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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hessburg
It's no secret that wildfires in the west have been drastically increasing in size and destructive power. But what, if anything, can be done about it? Join world-renown and award-winning USFS research ecologist Dr. Paul Hessburg as he explains how we got here and restores our…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hessburg
We have all seen the news - hotter summers, and bigger, badder wildfires. What's going on? How did we get here? Paul tells a fast-paced story of western US forests - unintentionally yet massively changed by a century of management. He relates how these changes, coupled with a…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hawkes, Lawson
Fuel complexes resulting from power-saw spacing in young coastal Douglas-fir and interior lodgepole pine stands were quantitatively assessed for loading and duration of hazard. Fuel appraisal data were combined with fire weather regimes to derive fire behavior predictions for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bratton, Mathews, White
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roger, Steele
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stokes
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dieterich
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Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The purpose of the workshop was to exchange information on sampling procedures, research methodologies, preparation and interpretation of specimen material, terminology, and the application and significance of findings, emphasizing the relationship of dendrochronology procedures…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Young, Higuera, Abatzoglou, Duffy, Hu
Statistical models using historical observations are a critical tool for anticipating future fire regimes. A key uncertainty with these models is the ability to project outside the range of historical observations, often done when making future projections. Here we investigate…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Walker, Mack, Johnstone
Climate change has increased the occurrence, severity, and impact of disturbances on forested ecosystems worldwide, resulting in a need to identify factors that contribute to an ecosystem's resilience or capacity to recover from disturbance. Forest resilience to disturbance may…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Freeman, Kobziar, Rose, Cropper
Prescribed fire is widely accepted as a conservation tool because fire is essential to the maintenance of native biodiversity in many terrestrial communities. Approaches to this land-management technique vary greatly among continents, and sharing knowledge internationally can…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brenkert-Smith, Meldrum, Champ, Barth
Wildfire and the threat it poses to society represents an example of the complex, dynamic relationship between social and ecological systems. Increasingly, wildfire adaptation is posited as a pathway to shift the approach to fire from a suppression paradigm that seeks to control…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Balch, Bradley, Abatzoglou, Nagy, Fusco, Mahood
The economic and ecological costs of wildfire in the United States have risen substantially in recent decades. Although climate change has likely enabled a portion of the increase in wildfire activity, the direct role of people in increasing wildfire activity has been largely…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Strader, Jandt, Jenkins, York, Ziel
Presented by Heidi Strader, Randi Jandt, Jenn Jenkins, Alison York and Robert Ziel. Optional webinar for AFSC remote sensing workshop presenters to introduce the Alaska fire management context. We will summarize the natural history of fire in the state, explain how fire…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Loehman
From the Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Dendroecologists apply the principles and methods of tree-ring science to address ecological questions and resolve problems related to global environmental change. In this fast-growing field, tree rings are used to investigate forest development and succession, disturbance…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simard
Every wildland fire control organization in North America relies on assistance from outside agencies during periods of extreme fire severity.In some cases interagency cooperation is formalized, as in the Northeast Forest Fire Compact or the Boise Interagency Fire Center. In…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Roussopoulos, Yancik, Radloff
'We have developed a prototype National Fire Occurrence Data Library (NF0DL) to help fire managers interact with resource managers in meeting the new planning requirements of the Resources Planning Act and the National Forest Management Act. The data library provides means for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maass
A single thallus of Erioderma pedicellatum has been found in Newfoundland near one of the 2 North American localities known thus far for this unusual lichen. Whereas almost all of the other species of the genus have tropical to subtropical affinities in their distribution and…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Romme
It is often quite difficult to compare fire history studies conducted by different investigators because different terms may be used to refer to the same concept and the same term may be used to refer to different concepts. To help resolve this difficulty, an ad hoc committee…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stokes
Dendrochronology, the study of annual rings in woody plants, has developed into a useful tool for a number of different fields of study. Based on the interaction of trees and the climate, it is possible to use tree-rings as proxy data in reconstruction of past climates and river…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lake
In this webinar, Frank Lake, Research Ecologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station presented findings from the 2014 Crafting Solutions for Wildland and Prescribed Fires Across Tribal and Nontribal Jurisdictions workshop and the 2012 Celebrating Traditional Knowledge and…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Itter, Finley, Hooten, Higuera, Marlon, Kelly, McLachlan
Lake sediment charcoal records are used in paleoecological analyses to reconstruct fire history, including the identification of past wildland fires. One challenge of applying sediment charcoal records to infer fire history is the separation of charcoal associated with local…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chipman, Hu
Amplified Arctic warming may facilitate novel tundra disturbance regimes, as suggested by recent increases in the rate and extent of thermoerosion and fires in some tundra areas. Thermoerosion and wildfire can exacerbate warming by releasing large permafrost carbon stocks, and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Freeman, Kobziar, Rose, Cropper
Prescribed fire is widely accepted as a conservation tool because fire is essential to the maintenance of native biodiversity in many terrestrial communities. Approaches to this land-management technique vary greatly among continents, and sharing knowledge internationally can…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES