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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Nguyen
Forest harvest scheduling has been modeled using deterministic and stochastic programming models. Past models seldom address explicit spatial forest management concerns under the influence of natural disturbances. In this research study, we employ multistage full recourse…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oliver
National forest managers are charged with tackling the effects of climate change on the natural resources under their care. The Forest Service National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change and the Climate Change Performance Scorecard require managers to make significant…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Handbook for criteria pollutant inventory development: a beginner's guide for point and area sources
This document will help state, local, and tribal air pollution control agency personnel compile an inventory of criteria pollutant emissions from stationary (point and area) sources. The information contained in this document is intended to serve as a reference guide only, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mercer, Prestemon
The economics of wildfire is complicated because wildfire behavior depends on the spatial and temporal scale at which management decisions made, and because of uncertainties surrounding the results of management actions. Like the wildfire processes they seek to manage,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2005-07
Wildland fire represents an important ecological mechanism in many forest ecosystems. It shapes the distributions of species, maintains the structure and function of fire-prone communities, and is a significant evolutionary force (Bond and Keeley 2005). At the same time, fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Program's annual national technical report has three objectives: (1) to present forest health status and trends from a national or a multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, (2) to introduce new techniques for analyzing…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Large-scale patterns of forest fire occurrence in the conterminous United States and Alaska, 2001-08
Wildland fire represents an important ecological mechanism in many forest ecosystems. It shapes the distributions of species, maintains the structure and function of fire-prone communities, and is a significant evolutionary force (Bond and Keeley 2005). At the same time, fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Magi, Rabin, Shevliakova, Pacala
The timing and length of burning seasons in different parts of the world depend on climate, land-cover characteristics, and human activities. In this study, global burned area estimates are used in conjunction with global gridded distributions of agricultural land-cover types (…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keeley
Introduction: Pinus is a diverse genus of trees widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Understanding pine life history is critical to both conservation and fire management. Objectives: Here I lay out the different pathways of pine life history adaptation and a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The genus Pinus orginated 150 million years ago in the Mesozoic Era, when high fire activity was a likely driver of the evolutionary divergence for this group of conifers. In the Annals of Forest Science, USGS ecologist Jon Keeley has reviewed the evolution of pine life history…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finco, Quayle, Zhang, Lecker, Megown, Brewer
The Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) project is mapping the extent, size, and severity of all large fires greater than 1,000 acres in the west and 500 acres in the east over the conterminous United States (CONUS), Alaska, and Hawaii. In 2012 the project reached a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Toney, Peterson, Long, Parsons, Cohn
The LANDFIRE program is developing 2010 maps of vegetation and wildland fuel attributes for the United States at 30-meter resolution. Currently available vegetation layers include ca. 2001 and 2008 forest canopy cover and canopy height derived from Landsat and Forest Inventory…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Randall, Underberg
Burn plans are a critical component of any prescribed burn. The purpose of a burn plan is to provide a description of the burn area, target weather conditions, hazards that may be encountered, personnel needs and safety, and contacts to make prior to burning. This publication…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Randall, Harr
Managing smoke produced by prescribed fires has, in recent years, become a critical consideration when planning a prescribed fire event. In some situations, planning for smoke management may be more complicated than planning for the prescribed fire itself. Considerations such as…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Randall, Harr
Prescribed fire is one of a suite of tools used to manage landscapes to achieve specific management goals. Safety in using prescribed fire is of utmost importance. To conduct a safe and effective prescribed fire requires not only a burn plan and clear lines of communication, but…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Randall, Underberg, Harr
Prescribed fire is a tool utilized under very specific and predetermined conditions (weather, fuel load, and season) to manipulate the environment and achieve a desired outcome. Historically, fire was used by Native Americans to clear forested understories of saplings and shrubs…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Randall, Harr
When initiating a prescribed fire, it is important to determine the type of ignition pattern, or combination of patterns prior to the burn. Making this determination depends on several factors: burning objectives, fuel characteristics, pre- and post-burn weather, smoke…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephenson, Millar
Anthropogenic climatic change can no longer be considered an abstract possibility. It is here, its effects are already evident, and changes are expected to accelerate in coming decades, profoundly altering wilderness ecosystems. At the most fundamental level, wilderness stewards…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dicus
This extensive 51-page bibliography of WUI research citations is organized into nine sections: 1) Wildland fuels 2) Landscaping fuels 3) Construction 4) Community Planning 5) Social 6) Policy and economics 7) Fire suppression 8) Post-fire recovery 9) Case studies. Compiled by…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska Fire and Fuels Research Map was created in 2006 under FIREHOUSE (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse), a Joint Fire Science Program funded project (06-3-1-26). This database was initially populated from National Park Service fire effects study plots…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The annual national technical report of the Forest Health Monitoring Program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This Alaska Technical Regional Report (part of the National Climate Assessment) looks at current changes; synthesizes relevant and new science and information since publication of the last Alaska regional report (1999); and provides outlooks and projections of climate-related…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Meteorologists developed two formulas to predict the probability of dry lightning throughout the continental United States and Alaska and parts of Canada. Predictions are made daily and are accessible through the web at http://www.airfire.org/tools/daily-fire-weather/dry-…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chen, Wulder, White, Hilker, Coops
There is a paucity of detailed and timely forest inventory information available for Canada's large, remote northern boreal forests. The Canadian National Forest Inventory program has derived a limited set of attributes from a Landsat-based land cover product representing circa…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
May, Hollister
The point frame method is ideal for vegetation monitoring because exact locations may be precisely resampled over time. Many researchers, including those associated with the International Tundra Experiment (ITEX), have used a modified point frame method to document vegetation…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES