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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Era of Megafires

Hessburg
It's no secret that wildfires in the west have been drastically increasing in size and destructive power. But what, if anything, can be done about it? Join world-renown and award-winning USFS research ecologist Dr. Paul Hessburg as he explains how we got here and restores our…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Living (Dangerously) in an Era of Megafires

Hessburg
We have all seen the news - hotter summers, and bigger, badder wildfires. What's going on? How did we get here? Paul tells a fast-paced story of western US forests - unintentionally yet massively changed by a century of management. He relates how these changes, coupled with a…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Opportunities and uses of biochar on forest sites in North America [Chapter 15]

Page-Dumroese, Coleman, Thomas
Biochar may be useful for restoring or revitalizing degraded forest soils and help with carbon sequestration, nutrient leaching losses, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, biochar is not currently widely used on forested lands across North America. This chapter…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wildland fires: dangers and survival (7th edition)

Alexander, Mutch, Davis, Bucks
The "Wildland Fires" chapter incorporates the latest information on developments in the field based on research findings and real-world events.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Multi-instrument comparison and compilation of non-methane organic gas emissions from biomass burning and implications for smoke-derived secondary organic aerosol precursors

Hatch, Yokelson, Stockwell, Veres, Simpson, Blake, Orlando, Barsanti
Multiple trace-gas instruments were deployed during the fourth Fire Lab at Missoula Experiment (FLAME-4), including the first application of proton-transfer-reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-TOFMS) and comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography-time-of-flight…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Optimizing initial attack effectiveness by using performance measures

Kirsch, Rideout
Increased scruitiny of federally funded programs combined with changes in fire management has created a demand for a new fire program analysis model. There is now a need for a model that displays tradeoffs between initial attack effectiveness and alternative funding levels. The…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Integrated timber harvest and fire management planning

Acuna, Palma, Weintraub, Martell, Cui
Harvest planners often consider potential fire losses and timber production plans can influence fire management, but most timber harvest planning and fire management planning activities are carried out largely independently of each other. But road construction, timber harvesting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

FSPro Calibration

Finney
Why is calibrating the fire behavior models important to predicting fire behavior - an interview with Mark Finney a Research Scientist at the RMRS Fire Sciences Lab. Mark highlight's considerations an analyst should make when validating fire behavior models to fire behavior.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Why use FSPro?

Finney
Why use FSPro - an interview with Mark Finney - This tool was developed to help inform risk based decisions associated with values at risk and probability of fire impacts to those values.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

What makes a good fire analyst

Finney
What makes a good analyst - some thoughts from Mark Finney and his perspective of what makes a good analyst. An analyst is curious about fire behavior, they use judgement and interpretation to communicate and validate models in relation to the actual fire behavior.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

FSPro Settings

Finney
Mark Finney provides some considerations when setting up FSPro analyses - What is it you want to know from the analysis - is it the likely hood something is going to happen or is it the potential something is going to happen? These are different questions and the analyst can…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Prediction errors in wildland fire situation analyses

Donovan, Noordijk
From the text ... 'Wildfires consume budgets and put the heat on fire managers to justify and control suppression costs. ...We used data from the 2002 fire season to determine how WFSA-predicted outcomes compared to actual outcomes. ...Fire managers often underestimated the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tetranucleotide, trinucleotide, and dinucleotide loci from the bobcat (Lynx rufus)

Faircloth, Reid, Valentine, Eo, Terhune, Glenn, Palmer, Nairn, Carroll
We describe primers and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) conditions to amplify four dinucleotide, one trinucleotide, and three tetranucleotide microsatellite DNA loci from the bobcat (Lynx rufus). The primers were tested on 22 individuals collected from a population located…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Relationships of fire ecology and avian communities in North America

Saab, Kotliar, Block
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reforms on prescribed fire laws reduce liability burdens on landowners

Sun
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Federal forest fire policy in the United States

Stephens, Ruth
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire, forest health, and biodiversity: a summary of the Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium of the National Commission on Science and Sustainable Forestry

Christensen
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest health and fire in the national parks: workshop summary

Christensen
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The wildland fire challenge: protecting communities and restoring ecosystems

Aplet, Wilmer
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire Management in Parks and Protected Areas

Kilgore, Christensen, Aplet, Wilmer, Stephens, Ruth, Hardesty, Myers, Fulks
[Excerpted from the introduction to the issue] When national parks were originally establishde in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s, most people thought you simply needed to protect them as they were, with nochanges over time, to achieve the objective of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Seed and bud legacies interact with varying fire regimes to drive long-term dynamics of boreal forest communities

McIntire, Duchesneau, Kimmins
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Incorporating human and natural adaptations in assessing climate change impacts on wildfire occurrence

Gan
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Carnivorous plant chemistry

Schlauer, Nerz, Rischer
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effects of ENSO-induced forest fires and habitat disturbance on the abundance and spatial distribution of an endangered riverine bird in Borneo

Sozer, Nijman
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Biomass burning emissions: a review of models using remote-sensing data

Palacios-Orueta, Chuvieco, Parra, Carmona-Moreno
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS