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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Fischer
Outlines a procedure for fire management planning for parks; wilderness areas; and other wild, natural, or essentially undeveloped areas. Discusses background and philosophy of wilderness fire management, planning concepts, planning elements, and planning methods.
Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Komarek
A keynote speaker has a unique advantage. Somewhat like a historian, he can look backward in time and also discuss the present. Unlike the historian, he may also point to the future. A keynote speaker also can ramble more or less all over the countryside. He doesn't have to have…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Schmidt
This paper's title - "Can we restore the fire process? What awaits us if we don't?" - represents an ecologist's view of the world. I submit that this view is unrealistic. The first clause uses the term "restore" which implies reestablishing the fire process of the past. The…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Vanderlinden
Stand replacement prescribed burning has been applied in Alaska on several occasions. Based on that experience, perspectives can be provided, issues can be discussed, and keys to success can be identified that are applicable to stand replacement prescribed burning activities in…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Parsons, Botti
Over the past century, policies related to the management of fire in U.S. National Parks have evolved fiom efforts to eliminate all fire to recognition of the importance of restoring and maintaining fire as a natural ecological process. Prior to their formal designation by…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Agee
Fire has been an important evolutionary influence in forests, affecting species composition, structure, and functional aspects of forest biology. Restoration of wildland forests of the future will depend in part on restoring fire to an appropriate role in forest ecosystems. This…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Mutch, Cook
Periodic forest, grassland, and shrubland fires are part of the natural environment-as natural and vital as rain, snow, or wind (Heinselman 1978). Evidence of past fires is found in charcoal layers in lakes and bogs, and in the fire-scarred cross sections of trees. Recurring…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Arno
In September 1995, the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) held its Annual Meeting at the University of Washington in Seattle. The meeting included two dozen conferences and several symposia and field trips dealing with various aspects of applying ecological restoration on…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Miller
The interagency-Fire Regime / Condition Class - assessment process (FRCC) represents a contemporary and effective means of estimating the relative degree of difference or "departure" a subject landscape condition is currently in, as compared to the historic or reference…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fontaine, Kennedy
Management in fire-prone ecosystems relies widely upon application of prescribed fire and/or fire surrogate (e.g., forest thinning) treatments to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem function. Recently, published literature examining wildlife response to fire and fire management…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

This photopoint data sheet is in an excel spreadsheet. It is intended for documentation and the re-creation of plot photos; including location, directions, date/time, camera information, plot description, camera placement and direction of picture, vegetation data, and fire fuels…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Miller
The conditions that allow a wildland fire to hold over the winter in the duff until spring are poorly known. After a smoke report on 9 May 2011 within the area burned by the 2010 Willow Creek Fire, I was able to investigate. The fire originated near 64°41.669 x -147°56.325…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Horschel
Alaskan black spruce often exhibits extreme fire behavior that threatens human values. Theoretical crown fire potential at three recently constructed fuel break treatments were assessed to reducing such risks. Available canopy fuels were reduced by 13% to 75% in thinned and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Miller
To date in 2010, eleven fires have been detected on the North Slope. There has been some interest in the fire activity and whether it is abnormal. Here I provide some basic statistics on North Slope fires since 1969 to provide some context. There have been 34 recorded fires on…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Burgan, Chase, Bradshaw
This CD-ROM contains GIF images of four vegetation greenness themes derived from Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data for the years 1989 through 1998 and three fire danger themes for 1996 and 1998. CD Only - Not available online.
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fire management, and forest and rangeland fuels management, over the past century have altered the wildland fire situation dramatically, thus also altering the institutional approach to how to deal with the changing landscape. Also, climate change, extended drought, increased…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Brooks, Bujak, Champ, Williams
We reviewed, annotated, and organized recent social science research and developed a framework for addressing the wildland fire social problem. We annotated articles related to three topic areas or factors, which are critical for understanding collective action, particularly in…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Clark
This report highlights selected accomplishments achieved by USDA Forest Service National Fire Plan Research and Development projects from 2001 through 2006. The projects highlighted here are examples of the broad range of knowledge and tools developed by the National Fire Plan…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Larson, Wright, Spaulding, Rossetto, Rausch, Richards, Durnford
The wildland fire community has spent the past decade trying to understand and account for the role of human factors in wildland fire organizations. Social research that is relevant to managing fire organizations can be found in disciplines such as social psychology, management…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Calkin, Ager, Thompson, Finney, Lee, Quigley, McHugh, Riley, Gilbertson-Day
The FLAME Act of 2009 requires the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the U.S. Department of Interior to submit to Congress a Cohesive Wildfire Management Strategy. In this report, we explore the general science available for a risk-based approach to fire and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Andrews
Rothermel's surface fire spread model was developed to use a value for the wind speed that affects surface fire, called midflame wind speed. Models have been developed to adjust 20-ft wind speed to midflame wind speed for sheltered and unsheltered surface fuel. In this report,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Reid
What does the Joint Fire Science Program offer online? The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) website (https://www.firescience.gov) provides a free-access wildland fire science information resource providing research summaries and project findings. The primary goal of the website…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy) is a collaborative effort to identify, define, and address wildland fire management problems and opportunities for successful wildland fire management in the three regions of the United States: the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Robertson
The purpose of the workshop was for research scientists, air quality specialists, policy administrators, and others to present and discuss recent advances in research relating to estimation of emission factors for particulate matter (PM) and its constituents (organic carbon,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Melvin
Science demonstrates that low-intensity surface fires were historically a critical ecological process in as much as 60% of North American landscapes. When applied appropriately in fire-dependent ecosystems, prescribed fire maintains forest health and function, provides habitat…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES