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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Cruz, Alexander, Fernandes
We describe the development of a model system to predict fire behaviour over the full range of potential fire behaviour in the various types of fuel complexes found in exotic pine plantations in relation to environmental conditions. The proposed system integrates a series of sub…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Agee, Fulé, Keeley, Key, Kitchen, Miller, Schulte
The perception is that today's large fires are an ecological catastrophe because they burn vast areas with high intensities and severities. However, little is known of the ecological impacts of large fires on both historical and contemporary landscapes. The present paper…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hurteau, Koch, Hungate
ANNOTATION: This paper looks into the carbon sequestering abilities of forests and finds that policies currently in place promote avoidable carbon releases and discourage actions that would actually increase long-term carbon storage. When stand-replacing catastrophic fires move…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ichoku, Martins, Kaufman, Wooster, Freeborn, Hao, Baker, Ryan, Nordgren
Fuel biomass samples from southern Africa and the United States were burned in a laboratory combustion chamber while measuring the biomass consumption rate, the fire radiative energy (FRE) release rate (R fre), and the smoke concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Freeborn, Wooster, Hao, Ryan, Nordgren, Baker, Ichoku
Forty-four small-scale experimental fires were conducted in a combustion chamber to examine the relationship between biomass consumption, smoke production, convective energy release, and middle infrared (MIR) measurements of fire radiative energy (FRE). Fuel bed weights, trace…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frankman, Webb, Butler
The attenuation of radiation transfer from wildland flames to fuel by environmental water vapor is investigated. Emission is tracked from points on an idealized flame to locations along the fuel bed while accounting for absorption by environmental water vapor in the intervening…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a suite of computer modeling tools for predicting the long-term effects of alternative forest management actions. FVS was developed in the early 1980s and is used throughout the United Sates and British Columbia. The Third FVS conference…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lawson, Armitage
The Weather Guide for the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System is intended primarily for operational wildland fire management personnel and forest fire weather practitioners responsible for gathering, processing, and forecasting fire weather information in support of safe…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
An updated edition (with corrections) of Marty Alexander's 1994 report on the criteria used to define the fire danger classes in New Zealand. A fire danger class scheme based on Byram's concept of fire intensity as a yardstick of suppression difficulty was devised for forests…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Emissions Production Simulator (FEPS) is an open source, user-friendly computer program designed for a wide range of users. The software manages data about consumption, emissions, and heat release characteristics of wildland fires and prescribed burns on an hourly basis…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kasischke, Turetsky, Ottmar, French, Hoy, Kane
We evaluated the utility of the composite burn index (CBI) for estimating fire severity in Alaskan black spruce forests by comparing data from 81 plots located in 2004 and 2005 fire events. We collected data to estimate the CBI and quantify crown damage, percent of trees…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rodman, Stam
The Municipality of Anchorage Community Wildfire Protection Plan is a collaborative effort in response to the 2003 Healthy Forests Restoration Act (HFRA). The HFRA directs communities exposed to wildland fire to conduct a risk assessment and create a hazard fuel mitigation plan…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rummer
The basic costs of the operations for implementing fuel reduction treatments are used to evaluate treatment effectiveness, select among alternatives, estimate total project costs, and build national program strategies. However, a review of the literature indicates that there is…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Laband, Hussain, González-Cabán
In this paper, we explore empirically whether the USDA Forest Service's litigation success rate in each Forest Service region helps explain the persistent regional effects noted by Laband et al. (Laband, D.N., González-Cabán, A., and Hussain, A. (2006). 'Factors That Influence…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Foote
Recovery of the vegetation following the A-185 Fire, which burned in 1990 in the east central portion of the Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge, was monitored intermittently on 8 transects (TS) for 10 years beginning in 1991. The study areas (Black Spruce/Lichen Woodland, TS 1 and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly
Live fuels are a key component to the wildland fuel complex but little is know about their contribution to fire danger or fire behavior. This review attempts to quantify our current understanding of the role that live fuels play in combustion and how those characteristics are…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Heilman, Weise, Goodrick, Ottmar, Hilbruner, Sandberg
This document presents a problem analysis and science advancement plan for fundamental fire behavior research activities under the Physical Fire Processes Element (A1), Core Fire Science Portfolio (A), Fire Strategic Program Area (SPA), as defined by the Forest Service Wildland…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Renschler, Elliot
This report covers the development and application of GeoWEPP for cumulative watershed effects from June, 2006 until May, 2008. During this period, development and application of a complementary JFSP project (04-04-1-12) which officially ended in March, 2007, was also occurring…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Riordan, Garwood
Alaska currently relies on the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System for the assessment of the potential for wildfire and although it provides invaluable information it is designed as a single system which does not account for the varied fuel types and drying conditions (day…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holmberg, Bennett
Discusses pruning as a way to reduce fire hazard in forest land. Outlines pruning guidelines. Summarizes considerations in pruning.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Canton-Thompson, Gebert, Thompson, Jones, Calkin, Donovan
Large wildland fires are complex, costly events influenced by a vast array of physical, climatic, and social factors. Changing climate, fuel buildup due to past suppression, and increasing populations in the wildland-urban interface have all been blamed for the extreme fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Prestemon, Abt, Huggett
We describe a two-stage model of global log and chip markets that evaluates the spatial and temporal economic effects of government- subsidized fire-related mechanical fuel treatment programs in the U.S.West and South. The first stage is a goal program that allocates subsidies…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Sorbel
Burn severity strongly influences post-fire vegetation succession, soil erosion, and wildlife populations in the fire-adapted boreal forest and tundra ecosystems of Alaska. Therefore, satellite-derived maps of burn severity in the remote Alaskan landscape are a useful tool in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cella, Barnes, Butteri, Cole, Fleming, Howard, Koltun, Long, Martyn, Murphy, Noonan, Passek, Scott, See, Slaughter, Sorbel, Theisen
During 2007, an interagency group of participants went through the 80+ Level IV classifications within the Viereck and others (1992) Alaska Vegetation Classification in order to develop a crosswalk between the classification and the Scott and Burgan (2005) fire behavior fuel…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
ANNOTATION: This is an Excel spreadsheet that converts wood moisture contents from either dry basis to wet basis or wet basis to dry basis. The moisture content of biomass affects the gross weight of the material that is being handled. Green material will have a higher density…
Year: 2008
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES