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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 51 - 75 of 787
Black, McBride
This study examined the effects of organisational, environmental, group and individual characteristics on five components of safety climate (High Reliability Organising Practices, Leadership, Group Culture, Learning Orientation and Mission Clarity) in the US federal wildland…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Barker, Simard, Jones, Durall
Wildfire severity in forests is projected to increase with warming and drying conditions associated with climate change. Our objective was to determine the impact of wildfire and clearcutting severity on the ectomycorrhizal fungal (EMF) community of Douglas-fir seedlings in the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews
Rothermel's surface fire spread model was developed to use a value for the wind speed that affects surface fire, called midflame wind speed. Models have been developed to adjust 20-ft wind speed to midflame wind speed for sheltered and unsheltered surface fuel. In this report,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andersen, Chapman, Artz
Even though large extents of boreal peatlands are still in a pristine condition, especially in North America, extensive areas have been affected by natural or anthropogenic disturbances that change some of the systems from being sinks to sources of carbon dioxide and shift the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Adams
Global evidence posits that we are on the cusp of fire-driven 'tipping points' in some of the world's most important woody biomes including savannah woodlands, temperate forests, and boreal forests, with consequences of major changes in species dominance and vegetation type. The…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huntington, Goodstein, Euskirchen
Climate change incurs costs, but government adaptation budgets are limited. Beyond a certain point, individuals must bear the costs or adapt to new circumstances, creating political-economic tipping points that we explore in three examples. First, many Alaska Native villages are…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ott
From the text ... 'The purpose of this study was to identify successful leadership development programs (LDP) and compare these programs' activities to the Forest Service program to determine if the Forest Service LDP is adequate to meet current and future (5 to 10 years) needs.'
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'For anyone who has spent any amount of time working in the world of wildland fire management, it is not news that wildland fire management is a risky business -- that risk is inherent in our work.'
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'The national wildland fire organization has a base that surpasses the Forest Service where success is predicated on the profound foundation of partnerships between Federal, Tribal, State, and local agencies; nongovernmental partners; and the public..'
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hambly
From the text ... 'To safely use a crew net in addition to the incident assigned frequencies, several layers of radio proficiency must be present.'
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frederick
From the text ... 'For many younger seasonal temporary employees, fighting fire amounts to a cool job but not a career.'
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Urbanek
Soil structure is often severely affected during high intensity burning, while low intensity prescribed burning has often been thought to have a low or neutral effect on soil aggregation. In this issue of Plant and Soil, (Albalasmeh et al. 2012) report a novel mechanism of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rocha, Loranty, Higuera, Mack, Hu, Jones, Breen, Rastetter, Goetz, Shaver
Recent large and frequent fires above the Alaskan arctic circle have forced a reassessment of the ecological and climatological importance of fire in arctic tundra ecosystems. Here we provide a general overview of the occurrence, distribution, and ecological and climate…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kocher, Toman, Trainor, Wright, Briggs, Goebel, MontBlanc, Oxarart, Peppin, Steelman, Thode, Waldrop
In 2009, the federal Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) initiated a national network of boundary organizations, known as regional fire science consortia, to accelerate the awareness, understanding, and use of wildland fire science. Needs assessments conducted by consortia in…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Guthery, Shaw
Knowledge of density-dependent processes is regarded as important for making decisions on the management of wildlife populations. Using published data on ungulates and upland game birds, we discuss density-dependent effects on population growth, harvest management under the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Viegas, Raposo, Davim, Rossa
When two fires approach each other, convective and radiative heat transfer processes are greatly enhanced. The interaction between two linear fire fronts making an angle θoi between them is of particular interest as it produces a very rapid advance of their intersection point…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Turetsky, Bond-Lamberty, Euskirchen, Talbot, Frolking, McGuire, Tuittila
Mosses in northern ecosystems are ubiquitous components of plant communities, and strongly influence nutrient, carbon and water cycling. We use literature review, synthesis and model simulations to explore the role of mosses in ecological stability and resilience. Moss community…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Semmens, Ramage
High latitude drainage basins are experiencing increases in temperature higher than the global average, with snowmelt dominated basins most sensitive to effects in winter because of the snowpack's integration of these changes over the season. This may influence the timing of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sell, Livingston
The purpose of this study was to generate a physical fitness profile of an interagency hotshot crew mid-way through the wildland fire season. Twenty interagency hotshot crew firefighters completed measures of body composition, aerobic fitness, hamstring flexibility, muscular…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program: a history and overview of the first projects
In 2009, Congress passed the Forest Landscape Restoration Act, a significant new piece of legislation guiding restoration activities on competitively selected National Forest System lands. The Act established the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP), which…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robbins
From the text ... 'The United States Forest Service, which manages nearly 200 million acres of public land, believes limited thinning and burning will prevent catastrophic wildfires. The agency contracts with logging companies to cut down large and small trees across sweeping…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
North, Collins, Stephens
The USDA Forest Service is implementing a new planning rule and starting to revise forest plans for many of the 155 National Forests. In forests that historically had frequent fire regimes, the scale of current fuels reduction treatments has often been too limited to affect fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moore, Richardson
Forest disturbance agents, such as wildfire and windthrow, often differ in magnitude and frequency between upland and riparian zones. Riparian forests may be subject to additional disturbance agents that do not affect uplands, including debris flows, floods, bank erosion, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Massman
Heating any soil during a sufficiently intense wildfire or prescribed burn can alter it irreversibly, causing many significant, long-term biological, chemical, and hydrological effects. Given the climate-change-driven increasing probability of wildfires and the increasing use of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LeQuire, Hunter
From the text ... 'Wildland fire managers face increasingly steep challenges to meet air quality standards while planning prescribed fire and its inevitable smoke emissions. The goals of sound fire management practices, including fuel load reduction through prescribed burning,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS