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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Khajuria, Laaksonen-Craig, Kant
The paper examines the economic impacts of sustainable forest management (SFM) policies in Canada. Specifically, the marginal costs (MC) of old-growth preservation in an even-aged boreal forest in northeastern Ontario are examined under the condition that forest managers need to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kennedy, Horn
We surveyed postfire vegetation at five sites at high elevations (> 2000 m) in the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic. Highlands of the Cordillera Central are dominated by a single pine species, Pinus occidentalis, but plant communities are rich with endemics and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jordan, Ichoku, Hoff
A newly developed method, which involves the use of satellite measurements of energy released by fires, was used to estimate smoke emissions in the United States (US) Southern Great Plains (SGP). This SGP region was chosen because extensive agricultural and planned burning…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jeong, Evans, Dann, Graham, Herod, Dabek-Zlotorzynska, Mathieu, Ding, Wang
Particulate matter (PM) speciation data were collected between November 2004 and August 2006 in the rural valley area of British Columbia, Canada. Source apportionment of PM was performed using a receptor model, positive matrix factorization (PMF), to identify possible sources…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jaffe, Chand, Hafner, Westerling, Spracklen
Because forest fires emit substantial NOx and hydrocarbons -- known contributors to O3 production -- we hypothesize that interannual variation in western U.S. O3 is related to the burned area. To evaluate this hypothesis we used a gridded database of western U.S. summer burned…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartsough, Abrams, Barbour, Drews, McIver, Moghaddas, Schwilk, Stephens
We collected data at seven sites in the western US, on the costs of fuel reduction operations (prescribed fire, mechanical treatment, mechanical plus fire), and measured the effects of these treatments on surface fuel and stand parameters. We also modeled the potential behavior…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drury, Veblen
Patterns of fire occurrence within the Las Bayas Forestry Reserve, Mexico are analyzed in relation to variability in climate, topography, and human land-use. Significantly more fires with shorter fire return intervals occurred from 1900 to 1950 than from 1950 to 2001. However,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drescher, Perera, Buse, Ride, Vasiliauskas
Expert knowledge of forest succession is used widely in forest management planning, but its level of uncertainty is unknown. Using boreal Ontario as an example, we examined the level of uncertainty in expert knowledge of forest succession and explored possible sources of this…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doyon, Yamasaki, Duchesneau
The Natural Range of Variability is a concept used under the ecosystem management paradigm that means understanding the disturbance-driven spatial and temporal variability of the ecological systems and mimicking them in management strategies. With this project, we developed a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
de Neergaard, Magid, Mertz
The sustainability of shifting cultivation systems and their impact on soil quality continues to be debated, and although a growing body of literature shows a limited impact on, e.g. Soil carbon stocks, shifting cultivation still has a reputation as detrimental to the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chapin, Trainor, Huntington, Lovecraft, Zavaleta, Natcher, McGuire, Nelson, Ray, Calef, Fresco, Huntington, Rupp, DeWilde, Naylor
Recent global environmental and social changes have created a set of ''wicked problems'' for which there are no optimal solutions. In this article, we illustrate the wicked nature of such problems by describing the effects of global warming on the wildfire regime and indigenous…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunton
The USDA Forest Service stores fire occurrence data in a relational data base for planning, analysis, and other purposes. Weather observations are stored in the same data base for all five federal land management agencies and some state wildland agencies. Ready access to fire…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barbour, Zhou, Prestemon
This study reports the results from a 5 year simulation of forest thinning intended to reduce fire hazard on publicly managed lands in the western United States. A state simulation model of interrelated timber markets was used to evaluate the timber product outputs.…
Year: 2008
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
Yassemi, Dragicevic, Schmidt
The integration of geographic information systems (GIS) and environmental modelling has been widely investigated for more than a decade. However, such integration has remained a challenging task due to the temporal changes of environmental processes and the static nature of GIS…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woolford, Braun
This study presents an exploratory analysis of Ontario lightning and fire ignition data*. Our main goal is to relate forest fire ignitions to lightning stroke occurrences. However, due to the sheer volume of the lightning data, as well as accuracy and missing data issues,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wiedinmyer, Friedli
Recent studies have shown that emissions of mercury (Hg), a hazardous air pollutant, from fires can be significant. However, to date, these emissions have not been well-quantified for the entire United States. Daily emissions of Hg from fires in the lower 48 states of the United…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whicker, Pinder, Breshears
Semiarid forests across the western USA and elsewhere are being thinned to reduce risk from fire, restore previous ecological conditions, and/or salvage trees from recently burned areas. Prescriptions and monitoring for thinning generally focus on biotic characteristics of…
Year: 2008
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
Watchman, Groom, Perrine
'A review of 43 habitat conservation plans reveals numerous ways to reduce uncertainty for landowners and imperiled species alike.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vining, Merrick
Because American national forests are managed for all citizens, it is important that researchers explore the differences and similarities between citizens living both near and far from publicly managed land. We surveyed residents living at various distances from nationally…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Urquiza-Haas, Dolman, Peres
Aboveground biomass is a key variable in understanding the role of tropical forests in the global carbon cycle. The forests of the Yucatan Peninsula form part of the largest remaining tract of Mesoamerican forests, where the predominant land use is still slash-and-bum…
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
Simpson, Stuart, Daly
Classification of high-latitude landscapes into their appropriate biomes is important for many climate and global change-related issues. Unfortunately, large-scale, high-spatial-resolution observations of plant assemblages associated with these regions are generally unavailable…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS