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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Johnson
The software described in this fact sheet provides managers with tools for visualizing forest and fuels information. Computer-based landscape simulations can help visualize stand and landscape conditions and the effects of different management treatments and fuel changes over…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Brian
Fire hazard reflects the potential fire behavior and magnitude of effects as a function of fuel conditions. This fact sheet discusses crown fuels, surface fuels, and ground fuels and their contribution and involvement in wildland fire.
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Brian
Many managers and policy makers guided by the National Environmental Policy Act process want to understand the scientific principles on which they can base fuel treatments for reducing the size and severity of wildfires. These Forest Structure and Fire Hazard fact sheets discuss…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt
FFE-FVS is a model linking stand development, fuel dynamics, fire behavior and fire effects. It allows comparison of mid- to long-term effects of management alternatives including harvest, mechanical fuel treatment, prescribed fire, salvage, and no action. This fact sheet…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elliot, Robichaud
This fact sheet describes the sources of sediment in upland forest watersheds in the context of fuel management activities. It presents the dominant forest soil erosion processes, and the principles behind the new sediment delivery interface developed to aid in erosion analysis…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland
Weed infestations cause an economic loss of $13 billion per year even though $9.5 billion per year is spent on weed control measures. In addition to these economic costs, weeds are replacing native species, altering native plant and animal communities, affecting ecosystem health…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black
Fire suppression has reduced acres burned to an average of 2 million acres a year. An unfortunate result of this has been the accumulation of even more above-normal fuel loads in many areas. This paper discusses (1) the important ecological role of fire, (2) using fire as a…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
While our understanding of the causes for variation in postfire effects is increasing, burn prescriptions may not always include parameters that control the long-term heat pulse from fire. This paper discusses (1) fuel consumption and fire effects, (2) prescription design…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pilliod
Managers face a difficult task in predicting the effects of fuels treatments on wildlife populations, mostly because information on how animals respond to fuels treatments is scarce or does not exist. This paper discusses key considerations-aspects of an animal's ecology and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland
National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) data indicate that wildfires destroyed approximately 9,000 homes between 1985 and 1994 in the United States. The loss of homes to wildfire has had a significant impact on Federal fire policy. This fact sheet discusses the causes of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pilliod
The Wildlife Habitat Response Model (WHRM) is a Web-based computer tool for evaluating the potential effects of fuel- reduction projects on terrestrial wildlife habitats. It uses species-habitat associations in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), dry-type Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Page-Dumroese
Moving equipment and logs over the surface of forest soils causes gouges and ruts in the mineral soil, displaces organic matter, and can cause compaction. Compaction is the component of soil productivity most influenced by forest management, but the degree to which soils may be…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elliot, Hall
The Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) Fuel Management (FuMe) tool was developed to estimate sediment generated by fuel management activities. WEPP FuMe estimates sediment generated for 12 fuel-related conditions from a single input. This fact sheet identifies the intended…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wickman, Acheson
The Smoke Impact Spreadsheet (SIS) is a simple-to-use planning model for calculating particulate matter (PM) emissions and concentrations downwind of wildland fires. This fact sheet identifies the intended users and uses, required inputs, what the model does and does not do, and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland, Miller
The Understory Response Model is a species-specific computer model that qualitatively predicts change in total species biomass for grasses, forbs, and shrubs after thinning, prescribed fire, or wildfire. The model examines the effect of fuels management on plant survivorship and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) provides accessible, up-to-date fire effects summaries, taken from current English-language literature, for almost 900 plant species, about 100 animal species, and 16 Kuchler plant communities found on the North American continent. This…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin
Although fuel reduction treatments are widespread, there is great variability and uncertainty in the cost of conducting treatments. Researchers from the Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, have developed a model for estimating the per-acre cost for mechanical…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuels planning: science synthesis and integration; economic uses fact sheet 8: prescribed fire costs
Although the use of prescribed fire as a management tool is widespread, there is great variability and uncertainty in the treatment costs. Given specific site variables and management objectives, how much will it cost to use prescribed fire? This paper describes the FASTRACS…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fight, Donovan, Haynes
Markets and prices for logs vary widely across the West, fluctuating from place to place in response to regional variables and hauling costs. This fact sheet discusses those variables, locality of log markets, markets for low-value logs, and caveats to consider when using My…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan
Confidence in decisionmaking can often come from knowing if others in similar circumstances would choose the same management strategy. Researchers at the USDA FS Pacific Northwest Research Station and the University of Saskatchewan have developed a Selection Criteria Analysis…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ogden, White
TThe National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is the law that requires Federal agencies to consider the environmental impacts of their actions, involve the public in the decisionmaking process, and disclose information, starting at the initial stages of planning. This fact sheet…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fight, Barbour
My Fuel Treatment Planner (MyFTP) is a user-friendly spreadsheet application that helps the user answer the questions of which trees to cut, what material to utilize for forest products versus treatment in place, equipment options, what types of stands to treat, as well as…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alward, Niccolucci, Smith
With increased interest in reducing hazardous fuels in dry inland forests of the American West, agencies and the public will want to know the economic impacts of fuel reduction treatments. This fact sheet discusses the economic impact tool, a component of My Fuel Treatment…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fight, Barbour
Knowing the cost of fuel reduction treatments and associated activities, such as hauling cut trees, is essential for fire and fuels planning. This fact sheet explores the main factors that determine the cost of hauling cut trees and points the user to an interactive tool that…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuel Treatment Guidebook Saved Scenarios for the first cut tree list, with the first prescription, with mechanical treatment, for each of the forests included in the Fuel Treatment Guidebook that had commercial trees cut under the heaviest thinning treatment. These saved…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES