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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Interagency wildland fire policy directs manager to apply 'best available science' to management plans and activities. But what does 'best available science' mean? With a vague definition of this concept and few guidelines for delivering or integrating science into management,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Riordan, Garwood
Alaska currently relies on the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System for the assessment of the potential for wildfire and although it provides invaluable information it is designed as a single system which does not account for the varied fuel types and drying conditions (day…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bourgeau-Chavez, Leblon, Charbonneau, Buckley
Radarsat-2 imagery from extreme dry versus wet conditions are compared in an effort to determine the value of using polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data for improving estimation of fuel moisture in a chronosequence of Alaskan boreal black spruce ecosystems (recent…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blanco, Dubois, Littlejohn, Flanders, Robinson, Moshofsky, Welham
Many rural communities in British Columbia (western Canada) are at risk from wildfire. This risk will increase over time as a result of climate change because of higher average temperatures, longer growing seasons, and more intense droughts. On the other hand, these communities…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Patterson, Edwards, Maguire
Charcoal preserved in lake sediments, peat, and soils provides a record of past fire occurrence. An understanding of fire history is important in evaluating interactions between vegetation, climate and human disturbances through at least the last several millennia. In this paper…
Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown
Bulk densities of surface fuels divided into three strata were determined for dominant fuel groups to aid in describing compactness and horizontal continuity for fire behavior modeling. Dominant fuel groups were defined as horizontally distributed fuels having recognizably…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Price, Pausas, Govender, Flannigan, Fernandes, Brooks, Bird
Prescribed fire is practiced around the world to reduce the effect of unplanned fire, but we hypothesise that its effectiveness is proportional to the mean annual area burnt by unplanned fire, which varies among biomes. Fire history mapping was obtained for six global case…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Moreno-Ruiz, García-Lázaro, Cano, Hernández-Leal
An algorithm based on a Bayesian network classifier was adapted to produce 10-day burned area (BA) maps from the Long Term Data Record Version 3 (LTDR) at a spatial resolution of 0.05° (~5 km) for the North American boreal region from 2001 to 2011. The modified algorithm used…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chu, Guo
The frequency and severity of forest fires, coupled with changes in spatial and temporal precipitation and temperature patterns, are likely to severely affect the characteristics of forest and permafrost patterns in boreal eco-regions. Forest fires, however, are also an…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Halofsky, Peterson, Marcinkowski
Federal agencies with responsibility for natural resource management are mandated to consider climate change in planning and projects, and to begin preparing for the effects of climate change. Federal agencies are making significant progress in climate change adaptation,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Applequist
The determination of total tree age is usually based on ring counts of increment cores which ideally should pass through tree center. For several reasons the borer does not always "hit the pith," and it becomes necessary to estimate how many rings were missed. The pith locator…
Year: 1958
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martell
This is a review of recent efforts to develop and implement forest and wildland fire management decision support systems (FMDSS) that fire managers can use to enhance their management of their fire suppression activities. Fire managers need to resolve complex decisions…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fernandes
Prescribed burning as a fuel treatment seeks to moderate wildfire impacts and decreases the areal extent of wildfires by increasing the effectiveness of fire suppression. Assessment of prescribed burning effectiveness is frequently anecdotal or based on simulation. This paper…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Omi
Fuel treatments have become an indispensable tool for managing fire in North American wildland ecosystems. Historical perspective and extant practices provide insights into current theory and areas of future emphasis. Managers have better understanding of treatment practices as…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Varner, Kane, Kreye, Engber
Fire behavior and effects in forests and woodlands are influenced by surface fuels and senesced leaf litter in particular. We have known that species exhibit differential flammability for some time, but isolated efforts have often attributed differences to disparate mechanisms.…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
This article builds on findings from a synthesis of fire social science research that was published from 2000 to 2010 to understand what has been learned more recently about public response to wildfires. Two notable changes were immediately noted in the fairly substantial number…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chung
Fuel treatments have been widely used as an effective fire management tool to mitigate catastrophic wildland fire risk in forested landscapes. Fire research efforts of the last two decades have significantly advanced fire behavior modeling and fuel treatment effects analysis,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Adams
The planar intersect technique involves counting or measuring diameters of woody pieces intersected by a vertical plane. It is based on the line intersect technique, which compares length of a given line and the amount of that line crossed by residue pieces. The sum of circular…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins, Bourgeau-Chavez, French, Loboda, Thelen
Using the extensive archive of historical ERS-1 and -2 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, this analysis demonstrates that fire disturbance can be effectively detected and monitored in high northern latitudes using radar technology. A total of 392 SAR images from May to…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vijayakumar, Raulier, Bernier, Gauthier, Bergeron, Pothier
Fire plays an important role for boreal forest succession, and time since last fire (TSLF) is therefore seen as a useful covariate to devise forest management strategies, but TSLF information is currently either spatially or temporarily limited. We therefore developed a TSLF map…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pacheco, Claro, Fernandes, de Neufville, Oliveira, Borges, Rodrigues
Wildfire management has been struggling in recent years with escalating devastation, expenditures, and complexity. Given the copious factors involved and the complexity of their interactions, uncertainty in the outcomes is a prominent feature of wildfire management strategies,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jandt, Miller
Eric Miller, BLM Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist, assists with a lot of prescribed burns on military training ranges in Alaska where the primary fuel is standing dead grass (photo) and this question was often on his mind. He found that existing fine dead fuel moisture tables…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heusser
[from the text] The science of palynology has come a long way since the presentation of the first paper on modern pollen analysis by Lennart von Post at Oslo in 1916. Like many sciences it was initiated as a rather narrow discipline and consisted largely of interpretation of…
Year: 1960
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Oregon Department of Forestry works aggressively to contain and stop wildfires. After a fire ODF helps landowners with reforesting expertise and connecting them with the right people.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leavell, Berger, Fitzgerald, Parker
This curriculum is designed to teach the basics of fire to non-fire-professional community members, including instructors and landowners, such as ranchers and farmers. The goal is to reduce risk and fire hazard through education and understanding. This curriculum is divided into…
Year: 2017
Type: Course
Source: FRAMES