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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Parsons, Mell, McCauley
Crown fire endangers fire fighters and can have severe ecological consequences. Prediction of fire behavior in tree crowns is essential to informed decisions in fire management. Current methods used in fire management do not address variability in crown fuels. New mechanistic…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beckage, Gross, Platt
Savannas commonly consist of a discontinuous cover of overstory trees and a groundcover of grasses. Savanna models have previously demonstrated that vegetation feedbacks on fire frequency can limit the density of overstory trees, thereby maintaining savannas. Positive feedbacks…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Zahn, Henson
This desk guide is a synthesis of accepted methods, practices, and equipment currently used by many agencies across the United States to collect and process fuel moisture samples., This synthesis fulfills four primary goals: (1) Provide a fuel moisture sampling desk guide that…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Gordon, McCaffrey, Toman
Forest and range health, along with wildfire, currently dominate management decisions on public lands across much of the United States. A common focal point is often at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). Changing conditions on the ground, as well as government directives such…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cova, Dennison, Drews
Improving community resiliency to wildfire is a challenging problem in the face of ongoing development in fire-prone regions. Evacuation and shelter-in-place are the primary options for reducing wildfire casualties, but it can be difficult to determine which option offers the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gorte
The Forest Service (FS) and the Department of the Interior (DOI) are responsible for protecting most federal lands from wildfires. Wildfire appropriations nearly doubled in FY2001, following a severe fire season in the summer of 2000, and have remained at relatively high levels…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This first issue of Two More Chains features insights into emergency medical evacuation procedures, including a review of the related Dutch Creek protocol and procedures-and a memorial tribute to firefighter Andy Palmer. Readers are also provided a firsthand account from a…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
"If a Tree Falls in the Forest..." this issue's cover story, focuses on the threat of trees-or pieces of them-falling on wildland firefighters and actions that can be taken to reduce this risk. Also in this issue: Why you should read accident reports; Chainsaw troubleshooting…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
"Your Fire Shelter: Would You Hesitate Deploying It?" this issue's cover story, focuses on wildland firefighters' reluctance to use their fire shelters. Why does this happen? What can we do about this fire shelter "stigma"? Also in this issue: firefighter Brian Hicks shares key…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
O'Neill, Lahm
Fire is an essential ecological disturbance, providing many benefits to the environment in terms of wildlife, water and soil quality, and nutrient cycling. Prescribed burning can also be a means of protecting air quality by mitigating the occurrence of large wildfires and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blades, Hall
A literature synthesis on public perceptions and tolerance of smoke. Topics explored include personal values and beliefs about smoke, beliefs about the controllability of fire and smoke, agency trust, individual characteristics related to perceptions and tolerance of smoke, and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hyde, Smith, Gollberg, Pence
A report to the NWCG Smoke Committee assessing the occurrence of smoke and air quality information within 91courses and 125 position task books based on the occurrence of smoke and air quality keywords, and depth of smoke management information. Of the courses, two contained…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Calkin, Finney, Ager, Gilbertson-Day
The spatial, temporal, and social dimensions of wildfire risk are challenging U.S. federal land management agencies to meet societal needs while maintaining the health of the lands they manage. In this paper we present a quantitative, geospatial wildfire risk assessment tool,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiedinmyer, Akagi, Yokelson, Emmons, Al-Saadi, Orlando, Soja
The Fire INventory from NCAR version 1.0 (FINNv1) provides daily, 1km resolution, global estimates of the trace gas and particle emissions from open burning of biomass, which includes wildfire, agricultural fires, and prescribed burning and does not include biofuel use and trash…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joly, Klein
[from the text] Vast, migrating herds of caribou are an iconic image of the North. Yet, there is concern that a changing climate may drive this magnificent species the way of the Great Plains bison. The complexity that characterizes the ecology of caribou includes their extreme…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Farukh, Hayasaka, Kimura
Lightning occurred in Alaska an extraordinary number of times 120,000 a year, or 4 times more than average in 2004, 2005, and 2007, starting 500 forest and wild fires. Given the rainless conditions at the time, fires in 2004 and 2005 burned 10% of Alaska's forests. In 2007,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Farukh, Hayasaka, Kimura
Alaska lost 10% of its boreal forest area due to vigorous forest fires in 2004 and 2005. Repeated lightningcaused forest fires adversely impact residents and influence earth's atmosphere in every fire season. The authors have reported on the weather conditions of Alaska's most…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Zouhar, Fryer
Managers have been coming to the Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) for reviews of scientific knowledge about fire effects since 1986. Prior to this project, FEIS provided relatively little coverage of invasive plant species in the eastern United States: In 2008, the system…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Aerostat-lofted instrument and sampling method for determination of emissions from open area sources
An aerostat-borne instrument and sampling method was developed to characterize air samples from area sources, such as emissions from open burning. The 10 kg battery-powered instrument system, termed “the Flyer”, is lofted with a helium-filled aerostat of 4 m nominal diameter and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Henderson
Summary of Fire Modeling Meeting held in Alaska on July 18, 2011.
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark, McKinley
A major concern of land managers in the United States is the response of watersheds to weather after a wildfire. With an ever-expanding wildland-urban interface (WUI), land managers must be cognizant of potential damage to private property and other values at risk. In the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weir, Limb
The recent rise in the cost of gasoline and diesel fuel has increased the materials cost of conducting prescribed burns. This increase is not critical, but can have impacts on the number and size of prescribed burns conducted each year. Finding an alternative for one of these…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Matthews
The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of how emissions from wildland fires were calculated and reported in the Environmental Protection Agency‘s (EPA) Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions And Sinks: 1990 – 2009. All information presented below is from the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Napp
This study was designed to determine both the difference between the followers perceived and preferred transactional and transformational leadership styles from their leader and the relationship between the difference in the followers' perceived and preferred leadership style…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Domitrovich
Over the past fifty years the University of Montana, in conjunction with the United States Forest Service, has been investigating the job demands of wildland firefighters. This document is a combination of three research projects with a connection of health and safety of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES