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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Charney, Potter, Heilman, Bian
With the creation of the Fire Consortia for the Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke (FCAMMS) (http://www.fs.fed.us/fcamms), the USDA Forest Service has begun to develop a deeper understanding of how a fire interacts with the overlying atmosphere. One of the FCAMMS, the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Stratton, Finney, Forthofer, Bradshaw, Jimenez
Fire intensity and rate of spread are strongly linked to the local wind flow. Forecasts and estimates of projected fire behavior provide vital information when planning tactics and strategies relative to wildland fire. Firefighter safety is enhanced when planning is based on…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boerner
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
For the seven year period from 1998 to 2004, an average of almost 79,000 fires per year on the U.S. Federal and State land burned a yearly average of over 22,000 Km2. An average of 1 billion US dollars was spent on suppression each year by the federal agencies alone. Variation…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alig
Over the past 25 years, renewable resource assessments have addressed demand, supply, and inventory of various renewable resources in increasingly sophisticated fashion, including simulation and optimization analyses of area changes in land uses (e.g., urbanization) and land…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alig, Lewis, Swenson
Land-use conversion is a primary determinant of environmental change in terrestrial ecosystems. Projections are for more than 50 million acres of U.S. forest to be converted to developed uses (e.g., parking lots) over the next 50 years (Alig et al. 2004, Alig and Plantinga 2004…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Absher, Vaske
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Acuna, Palma, Weintraub, Martell, Cui
Harvest planners often consider potential fire losses and timber production plans can influence fire management, but most timber harvest planning and fire management planning activities are carried out largely independently of each other. But road construction, timber harvesting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Van Lear, Wurtz
Forest restoration, in a general sense, suggests a transition from a degraded state to some 'natural' condition, presumably devoid of human influence (Stanturf, this volume). Yet, because nearly all temperate and boreal forests have been influenced to varying and unknown degrees…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan, Elliot
This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on soils and water can assist land and fire managers with information on the physical, chemical, and biological effects of fire needed to successfully conduct ecosystem management, and effectively inform others about the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Beyers, Neary
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Beyers, Neary
This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on soils and water can assist land and fire managers with information on the physical, chemical, and biological effects of fire needed to successfully conduct ecosystem management, and effectively inform others about the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reitz
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neary, Ryan, DeBano, Landsberg
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neary, Landsberg, Tiedemann, Ffolliott
From chapter introduction: Increases in streamflow discharges following a fire can result in little to substantial effects on the physical, chemical, and biological quality of the water in streams, rivers, and lakes. The magnitude of these effects is largely dependent on the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neary, Ffolliott
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neary, Ffolliott
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neary
From Part C introduction: Chapters 8 through 11 in this part of the volume deal with special topics that were not considered in the original 'Rainbow Series' on the effects of fire on soils (Wells and others 1979) and water (Tiedemann and others 1979). These topics include…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Knoepp, DeBano, Neary
The chemical properties of the soil that are affected by fire include individual chemical characteristics, chemical reactions, and chemical processes (DeBano and others 1998). The soil chemical characteristics most commonly affected by fire are organic matter, carbon (C),…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Long, Wade, Beall
Fire managers define the wildland-urban interface as all areas were flammable wildland fuels are adjacent to homes and communities. With this definition, the wild-land-urban interface may encompass a much broader landscape than traditionally perceived. For example, the Tunnel…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeBano, Neary, Ffolliott
Soil physical properties are those characteristics, processes, or reactions of a soil that are caused by physical forces that can be described by, or expressed in, physical terms or equations (Soil Science Society of America 2001). These physical properties (including processes…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeBano, Neary
Soil is a heterogeneous mixture of mineral particles and organic matter that is found in the uppermost layer of Earth's crust. The soil is formed as a product of the continual interactions among the biotic (faunal and floral), climatic (atmospheric and hydrologic), topographic,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Claridge, Trappe
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES