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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Dube
Literature shows that at a global scale, fire activity increased from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present. There is incremental evidence indicating that climate defines the regional boundary conditions for fire. Human influence on ignitions depends on climate and has, since…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Page
From the text ... 'To foster these programs at a local scale, fire management organizations must work with local organizations in addition to fire management agencies.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carr
From the text ... 'More than half the initial projects proposed for the Forest Service's billion dollars of funding through the ARRA [American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009] were for wildland fire management.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Sutcliffe, Barton
From the text ... 'AARs [After-Action Review] typically ask four questions regarding fire-response operations: what did we set out to do; what actually happened; why is there a difference between the first two; and what should we continue, and what should we change?'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larkin, O'Neill, Solomon, Raffuse, Strand, Sullivan, Krull, Rorig, Peterson, Ferguson
Smoke from fire is a local, regional and often international issue that is growing in complexity as competition for airshed resources increases. BlueSky is a smoke modeling framework designed to help address this problem by enabling simulations of the cumulative smoke impacts…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Anderson, Englefield, Little, Reuter
This paper presents an operational approach to predicting fire growth for wildland fires in Canada. The approach addresses data assimilation to provide predictions in a timely and efficient manner. Fuels and elevation grids, forecast weather, and active fire locations are…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Finney, Grenfell, McHugh
Billions of dollars are spent annually in the United States to contain large wildland fires, but the factors contributing to suppression success remain poorly understood. We used a regression model (generalized linear mixed-model) to model containment probability of individual…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ainslie, Jackson
A means of determining air emission source regions adversely influencing the city of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada from potential burning of isolated piles of mountain pine beetle-killed lodge pole pine is presented. The analysis uses the CALPUFF atmospheric dispersion…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vanderwel, Malcolm, Smith
There are pronounced differences in the processes that act to determine the type and amount of standing and downed coarse woody debris present under partial harvesting versus other noncatastrophic disturbances. To evaluate long-term differences in snag and downed woody debris (…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins
LANDFIRE is a 5-year, multipartner project producing consistent and comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, wildland fuel, fire regimes and ecological departure from historical conditions across the United States. It is a shared project between the wildland fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cyr, Gauthier, Bergeron, Carcaillet
Fire is fundamental to the natural dynamics of the North American boreal forest. It is therefore often suggested that the impacts of anthropogenic disturbances (e.g. logging) on a managed landscape are attenuated if the patterns and processes created by these events resemble…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Owens
From the text ... 'Project Learning Tree coordinators provide information and activities to make teachers feel comfortable teaching about wildland fire issues. Fire education workshops, lasting from 9 hours to a full week, cover topics such as the role of fire in ecosystems,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gleason, Gillette
From the text ... 'Although fire sometimes kills individual animals, it doesn't destroy populations or species. Most wildlife survive fire and enjoy improved living conditions afterwards. When we exclude fire from natural areas, we put animals and people at increased risk. Only…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cleveland
From the text ... 'The Advertising Council in partnership with the Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters (NASF) launched a new series of wildfire prevention public service announcements (PSAs) in June 2008 featuring a modern Smokey Bear. Not only is his…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andersen
From the text ... 'WFPETs [Wildland Fire Prevention and Education Teams] can support and coordinate fire prevention education programs over large geographic areas before and during high fire danger or fire activity.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rideout, Reich, Ziesler
Increasing recognition of the role of fire in natural ecosystems has increased the use of wildland fire as a management tool. Although wildland fire use (WFU) has been practiced for decades, it is emerging as an organized program. As such, the analytics of WFU, from a management…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schwilk, Keeley, Knapp, McIver, Bailey, Fettig, Fiedler, Harrod, Moghaddas, Outcalt, Skinner, Stephens, Waldrop, Yaussy, Youngblood
Changes in vegetation and fuels were evaluated from measurements taken before and after fuel reduction treatments (prescribed fire, mechanical treatments, and the combination of the two) at 12 Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) sites located in forests with a surface fire regime…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haddow
From the text ... 'So what is the number one reason that we're burning? What is the number one reason we treat fuels? Well, of course it's to protect the public from extremely high concentration of fine particulates associated with wildfire, right? And that's the number one…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guyette, Stambaugh
From the text ... 'Because fire was such an important historic disturbance and is a large component in understanding regional differences in emissions, it is analogous to an elephant in the closet. One can think of fire frequency as the elephant. That is, it is an issue that is…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
A pair of three-day workshops were held in 2008 and 2009, designed for fire managers responsible for communicating and negotiating with state and local air quality regulators. The workshops were organized by the NWCG Smoke Committee, coordinated by the University of Idaho, and…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Solutions to the wildland-urban interface or intermix (WUI) fire problem may vary considerably across ecosystems. A case in point is the boreal forest regions of northern Canada and Alaska - i.e., 'northern solutions are needed for northern problems'. This lecture recapitulates…
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Becker, Larson, Lowell
The Harvest Cost-Revenue Estimator, a financial model, was used to examine the cost sensitivity of forest biomass harvesting scenarios to targeted policies designed to stimulate wildfire hazardous fuel reduction projects. The policies selected represent actual policies enacted…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Eck, Holben, Reid, Sinyuk, Hyer, O'Neill, Shaw, Vande Castle, Chapin, Dubovik, Smirnov, Vermote, Schafer, Giles, Slutsker, Sorokine, Newcomb
Long-term monitoring of aerosol optical properties at a boreal forest AERONET site in interior Alaska was performed from 1994 through 2008 (excluding winter), Large interannual variability was observed, with some years showing near background aerosol optical depth (AOD) levels…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Balshi, McGuire, Duffy, Flannigan, Kicklighter, Melillo
The boreal forest contains large reserves of carbon. Across this region, wildfires influence the temporal and spatial dynamics of carbon storage. In this study, we estimate fire emissions and changes in carbon storage for boreal North America over the 21st century. We use a…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler
One of the most critical decisions made on wildland fires is the identification of suitable safety zones for firefighters during daily fire management operations. To be effective (timely, repeatable, and accurate), these decisions rely on good training and judgement, but also on…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS