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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Beck, Simpson
The 2003 fire season in British Columbia, Canada was one of the worst in recent history. Fire in the wildland-urban interface destroyed over 334 homes and many businesses, and forced the evacuation of over 45,000 people. Drought cycles and forest health decline have contributed…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seamon
The Manual includes information on the organization's standard operating procedures, requirements, and guidelines regarding fire management. It also outlines the necessary steps for developing and maintaining a succesful fire management program. The Manual is a dynamic document…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Evett, Franco-Vizcaino, Stephens
Phytolith analysis was applied to several sites in a Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi Grev. & Balf.)-mixed conifer forest in the Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California, Mexico, to explore the hypothesis that the introduction of livestock in the late 18th century led to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yazzie
Anyone who has not lived in 'Indian country' cannot understand just how extensively the United States government and its laws affect Native Americans and their natural resource management. These effects are sobering, and touch upon sensitive issues that all Native Americans hold…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Westfall, Woodall
An efficient and accurate inventory of forest fuels at large scales is critical for assessment of forest fire hazards across landscapes. The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the USDA Forest Service conducts a national inventory of fuels along with blind…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Torres-Rojo, Magana-Torres, Ramirez-Fuentes
A description is made of a long run forest fire danger index. The index is based on the principle that forest fires follow a self-organized critical behavior, which establishes that under a wide variety of circumstances, forest fires maintain an exponential relationship over…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
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
McGee
This paper is based on a survey of homeowners living adjacent to the extensive and heavily vegetated North Saskatchewan River Valley and Ravine System in Edmonton, Alberta. Residents in a random sample of 436 households adjacent to this urban natural area completed a mail…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mason, Baker, Cram, Boren, Fernald, VanLeeuwen
The ability of mechanical fuel reduction treatments to mitigate severe fire behavior in dry mixed conifer forests is of interest to land managers as well as the public. We compared fuel loads and indices of crown fire potential to test treatment effectiveness following…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Joly, Bente, Dau
Caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) use lichens, when available, as primary forage on their winter range. In boreal forest habitats, wildland fires effectively destroy lichens, and overwintering caribou are known to avoid burned areas for decades while lichen communities…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
James, Fortin, Fall, Kneeshaw, Messier
Forest age structure and its spatial arrangement are important elements of sustainable forestry because of their effects on biodiversity and timber availability. Forest management objectives that include specific forest age structure may not be easily attained due to constraints…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Insley, Lei
This paper investigates the impact of including the risk of fire in an optimal tree harvesting model at the stand level, assuming timber prices follow a mean-reverting stochastic process. The relevant partial differential equation is derived under different assumptions about…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Girardin
Aim Temporal variability of annual area burned in Canada (AAB-Can) from (AD) 1781 to 1982 is inferred from tree-ring width data. Next, correlation analysis is applied between the AAB-Can estimates and Northern Hemisphere (NH) warm season land temperatures to link recent…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Enache, Cumming
Quantitative analysis of variations in morphological types of charcoal were undertaken in sediment cores from three lakes on the Interior Plateau (BC, Canada) over the period AD 1919-2000. Seven distinct morphological types of charcoal were identified based on particle shape and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cram, Baker, Fernald, Madrid, Rummer
Increasing densities of small diameter trees have changed ecological processes and negatively impacted conservation of soil and water resources in western forests. Thinning treatments are commonplace to reduce stein density and potential fire hazard. We evaluated the impacts of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Binkley, Sisk, Chambers, Springer, Block
Classic ecological concepts and forestry language regarding old growth are not well suited to frequent-fire landscapes. In frequent-fire, old-growth landscapes, there is a symbiotic relationship between the trees, the understory graminoids, and fire that results in a healthy…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Allen
Ecosystem patterns and disturbance processes at one spatial scale often interact with processes at another scale, and the result of such cross-scale interactions can be nonlinear dynamics with thresholds. Examples of cross-scale pattern-process relationships and interactions…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abella, Covington, Fulé, Lentile, Sánchez Meador, Morgan
Old growth in the frequent-fire conifer forests of the western United States, such as those containing ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), Jeffrey pine (P. jeffreyi), giant sequoia (Sequioa giganteum) and other species, has undergone major changes since Euro-American settlement.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rideout-Hanzak, Bowker, Lim, Cordell, Green, Johnson, Betz
Much of the public's attitude toward wildland fire as an important part of natural processes has been misguided, sometimes through programs perpetuating fear and misunderstanding of the vital role of fire in wildlands. Results presented here were part of a larger study that…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Richardson, Rundel, Jackson, Teskey, Aronson, Bytnerowicz, Wingfield, Proches
Pines (genus Pinus) form the dominant tree cover over large parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Human activities have affected the distribution, composition, and structure of pine forests for millennia. Different human-mediated factors have affected different pine species in…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Le Goff, Flannigan, Bergeron, Girardin
The synchrony of regional fire regime shifts across the Quebec boreal forest, eastern Canada, suggests that regional fire regimes are influenced by large-scale climate variability. The present study investigated the relationship of the forest-age distribution, reflecting the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kay
It is now widely acknowledged that frequent, low-intensity fires once structured many plant communities. Despite an abundance of ethnographic evidence, however, as well as a growing body of ecological data, many professionals still tend to minimize the importance of aboriginal…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barbour, Fight
The financial analysis component of the fuel synthesis project was guided by the general specifications of the broader project. The project was requested on behalf of specific users (fuel treatment planners), to address specific questions (how to design and implement fuel…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peterson, Johnson
From the text ... 'The focus of fuel treatment is typically on reducing hazardous surface fuel and drown-fire hazard. The effects of fuel treatment on vegetation, wildlife, aquatic resources, and economic values also need to be considered. ...The expert knowledge of local fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS