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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mell, Forney, Rehm
Currently there are no fire spread models evaluated for use in wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. A number of possible model approaches can be applied to WUI fires. They can range from the relatively simple rule or empirically based to the very complex physics based. Each…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Foltz, Showers
The increased size and severity of wildland fires require increasingly effective BAER treatments. A commonly used BAER treatment is mulching, the spreading of agricultural straw by hand or from the air using a helicopter. While widely used and fairly reasonably effective at…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olmstead, Kousky, Sedjo
This project will test the hypothesis that public fire suppression in forested areas increases the fraction of developed land in these areas, drawing people and structures into the wildland/urban interface. To test this hypothesis, we will construct statistical models that…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Vavra, Cook, Wisdom
Landscape Fire Succession Models (LFSMs) are not able to account for influences that large grazing herbivores have on succession and fuel dynamics. Grazing is nevertheless a highly variable disturbance agent that does influence the development of wild land fuels, and thus by…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black, Saveland, Thomas
Prescribed fire escapes continue to occur with regularity in all federal and state fire management agencies throughout the United States. By interagency policy, after an escape official reviews must be prepared. Paradigms guiding reviews have evolved over the past decade and now…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
We propose development of a new methodology that can be used by forest and fire managers and planners to consider the potential effects of all aspects of fire management (i.e., fuels reduction to post-fire restoration) on native stream fishes and their habitats. State-of-the-art…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Raffuse, Strand, Wheeler
Fire emissions and smoke impacts from wildland fire are a growing concern due to increasing fire season severity, dwindling tolerance of smoke by the public, tightening air quality regulations, and their role in climate change issues. Unfortunately, as identified in JFSP RFA…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Raffuse, Strand
New regulations for black carbon (BC) currently under consideration by Congress and the EPA could affect management decisions on wildfires and the ability to conduct prescribed burning. Congressional testimony has suggested various mitigation strategies for Arctic BC including…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wright, Aman
Wildfire hazard is a growing problem in many areas of the United States, especially in the wildland-urban interface, where homes and other structures border or intermingle with forests, shrubs and grasslands. Despite years of educational outreach by fire management officials…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Swanson
This project will provide a plan of action to broaden and strengthen public and agency understanding of the many cultural and ecological roles of fire past, present, and future in fire-critical regions of the US. To build awareness of immediate fire issues in particular places…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Gebert, Leete, Lynn, Nielsen-Pincus
Large wildland fires can disrupt communities located near the fires and have lasting socioeconomic consequences. This project will help land managers and policy makers better understand, anticipate, and plan for the local economic effects of wildfires. Our goal is to provide…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Sugihara, Ingalsbee
In coordination with JFSP, the Association for Fire Ecology Congresses have been held every third year since 2000. They attract a wide variety of international contributors and attendees and is the largest and most important fire ecology and fire science conference held anywhere…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Elliot, MacDonald
Legal challenges have delayed numerous postfire salvage logging sales, which often results in lost economic value of the burned timber and unrecouped legal expenses. The scientific literature shed little light on the additive effect of salvage logging operations on postfire…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Achtemeier, Goodrick, Jackson, Qu
Regional smoke and air quality models require plume rise information (the height of smoke plumes and vertical distribution of smoke particles) as initial and boundary conditions in modeling point-source emissions like wildland fires. A unrealistic specification of plume rise…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Lamb
Accurate information on regional background particulate matter concentrations is essential to burn permitting and airshed management. Such information is essential to efforts to comply with National Ambient Air Quality Standards. The standard approach (applied by Malm: # 01-1-5-…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Youngblood, McIver
This proposal seeks supplemental funding for the Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) Study, for the purpose of interdisciplinary and multi-site analyses. Initial funding for the FFS study was provided by the JFSP in March 2000, and has allowed full treatment implementation and data…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Caratti, Gangi, Hann, Key
Monitoring the effects of wildland fire is critical for (1) documenting fire effects, (2) assessing ecosystem damage and benefit, (3) evaluating the success or failure of a burn, and (4) appraising the potential for future treatments. Many fire managers do not collect monitoring…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Gould, González, Hudak
Landscape fragmentation creates an increasingly complex environment in which to manage forests in the United States. The effects of fragmentation on productivity, mortality, and decomposition in forests vary with fragment size, forest type, and climate. Fragmentation can affect…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Beyers, Elliot, Pierson
The recent dramatic increase in spending for post-fire rehabilitation treatments has caused concern regarding the appropriate use of various treatments for reducing erosion risk and downstream flooding and sedimentation. Our current Joint Fire Science project, RISK ASSESSMENT OF…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Ottmar
Concerns about wildland fuel levels and a growing wildland-urban interface (WUI) have pushed wildland fire risk mitigation strategies to the forefront of fire management activities. Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinnings) fuel treatments have become the…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Sommers, Coloff, Conard
The proposed research will deliver a synthesis of Fire History information in relation to Climate Change (FHCC), which will include guidance for managers on how this information can be considered in making decisions. The synthesis and supporting literature knowledge base will be…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Yokel
Permanent transects, including 2 paired control transects, were established following unusually large and severe North Slope tundra burn.
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) has officially been used in Alaska since 1992. The CFFDRS is comprised of two major subsystems: the Canadian Forest Fire Weather Index (FWI) System and the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System. The FWI…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andersen, McGaughey, Reutebuch
This study explores the use of airborne laser scanning (also known as light detection and ranging or LIDAR) and high-resolution imagery for estimating some forest structure and composition variables measured in Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) plots. LIDAR data have been…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Three pairs of burned and recent unburned plots were established after the Noatak 2004 Uvgoon Cr (Fire #127 - A35A) to study the effects of tundra fires on vegetation and permafrost. Six plots (3 burned in 2004 and 3 'controls') were established. The goals of the study are to…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES