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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Beck, Connelly, Reese
The ability of prescribed fire to enhance habitat features for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata wyomingensis) in western North America is poorly understood. We evaluated recovery of habitat features important to…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Akema, Nurhiftisni, Suciatmih, Simbolon
The impact of forest fire in 1997 and 1998 on the mycorrhzae was studied at the dipterocarp forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. In unaffected forest more than half of total ectomycorrhizae distributed in the organic layer but in the fire-affected forest one and a half years…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins
LANDFIRE is a 5-year, multipartner project producing consistent and comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, wildland fuel, fire regimes and ecological departure from historical conditions across the United States. It is a shared project between the wildland fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jackson, Hobbs
Ecological history plays many roles in ecological restoration, most notably as a tool to identify and characterize appropriate targets for restoration efforts. However, ecological history also reveals deep human imprints on many ecological systems and indicates that secular…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fuhlendorf, Engle, Kerby, Hamilton
Our understanding of fire and grazing is largely based on small-scale experimental studies in which treatments are uniformly applied to experimental units that are considered homogenous. Any discussion of an interaction between fire and grazing is usually based on a statistical…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryon, Hamin
Salvage logging, the removal for profit of standing trees that have been damaged by extensive wildfires, has been quite controversial and subject to lawsuits that can delay the logging past the time in which the lumber is still useful. It has not been clear, however, whether the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baer, Engle, Knops, Langeland, Maxwell, Menalled, Symstad
Vast areas of arable land have been retired from crop production and ''rehabilitated'' to improved system states through landowner incentive programs in the United States (e.g., Conservation and Wetland Reserve Programs), as well as Europe (i.e., Agri-Environment Schemes). Our…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McIver, Youngblood, Stephens
From the text ... 'The primary goal of the FFS study was to measure and compare the effectiveness and ecological consequences of commonly used fuel reduction treatments. Forest managers throughout the United States have asked for side-by-side comparisons of treatments to better…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kennedy, Fontaine
From the text ... 'Dry forests throughout the United States are fire-dependent ecosystems, and much attention has been given to restoring their ecological function. As such, land managers often are tasked with reintroducing fire via prescribed fire, wildland fire use, and fire-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Becker, Larson, Lowell
The Harvest Cost-Revenue Estimator, a financial model, was used to examine the cost sensitivity of forest biomass harvesting scenarios to targeted policies designed to stimulate wildfire hazardous fuel reduction projects. The policies selected represent actual policies enacted…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Long
It is widely accepted that for many North American forest ecosystems, changes in species composition and structure are associated with departures from natural disturbance regimes (e.g., fire exclusion). It also widely accepted that restoration of species composition and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Foltz, Robichaud, Rhee
We synthesized post-fire road treatment information to assist BAER specialists in making road rehabilitation decisions. We developed a questionnaire; conducted 30 interviews of BAER team engineers and hydrologists; acquired and analyzed gray literature and other relevant…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Parisien, Moritz
Despite its widespread occurrence globally, wildfire preferentially occupies an environmental middle ground and is significantly less prevalent in biomes characterized by environmental extremes (e.g., tundra, rain forests, and deserts). We evaluated the biophysical '…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Beyers
Post-fire seeding is used to stabilize burned slopes by increasing plant cover, prevent invasion of burned areas by noxious weeds, replace weedy annual grasses on burned rangelands, and reestablish desirable vegetation including tree species. Fast-growing pasture grasses and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The promise of wildland fire use (WFU) is that, over time, the fires will play a more natural role, creating a jigsaw-puzzle pattern of burned and regrowing patches over a landscape and gradually moving it closer to the stand structure and species composition that prevailed…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keeley
Several recent papers have suggested replacing the terminology of fire intensity and fire severity. Part of the problem with fire intensity is that it is sometimes used incorrectly to describe fire effects, when in fact it is justifiably restricted to measures of energy output.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sikkink, Lutes, Keane
This report details a procedure for identifying fuel loading models (FLMs) in the field. FLMs are a new classification system for predicting fire effects from on-site fuels. Each FLM class represents fuel beds that have similar fuel loadings and produce similar emissions and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Reynolds, Hessburg, Keane, Menakis
The Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) system has been used by the US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and Bureaus of the Department of the Interior since 2006 to evaluate wildfire potential across all administrative units in the continental US, and to…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Omi
Fuel treatments can be categorized by objective (e.g., hazard reduction vs. ecological restoration), treatment type (mechanical vs. prescribed fire or other fire use activities), and scale (project vs. landscape), among other criteria. Tradeoffs with fire suppression activities…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goldstein, Butler
In response to the ongoing crisis in fire management, the US Fire Learning Network (FLN) engages partners in collaborative, landscape-scale ecological fire restoration. The paper contends that the FLN employs technologies, planning guidelines and media to articulate an FLN…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This book has been published a decade after Fire's Effects on Ecosystems by DeBano, Neary, and Folliott (1998), and builds on their foundation to update knowledge on natural post-fire processes and describe the use and effectiveness of various restoration strategies that may be…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Review and Update of the 1995 Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (January 2001) remains sound and presents a single cohesive federal fire policy for the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture. However, some issues associated with implementation of this policy need…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keeley, Aplet, Christensen, Conard, Johnson, Omi, Peterson, Swetnam
This synthesis provides an ecological foundation for management of the diverse ecosystems and fire regimes of North America based on scientific principles of fire interactions with vegetation, fuels, and biophysical processes. Although a large amount of scientific data on fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weir
Landowners and managers, municipalities, the logging and livestock industries, and conservation professionals all increasingly recognize that setting prescribed fires may reduce the devastating effects of wildfire, control invasive brush and weeds, improve livestock range and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Styger, Fernandes, Rakotondramasy, Rajaobelinirina
Soil fertility restoration depends on natural fallows in the slash-and-burn system of eastern Madagascar. In the Beforona-Vohidrazana study zone, none of the fallow species are able to withstand the slashing, burning and cropping frequencies of 3-5 years. Eventually soils are…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS