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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Burger, Taylor
Radio telemetry is a widely accepted tool in the field of wildlife ecology, yet there is little information in the wildlife literature that demonstrates how to incorporate spatiotemporal data from telemetry into spatial databases such as geographic information systems (GIS).…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larsen
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brais, David, Ouimet
In August of 1995, wildfires burnt over 50 000 ha of boreal forest in northwestern Quebec. A balance sheet approach was used in order to assess the long term effects of fire and subsequent salvage harvesting operations on nutrient site capital. Following a validation of burn…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Vertinsky, Schreier, Blackwell
Concerns about fire in North American forest management are shifting from a strict focus on fire prevention to a broader view which considers fire accommodation and fire emulation as management alternatives. There is a substantial gap between the articulation of general…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
Little is known about spatial and temporal variability in fire frequencies at landscape scales (1,000s to I 00,000s of ha), or about the factors that determine the spatial patterns of fir., frequency at these scales. Historical archives of wildfire perimeters (fire atlases) are…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Patton
Thousands of workers treated the slopes, channels, roads and other features above the city and lab so that virtually every square inch of land was treated. However, this all-out effort was not able to reduce all the risk to the city and lab and additional heroic measures were…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leenhouts
Wildland fire has been an integral part of the conterminous United States' ecological landscape for millennia. Today wildland fire has to compete with other socially desirable goals for a share of a limited air resource. New ozone, particulate, and visibility protection air-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDonald, Moeur, Evans, Rice, Strand
Behavior and biology of many forest pests are tied to major forest disturbances and succession. The principle disturbance in the forests of the western United States is fire. Fire regimes as well as distribution and behavior of forest pests and beneficial microbes such as…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, Coen, Radke
Airborne infrared (IR) observations were made of the prescribed burns between 8-10 July 1999 at the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska. The observations were made by pointing an Inframetrics
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Medler
Forest fires are not spatially uniform events. They result in a complicated mosaic of burned and unburned vegetation. To manage fuel loads and the associated fire hazard it is essential to improve our understanding of the spatial patterns of the potential effects of future fires…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flores, Omi
Fire can be used not only to protect forest ecosystems but also as a restoration tool. However, a successful application of fire requires knowing in advance the potential fire behavior (e.g., rate of spread and intensity). Without this information adverse effects could result…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Andrews, Bradshaw, Hunter
The Wildland Fire Assessment System is an internet-based system that provides information on fire danger, fire potential, and weather. WFAS is being updated to offer viewing options beyond the national maps that were available in the past. Improvements include easier access to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hutt, Madrid
The need for information on the status, location and proximity of wildfires to values at risk has prompted the formation of the Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination Group (GeoMAC) . The GeoMAC team, with representatives from the DOI-USGS, BLM, F&WS, BIA, NPS and USDA-FS,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Caratti, Hann, Long, Menakis
National Forest and Grassland fire management has historically emphasized wildfire suppression and provided prescribed fire and fuel management support to other resources. Many fire management fuel treatments often occurred in a fragmented pattern because prescribed fire…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Laverty, Williams
From Web Document, Executive Summary... ' Premise This strategy is based on the premise that sustainable resources are predicated on healthy, resilient ecosystems. In fire-adapted ecosystems, some measure of fire use - at appropriate intensity, frequency, and time of year -…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrett
From the text ... 'Crossing the Bitterroot Mountains on the Lolo Trail was a daunting experience for the historic Lewis and Clark Expedition. ...Historically, fires occurred somewhere along the 50-mile trail corridor at least every two decades, on average... Over the last five…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balice, Koch, Yool
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frost
It is now apparent that fire once played some 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: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
French, Kasischke, Michalek, Mudd
The importance of measuring and monitoring fire related ecosystem characteristics in forests is recognized and is the focus of several new studies. In this paper we present a discussion on the use of remote sensing for the study of boreal forest fire scar characteristics. Remote…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The papers in these proceedings cover a wide range of topics related to human and natural disturbance processes in forests of the boreal zone in North America and Eurasia. Topics include historic and predicted landscape change; forest management; disturbance by insects, fire,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuller
A major goal in satellite remote sensing of fire is to derive globally accurate measurements of the spatial and temporal distribution of burning. To date, the main sensor employed in fire and fire-scar detection has been the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) on…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Dunham, Broadgate, Aspinall, Law
A demonstration package of predictive models for assessing the risk of forest damage from wind, fire and snow has been produced which can be accessed via the World Wide Web (WWW). The paper describes how this demonstration provides a common point of access to the models and to…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Fleming, Chapin, Cramer, Hufford, Serreze
Data from a sparse network of climate stations in Alaska were interpolated to provide 1-km resolution maps of mean monthly temperature and precipitation-variables that are required at high spatial resolution for input into regional models of ecological processes and resource…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zuuring
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Saab, Vanderzanden, Lachowski, Brannon, Crist
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES