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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hurteau, Koch, Hungate
ANNOTATION: This paper looks into the carbon sequestering abilities of forests and finds that policies currently in place promote avoidable carbon releases and discourage actions that would actually increase long-term carbon storage. When stand-replacing catastrophic fires move…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hoekstra, Boucher, Ricketts, Roberts
Human impacts on the natural environment have reached such proportions that in addition to an 'extinction crisis', we now also face a broader 'biome crisis'. Here we identify the world's terrestrial biomes and, at a finer spatial scale, ecoregions in which biodiversity and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dalton
The nation's wildland fire problems have worsened dramatically over the past decade, with more than a doubling of both the average annual acreage burned and federal appropriations for wildland fire management. The deteriorating fire situation has led the agencies responsible for…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rasker
Fighting wildfires costs U.S. taxpayers $3 billion annually, more than twice what it cost a decade ago. Unfortunately, this expense is almost certain to continue to grow, and-unless action is taken-firefighting costs could at least double again in the next 15 years because of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barazesh
In recent years, the fingers of flame have extended their reach over more of the Earth?s surface. Wildfires are occurring more often and becoming more severe, a perplexing change in fire patterns that threatens to transform ecosystems, reduce biodiversity and even alter climate…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rice, Smith
It may be impossible to overstate the complexity of relationships among wildland ecosystems, fires, and nonnative invasives. Strategies for managing these relationships are similarly complex; they require information on local plant phenology, ability to produce various levels of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kovalev, Kolgotin
Alternative techniques for determining the extinction coefficient and the lidar ratio from the optical-depth and backscatter-coefficient profiles are compared: (1) the techniques, in which the extinction coefficient is a primarily extracted parameter, which is then used to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ichoku, Martins, Kaufman, Wooster, Freeborn, Hao, Baker, Ryan, Nordgren
Fuel biomass samples from southern Africa and the United States were burned in a laboratory combustion chamber while measuring the biomass consumption rate, the fire radiative energy (FRE) release rate (R fre), and the smoke concentrations of carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
He, Keane, Iverson
Forest landscape models have become important tools for understanding large-scale and long-term landscape (spatial) processes such as climate change, fire, windthrow, seed dispersal, insect outbreak, disease propagation, forest harvest, and fuel treatment, because controlled…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Freeborn, Wooster, Hao, Ryan, Nordgren, Baker, Ichoku
Forty-four small-scale experimental fires were conducted in a combustion chamber to examine the relationship between biomass consumption, smoke production, convective energy release, and middle infrared (MIR) measurements of fire radiative energy (FRE). Fuel bed weights, trace…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Frankman, Webb, Butler
The attenuation of radiation transfer from wildland flames to fuel by environmental water vapor is investigated. Emission is tracked from points on an idealized flame to locations along the fuel bed while accounting for absorption by environmental water vapor in the intervening…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pannkuk, Robichaud, Brown
Wildfires in steep forest environments can often produce disasterous runoff and soil loss after rainstorms. There is often needle cast from partially burnt conifer trees that generally falls to the soil surface within several months after the fire. These needles offer protection…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Storrar
An objective of the soil research program has been to measure forest soil erodibility for erosion prediction. Gathering the data is challenging because samples have to be collected onsite under actual field conditions. These conditions include sites before and after timber…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barkley
A University of Idaho Extension publication explaining the causes, mechanics, behavior and suppresion of wildfire. Identifies potential effects on vegetation, wildlife, soils and watersheds and offers a postfire management plan.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lisle, Luce, Ziemer, May
Wildfire poses special problems for land-use planners. Responses to fire must be planned in a short period immediately after a fire, relying heavily on information compiled before the extent and severity of the actual fire is known. Secondly, it has been difficult to learn from…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The primary purpose of fuels management has been to lessen potential fire behavior and, thereby, increase the probability of successful containment (Alexander 2003). More specifically, it has been to decrease the rate of fire and, in turn, fire size and intensity-as well as…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McDaniel
'The number one challenge we face in our fire management and fuels treatment program here in western Colorado is communication and public involvement,' says Tim Foley, fire management officer for the Bureau of Land Management in the western slope of Colorado. 'From working with…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McDaniel
'The number one challenge we face in our fire management and fuels treatment program here in western Colorado is communication and public involvement,' says Tim Foley, fire management officer for the Bureau of Land Management in the western slope of Colorado. 'From working with…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes
To improve access, interpretability, and use of the full body of research, a pilot project was initiated by the USDA Forest Service to synthesize relevant scientific information and develop publications and decision support tools that managers can use to inform fuels treatment…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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: FRAMES
Lafon
Dendrochronology is used widely to reconstruct the history of forest disturbances. I created an exercise that introduces the use of dendrochronology to investigate fire history and forest dynamics. The exercise also demonstrates how the dendrochronological technique of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Hollingsworth, Chapin
This workbook defines site moisture, factors that predict the potential for black spruce stands to shift in successional trajectories following fires, and a dichotomous key to identify potential successional trajectores in recently burned black spruce forests (0-2 years post-…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Hollingsworth
Land managers in Alaska are faced with the challenge of managing fire in a way that preserves human life and property while at the same time conserving the key ecological processes driven by fire. Because managers have little capacity to alter fire behavior by direct fuel…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a PC-based program that is a collection of models that describe fire and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and diagrams and can be used for a multitude of fire management applications. BehavePlus is…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boerner, Huang, Hart
The Fire and Fire Surrogates (FFS) network is composed of 12 forest sites that span the continental United States, all of which historically had frequent low-severity fire. The goal of the FFS study was to assess the efficacy of three management treatments (prescribed fire,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES