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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bytnerowicz
The interaction between smoke and air pollution creates a basic conflict between public health and fuels treatments. Fuels treatments (prescribed fire and mechanical removal) proposed for the National Forest lands are intended to reduce fuel accumulations and wildfire frequency…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Miller, Wright, Walker, Ballard, Nasiatka, Fay, Chappell, Calkin
The principal objectives were to: 1) increase distribution and awareness of FEPF. We met this through on-site visits, web-based training and explanatory materials, trainings and workshops); 2) develop a stand-alone training module for FEPF that can be integrated into existing…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mercer
Largely in response to the 2004 Alaska wildfire season, local fire managers have begun to install fuel treatments in mature black spruce forests around wildland-urban interface areas. The objectives of these fuel treatments are to reduce fuel load and to promote hardwoods. Local…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Girod, Hurtt, Frolking, Aber, King
Fire risk and carbon storage are related environmental issues because fire reduction results in carbon storage through the buildup of woody vegetation, and stored carbon is a fuel for fires. The sustainability of the U.S. carbon sink and the extent of fire activity in the next…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kerby, Fuhlendorf, Engle
Fire and grazing are ecological processes that frequently interact to modify landscape patterns of vegetation. There is empirical and theoretical evidence that response of herbivores to heterogeneity is scale-dependent however the relationship between fire and scale of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Porterie, Zekri, Clerc, Loraud
The small world network model is extended to study fire spread through forest fuels. The proposed model includes the short-range radiative and convective effects from the flame as well as the long-range “spotting” effect of firebrands. It uses a weighting procedure on network…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Turquety, Logan, Jacob, Hudman, Leung, Heald, Yantosca, Wu, Emmons, Edwards, Sachse
The summer of 2004 was one of the largest fire seasons on record for Alaska and western Canada. We construct a daily bottom-up fire emission inventory for that season, including consideration of peat burning and high-altitude (buoyant) injection, and evaluate it in a global…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schaaf, Sandberg, Schreuder, Riccardi
This paper presents a conceptual framework for ranking the crown fire potential of wildland fuelbeds with forest canopies. This approach extends the work by Van Wagner and Rothermel, and introduces several new physical concepts to the modeling of crown fire behaviour derived…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sandberg, Riccardi, Schaaf
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) includes equations that calculate energy release and one-dimensional spread rate in quasi-steady state fires in heterogeneous but spatially-uniform wildland fuelbeds, using a reformulation of the widely used Rothermel fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg, Riccardi, Schaaf
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) is a systematic catalog of inherent physical properties of wildland fuelbeds that allows land managers, policy makers, and scientists to build and calculate fuel characteristics with complete or incomplete information. The…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Riccardi, Prichard, Sandberg, Ottmar
Wildland fuel characteristics are used in many applications of operational fire predictions and to understand fire effects and behaviour. Even so, there is a shortage of information on basic fuel properties and the physical characteristics of wildland fuels. The Fuel…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riccardi, Ottmar, Sandberg, Andreu, Elman, Kopper, Long
Wildland fuelbed characteristics are temporally and spatially complex and can vary widely across regions. To capture this variability, we designed the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS), a national system to create fuelbeds and classify those fuelbeds for their…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi, Haggstrom
Fire suppression and limited timber markets presently hinder maintenance of the early successional broad-leaved forest for wildlife habitat near settlements in interior Alaska. During 1999-2003, we evaluated the efficacy of prescribed burning, felling, and shearblading (with and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Otway, Bork, Anderson, Alexander
The manner in which trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) forest duff moisture changes during the growing season was investigated in Elk Island National Park, Alberta, Canada. A calibration-validation procedure incorporating one calibration site with moisture sampling…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Sandberg, Riccardi, Prichard
We present an overview of the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS), a tool that enables land managers, regulators, and scientists to create and catalogue fuelbeds and to classify those fuelbeds for their capacity to support fire and consume fuels. The fuelbed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Abbott, Leblon, Staples, MacLean, Alexander
The goal of this study was to evaluate the potential use of RADARSAT-1 images to assess daily variations in dead fuel moisture over a northern boreal forest area, as parameterized by the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System. The study area was located in the south-…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Abbott, Alexander, MacLean, Leblon, Beck, Staples
We assessed how well the fuel moisture codes of the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index System can be used to predict forest floor moisture in burned and in mature, unburned jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) stands in Canada's Northwest Territories. Moisture content sampled at…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hom, Clark, Van Tuyl, Cole, Skowronski, Pan, Somes
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Evers, Gravenmier, Eberhardt
Current efforts to improve the scientific basis for fire management on public lands will benefit from more efficient transfer of technical information and tools that support planning, implementation, and effectiveness of vegetation and hazardous fuel treatments. The technical…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roe, Robson, Robinson, Kuit, Frid, Daniel, Carr, Beukema, Bailey, Abraham
The Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT) is a user-friendly, Windows-based computer tool which provides a state and transition landscape modelling framework for examining the role of various disturbance agents and management actions in vegetation change. It allows users…
Year: 2007
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Omi, Martinson
This proposal responds to Task 1 of the second Announcement for Proposals (AFP) authorized by the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board in 2003, which calls for projects that would obtain time-sensitive information following wildland fire incidents related to the effects of…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hao, Babbitt, Ferguson, Lahm, Ottmar, Sandberg, Susott, Yokelson
Project Objectives For at least 5 different major classes of fuels typically involved in residual smoldering combustion (RSC) and two different moisture content conditions dispersed over at least 10 different sites. Four of these will be in the western USA, 3 in the southeast, 2…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Toman
This study is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of TFSP agency communication strategies and partnerships with local organizations for fuel reduction programs. Research will be at the community level where federal fire personnel have begun to work cooperatively with local…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Hiers
Knowledge of the amount of biomass and other fuel characteristics is becoming increasingly important for making informed decisions on the use of prescribed fire, wildfires, and wildland fire use fires. Consequently the Joint Fire Science Program funded the development of fuels…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Renschler
This proposal is in response to Task 1: Science Application Partnerships, as described in the Joint Fire Science Program Announcement for Proposals 2004-4. The current GeoWEPP spatial erosion modeling tool is showing great promise for applications to Burned Area Emergency…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES