppression spending at 1-, 2-, and 3-year lead times. We compared these…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Owens
From the text ... 'Project Learning Tree coordinators provide information and activities to make teachers feel comfortable teaching about wildland fire issues. Fire education workshops, lasting from 9 hours to a full week, cover topics such as the role of fire in ecosystems,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hibbard, Morris
From the text ... 'The research revealed a painful truth -- we often talk to people about fire using words they don't understand.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gleason, Gillette
From the text ... 'Although fire sometimes kills individual animals, it doesn't destroy populations or species. Most wildlife survive fire and enjoy improved living conditions afterwards. When we exclude fire from natural areas, we put animals and people at increased risk. Only…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Gebert, McCaffrey, Steelman, Canton-Thompson
From the text ... 'In this article, we describe our current work to assess the utility of available data to reflect on the performance of fire management.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryon, Hamin
Salvage logging, the removal for profit of standing trees that have been damaged by extensive wildfires, has been quite controversial and subject to lawsuits that can delay the logging past the time in which the lumber is still useful. It has not been clear, however, whether the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ravi, D'Odorico, Wang, White, Okin, Macko, Collins
Desert grasslands, which are very sensitive to external drivers like climate change, are areas affected by rapid land degradation processes. In many regions of the world the common form of land degradation involves the rapid encroachment of woody plants into desert grasslands.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a computer program based on mathematical models that describe wildland fire behavior and effects and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and simple diagrams. It can be used for a host of fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS