Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team

Frostfire Major Documents

The FROSTFIRE experiment required significant planning among several major state, national, and international agencies. The documents on this page provide some background on how this burn was planned.

• Memorandum of Understanding between Cooperators
  Agreement between the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Alaska Division of Forestry, BLM Alaska Fire Service, and Canadian Forest Service outlining cooperation in the effort of FROSTFIRE
• Amendment #1 to Memorandum of Understanding
  Amendment to the agreement above
• Burn Plan
  Burn plan written by BLM Alaska Fire Service and approved by the Alaska State Department of Lands, Division of Forestry
• Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact
  Environmental Assessment on the FROSTFIRE burn, written by the BLM Northern Field Office and BLM Alaska Fire Service
• Possible Changes in Carbon Flux
  Large (28kb gif) graphic of carbon flux hypothesized for the boreal forest