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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wirth, Pyke
Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation (ES&R) and Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) treatments are short-term, high-intensity treatments designed to mitigate the adverse effects of wildfire on public lands. The federal government expends significant resources…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires burn millions of acres annually. Most burnt land can recover naturally, but a small percentage needs short-term emergency treatment to stabilize burnt land that threatens public safety, property, or ecosystems or longer-term treatments to rehabilitate land unlikely to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vogl
Fire management of grasslands is best executed based on an understanding of the fundamental properties of grassland components, structures, and environments, and the nature of fire behavior in grassland fuels. The art of controlled burning combines experience, practicality,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alonso-Canas, Chuvieco
We present the development of a global burned area (BA) algorithm based on MERIS imagery along with the assessment of the global BA results for three years (2006-2008). This work was developed within the Fire Disturbance project under the European Space Agency Climate Change…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the forward] Next to crop prices, nothing is more important to the farmer's business than the weather, and in fact the weather often has a strong influence on prices. So every farmer takes a keen interest in the weather, and in many cases he is a weather prophet of no mean…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Christensen
[From introduction] What are the proper fire regimes for our diverse wilderness ecosystems? How and why have the frequency and behavior of fire changed through time? How have human activities such as a century of fire exclusion, landscape fragmentation, and alteration of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lueck, Yoder
This article examines the complex structure of wildland firefighting using the economic theories of contracts, property rights, and organization. We examine historical and cross-sectional case studies and consider the implications for contemporary wildfire management. Wildfires…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Busenberg
Wildland fires constitute a major crisis in American environmental policy, a crisis created by a longstanding policy failure. This article explores the political processes that generated and reinforced this policy failure over time. The concepts of bounded rationality,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Thompson, Finney
Over the last two decades wildfire activity, damage, and management cost within the US have increased substantially. These increases have been associated with a number of factors including climate change and fuel accumulation due to a century of active fire suppression. The…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This handbook provides detailed information specific to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) policies, standards, and procedures used in the Burned Area Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation (ES&R) programs. This Handbook is intended to be the primary guidance to BLM ES&…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Calkin, Finney, Ager, Gilbertson-Day
The spatial, temporal, and social dimensions of wildfire risk are challenging U.S. federal land management agencies to meet societal needs while maintaining the health of the lands they manage. In this paper we present a quantitative, geospatial wildfire risk assessment tool,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Starker
A rating scale of the resistance to fire would be helpful knowledge in the management of a forest in any region. The author has combined his wide knowledge of conditions with the best available information in the various regions of the United States. A comparison is made in…
Year: 1934
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Spalt, Reifsnyder
It has long been obvious to foresters that trees of different ages, and of different species but the same age, respond differently to the heat of a forest fire. Ability of plants to survive a given degree of exposure to fire depends on such factors as location of heat -sensitive…
Year: 1962
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sauer
[from the text] No apology is needed for scrutinizing any part of the history of man, anywhere, if insight can be gained into culture processes. Indeed, the study of human populations is regarded as having some relation in kind and in method to the general problem of organic…
Year: 1944
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the text] The true cost of wildfires is much higher than the public is aware of, and much higher than currently accounted for by government assessments. These costs have increased significantly in the last decade, impacting taxpayers and multiple levels of government. The…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the text] The Quadrennial Fire Review (QFR) is a strategic assessment process conducted every four years to evaluate current wildland fire management community strategies and capabilities against best estimates of the future environment. This report is the third iteration…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lukenbach, Devito, Kettridge, Petrone, Waddington
Wildfire is the largest disturbance affecting northern peatlands; however, little is known about how burn severity (organic soil depth of burn) alters post-fire hydrological conditions that control the recovery of keystone peatland mosses (i.e. Sphagnum). For this reason, we…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alexeyev, Euskirchen, Cherry, Busey
The goal of this study was to assess the importance of the 2007 sea ice retreat for hydrologic conditions on the Alaskan North Slope, and how this may have influenced the outbreak of tundra fires in this region. This study concentrates on two years, 2007 and 1996, with different…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, Walker, Hobbs, Hooper, Lawton, Sala, Tilman
Changes in the abundance of species - especially those that influence water and nutrient dynamics, trophic interactions, or disturbance regime - affect the structure and functioning of ecosystems. Diversity is also functionally important, both because it increases the…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
West
This document describes the processing algorithms used by the SMAP ground system to compute radar backscatter (sigma 0) products along with the relevant system characteristics. There are two L1 products: the L1BS0 product which contains time ordered low resolution (6 km by 40 km…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wahrenbrock
[from the text] Over 1.4 million acres of bark beetle insect activity was recorded (Burnside 2001) on the Kenai Peninsuladuring the 1990's. This "high intensity" beetle infestation dramatically altered the composition and structure of spruce forests in affected areas. Ever since…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mercer
Largely in response to the 2004 Alaska wildfire season, local fire managers have begun to install fuel treatments in mature black spruce forests around wildland-urban interface areas. The objectives of these fuel treatments are to reduce fuel load and to promote hardwoods. Local…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
de Groot, Flannigan, Amiro, Stocks
Forest fires in Canada currently burn 2-3 M ha annually (~0.5% of forest land), causing an estimated $2 B in timber losses. Total annual fire suppression expenditures in Canada are about $500 M. Fire statistics for the last 40 years show an increasing trend in the average annual…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Hrobak
The National Park Service (NPS) Alaska Region fire ecology program provides science-based information to guide fire and land management planning, decisions and practices in order to maintain and understand fire-adapted ecosystems in Alaska. Each year an annual report is…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES