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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lynch
Disturbances are mechanisms that mediate ecosystem changes in response to climate-driven vegetation changes. While many studies have looked at the effect of fire on ecosystem components, few have considered the response of fire to climate and vegetation change. The effects that…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fujioka
Wildland fire spread models have a long history, but a system is needed to quantify the magnitude, spatial and temporal variability, and statistical characteristics of fire spread modeling errors. This dissertation describes a new methodology to evaluate the uncertainties of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brungs
Description not entered.
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wittwer
Aerial detection mapping is conducted annually to document the location and extent of active forest insect and disease damage. These surveys generally cover approximately 1/3 of the forested land in Alaska. Smoke from large wildfires in interior Alaska and inclement weather…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska Fire Service conducted a fire readiness review from June 4-8 to assess operational preparedness of the state's fire management program. The review team, selected for their experience and knowledge in various fire program technical specialties, included: Scott Billing…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
On August 8, 2000, President Clinton asked Secretaries Babbitt and Glickman to prepare a report that recommends how best to respond to this year's severe fires, reduce the impacts of these wildland fires on rural communities, and ensure sufficient firefighting resources in the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trummer
The purpose of the study was to determine the extent, patterns, and causes of stain and decay in even-aged unmanaged paper birch stands in mature and older age classes. This study also investigated whether site factors, age-class, and regional location affect pathogen incidence…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Reinhardt
Fire managers are increasingly concerned about the threat of crown fires, yet only now are quantitative methods for assessing crown fire hazard being developed. Links among existing mathematical models of fire behavior are used to develop two indices of crown fire hazard-the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ross, Daterman, Boughton, Quigley
A spruce beetle outbreak of unprecedented size and intensity killed most of the spruce trees on millions of acres of forest land in south-central Alaska in the 1990s. The tree mortality is affecting every component of the ecosystem, including the socioeconomic culture dependent…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schultz
This paper reports on changes that occurred in forest composition and structure by following 45 fifth-acre plots established in 1982.
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McNay, Ver Hoef
We created and simulated a new sampling design to estimate wolf (Canis lupus) predation rates on ungulates during winter. Previous estimates of wolf predation rates were drawn from late autumn or early spring surveys, and consequently may be biased by seasonal variation in prey…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Manies, Harden, Yoshikawa, Randerson
Relatively high rates of plant production coupled with low rates of decomposition allow boreal forests to store large amounts of carbon. Fire, the main disturbance of this ecosystem, also plays a key role in regulating this biome's C storage. All three of these factors are…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hourdequin
This reference list provides an overview of key literature relating to fire restoration and management in wilderness and similarly protected areas. This list, which centers on the United States, should be helpful to managers or researchers new to the topic, or to those seeking…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten, Hennon, Trummer, Schultz
Insect and disease identification guide with pictures. From preface: 'This handbook is divided into insect and disease sections, each with its own illustrations, and host index. Literature cited, glossary, and general index follow at the end of the book. Not every insect or…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten, Hard
Data from 1999 and 2000 field studies regarding the dispersal flight and initial attack behavior of the spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis Kirby) are summarized. More dispersing beetles were trapped in flight near the middle to upper tree bole than the lower bole. There were…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Ottmar, Peterson, Core, Seamon
The National Wildfire Coordination Group's (NWCG) Fire Use Working Team has assumed overall responsibility for sponsoring the development and production of this revised Smoke Management Guide for Prescribed and Wildland Fire (the 'Guide'). The Mission Statement for the Fire Use…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Duncan
[Highlighting research by Trish Wurtz and John Zasada] Only a small body of research addresses the impacts of timber harvesting in the boreal forest of Alaska. Two projects described here began in 1970 and 1980 to develop more reliable methods of regeneration white spruce --…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapeskie
See pages 36-38 where the author cites Theriault (1992) and Lewis (1982).
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carmody
Description not entered.
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barrett
Landscape assessment and planning often depend on the ability to predict change of vegetation. This report compares four modeling systems (FETM, LANDSUM, SIMPPLLE, and VDDT) that can be used to understand changes resulting from succession, natural disturbance, and management…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, McCormick
FireFamily Plus is the new software for summarizing and analyzing daily weather observations and computing fire danger indexes based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS). While the software and packaging are new, many of the reports are not. FireFamily Plus…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Keane
This proposal is in response to Task 3 of the February 23, 1999 Request for Proposals: develop, evaluate, or compare methods or approaches to incorporate wildland fuels management information into landscape scale land use and planning processes. In particular, we propose to…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
This 25-minute video features Fire Scientist Jack Cohen showing examples of homes that were unprotected during a wildfire; homes using Home Protection Guidelines (see below); and examples where home protection guidelines can be put to use.
Year: 2001
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Starr
Literature on logging after wildfire is reviewed, with a focus on environmental effects of logging activity and the removal of large woody structure. As in unburned stands, log retrieval systems vary considerably in their immediate effect on soils in the postfire environment,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mason, Field, Yokelson, Kochivar, Tinsley, Ward, Hao
Oxygenated volatile organic species (oxygenates), including HCOOH, H2CO, CH3OH, HOCH2CHO (hydroxyacetaldehyde), CH3COOH, and C6H5OH, have recently been identified by Fourier transform infrared measurements as a significant component of the direct emissions from biomass…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES