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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Kearns
From the text (p. 26) ... 'Wildfire has destroyed forests across the West. Help is needed to restore the life-giving 'natural capital' they provide. ... Wildfires are changing the landscape across the country and often not for the better. A long-standing policy of putting out…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alvarez
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Ping-Ning, Kumar, Kucharik, Klooster, Genovese, Cohen, Healey
Ecosystem structure and function are strongly affected by disturbance events, many of which in North America are associated with seasonal temperature extremes, wildfires, and tropical storms. This study was conducted to evaluate patterns in a 19-year record of global satellite…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Suffling, Munoz-Marquez, Perera, Zhao
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Year: 2005
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
Amacher, Malik, Haight
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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
Maguire, Albright
Organizations managing forest land often make fire management decisions that seem overly risk-averse in relation to their stated goals for ecosystem restoration, protection of sensitive species and habitats, and protection of water and timber resources. Research in behavioral…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
O'Laughlin
The needs and opportunities for assessing and managing risks posed by wildfire are identified through synthesis of natural resources agency and conservation group perspectives. Risk assessment is needed primarily to compare environmental effects of management alternatives,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephens, Ruth
Forest-fire policy of U.S. federal agencies has evolved from the use of small patrols in newly created National Parks to diverse policy initiatives and institutional arrangements that affect millions of hectares of forests. Even with large expenditures and substantial…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The 2005 fire season was unusually busy because weather conditions lined up the right combination of dry weather and ignitions from lightning strikes to result in large, long-lasting fires. On September 1, 2005, the number of acres burned in Alaska became greater than that of…
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
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
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
Stephens
Nationally, the causes and extent of fire on lands administrated by the United States Forest Service varied significantly from 1940 to 2000, with California experiencing the largest relative annual burned areas. The south-east and California experienced the largest relative area…
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
Thomas, Hansen, Brackley
Major changes in federal forest policy in Alaska have resulted in a dramatic downsizing of the state's forest industry. These changes have driven efforts for economic restructuring and improved support for Alaskan communities. The University of Alaska Sitka Forest Products…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), United States Department of the Interior (USDI), is proposing a program to treat vegetation on up to six million acres of public lands annually in 17 western states in the continental United States (U.S.) and Alaska. As part of this program,…
Year: 2005
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
Reutebuch, Andersen, McGaughey
Airborne laser scanning of forests has been shown to provide accurate terrain models and, at the same time, estimates of multiple resource inventory variables through active sensing of three-dimensional (3D) forest vegetation. Brief overviews of airborne laser scanning…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES