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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McHugh
Fire managers are required to evaluate and justify the effectiveness of planned fuel treatments in modifying fire growth, behavior and effects on resources and assets. With the number of models currently available, today's fire manager can become overwhelmed when deciding which…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lentile, Morgan, Bobbitt, Lewis, Hudak, Robichaud
We examined vegetation diversity and landscape pattern relative to burn severity following eight large wildfires that burned in 2003 and 2004 in California chaparral, in mixed conifer forests in Montana, and in boreal forests in interior Alaska. Our goal was to relate post-fire…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Joly, Rupp
Land and wildlife managers in Alaska are concerned about the effects of recent climate warming in Northwestern Alaska on tundra fire ecology and the well-being of Alaska's largest caribou (Rangifer tarandus) herd. Subarctic regions, including Alaska, have experienced rapid…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hudak, Lewis, Robichaud, Morgan, Bobbitt, Lentile, Smith, Holden, Clark, McKinley
The USFS Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) and the USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) produce Burned Area Reflectance Classification (BARC) maps as a rapid, preliminary indication of burn severity on large wildfire events. Currently the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hom, Van Tuyl, Iverson, Cole, Clark, Skowronski, Patterson
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eriksson
The objective of this study was to investigate if patterns of snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) densities in interior Alaska are influenced by post-fire successional stage. Stages of succession were classified using the proxy Time Since Last Fire (TSLF). I estimated snowshoe hare…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Duffy
The boreal forest covers 12 million km2 of the northern hemisphere and contains roughly 40% of the world's reactive soil carbon. The Northern high latitudes have experienced significant warming over the past century and there is a pressing need to characterize the response of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Betts
In the boreal forest of interior Alaska, both permafrost and wildfire impact stream solute concentrations, but their effect on stream function is unknown. This research focused on the effects of wildfire and permafrost on stream nutrient dynamics and metabolism in the Caribou…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
van Wagtendonk, Baldwin, Bevers, Finney, Haight
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Since the advent of the National Fire Plan in 2000, governmental and non-governmental entities have collaborated to make significant progress on multiple fronts in addressing the issues brought to national attention by the fires of 2000 and addressed in the 10-Year Strategy and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildland fire in Alaska: a history of organized fire suppression and management in the last frontier
From introduction: 'When the federal government used the military to fight fires in Yellowstone National Park in 1886, it marked the beginning of wildland fire suppression in the United States (Pyne 1982). Organized fire suppression in the Territory of Alaska began almost 60…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sturtevant, McCaffrey
Managers may often wonder why some people do not choose to adopt defensible space practices despite understanding the benefits of doing so. Research has sought to understand why a new practice or innovation is or is not adopted. This paper will briefly discuss factors found to…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Long-term monitoring of vegetation change following tundra fires in Noatak National Preserve, Alaska
Fire is an important driver of change at the local and landscape levels in the tundra ecosystems of Noatak National Preserve. In July 2005, with support from the National Park Service Arctic Network Inventory and Monitoring program, we relocated and remeasured fire plots…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nikolov, Teixeira, Snook, Zeller, Fajardo
Accurate forecasting of regional weather is an important aspect of modern fire and smoke management. Fire weather impacts prescribed burn decisions, allocation of firefighting resources, and fire-fighters safety. Regional weather forecasts are currently produced by 3-D numerical…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Myers, O'Brien, Morrison
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutes, Keane, Caratti, Key, Benson, Sutherland, Gangi
Monitoring and inventory to assess the effects of wildland fire is critical for 1) documenting fire effects, 2) assessing ecosystem damage and benefit, 3) evaluating the success or failure of a burn, and 4) appraising the potential for future treatments. However, monitoring fire…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak
The Alphabet Hills prescribed fire (AA30) was ignited on August 10, 2004 by the BLM Alaska Fire Service and burned approximately 37,500 acres. Two vegetation and consumption plots were established in 2001 on the west side of Porkchop Lake. Both transects were burned in 2004,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hamilton
The purpose of this study was to document fire effects and subsequent changes in vascular species composition and structure after a slashburn. Survival and growth of planted hybrid spruce seedlings were also monitored. The study site is a clearcut at Windy Point in the Mackenzie…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Conard, Hilbruner, Riebau, Langner, Burch, Beighley, Weise, Sandberg, Edminster, Heilman, Jewell, Saveland, Miller, Parsons, Hoover, Ottmar, Potter, Brett
This document presents the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Wildland Fire and Fuels Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan for the next 10 years (through 2015). The plan provides a framework to implement a national program of research and science…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Riordan, Garwood
This document benchmarks the results of a three year NASA sponsored research project (2003-6) on developing and demonstrating techniques for using single channel C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery for assessing the potential for wildfire in boreal Alaska.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alden
Six of nine nonnative boreal conifers in three genera (Abies, Larix, and Pinus) regenerated in 11 to 31 years after they were introduced to mainland Alaska. Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engel.) and the Siberian larches (Larix sibirica Ledeb. and L. sukaczewii N…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland, Pilliod
The Wildlife Habitat Response Model (WHRM) is a web-based tool meant to assist fuel treatment planners in evaluating the effects of fuel treatment alternatives on wildlife habitats. WHRM does not provide estimates of wildlife population changes or viability. WHRM is based on…
Year: 2006
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Elliot, Robichaud
WEPP FuME estimates background erosion rates and compares sediment loads and erosion from wildfire, thinning, prescribed fire, and low and high use road networks for a given topography. Soil and water databases are the same as those used for WEPP. WEPP FuME has gone through…
Year: 2006
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Kokaly, McAdams, Root, Walker
For the past several decades, prescribed fire has proven to be a valuable tool for managing federal lands. It is an economical and efficient way to reduce accumulated fuel loads resulting from prolonged policies of suppressing wildfires, Prescribed fire helps to control the…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES