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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ottmar, Schaaf, Alvarado
From the Introduction...'Fire is the single most important ecological disturbance process throughout the interior Pacific Northwest (Mutch and others 1993; Agee 1994). It is also a natural process that helps maintain a diverse ecological landscape. Fire suppression and timber…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mutch, Cook
From the Current Solutions...'Some breakthroughs in providing more latitude for expanding prescribed fire programs are apparent. For example, the state of Florida has enacted innovative legislation that provides liability protection for prescribed burning. In Oregon, a…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martinson, Omi
Historic fire regimes are widely advocated as guides for the reintroduction of natural fire processes into North American wildlands. However, the fire history of most sites is unknown. Current fire regime constructs provide generalized information for some vegetation types, but…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
Little is known about spatial and temporal variability in fire frequencies at landscape scales (1,000s to I 00,000s of ha), or about the factors that determine the spatial patterns of fir., frequency at these scales. Historical archives of wildfire perimeters (fire atlases) are…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Swetnam, Allen
Relatively frequent surface fires recurred for centuries in ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests of the Southwest before intensive live stock grazing and active fire suppression by government agencies began. The available evidence suggests that extensive (> 100 ha) stand-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Heyerdahl, Lertzman
We characterized historical fire regimes in order to understand their influence on forest structure in dry mixed-conifer forests in the southern interior of British Columbia. In the unroaded Stein River watershed, we sampled fire scarred trees (163) and cored trees for…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Patton
Thousands of workers treated the slopes, channels, roads and other features above the city and lab so that virtually every square inch of land was treated. However, this all-out effort was not able to reduce all the risk to the city and lab and additional heroic measures were…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Copenhagen
Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER) teams have surveyed, planned and begun stabilization treatments on 85 large fires on 1,545,834 acres of National Forest System land. Only 261,340 acres (17 %) were classified as "severely” burned. Emergency treatments included seeding…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Trent, Thistle, Fisher, Ahuja
The US Forest Service, Missoula Technology and Development Center (MTDC) evaluated several commercially available, optical, real-time, particulate monitors to provide forest managers, fire and air quality specialists information for use of these monitors in environments…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hirami, Hann
We characterized the historical, current, and future wildland fire smoke emissions on National Forests and Grasslands of the western United States. This information provided a basis for summary interpretations included in the U.S. Forest Service report "Protecting People and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leenhouts
Wildland fire has been an integral part of the conterminous United States' ecological landscape for millennia. Today wildland fire has to compete with other socially desirable goals for a share of a limited air resource. New ozone, particulate, and visibility protection air-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fujioka, Burgan, Chase, Roads, Chen
The Forest Service has always relied on its regional fire managers to assess the potential severity of the forthcoming fire season, and the ability of the local organization to respond under the expected conditions. Among the factors considered were the current state of fuels,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDonald, Moeur, Evans, Rice, Strand
Behavior and biology of many forest pests are tied to major forest disturbances and succession. The principle disturbance in the forests of the western United States is fire. Fire regimes as well as distribution and behavior of forest pests and beneficial microbes such as…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Foote
An understanding of the interaction of fuel, fire, burn severity, site, and site vegetation, is essential to predicting the primary and secondary short term and long-term impacts of fire. After analyzing fire behavior and by following the changes in species composition and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, Coen, Radke
Airborne infrared (IR) observations were made of the prescribed burns between 8-10 July 1999 at the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska. The observations were made by pointing an Inframetrics
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Radke, Clark
A Crown Fire is observed with an airborne IR imager moving swiftly up a modest slope in mixed fuels. Light winds helped propel the blaze during the Frost Fire Experiment north of Fairbanks, Alaska in June 1999. A vigorous convective column capped with a pyrocumulus cloud forms…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson, Sandberg
The National Fire-Danger Rating System (NFDRS) and the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) were developed to assess and predict wildfire danger in the forests of the United States and Canada. In addition, the fire weather index components of these systems are used…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferguson, Rorig, Bluhm, Sandberg
The moisture content of material on a forest floor can play a significant role in its potential for fire ignition and resulting severity, especially in boreal ecosystems that contain deep layers of moss. To better understand the effect of weather and permafrost on moss moisture…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilmore, Fox, Sandberg, Alexander
Large moderate to severe high intensity stand replacement fires characterize the fire regime in the boreal forest of Interior Alaska. It is the moisture content of the moss profile that largely determines ignition probability and depth of fuel consumption (i.e. severity). The…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hinzman, Yoshikawa, Bolton, Petrone, Fukuda
The purpose of this study is to investigate the short and long-term impacts of wildfire in the boreal forests of Interior Alaska. Our working hypothesis is that wildfire affects the short- and long-term ground thermal regime and soil moisture content in different ways with…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mapping wildfire severity in boreal forest based on aerial photography and remote sensing [abstract]
The paper presents the results of mapping fire severity for the FROSTFIRE experiment at different spatial scales. The finest spatial data was collected before the fire on a grid of 160 intensive and 226 dispersed ground plots designed to study fuel bed and vegetation…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ottmar, Vihnanek, Bluhm, Sandberg
Wildland fire is a major disturbance agent that has shaped the biotic landscapes throughout time. The amount and duration of the heat determined by the availability of the fuels to consume is the ultimate driving force that causes a widespread range of environmental responses…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sandberg
Fire is a critical disturbance process in determining the structure and distribution of the boreal forest. Fire in the boreal forest typically replaces most of the dominant vegetation cover, liberates substantial carbon and other elements to the atmosphere and stream flow, and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Medler
Forest fires are not spatially uniform events. They result in a complicated mosaic of burned and unburned vegetation. To manage fuel loads and the associated fire hazard it is essential to improve our understanding of the spatial patterns of the potential effects of future fires…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flores, Omi
Fire can be used not only to protect forest ecosystems but also as a restoration tool. However, a successful application of fire requires knowing in advance the potential fire behavior (e.g., rate of spread and intensity). Without this information adverse effects could result…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS