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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The NPS fire staff has reduced the vegetation around several remote cabin sites during 1998, 1999, and 2004 with the objective of reducing the risk of wildland fire. In order to determine that these fuel treatments are effective, this one year study is designed to revisit some…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The purpose of this study was to document the pre- and post-treatment condition of the vegetation and fuels around structures scheduled to have mechanical fuels thinning in the Denali Front Country. Specifically, the goals of this study were to: 1) evaluate the implementation of…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Because of the flammability of boreal forest, the National Park Service creates defensible space around park structures. This mechanical/manual treatment is not a 'clear cut' fuel break, rather a thinning of vegetation to reduce fire behavior to a manageable level for…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ott
Wildland fire is the dominant disturbance agent of the boreal forest of Alaska, which covers about 114 million ac. of the southcentral and interior regions. Currently, about 80% of the population of Alaska resides in communities potentially at risk from wildland fire. The…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
FROSTFIRE was a landscape-scale prescribed research burn in the boreal forest of interior Alaska that occurred July 8-15, 1999. Within the 2200-acre perimeter, fire mimicked natural conditions by burning 900 acres of mostly black spruce, leaving the hardwoods standing. Boreal…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The fire effects paired plot project began in 1982 under the direction of Gary Ahlstrand - NPS Alaska Regional Research Ecologist. The purpose of the project was to assess vegetation change and succession as a result of fire. Fire teams established paired vegetation plots in…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
During and after the 2004 Woodchopper Fire (A5ZE), fire effects monitoring plots were established to study how fire burned through varying vegetation types and the effects of fire on vegetation and permafrost. Seven plots (4 black spruce and 3 paper birch) were established to…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
ANNOTATION: The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management undertook a series of CROP pilot projects as a means of addressing the growing fuel load problem within major forest systems and the realized potential for fostering catastrophic wildfires within these systems…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
During the 1999 fire season approximately 120 thousand acres within Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve were burned by wildfires. To evaluate the long-term impacts of these fires on the preserve, 15 randomly located permanent plots were established in September 1999 within…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Effects Information System is an online collection of reviews of the scientific literature about fire effects on plants and animals and about fire regimes of plant communities in the United States. FEIS reviews are based on thorough literature searches, often…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The 2nd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference will be held from March 26-30, 2007 in Destin, Florida. It will focus on the fire environment - the 'fire environment' consists of fire weather, fire behavior, fire danger rating, predictive services, fuels, smoke management and fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This program will correct data availability and quality assurance problems surrounding the Alaskan Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) and other Alaska weather station data. By placing all Alaska weather station data into a single quality controlled database, and automating…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The record-breaking 2004 fire season burned approximately 6.6 million acres in Alaska, with over 2 million acres on National Wildlife Refuge Lands. This provided the opportunity to assess the application of the national Burn Severity Mapping project techniques on Refuge lands.…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
LANDFIRE, Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools, is a shared program between the wildland fire management programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior, providing landscape scale geo-spatial products to support…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Natural Fuels Photo Series project is designed to help land managers appraise fuel and vegetation conditions in natural settings. Each group of photos in a series includes inventory information summarizing vegetation composition, structure and loading and, as appropriate…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Babbitt, Ferguson, Vihnanek
Many areas of the boreal forest of Alaska contain deep layers of moss, duff, and peat, resulting in a large pool of biomass that potentially can burn and smolder for long periods of time creating hazardous smoke episodes for local residents and communities and causing…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard
Consume is a decision-making tool designed to assist resource managers in planning for wildland fire events (e.g., prescribed fires and wildfires). Consume predicts fuel consumption, pollutant emissions, and heat release based on fuel loadings, fuel moisture, and other…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Peterson, Carlino, Barnes, Eagle
FIREHouse provides user-friendly, web-based information about fire science and technology relevant to Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. For each project posted, the goal is to provide, as applicable, online, searchable access to: (1) project and tool descriptions, contact…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey, Graham
The Applied Wildland Fire Research in Support of Project Level Hazardous Fuels Planning Project was initiated as a pilot project by the U.S. Forest Service in response to the need for tools and information useful for planning site-specific fuel (vegetation) treatment projects.…
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
Ottmar, Sandberg, Wright
Current fire danger and fire behavior prediction focuses on the flaming stage of combustion, while fire effects and resistance to control are governed by smoldering and residual combustion in heavy fuels and organic soil layers. Fuel combustion algorithms in current use are…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES