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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Crosby
A set of value concepts and methods for appraising both values-at-risk and change in value resulting from wildfire are presented. Emphasis is placed on the effects of forest fires in terms of their affects on human and organization goal achievement. Fire effects that help…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Verschuyl, Riffell, Miller, Wigley
Demand for alternative energy sources has led to increased interest in intensive biomass production. When applied across a broad spatial extent, intensive biomass production in forests, which support a large proportion of biodiversity, may alter species composition, nutrient…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Main, Paananen, Burgan
This revised user's guide will help fire managers interpret the output from FIREFAMILY, a computer program that uses historic weather data for fire planning. With the changes in the National Fire-Danger Rating System, all Forest Service units will need to rerun their historical…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eenigenburg
Presents an analytical procedure that uses a FORTRAN 77 program to estimate fire direction and rate of spread. The program also calculates the variability of these parameters, both for subsections of the fire and for the fires as a whole. An option in the program allows users…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Eenigenburg
Presents TI-59 programs that use fire arrival times to calculate the rate and direction of spread of a fire across a triangular or square plot.
Year: 1983
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keetch, Byram
The moisture content of the upper soil, as well as that of the covering layer of duff, has an important effect on the fire suppression effort in forest and wildland areas. In certain forested areas of the United States, fires in deep duff fuels are of particular concern to the…
Year: 1968
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hu, Ntaimo
Wildfire containment is an important but challenging task. The ability to predict fire spread behavior, optimize a plan for firefighting resource dispatch and evaluate such a plan using several firefighting tactics is essential for supporting decision making for containing…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Driscoll, Lindenmayer, Bennett, Bode, Bradstock, Cary, Clarke, Dexter, Fensham, Friend, Gill, James, Kay, Keith, MacGregor, Possingham, Russell-Smith, Salt, Watson, Williams, York
Agencies charged with nature conservation and protecting built-assets from fire face a policy dilemma because management that protects assets can have adverse impacts on biodiversity. Although conservation is often a policy goal, protecting built-assets usually takes precedence…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Rideout
Determining the specific mix of fire-fighting resources for a given fire is a necessary condition for identifying the minimum of the Cost Plus Net Value Change (C+NVC) function. Current wildland fire management models may not reliably do so. The problem of identifying the most…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Adkins
The Fire Image Analysis System is a tool for quantifying flame geometry and relative position at selected points along a spreading line fire. At present, the system requires uniform terrain (constant slope). The system has been used in field and laboratory studies for…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lavdas
A numerical index that estimates the atmosphere's capacity to disperse smoke from prescribed burning is described. The physical assumptions and mathematical development of the index are given in detail. A preliminary interpretation of dispersion index values is offered. A…
Year: 1986
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lavdas
This is a user's manual for VSMOKE, a computer program for predicting the smoke and dry weather visibility impact of a single prescribed fire at several downwind locations. VSMOKE is a FORTRAN 77 program that depends on the input in file VSMOKE.IPT to generate output in file…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephens, McIver, Boerner, Fettig, Fontaine, Hartsough, Kennedy, Schwilk
The current conditions of many seasonally dry forests in the western and southern United States, especially those that once experienced low- to moderate-intensity fire regimes, leave them uncharacteristically susceptible to high-severity wildfire. Both prescribed fire and its…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keeley, Pausas, Rundel, Bond, Bradstock
Traits, such as resprouting, serotiny and germination by heat and smoke, are adaptive in fire-prone environments. However, plants are not adapted to fire per se but to fire regimes. Species can be threatened when humans alter the regime, often by increasing or decreasing fire…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Joly, Duffy, Rupp
Wildfire is the primary ecological driver of succession in the boreal forest and may become increasingly important within tundra ecosystems as the Arctic warms. Migratory barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus granti) rely heavily on terricolous lichens to sustain them through…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In response to the increasing complexities of fire management the National Fire Decision Support Center (NFDSC) was created in May 2009. The Center, a group of scientists, researchers and practitioners has been operational for the past two years. Complexities of fire management…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dillon
Assessing the ecological effects of wildfires in a landscape context is crucial for effective postfire management. While tools exist to assess the severity and ecological effects of wildfires after they burn, managers also need new tools that easily and quickly forecast the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Anderson, Hoover, Reinhart
From the background of more than 100 years' collective experience in watershed research and from comprehensive review of the literature of forest hydrology, the authors summarize what is known about the forest's influence on the water resource, particularly the effects of…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
On behalf of the personnel of the USDA Forest Service's Forest Health Protection work group and its primary partners, I am pleased to present the Forest Health Conditions in Alaska-2011 report. We hope that you find it both interesting and informative. One of the main goals of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kolden, Abatzoglou
Boreal forest fires are an important source of terrestrial carbon emissions, particularly during years of widespread wildfires. Most carbon emission models parameterize wildfire impacts and carbon flux to area burned by fires, therein making the assumption that fires consume a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Miller, McMillan, Hrobak
The AWFCG Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee and the Alaska Fire Science Consortium sponsored a fuel moisture sampling field training workshop on May 17, 2012. The purpose of this workshop was to provide step by step instruction for collecting samples and processing moisture…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Minas, Hearne, Handmer
Across the globe, wildfire-related destruction appears to be worsening despite increased fire suppression expenditure. At the same time, wildfire management is becoming increasingly complicated owing to factors such as an expanding wildland-urban interface, interagency resource…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hu, Higuera, Walsh, Chapman, Duffy, Brubaker, Chipman
Recent climatic warming has resulted in pronounced environmental changes in the Arctic, including shrub cover expansion and sea ice shrinkage. These changes foreshadow more dramatic impacts that will occur if the warming trend continues. Among the major challenges in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Higuera, Barnes, Chipman, Urban, Hu
More than 5.4 million acres (2.2 million hectares) of Alaska tundra have burned over the past 60 years (Figure 2), indicating its flammable nature under warm, dry weather conditions. Tundra fires have important impacts on vegetation composition (Racine et al. 1987, 2004),…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chrosciewicz
Moisture contents of organic forest-floor materials were studied by strata in a semi-mature jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) stand in relation to their within-stand locations and changes in both duff moisture code and fine fuel moisture code, the two weather-based components of…
Year: 1989
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES