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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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This conference was held in conjunction with the Fifth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, November 16-20, 2003 in Orlando, Florida. Land management agencies and organizations and private landholders are increasingly faced with the complex issues of wildland fire, such as…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This conference was held November 27 - December 1, 2000, in San Diego, California. Fire research and management are greatly changing and the tasks of the fire management organizations are much broader than they were just a few years ago. Fire management is now in the forefront…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Several volume tables/equations (statewide and local) exist for aspen in Alaska, however, differences occur among them. No equations are available addressing taper, bole cambial area, or bole biomass. The objective of this study is to develop statewide or regional cubic-foot…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The statewide volume table for Alaskan balsam poplar/black cottonwood is a composite that includes birch (smaller trees). No tables/equations specific to poplar exist for volume, taper, bole cambial area, or bole biomass. The objective of this study is to develop statewide or…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The statewide volume table for Alaskan birch is a composite that includes balsam poplar (larger trees). No tables/equations specific to birch exist for volume, taper, bole cambial area, or bole biomass. The objective of this study is to develop statewide or regional cubic-foot…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Several volume tables/equations (statewide and local) exist for white spruce in Alaska, however, significant differences occur among them. No equations are available addressing taper, bole cambial area, or bole biomass. The objective of this study is to develop statewide or…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black spruce, Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P., in Alaska is largely overlooked in terms of growth and yield research because of its small size and slow growth. Growth and yield information is therefore limited or nonexistent. This study developed the first polymorphic site index (…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Three data-intensive studies were conducted to examine the fire history of the Kenai Peninsula on three different time scales. The Kenai Peninsula has two distinct fire regimes: a high frequency regime in black spruce (Picea mariana) and a low frequency regime in white (P.…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
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
McKenzie
Fuel maps based on remote sensing and field data provide valuable information for modelers and managers, but are only snapshots in time. This project is developing dynamic fuel maps for the contiguous United States that can be updated as ecosystems change over time. The FCCS…
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
This website offers the wildland fire manager the latest and best fire science to support all aspects of wildland fire planning, management, and policy-making that involve people. Here you can find fire science applied to all the human dimensions of wildland fire management.…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This project accomplishes three primary objectives related to the state of the science in wood to energy research and industry. The literature review provides a complete overview of the state of wood to energy science and technology, including promising technologies currently…
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 FireFamily Plus software allows a user to review, summarize and analyze daily weather and fire occurrence observations, compute fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS), generate Season Reports (summaries of seasonal variations of fuel…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The boreal forest of interior Alaska contains approximately 60 million burnable hectares. Fire is the dominant disturbance mechanism and statistical modeling has shown that for the period 1950-2003 roughly 80% of the inter-annual variability in the logarithm of area burned in…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wildland fire is the dominant large-scale disturbance mechanism in the Alaskan boreal forest, and it strongly influences forest structure and function. In this research, patterns of burn severity in the Alaskan boreal forest are characterized. First, the relationship between…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Fire is the keystone disturbance in the Alaskan boreal forest and is highly influenced by summer weather patterns. Records from 1950-2003 reveal high variability in the annual area burned in Alaska and corresponding high variability in weather occurring at multiple spatial and…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
In order to assess the impact of forecast climate change on the structure and function of the Alaskan boreal forest, the interactions among climate, fire and vegetation need to be quantified. The results of this work demonstrate that monthly weather and teleconnection indices…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES