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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Theobald, Romme
For at least two decades, expansion of low-density residential development at the wildland-urban interface has been widely recognized as a primary factor influencing the management of US national forests. We estimate the location, extent, and trends in expansion of the wildland-…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shapcott, Rakotoarinivo, Smith, Lysakova, Fay, Dransfield
Madagascar has a highly distinctive flora and is one of the world biodiversity hot spots. There are more than 170 species of palms, the majority of which are vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered endemics. Palms are utilized for many human uses, many of which lead to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neupane, Boxall, McFarlane, Pelletier
Fire management agencies in Canada are mandated with protecting multiple forest values from wildfire. Deciding where to reduce fire hazard and how to allocate resources and fire suppression efforts requires an understanding of the values-at-risk from wildfire. The protection of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cyr, Gauthier, Bergeron
Despite the recognized importance of fire in North American boreal forests, the relative importance of stochastic and determinist portions of intra-regional spatial variability in fire frequency is still poorly understood. The first objective of this study is to identify sources…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Choi, Fernando
Vegetation fires emit a number of air pollutants, thus impacting air quality at local, regional and global scales. One such pollutant is the particulate matter (PM) that is known to trigger adverse health effects. In this study, the CALPUFF/CALMET/MM5 modeling system is employed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bate, Yanoff, McCarthy, Bradley
The Nature Conservancy is working with the Bureau of Land Management to assess multiple indicators of ecological condition, including fire regime, across grasslands and shrublands in southern New Mexico. The purpose of the assessment is to identify restoration opportunities and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Rollins, Zhu
Canopy and surface fuels in many fire-prone forests of the United States have increased over the last 70 years as a result of modern fire exclusion policies, grazing, and other land management activities. The Healthy Forest Restoration Act and National Fire Plan establish a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gao, Xiong, Li, Wang
The 3.75-µm and 11-µm channels on the polar orbiting NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensors have saturation temperatures of approximately 325 K. They allowed limited successes in estimating the sub-pixel fire temperature and fractional area coverage. The…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prevedel
From the text ... 'We attempted to correlate weather patterns and events that were present during extreme fire behavior... Our observations show that many large wildfire occurrences seem to follow specific -- often predictable -- weather patterns...During times of extreme fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hudak, Thode, van Wagtendonk
From the text ... 'This special issue compilation of eight papers demonstrates the breadth of remote sensing applications on the cutting edge of fire ecology research. Remotely sensed imagery can provide objective measures of fire perimeters, burn patterns, and fire severity at…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The need to understand both the role of wildland fire as an ecosystem process and the appropriate use of fire as a management tool has been recognized for years. Historically fire has played an important role in many ecosystems by removing fuel accumulations,…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Conference Goals: This Future Search Conference was a task-focused planning effort that relied on the knowledge, expertise, and experience of individuals interested in improving wildland fire research. The goals of this conference were to: 1) discover common ground in the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
Fire on the Earth today looks the way it does because of the expansion of Europe, first as an imperial power, then as the vector for industrialization. The 'suppression' paradigm characteristic of Europe's frontiers derived from the collision of intra-European experiences with…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Oliver
Foresters have many of the technical tools to manage forests so they will have relatively low susceptibility to fires. These tools include fire behavior models, stand growth models, geographic information systems, and stand inventories. The silviculture laboratory at the…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frost
It is now apparent that fire once played a role in shaping all but the wettest, the most arid, or the most fire-sheltered plant communities of the United States. Understanding the role of fire in structuring vegetation is critical for land management choices that will, for…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Feary, Neuenschwander
Fire exclusion in wildlands during the last century has caused the excessive accumulation of fuels that has resulted in catastrophic fires. In spite of devastating losses from fire, human development continues to increase in the wildland-urban interface. Additional houses and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Farris, Neuenschwander, Boudreau
The importance of large fire events in shaping the structure and composition of subalpine forests has recently gained a great deal of attention from resource managers. High elevation forests dominated by Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii) and subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa)…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McKenzie
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Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mock, Bartlein, Anderson
Analyses of more than 40 years of climatic data reveal intriguing spatial variations in climatic patterns for Beringia (North-eastern Siberia and Alaska), aiding the understanding of the hierarchy of climatic controls that operate at different spatial scales within the Arctic. A…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bartlein, Anderson, Anderson, Edwards, Mock, Thompson, Webb, Webb, Whitlock
Maps of upper-level and surface winds and of surface temperature and precipitation illustrate the results of a sequence of global paleoclimatic simulations spanning the past 21,000 yr for North America. We review (a) the large-scale features of circulation, temperature, and…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The research and development (R&D) arm of the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with approximately 550 researchers in a range of biological, physical, and social science fields, seeks to better understand and describe the complex mechanisms at work in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Furniss, Clifton, Ronnenberg
This conference was attended by nearly 450 Forest Service earth scientists representing hydrology, soil science, geology, and air. In addition to active members of the earth science professions, many retired scientists also attended and participated. These 60 peer-reviewed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burgan, Chase, Bradshaw
This CD-ROM contains GIF images of four vegetation greenness themes derived from Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data for the years 1989 through 1998 and three fire danger themes for 1996 and 1998. CD Only - Not available online.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leenhouts
ANNOTATION: Wildland fire has been an integral part of the landscape of the conterminous United States for millennia. Analysis of contemporary and pre-industrial (~ 200 - 500 yr BP) conditions, using potential natural vegetation, satellite imagery, and ecological fire regime…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS