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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hayes, Sekavec, Quigley, Ewell, Cunningham
In 2007, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) organized a task group to: 1) Develop a monitoring plan for implementing a directive from the National Fire Plan’s 10-Year Implementation Strategy, and 2) Respond to the Healthy Forest Restoration Act requirement of monitoring…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hayes, Sekavec, Quigley, Ewell, Cunningham
In 2007, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) organized a task group to: 1) Develop a monitoring plan for implementing a directive from the National Fire Plan’s 10-Year Implementation Strategy, and 2) Respond to the Healthy Forest Restoration Act requirement of monitoring…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boxall, Englin
An important consideration in managing fire-prone forests is the intertemporal impacts of forest fires. This analysis examines these impacts in a forest recreation setting by fitting a combined stated and revealed data set to explicitly model the effects of forest regrowth…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whitlock, Marlon, Briles, Brunelle, Long, Bartlein
Pollen and high-resolution charcoal records from the north-western USA provide an opportunity to examine the linkages among fire, climate, and fuels on multiple temporal and spatial scales. The data suggest that general charcoal levels were low in the late-glacial period and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pierce, Meyer
Alluvial fan deposits are widespread and preserve millennial-length records of fire. We used these records to examine changes in fire regimes over the last 2000 years in Yellowstone National Park mixed-conifer forests and drier central Idaho ponderosa pine forests. In Idaho,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zou, Breshears, Newman, Wilcox, Gard, Rich
Soil water dynamics reflect the integrated effects of climate conditions, soil hydrological properties and vegetation at a site. Consequently, changes in tree density call have important ecohydrological implications. Notably, stand density in many semi-arid forests has increased…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Truesdale
From the text ... 'The term 'wildland fire' is becoming commonly used and generally understood in the United States. . . . Common translations for forest fire include incendio forestal, waldbrand, feu de foret, incedio forestais.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rodriguez
From the text ... 'A cooperative regional strategy has been developed to mitigate the negative effects of fires in the region. The Fire Management Cooperation Strategy for the Caribbean 2006-2011, developed jointly with the representatives of the most fire-affected countries of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'The issues and challenges we face managing wildfires are not ours alone. They cross oceans and continental boundaries as well. Through the international fire program, we've had the opportunity to take a look at what we do here at home and how our international…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldammer
From the text ... 'One priority that the Working Group on Wildland Fire addressed was the establishment of the Global Wildland Fire Network (GWFN). The concept of GWFN was to identify or establish Regional Wildland Fire Networks, preferably based on existing formal or informal…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carle
From the text ... 'The Fire Management group supports fire organizations by financing fire-related projects in the United Nation's 163 member countries.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fay
From the text ... 'What works for me is to first provide different examples of effective HRO principles that people might already be doing (without the HRO labels) and then connect these practices into a mindful organizing process with the principles appropriately identified.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kennedy, Ford, Singleton, Finney, Agee
Effective decision making in environmental management requires the consideration of multiple objectives that may conflict. Common optimization methods use weights on the multiple objectives to aggregate them into a single value, neglecting valuable insight into the relationships…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shlisky, Myers, Waugh, Blankenship
Fire is a global phenomenon. Worldwide, fire can play a role in maintaining or threatening natural habitats and human societies. In any case, we must consider the global context for our actions and the best possible role each nation can play in managing fire for humans and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Benscoter, Vitt
Peatland ground layer species composition is intricately tied to ecosystem function (for example, carbon storage). As the primary disturbance in boreal bogs, wildfire selectively removes the ground layer vegetation, creating heterogeneous habitat conditions and initiating…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Myers-Smith, Harden, Wilmking, Fuller, McGuire, Chapin
To determine the influence of fire and thermokarst in a boreal landscape, we investigated peat cores within and adjacent to a permafrost collapse feature on the Tanana River Floodplain of Interior Alaska. Radioisotope dating, diatom assemblages, plant macrofossils, charcoal…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Denneler, Asselin, Bergeron, Bégin
The relative importance of fire and flooding on the population dynamics of eastern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis L.) and black ash (Fraxinus nigra Marsh.) was evaluated in eight old-growth riparian stands of southwestern boreal Quebec, Canada. Rising water levels and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Beverly, Uto, Wilkes, Bothwell
We designed and developed an internet mapping application to collect data on the locations of forest landscape values across a 2.4 million hectare study area in the province of Alberta, Canada. Four communities in the study area were surveyed and 8053 point locations were mapped…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Boreal forest dynamics in north-eastern Sweden during the last 10,000 years based on pollen analysis
A pollen record obtained from a 2.2-m sediment succession deposited in a small lake in the province of Vasterbotten, north-eastern Sweden, reveals the presence of continuous forest cover since 8,500 calendar years before present (cal B.P.). Forest with abundant Pinus (pine) and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS