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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Deaton
Whether you are at the town, county, or regional level, identifying and bringing together the proper players in wildland-fire preparedness can be a challenge. Each player has an important role in preparedness, and each brings both benefits and unique challenges to the local…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mowery, Prudhomme
Every year, wildfires burn across the United States; today, more and more people are living where wildfires are a real threat. An estimated 72,000 communities are located in wildfire-prone areas. Wildfires do not recognize property or jurisdictional boundaries, and everyone in a…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leschak
A fire adapted community could be defined as a knowledgeable and engaged community in which the awareness and actions of residents regarding infrastructure, buildings, landscaping, and the surrounding ecosystem lessens the need for extensive protection actions and enables the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Harbour
Doctrine establishes a particular way of thinking about fire suppression and our way of fire suppression, a philosophy for leading firefighters on the fireline, a mandate for professionalism, and a common language. Doctrinal development benefits from our collective experience…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hanes
Presentation from the CFFDRS in Alaska Summit – October 28-30, 2014 Fort Wainwright, AK
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Presentation from CFFDRS in Alaska Summit – October 28-30, 2014 Fort Wainwright, AK.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, York
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Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
At the September 17th 2014 NWCG Executive Board meeting, three updates to the United States National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) were approved. 1) Incorporate the Growing Season Index (GSI) to compute live fuel moistures; 2) Incorporate the Nelson Model to compute fine…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Bowman, Bond, Pyne, Alexander
[From description] Earth is the only planet known to have fire. The reason is both simple and profound: fire exists because Earth is the only planet to possess life as we know it. Fire is an expression of life on Earth and an index of life's history. Few processes are as…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson
Managing wildland fire incidents can be fraught with complexity and uncertainty. Myriad human factors can exert significant influence on incident decision making, and can contribute additional uncertainty regarding programmatic evaluations of wildfire management and attainment…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yin
Geospatial Technology is prevalent in a wide range of applications that utilize spatial data to plan, respond, manage and operate both short term and long term tasks. Applying geospatial technology to address wildland and wildland urban interface (WUI) fire hazards has…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Menakis, Hessburg, Reynolds, Dickinson
At several spatial scales, fire managers need accurate and comprehensive assessments of wildfire hazard and risk. Assessments are needed to plan, prioritize, and implement management actions, which can range from pro-active prescribed burning to real-time fire suppression. They…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires are increasingly expensive and dangerous, burning homes, and consuming agency budgets. A large portion of the costs and risks are related to the need to defend private homes next to federal lands. Attempts to mitigate include voluntary landowner education to increase…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stonesifer, Calkin, Thompson, Kaiden
Wildland firefighting is an inherently dangerous activity, and aviation-related accidents in particular comprise a large share of firefighter fatalities. Due to limited understanding of operational factors that lead to aviation accidents, it is unclear how local decisionmakers,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This website gives you access to the rich tools and resources available for the text 'Fire on Earth: An Introduction' by Andrew C. Scott, David M.J.S. Bowman, William J. Bond, Stephen J. Pyne and Martin E. Alexander. It includes: powerpoints of all figures from the book for…
Year: 2014
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
Presentation by Sarah McCaffrey (USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station) regarding public attitudes towards fire management.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
This webinar explores a current effort to use the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) in Alaska for fuel treatment planning on or adjacent to the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. In addition, IFTDSS was also used to assess the effectiveness of pre-existing…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Quarles
This one-hour video includes a presentation from Dr. Stephen Quarles along with a live 'Ask an Expert' segment where pre-selected homeowners have an opportunity to ask a question related to the session's topic. This unique learning format provides wildland/urban interface…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Miller
Jennifer Barnes, NPS-Alaska Fire Ecologist and Eric Miller, BLM-Alaska Fire Ecologist talk about duff moisture sampling in Alaska: why we do it, its history, and comparing field results of destructive sampling and oven drying to weather-generated Duff Moisture Code and Drought…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
This short video records a presentation by Bureau of Land Management-Alaska Fire Service Fire Fuel Specialist Eric Miller on preliminary work he did in field validating Fire Weather Indices of the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System with probes and weather stations in…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Skowronski
Webinar presented by Nick Skowronski on November 18, 2014. Canopy bulk density (CBD) is an important component of wildland fire behavior. CBD remains very difficult to quantify at even the plot level. Estimation at the stand, landscape, and beyond is even more problematic, but…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ziel
Robert Ziel, State of Alaska Fire Analyst shares information on how seasonal effects change the fuel moisture codes of CFFDRS and how remotely sensed data may help with interpretation for managers. This video was edited from his presentation at the October, 2014 Summit on CFFDRS…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hanes, Bourgeau-Chavez
Since Alaska adopted the CFFDRS as a fire danger rating system in the 1980's, there has been interest among Alaska fire mangers to check how the equations that compute the indices to reflect duff moisture really compare to duff moisture conditions in the field. A promising new…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Quarles
This one-hour video includes a presentation from Dr. Stephen Quarles along with a live 'Ask an Expert' segment where pre-selected homeowners have an opportunity to ask a question related to the session's topic. This unique learning format provides wildland/urban interface…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pike
Americans are waking up to the reality of extreme weather events and are beginning to connect the dots to climate disruption. Effectively engaging the public as partners in addressing the challenge requires emphasizing local, current and personally relevant impacts and bridging…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES