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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Sivakumar
Deserts are known to mankind, but the term desertification has always been an elusive concept. It is now defined in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as land degradation in the drylands (land failing within arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas)…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Friedli, Radke, Payne, McRae, Lynham, Blake
We studied an upland boreal forest plot located in the Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada, to measure the total mercury content in vegetation and organic soil with a view to assessing the potential for mercury release during forest fires. The study area consists…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fiedler, Friederici, Petruncio
In this article, we discuss how to monitor the structural and functional attributes of old growth, as well as its associated plant communities and wildlife, both to determine the possible need for treatment and to assess post-treatment progress toward desired conditions.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thiffault, Belanger, Paré, Munson
An important tenet of the natural disturbance paradigm as a basis for sustainable forest management is that impacts of interventions fall within the range of natural variation observed for the disturbance in question. We evaluated differences in soil nutrients, soil acid-base…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Freeman, Stohlgren, Hunter, Omi, Martinson, Chong, Browns
Fire is a natural part of most forest ecosystems in the western United States, but its effects on nonnative plant invasion have only recently been studied. Also, forest managers are engaging in fuel reduction projects to lessen fire severity, often without considering potential…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Rollins, Zhu
Canopy and surface fuels in many fire-prone forests of the United States have increased over the last 70 years as a result of modern fire exclusion policies, grazing, and other land management activities. The Healthy Forest Restoration Act and National Fire Plan establish a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kane, Kasischke, Valentine, Turetsky, McGuire
We measured characteristics of soil organic carbon (SOC) and black carbon (BC) along opposed north- and south-facing toposequences in recent (2004) and old (~1860-1950) burn sites throughout interior Alaska. Surface fuel consumption did not vary between different topographic…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hessburg, Reynolds, Keane, James, Salter
We present a decision support application that evaluates danger of severe wildland fire and prioritizes subwatersheds for vegetation and fuels treatment. We demonstrate the use of the system with an example from the Rocky Mountain region in the State of Utah; a planning area of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lloyd, Fastie, Eisen
Black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) is a common treeline species in eastern Canada but rare at treeline in Alaska. We investigated fire and substrate effects on black spruce populations at six sites along a 74 km transect in the Brooks Range, Alaska. Our southern sites, on…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gavin, Hallett, Hu, Lertzman, Prichard, Brown, Lynch, Bartlein, Peterson
Millennial-scale records of forest fire provide important baseline information for ecosystem management, especially in regions with too few recent fires to describe the historical range of variability. Charcoal records from lake sediments and soil profiles are well suited for…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fitzgerald
After the record-breaking fire seasons of 2004-2005, fire and public land managers knew the needed a proactive approach to hazardous fuel reduction, particularly in the black spruce forests of Alaska's interior.
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fege, Absher
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Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chuvieco, Kasischke
Over the past decade, much research has been carried out on the utilization of advanced geospatial technologies (remote sensing and geographic information systems) in the fire science and fire management disciplines. Recent advances in these technologies were the focus of a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Modelling and experiments have suggested that spatial fuel treatment patterns can influence the movement of large fires. On simple theoretical landscapes consisting of two fuel types (treated and untreated), optimal patterns can be analytically derived that disrupt fire growth…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexander
CFIS (Crown Fire Initiation and Spread) is a new (nonprofit) software system that incorporates several recently developed models designed to simulate crown fire behavior (Alexander and others 2006). The main outputs of CFIS are ability to determine the: 1) likelihood of crown…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Perin
To facilitate delivery and use of the Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration Project's (Project) products, the Project team engaged in a series of technology transfer activities throughout the life of the project. These included bringing land managers into the design…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Colman, Linn
HIGRAD/FIRETEC is a coupled atmosphere/wildfire behavior model based on conservation of mass, momentum, species, and energy. It combines a three-dimensional transport model that uses a compressible-gas fluid dynamics formulation with a physics-based wildfire model, to represent…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS