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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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: FRAMES
Lafon
Dendrochronology is used widely to reconstruct the history of forest disturbances. I created an exercise that introduces the use of dendrochronology to investigate fire history and forest dynamics. The exercise also demonstrates how the dendrochronological technique of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Hollingsworth, Chapin
This workbook defines site moisture, factors that predict the potential for black spruce stands to shift in successional trajectories following fires, and a dichotomous key to identify potential successional trajectores in recently burned black spruce forests (0-2 years post-…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Hollingsworth
Land managers in Alaska are faced with the challenge of managing fire in a way that preserves human life and property while at the same time conserving the key ecological processes driven by fire. Because managers have little capacity to alter fire behavior by direct fuel…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a PC-based program that is a collection of models that describe fire and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and diagrams and can be used for a multitude of fire management applications. BehavePlus is…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boerner, Huang, Hart
The Fire and Fire Surrogates (FFS) network is composed of 12 forest sites that span the continental United States, all of which historically had frequent low-severity fire. The goal of the FFS study was to assess the efficacy of three management treatments (prescribed fire,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bunnell
Presentation of the development of FRCC concept.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Menakis
Review of FRCC and LANDFIRE Fire Regime Mapping methods. Fire Regime Condition Classes (FRCC) Version 2000 underestimated the departure in Range and Shrublands. It is difficult to extrapolate these numbers to the conterminous US. LANDFIRE can provide finer scale data. LANDFIRE's…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Howard, Olson, Glaser
Boreal ALFRESCO is a spatially explicit stochastic ecological simulation model. In its current state, it simulates the landscape dynamics unique to sub-arctic and boreal forest vegetation types-under the assumption that climate and disturbance are the primary drivers for…
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McIver, Youngblood, Stephens
This Invited Feature focuses on the U.S. national Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS), a multi-site multidisciplinary research project that evaluates the ecological consequences of prescribed fire and its mechanical surrogates, treatments that are intended to reduce fire risk…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Hanneman, Ottmar
A study of smoke exposure at prescribed fires was done by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station and Radian Corporation between 1991 and 1994. This study was done to assess exposure to smoke among firefighters at prescribed fires in the Pacific Northwest.…
Year: 1994
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Ferguson, Speers-Hayes
Unpublished final report to the USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR.
Year: 1993
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Gossard, Lahm, Fitch, Jones, Nolde, Russell, Sandberg, Ziolko
This document represents a compendium of all supporting material prepared by the NBTT throughout the development of the Recommended Policy for Categorizing Fire Emissions. The Recommended Policy for Categorizing Fire Emissions has been developed over an 18-month period by the…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Interactions between forests, climatic change and the Earth's carbon cycle are complex and represent a challenge for forest managers-they are integral to the sustainable management of forests. In this volume, a number of papers are presented that describe some of the complex…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
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Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
Description not entered.
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
A simplified model for predicting total biomass consumption and particulate emission yield for slash burning in western Washington and western Oregon is developed by combining results from earlier studies by the Forest Fire and Atmospheric Sciences Research team. The model…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sandberg
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Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ward, Hardy, Sandberg
Emission factors and the size distribution for smoke particles from prescribed fire are described from data collected by airborne sampling, surface sampling using towers, and combustion hood systems. Emission factors for particulate matter (g/kg) range from 4 to 16 for particles…
Year: 1988
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The Consume 3.0 tutorial is intended to be viewed individually by students online or downloaded to a personal computer and viewed offline. You may wish to incorporate the tutorial as a pre-course assignment or in-class exercise. A student workbook is available on the Consume…
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Between 1994 and 2003, FERA inventoried and burned 106 sites in the United States including marsh grass, tallgrass prairie, sagebrush shrublands, chaparral, palmetto-galberry shrublands, Ponderosa pine/mixed conifer forests, black and white spruce/hardwood forests, longleaf pine…
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server. The Internet server allows maps of ventilation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Camp, Omi
Throughout interior Alaska it is well known among land managers and fire management personnel that recently burned areas of black spruce can serve as a fuel break during most wildland fires. Recently burned black spruce forests are an important tool during wildland firefighting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rorig
The objective of this work is to incorporate existing weather predictions into fire preparedness and planning by forecasting the risk of dry thunderstorms. This has been done by analyzing precipitation, upper-air, and lightning strike data to generate a rule that will be used to…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES