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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Extensive bibliographic list of references on Alaska wildfire from the Geophysical Institute.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Verbyla
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Leaf Area Index (LAI) Product (MOD15A2) was evaluated for the growing seasons of 2000 through 2004 in Alaska. The LAI estimate may be affected by three factors not directly related to canopy leaf area: snow melt, cloud…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reutebuch, Andersen, McGaughey
Airborne laser scanning of forests has been shown to provide accurate terrain models and, at the same time, estimates of multiple resource inventory variables through active sensing of three-dimensional (3D) forest vegetation. Brief overviews of airborne laser scanning…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rapp
Over the last 15 years, spruce bark beetles have killed huge numbers of spruce trees, the dominant conifer across south-central Alaska. From 80 to 90 percent of the trees are dead in large areas on the Kenai Peninsula. The consequences of the spruce bark beetle outbreak will…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Radeloff, Hammer, Stewart, Fried, Holcomb, McKeefry
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. The WUI is thus a focal area for human-environment conflicts, such as the destruction of homes by wildfires, habitat fragmentation, introduction of exotic…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Laughlin
Wildfire poses risks to fish and wildlife habitat, among other things. Management projects to reduce the severity of wildfire effects by implementing hazardous fuel reduction treatments also pose risks. How can land managers determine which risk is greater? Comparison of risks…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andersen, Reutebuch, McGaughey
Accurate digital terrain models (DTMs) are necessary for a variety of forest resource management applications, including watershed management, timber harvest planning, and fire management. Traditional methods for acquiring topographic data typically rely on aerial photogrammetry…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amacher, Malik, Haight
We extend existing stand-level models of forest landowner behavior in the presence of fire risk to include the level and timing of fuel management activities. These activities reduce losses if a stand ignites. Based on simulations, we find the standard result that fire risk…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amacher, Malik, Haight
We estimate the value of three types of information about fire risk to a nonindustrial forest landowner: the relationship between fire arrival rates and stand age, the magnitude of fire arrival rates, and the efficacy of fuel reduction treatment. Our model incorporates planting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Amacher, Malik, Haight
We estimate the value to a non-industrial forest landowner of information about the magnitude of fire arrival rates. A simulation based on a model from Amacher et al. [Amacher, G., Malik, A., Haight, R., in press. Not getting burned: the importance of fire prevention in forest…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allen, Prepas, Gabos, Strachan, WeiPing
Methyl mercury (MeHg) concentrations in macroinvertebrates and fish were compared among five lakes in burned catchments and five reference lakes on the western Canadian Boreal Plain to determine the influence of forest fire on MeHg bioaccumulation. Two years after fire, MeHg…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gucker
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gucker
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gucker
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Groen
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Groen
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roberts, Peterson, Dennison, Rechel, van Wagtendonk
Wildfire represents one of the most beneficial, yet destructive, forms of disturbance in the western United States. Wildfire danger is a product of weather, fuels and terrain, varying seasonally depending on changes in the amount and condition of fuels (live and dead components…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reams, Haines, Renner
In response to the increased threat of catastrophic wildfire, states have adopted various policies and programs to reduce hazardous fuels and protect communities. Many of these programs offer public education and assistance to private property owners concerning vegetation…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hom, Van Tuyl, Iverson
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sturtevant, Moote, Jakes, Cheng
A series of syntheses were commissioned by the USDA Forest Service to aid in fuels mitigation project planning. This synthesis focuses on collaboration research, and offers knowledge and tools to improve collaboration in the planning and implementation of wildland fire and fuels…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
A series of syntheses were commissioned by the USDA Forest Service to aid in fuels mitigation project planning. This synthesis focuses on research addressing aesthetic considerations of fuels management. A general finding is that fuels management activities can contribute to the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paragi, Haggstrom
Determined relative efficacy and cost of using felling and shearblading and low-severity prescribed burning to stimulate root sprouting of suckers in mature stands of quaking aspen, and crushing or other appropriate mechanical treatments, or prescribed burning to rejuvenate…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ott, Jandt
Nationally, the wildland fire threat to homes is increasing, and is often referred to as the wildland-urban interface (W-UI) fire problem (Cohen 2000). The increase in the W-UI fire problem is a result of a major population increase in or adjacent to forested areas (Davis 1990…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Barnes, Horschel
This report summarizes activities from 2002-2004 undertaken by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Alaska Fire Service and cooperating agencies to better understand the influence of forest floor moisture content on fire behavior in interior Alaska boreal spruce forest. Forest…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES