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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Potter, Larkin, Nikolov
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morton, Berg, Newbould, MacLean, O'Brien
In this article, we review the 2005 fire season on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, especially the five lightning starts in wilderness. The decision process for suppressing these fires, or not, clarifies some of the major obstacles to allowing wildland fires in wilderness.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott
Federal wildland fire management programs have readily embraced the practice of fuel treatment. Wildland fire risk is quantified as expected annual loss ($ yr-1 or $ yr-1 ac-1). Fire risk at a point on the landscape is a function of the probability of burning at that point, the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Lutes, Scott
This paper describes the FuelCalc computer program. FuelCalc is a tool to compute surface and canopy fuel loads and characteristics from inventory data, to support fuel treatment decisions by simulating effects of a wide range of silvicultural treatments on surface fuels and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons
Efforts to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of fuels treatments are hampered by inconsistencies between the spatial scale at which fuel treatments are implemented and the spatial scale, and detail, with which we model fire and fuel interactions. Central to this scale…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Hom, Van Tuyl, Iverson, Cole, Clark, Skowronski, Patterson
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Koo
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Prototype Project, or LANDFIRE Prototype Project, began in April of 2002 and ended in April of 2005. The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior. The…
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
Keane, Holsinger, Pratt
The range and variation of historical landscape dynamics could provide a useful reference for designing fuel treatments on today's landscapes. Simulation modeling is a vehicle that can be used to estimate the range of conditions experienced on historical landscapes. A landscape…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak, Jandt
Local residents, working with the village council and Alaska Fire Service, received federal funding to reduce the fire risk and hazard to private residential structures by modifying fuel structure and continuity of 66 acres around the community of Tanacross. Additional acres…
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
CFIS incorporates several models designed to simulate crown fire behavior. The main outputs of CFIS are: (1) the likelihood of crown fire initiation or occurrence; (2) the type of crown fire (active vs. passive) and its rate of spread; and (3) the minimum spotting distance…
Year: 2006
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Munger, Randall, Ryan, Smith, Sutherland, Zouhar
This project will update and increase the information on invasive plant species available in the Fire Effects Information System (FEIS), link FEIS to other Internet sites with high-quality information on invasive species, and report on information gaps in the scientific…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Butler
This proposal outlines a request for funding to pay for equipment and travel costs incurred by a team that can be rapidly deployed to obtain measurements of energy transfer as naturally burning fires burn into and around clearings that may be characterized as firefighter safety…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Zeller, Mathewson, Nikolov
Reliable forecasting of regional weather and wind flow patterns is critical for effective fighting of wildland fires and the operational management of prescribed burns. Accurate prediction of future wind fields is essential for predicting fire behavior; smoke dispersion, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Finney, Bradshaw, Butler
The following constitutes a proposal submitted in response to JFSP RFP 2003-2 Task-i. One major source of uncertainty in fire behavior predictions is spatial variation in the wind fields used in the fire models. Mountainsides, valleys, ridges, and the fire itself, influence both…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Agee, Baldwin, Barbour, Beall, Boerner, Brown, Busse, Edminster, Fiedler, Haase, Harrington, Hodgson, Keeley, Landram, Laudenslayer, Lehmkuhl, Otrosina, Ottmar, Ritchie, Ryan, Shea, Skinner, Stephens, Stephenson, Sutherland, Vihnanek, Wade, Waldrop, Weatherspoon, Yaussy, Zack
Objectives of the project are as follows: 1. Quantify the initial effects (first five years) of fire and fire surrogate treatments on a number of specific core response variables within the general groupings of (a) vegetation, (b) fuel and fire behavior, (c) soils and forest…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Haase, Hardy, Regelbrugge, Reinhardt, Sackett, Sandberg, Sutherland, Vihnanek, Wade, Wright
The primary objective of the fuel consumption project is: Improve existing models to better predict fuel consumption during the smoldering phase of wildland fires; develop new fuel consumption models for shrubland hardwood, and boreal forest fuel types; implement modified and…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Gabbert, Mangan
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) will sponsor a conference to address fuels management and how to measure success. IAWF has worked with the Interagency Fule Committee on initial planning. There is general recognition of the need for such a conference. We…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Lecomte, Simard, Bergeron
The effects of fire severity and initial post-fire tree composition on long-term stand structural development were investigated in the Picea mariana-feathermoss bioclimatic domain of northwestern Québec. Paleoecological methods were used to categorize the severity of the last…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kou, Baker
Accurate fire-history data are needed if local management of fire or costly national plans for restoring and managing fire and forest structure are to succeed. Fire-history researchers often use fire scars and the composite fire interval method to reconstruct parameters of past…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Prichard, Ottmar, Anderson
Consume is a user-friendly computer program designed for resource managers with some working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications. The software predicts the amount of fuel consumption, emissions, and heat release from the burning of logged units, piled slash, and natural…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES