 Compiling, Synthesizing, and Analyzing Existing Boreal Forest Fire History
for Alaska
 Final Report [.pdf]
Project website [.html]
Podcast Presentation[.mp4]
Alaska Fire History Database [.zip]
Fire History Map [.html]
Alaska Large Fire Database [.html]
Draft of Fire Regimes of the Alaskan Boreal Forest [.zip]
The
Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plan recognized the critical role of
wildland fires in maintaining the ecological integrity of boreal forests.
Identifying and maintaining natural fire regimes is an important component
of fire management and is a wise undertaking from both an economic and
ecological perspective. We identified 24 existing research projects
in the boreal forests of Alaska that directly or indirectly address historical
fire regimes, and there were undoubtedly more projects we have yet to identify.
Thirteen of the 24 identified projects were either unpublished, have an
extensive amount of unprocessed samples, or their data were used for other
purposes. Furthermore, there had not been a compilation and comprehensive
assessment of these data to provide a more complete understanding of how
fire has historically impacted the boreal forest ecosystems of Alaska.
The objectives of this proposed project were to compile, synthesize and
analyze boreal forest fire history datasets that already exist in Alaska.
Project Lead: Diana
Olson
Team Lead: Don
McKenzie
Cooperators: Yale University and the National Park Service.
 We
acknowledge funding by the Joint
Fire Science Program under Project JFSP 6-1-3-26.
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