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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Kovalev, Hao, Wold
A new method is considered that can be used for inverting data obtained from a combined elastic-inelastic lidar or a high spectral resolution lidar operating in a one-directional mode, or an elastic lidar operating in a multiangle mode. The particulate extinction coefficient is…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Keane, Gray, Dickinson
Silvicultural cutting treatments may be needed to restore whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) forests, but little is known of the response of this species to removal of competition through prescribed burning or silvicultural cuttings. We analyzed stem cross-sections from 48…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Robichaud
Considerable attention has been focused on the impacts of forest management decisions on the environment in recent decades. Burning after timber harvest is a common site preparation technique and its effect on soil erosion is of increasing concern, particularly on steep terrain…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Rummer, Prestemon, May, Miles, Vissage, McRoberts, Liknes, Shepperd, Ferguson, Elliot, Miller, Reutebuch, Barbour, Fried, Stokes, Bilek, Skog
ANNOTATION: This article assesses how forest biomass can be utilized with and the implementation of fuel reduction and ecosystem restoration objectives of the National Fire Plan for the Western United States. Both public and private forests are assessed in the region including…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Foltz, Dooley
Agricultural straw is used in forested areas of the United States for erosion control on burned areas, harvest landings, decommissioned road prisms, road cuts and fills, and other areas of disturbed soil. Two blends of wood strands were statistically equal to straw in reducing…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Gronier, Foltz, Showers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service is considering alternative methods of erosion control when constructing roads, decommissioning roads, protecting lands burned by wildland fires, and reclaiming lands disturbed by other activities. This article is the second in a…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Lentile, Morgan, Hudak, Bobbitt, Lewis, Smith, Robichaud
Vegetation response and burn severity were examined following eight large wildfires that burned in 2003 and 2004: two wildfires in California chaparral, two each in dry and moist mixed-conifer forests in Montana, and two in boreal forests in interior Alaska. Our research…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Hardy, Hardy
Fire scientists in the United States began exploring the relationships of fire-danger and hazard with weather, fuel moisture, and ignition probabilities as early as 1916. Many of the relationships identified then persist today in the form of our National Fire-Danger-Rating…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Robichaud
Federal land management agencies have spent tens of millions of dollars on post-fire emergency watershed stabilization measures intended to minimize flood runoff, peakflows, onsite erosion, offsite sedimentation, and other hydrologic damage to natural habitats, roads, bridges,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Andrews, Finney, Fischetti
The number of catastrophic wildfires in the U.S. has been steadily rising. The nation has spent more than $1 billion annually to suppress such fires in eight of the past 10 years. In 2005 a record 8.7 million acres burned, only to be succeeded by 9.9 million acres in 2006. And…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Andrews
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is based on a collection of models that describe fire behavior, fire effects, and fire environment. Although the Rothermel surface fire spread model is an important component of BehavePlus, it is only one of over 30 mathematical models in the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Foltz, Wagenbrenner
The assessment teams who make post-fire stabilization and treatment decisions are under pressure to employ more effective and economic post-fire treatments, as wild fire activity and severity has increased in recent years across the western United States. Use of forest-native…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Elliot
As society looks to our nation's forests as sources of energy, there is a risk of increased runoff and erosion. This report gives an overview of watershed processes, discusses the impacts of biomass removal on those processes, provides some guidelines to minimize adverse impacts…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Adam, Kovalev, Wold, Newton, Pahlow, Hao, Parlange
An improved measurement methodology and a data-processing technique for multiangle data obtained with an elastic scanning lidar in clear atmospheres are introduced. Azimuthal and slope scans are combined to reduce the atmospheric heterogeneity. Vertical profiles of optical depth…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The objective of the Fire Use Modules Operations Guide is to provide standards for the operations of all Fire Use Modules (FUM). These standards will be used by staff, supervisors, specialists, and technicians for planning, administering and conducting FUM operations. These…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Zouhar, Smith, Sutherland
Considerable experimental and theoretical work has been done on general concepts regarding nonnative species and disturbance, but experimental research on the effects of fire on nonnative invasive species is sparse. We begin this chapter by connecting fundamental concepts from…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Williams, Bradstock
In the last decade, extensive fires have occurred on most continents, affecting a wide range of ecosystems. We convened a Symposium at the 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Congress in 2006 to address the issue of large fires and their ecological consequences in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Zouhar, Munger, Smith
The potential for nonnative, invasive plants to alter an ecosystem depends on species traits, ecosystem characteristics, and the effects of disturbances, including fire. This study identifies gaps in science-based knowledge about the relationships between fire and nonnative…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

van Wagtendonk
Wildland fire use as a concept had its origin when humans first gained the ability to suppress fires. Some fires were suppressed and others were allowed to burn based on human values and objectives. Native Americans and Euro-American settlers fought those fires that threatened…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The Review and Update of the 1995 Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (January 2001) remains sound and presents a single cohesive federal fire policy for the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture. However, some issues associated with implementation of this policy need…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wold, Kovalev, Hao
The general concept of an open-path backscatter nephelometer, its design, principles of calibration and the operational use are discussed. The research-grade instrument, which operates at the wavelength 355 nm, will be co-located with a scanning-lidar at measurement sites near…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Shlisky, Myers, Waugh, Blankenship
Fire is a global phenomenon. Worldwide, fire can play a role in maintaining or threatening natural habitats and human societies. In any case, we must consider the global context for our actions and the best possible role each nation can play in managing fire for humans and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Romme, Allen, Bailey, Baker, Bestelmeyer, Brown, Eisenhart, Floyd-Hanna, Huffman, Jacobs, Miller, Muldavin, Swetnam, Tausch, Weisberg
Piñon-juniper is a major vegetation type in western North America. Effective management of these ecosystems has been hindered by inadequate understanding of 1) the variability in ecosystem structure and ecological processes that exists among the diverse combinations of piñons,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Rollins
LANDFIRE is a 5-year, multipartner project producing consistent and comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, wildland fuel, fire regimes and ecological departure from historical conditions across the United States. It is a shared project between the wildland fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Sutherland
Monitoring, as defined by Elzinga and others (1998), is 'the collection and analysis of repeated observations or measurements to evaluate changes in condition and progress towards meeting a management objective.' Analyses of monitoring data may indicate that a project is meeting…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES