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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the federal and state levels in the United States as well as agencies in the international community. The topics discussed at the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Galtie
The recent evolution of the rural and urban areas has led to the progressive emergence of a complex and multiform wildland urban interface. Today this interface has turned into a fire threat which is omnipresent. The evolution in progress raises in particular the question of the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten, Hennon, Trummer, Kruse, Schultz, Lundquist
The U.S. Forest Service publication, Identifcation of Destructive Alaska Forest Insects (91), dealt mainly with the damaging forest insects of Southeastern Alaska. Insects and Diseases of Alaskan Forests (137, 138) included disease agents and were a logical statewide expansion…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Greulich
Airtankers, while actively engaging in initial attack, are sometimes reassigned and flown directly to another randomly occurring initial attack fire. Airtanker system planning that means to incorporate this fire-to-fire transfer activity needs information about the flight…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Murphy, Reynolds, Koltun
During the 2004 fire season ~6.6 million acres (~2.7 million ha) burned across Alaska. Nearly 2 million of these were on National Wildlife Refuge System lands inaccessible from the state's limited road system. Many fires burned through September, driven by unusually warm and dry…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Burton, Parisien, Hicke, Hall, Freeburn
The present study undertook a hierarchical analysis of the variability within and among some individual fire events in the boreal ecozones of Canada and Alaska. When stratified by ecozone, differences in the spatial and temporal distribution of wildfires were observed in the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seli, Ager, Crookston, Finney, Bahro, Agee, McHugh
A simulation system was developed to explore how fuel treatments placed in random and optimal spatial patterns affect the growth and behavior of large fires when implemented at different rates over the course of five decades. The system consists of several command line programs…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Parisien, Ager, Finney
Spatially explicit information on the probability of burning is necessary for virtually all strategic fire and fuels management planning activities, including conducting wildland fire risk assessments, optimizing fuel treatments, and prevention planning. Predictive models…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kennedy, Ford, Singleton, Finney, Agee
Effective decision making in environmental management requires the consideration of multiple objectives that may conflict. Common optimization methods use weights on the multiple objectives to aggregate them into a single value, neglecting valuable insight into the relationships…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
The fire destruction of hundreds of homes associated with wildfires has occurred in the United States for more than a century. From 1870 to 1920, massive wildfires occurred principally in the Lake States but also elsewhere. Wildfires such as Peshtigo (Wisconsin, 1871), Michigan…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Though fuel specialists, scientists and managers have developed treatment tools to reduce fuel hazards, such as mechanical thinning by removing trees, costs to treat lands at risk can be prohibitively high. Harvesting timber and woody materials that can then be sold reduces…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
With a history of management choices that have suppressed fire in the West, ecosystems in which fire would play a vital role have developed tremendous fuel loads. As a result, conditions are prime for fires to grow large, escape attack measures, and become catastrophic…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hann
Powerpoint presentation discussing integrating fire regime and condition class.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hamilton, Hann
User's guide for the Fire Regime Condition Class Software Application tool.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hann, Shlisky, Havlina, Schon, Barrett, DeMeo, Pohl, Menakis, Hamilton, Jones, Levesque, Frame
The FRCC Guidebook provides step-by-step instructions for conducting assessments with the FRCC Standard Landscape Worksheet Method and an overview of the FRCCMapping Tool GIS software used for the Standard Landscape Mapping Method. The Standard Landscape Worksheet Method…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goals for the meeting and process: 1) Using the available statewide fire weather data and combining stations to develop long data sets for fire slowing/ending events probabilities (we will not be doing SE Alaska); 2) Develop prescriptions statewide (except SE) that constitutes a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiitala, Wilson
Recent advances in operations research and computer technologies present new opportunities to improve preseason wildland fire planning tools. In this paper, we describe the Wildfire Initial Response Assessment System (WIRAS), a stochastic simulation model that incorporates many…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hatfield, Wiitala, Wilson, Levy
An algorithm is described that quickly calculates minimum travel times between locations for initial response forest fire suppression units. The algorithm was developed for integration into wildfire planning simulation models to quickly identify fire suppression units with the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reams, Haines, Renner
Recent years have brought dramatic expansion of residential development into the Wildland-Urban-Interface (WUI). This rapid development places property, natural assets and human life at risk from wildfire destruction. The U.S. National Fire Plan encourages communities to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roose, Ballard, Manley, Saleen, Harbert
Following the 1994 fire season in the United States of America the five federal wildland fire agencies and bureaus within the Departments of Agriculture and Interior along with the State Foresters conducted a review of the Federal Fire Policy. Lack of a common, interagency fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robertson, Roose
Direction for fire management planning has been recently revised for all federal wildland fire agencies in the U.S. Fire management plans have become important planning tools that spatially document fire management strategies that support land and resource management planning…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jensen
Researchers, politicians, and land managers have described a "fire crisis" in the United States during the late 20th and early 21st centuries: Fuels have built up over decades of fire suppression and combined with an ever-expanding urban-wildland interface to result in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Botti, Rideout, Kirsch
Fire use enables fire managers to take advantage of the beneficial effects that natural ignitions may have on the landscape. Under the right circumstances, fire managers may choose to forgo initial attack in favor of monitoring and managing natural ignitions in ways that improve…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout, Ziesler
Three longstanding and pervasive myths of wildland fire management are identified and explained using a basic application of economic theory. Each myth is explained and the collection of myths is examined to identify a common misapplication of the theory that ties them together…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
MacGregor, González-Cabán
Although the vast majority of wildland fires are suppressed effectively in initial or extended attack, on relatively rare occasions fires become exceptionally large, resulting in unusual resource damages, significant financial impacts and/or loss of life. Understanding how to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES