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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bate, Yanoff, McCarthy, Bradley
The Nature Conservancy is working with the Bureau of Land Management to assess multiple indicators of ecological condition, including fire regime, across grasslands and shrublands in southern New Mexico. The purpose of the assessment is to identify restoration opportunities and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bataineh, Oswald, Bataineh, Unger, Hung, Scognamillo
Fire ecologists face many challenges regarding the statistical analyses of their studies, Hurlbert (1984) brought the problem of pseudoreplication to the scientific community's attention in the mid 1980's. Now, there is a new issue in the form of spatial autocorrelation. Spatial…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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: TTRS
Alexander, Cruz, Lopes
CFIS -- which stands for Crown Fire Initiation and Spread -- is a software tool or system incorporating several recently developed models designed to simulate crown fire behavior. The main outputs of CFIS are: (1) the likelihood of crown fire initiation or occurrence; (2) the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peterson, Johnson
From the text ... 'The focus of fuel treatment is typically on reducing hazardous surface fuel and drown-fire hazard. The effects of fuel treatment on vegetation, wildlife, aquatic resources, and economic values also need to be considered. ...The expert knowledge of local fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paz
From the text ... 'Providing nationwide leadership in the development, testing, analysis, standardization, and evaluation of equipment, materials, and procedures for the protection and management of national forests and grasslands is the mission of the Forest Service Technology…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'Looking at current and out-year budgets is a shock to the system. Believe me, I know. But it's time we all transitioned from being worried about our capability -- to taking action. And it's time to acknowledge that we can't sustain these billion-dollar fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Frey
From the text ... 'Having the right equipment for firefighting is not only necessary -- it's essential. Since 1954, the Forest Service has helped State agencies acquire usable, surplus equipment through the Federal Excess Personal Property (FEPP) Program to meet their…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferranti
From the text ... 'The year was 1915 and the forest Service's brief dalliance with Civil War blinkers and sunlight was a dismal failure (Coats 1984). Frustrated foresters needed to improve their ability to communicate, but radio technology would not be ready for the fireline for…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fege, Absher
From the text ... 'Preventing structure loss has become a major focal point of wildland firefighting. Most days, it feels like wildland fire professionals and land managers are becoming more and more responsible for reducing property losses in the wildland/urban interface (WUI…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... 'In the early 20th century, the debate was not about whether Indians used fire to manage landscapes, but that they did so much of it.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Williamson, Doane
From the text ... 'The Forest Service authorizes broadscale wildland fire use (WFU) both inside and outside wilderness areas in many western forests; but, will agency authoriaztion alone lead to implementation?Understanding barriers and facilitators to WFU implementation is…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander
From the text ... 'No single fuel load may be acceptable for a large administrative area. Herein lies the dilemma of setting fuel load standards. Establishing standards would permit the setting of clear objectives for residue management and provide benchmarks with which to…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'This new software application can serve as a decision support aid in a wide variety of fire management activities -- ranging from near real-time prediction of fire behavior to analyzing the impacts of fuel treatments on potential crown fire behavior.'
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, French, Bourgeau-Chavez, Michalek
From the Summary (p.420) ... '1. Fires result in dramatic changes in wide range of surface characteristics, including changes in surface reflectance, temperature, and moisture. These changes result in alterations to the signatures detected in all wavelength regions of the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shugart, Clark, Hill
From the Conclusion (p.402) ... 'Models provide the ability to simulate processes that occur at temporal and spatial scales that are difficult to empirically investigate. We have attempted to provide the framework of a set of nested models that can address multilevel boreal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anderson, Martell, Flannigan, Wang
From the Introduction (p.357) ... 'Fire is a significant component of most boreal forest ecosystems. It is important to understand its occurrence and spread to assess the potential impact of global climate change on boreal forest ecosystems. This chapter presents an overview of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, Stocks
From the Introduction (p.347) ... 'It is important to remember that except over very small spatial and temporal scales, it is impossible to directly measure the carbon present in a specific region of the boreal forest as well as that being exchanged with the atmosphere. In…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, Bourgeau-Chavez, French, Harrell
From the Summary (p.343-344) ... 'Radar imagery is an important source of data for monitoring specific processes and surface characteristics in boreal forests. As with other sources of remotely sensed data, radar imagery can efficiently provide certain types of information,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ahern, Epp, Cahoon, French, Kasischke, Michalek
From the Summary (p.328) ... 'In this chapter, we have discussed a number of methods to monitor the boreal forest by using satellite systems that collect data from the visible and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Although we have focused our attention on data…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Murphy, Mudd, Stocks, Kasischke, Barry, Alexander, French
From the Introduction (p.274) ... 'There is currently a great deal of interest in understanding and quantifying the extent of natural and human-caused fire in the different biomes throughout the world. In Chapter 8, Shvidenko and Nilsson examined the fire statistics for the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bourgeau-Chavez, Kasischke, Mudd, French
From the Summary (p.272) ... 'The data sets presented in this chapter provide the basis for developing a better understanding of the dynamics of the carbon budget in the North American boreal forest region. For example, in Chapter 23 these data are used by Kasischke and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexeyev, Birdsey, Stakanov, Korotkov
From the Conclusions (p.255) ... 'There is a great deal of variability in carbon storage of Asia Russian, depending on the geographic region, forest type, and history of disturbance. These factors affect the forest composition and stand age structure, both strong determinants of…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, Stocks
From the text (p.238) ... 'The data sets and collection techniques discussed in this section play a central role in efforts to quantify the effects of fire and climate change on the boreal forest carbon budget. These data sets/techniques provide the baseline information required…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kasischke, French, O'Neill, Richter, Bourgeau-Chavez, Harrell
The cold climate and resulting low decomposition rates in the ground layers of boreal forests (such as those found in interior Alaska) result in the development of deep organic soils. In turn, these soils have an important role in many physical, chemical, and biological…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS