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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Makoto, Tani, Kamata
Alaskan spruce forests are exposed to both fire and spruce beetles [Dendroctonus rufipennis (Kirby)]. To understand the influence of spruce beetles on the process through which fire affects ecosystem function, we developed a reconstruction technique to measure prefire damage to…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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: TTRS
Hudak, Thode, van Wagtendonk
From the text ... 'This special issue compilation of eight papers demonstrates the breadth of remote sensing applications on the cutting edge of fire ecology research. Remotely sensed imagery can provide objective measures of fire perimeters, burn patterns, and fire severity at…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hudak, Morgan, Bobbitt, Smith, Lewis, Lentile, Robichaud, Clark, McKinley
The Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) and the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Data Center produce Burned Area Reflectance Classification (BARC) maps for use by Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams in rapid…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gordon, Gruver, Flint, Luloff
Despite a broad literature addressing the human dimensions of wildfire, current approaches often compartmentalize results according to disciplinary boundaries. Further, relatively few studies have focused on the public's evolving perceptions of wildfire as communities change…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goeken
From the text ... 'Destruction of forest property by federal firefighters could entitle owner to just compensation.' Published by Forest Landowners Association. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bar-Massada, Stewart, Hammer, Mockrin, Radeloff
The wildland urban interface (WUI) delineates the areas where wildland fire hazard most directly impacts human communities and threatens lives and property, and where houses exert the strongest influence on the natural environment. Housing data are a major problem for WUI…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hall
From the text ... 'The Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management (FAM) program and the Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers (JCCCC) have formed an innovative partnership to expand the influence of the Job Corps program in filling future fire management positions in the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cantrell
From the text ... 'If your goal is to take an instructor-led vocational course and convert it for Web-based training (WBT), it will work best if you view it as a completely new course creation. This is not to say that a current, instructor-led training (ILT) course will not be…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Trainor, Calef, Natcher, Chapin, McGuire, Huntington, Duffy, Rupp, DeWilde, Kwart, Fresco, Lovecraft
This paper explores whether fundamental differences exist between urban and rural vulnerability to climate-induced changes in the fire regime of interior Alaska. We further examine how communities and fire managers have responded to these changes and what additional adaptations…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keith, Rhodes
From the text ... 'Wich is best: bury, burn or both? The extraordinary heterogeneity of the energy system makes it unlikely that any single solution will triumph everywhere. In practice, there will be no absolute dominance of any one strategy over another, and each may well…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
France, Steedman, Lehmann, Peters
It has been recently suggested that droughts induced by climate warming reduce the catchment export of colour-forming, and therefore, UV-B protective, DOC to boreal lakes, which in turn may influence the health of resident biota. We determined that the concentration of DOC in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dale, Joyce, McNulty, Neilson
Climate change affects forests both directly and indirectly through disturbances. Disturbances are a natural and integral part of forest ecosystems, and climate change can alter these natural interactions. When disturbances exceed their natural range of variation, the change in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Youngblut, Luckman
We present a network of thirteen annual ring-width chronologies from high elevation whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.) sites in the western Canadian Cordillera in order to assess the dendroclimatic potential of this long-lived tree species. The temperature signal within…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yao, Brauer, Henderson
Background: Exposure to wildfire smoke has been associated with cardiopulmonary health impacts. Climate change will increase the severity and frequency of smoke events, suggesting a need for enhanced public health protection. Forecasts of smoke exposure can facilitate public…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Welch
From the text ... 'As the implications of enabling fire to reclaim its roles in wildland ecosystems continue to unfold, we are learning about how we value, view, and treat public lands, forests, fire, archaeological and historical sites, and associated human communities. The…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Watts, Kobziar, Percival
Unmanned aircriaft systems (UAS) have been developed alongside manned aircraft yet have seen widespread use only in the past decade. Their use for military applications has propelled advances in electronics and sensors to yield systems whose capabilities may be useful for many…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wang, Ma, Li
The evaluation of area-specific risks for large fires is of great policy relevance to fire management and prevention. When analyzing data for the burned areas of large fires in Canada, we found that there are dramatic patterns that cannot be adequately modelled by traditional…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Voggesser, Lynn, Daigle, Lake, Ranco
Climate change related impacts, such as increased frequency and intensity of wildfires, higher temperatures, extreme changes to ecosystem processes, forest conversion and habitat degradation are threatening tribal access to valued resources. Climate change is and will affect the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Strengthening the case for saproxylic arthropod conservation: a call for ecosystem services research
1. While research on the ecosystem services provided by biodiversity is becoming widely embraced as an important tool in conservation, the services provided by saproxylic arthropods an especially diverse and threatened assemblage dependent on dead or dying wood remain unmeasured…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ueyama, Ichii, Iwata, Euskirchen, Zona, Rocha, Harazono, Iwama, Nakai, Oechel
Carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes from a network of 21 eddy covariance towers were upscaled to estimate the Alaskan CO2 budget from 2000 to 2011 by combining satellite remote sensing data, disturbance information, and a support vector regression model. Data were compared with the CO2…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timmons, DeBano, Ryan
From Wildland Fire Management Recommendations ... 'The protection of cultural resources during wildland fire is more challenging than for a prescribed burn. Treatment options available to mitigate the direct impacts from wildland fire include use of water, retardant, and fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Strong, Jung
Large-scale fires are anticipated to increase in frequency in the boreal forest under global climate warming scenarios. To understand concomitant responses by wildlife to fire-induced habitat changes, fecal pellet counts were used to assess Snowshoe Hare (Lepus americanus) use…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stephens, Agee, Fulé, North, Romme, Swetnam, Turner
From the text ... 'With projected climate change, we expect to face much more forest fire in the coming decades. Policy-makers are challenged not to categorize all fires as destructive to ecosystems simple because they have long flame lengths and kill most of the trees within…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Blake, Owens
Wildfire can cause substantial changes to runoff, erosion and downstream sediment delivery processes. In response to these disturbance effects, the main sources of sediment transported within burned catchments may also change. Sediment tracing offers an approach to determine the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS