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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Scher
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
York, Rodman, See, Rose, Barnwell
In 2001, the US Forest Service declared Anchorage, Alaska (USA), an urban wildland interface community at high risk from wildfire. Anchorage is approximately 1,251,620 acres in size and home to half (265,000) of the state's population. The majority of residents live within the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sestak, O'Neill, Ferguson, Ching, Fox
Forest Service research has developed a set of tools to estimate fuel consumption and resulting emissions from wildland fire. These two models, CONSUME (Ottmar et al., 1993) and EPM (Emissions Production Model, McKenzie et al., 2002 and Sandberg and Peterson, 1984) have formed…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roads, Fujioka, Brown
The Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC) has been making experimental, near real-time seasonal global forecasts since Sept. 26, 1997 with the NCEP global spectral model used for the reanalysis. Images of these forecasts, at daily to seasonal time scales, are…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Renner, Martin
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Wright
Small-log utilization or thinning operations followed by a fuel treatment such as prescribed fire can be used to change the composition and structure of fuelbeds, thereby mitigating deleterious fire effects and reducing the potential for catastrophic wildfires in some forested…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGaughey
The Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) can help managers assess the risk, behavior, and impact of fire in forest ecosystems. The FFE reports surface fuel characteristics including the weight of woody material in various size classes.…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Li, Gong, Pu, Csiszar, Hao, Fraser, Abuelgasim
Biomass burning in North America (NA) occurs primarily over forested regions. The fires are usually so intense that they not only destroy vast tracts of forest, but also release large quantities of chemical species (CO, CO2, methane, etc.) and particles (aerosol) to the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oswald
As arctic tundra responds to climate change, does its response vary spatially because of small-scale edaphic heterogeneity? This research addresses this question by reconstructing the past vegetational response to climate change of ecosystems on adjacent, but contrasting,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zogas, Holsten
This bibliography cites 799 published and unpublished references. All abstracted citations are cross-referenced by author and subject. The majority of citations are abstracted. There are a few citations, however, without abstracts as the original documents could not be located.…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner, Holsten
Field experiments using baited multiple-funnel traps and baited felled trees were conducted to test the hypothesis that semiochemicals from secondary species of scolytids could be used to disrupt spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby)) attraction. Semiochemicals from…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Werner
Fire and timber harvest are the two major disturbances that alter forest ecosystems in interior Alaska. Both types of disturbance provide habitats that attract wood borers and bark beetles the first year after the disturbance, but populations then decrease to levels below those…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wein
Foreword: Visitors who drive along the Airport Road toward the Town of Inuvik may not notice a grown-over fire guard that runs eastward and up the hill across from the Juk Campground. To residents of Inuvik who were in town during the month of August in 1968, this cutline has a…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The four goals of the 10-Year Comprehensive Strategy are: 1. Improve Fire Prevention and Suppression, 2. Reduce Hazardous Fuels, 3. Restore Fire-Adapted Ecosystems, 4. Promote Community Assistance. Its three guiding principles are: 1. Priority setting that emphasizes the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmidt, Menakis, Hardy, Hann, Bunnell
We produced seven coarse-scale, 1-km2 resolution, spatial data layers for the conterminous United States to support national-level fire planning and risk assessments. Four of these layers were developed to evaluate ecological conditions and risk to ecosystem components:…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ottmar, Vihnanek
A series of single and stereo photographs display a range of natural conditions and fuel loadings in hardwood ecosystems undergoing succession to spruce in Alaska. Each group of photos includes inventory information summarizing vegetation composition, structure and loading,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
MacGregor
The purpose of this document is to provide an inventory description of current models, tools and computer applications for wildland fire management. For purposes of this inventory, the term 'models' is used to represent a range of analytical processes that have been developed to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Rollins, McNicoll, Parsons
Presented is a prototype of the Landscape Ecosystem Inventory System (LEIS), a system for creating maps of important landscape characteristics for natural resource planning. This system uses gradient-based field inventories coupled with gradient modeling remote sensing,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Desnos
The Working Group on Calibration and Validation (WGCV), and its six technical subgroups, continue to provide a forum for sustained debate, international co-operation and common actions. The addition of a further subgroup concerned with atmospheric chemistry has provided an…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Collins
Project progress report on achievement of the following objectives: 1. Lichen availability does not increase in linear manner relative to stand age. 2. In winter, Nelchina caribou habitat preference is not affected by lichen availability. 3. Digestible energy intake, and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Fogarty
The grassland fire behaviour pocket card recently developed for use by wildland and rural firefighters in Canada and New Zealand is reviewed. The pocket card offers a practical field guide for quickly estimating the near worst case fire behaviour potential in grasslands. At the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lynch, Clark, Bigelow, Edwards, Finney
Charcoal and pollen analyses were used to determine geographic and temporal patterns of fire importance in boreal forests of the Kenai Peninsula and interior Alaska. Sieved, large charcoal particles were measured in continuously sampled cores of Rock, Portage, and Arrow Lakes (…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lertzman, Gavin, Hallett, Brubaker, Lepofsky, Mathewes
Coastal temperate rainforests from southeast Alaska through to southern Oregon are ecologically distinct from forests of neighboring regions, which have a drier, or more continental, climate and disturbance regimes dominated by fires. The long-term role of fire remains one of…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Alexander, Hawkes, Lynham, Stocks, Englefield
This paper provides an overview of four national forest fire management information systems currently used in Canada. The Canadian forest fire danger rating system (CFFDRS) is a non-spatial system, which provides the science framework for fire danger rating in Canada. The…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES