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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alexander, Taylor, Page
Using the 2013 Yarnell Hill fatality fire in Arizona as a backdrop, this paper considers whether the global wildland fire community has failed on-the-ground firefighters. To begin answering this question two specific lines of inquiry are addressed: (i) was the fire behavior…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Sparks, Kolden, Abatzoglou, Talhelm, Johnson, Boschetti, Lutz, Apostol, Yedinak, Tinkham, Kremens
Most landscape-scale fire severity research relies on correlations between field measures of fire effects and relatively simple spectral reflectance indices that are not direct measures of heat output or changes in plant physiology. Although many authors have highlighted…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Episode 3 of the Fire Danger Learning System describes the dataflow of weather data into the various databases and processors that provide fire danger calculations for the US National Fire Danger Rating System.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Episode 2 of the Fire Danger Learning Series discussing the forthcoming 2016 revision to the US National Fire Danger Rating System.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Episode #1 of the Fire Danger Learning Series presents the components and indices that compose the US National Fire Danger Rating System.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Woodley
From the text ... 'The Canadian Parks Service has a fire management policy that is best described as evolving. The development history of the fire policy and current practices have been reviewed by other authors (Lopoukhine, 1993; Westhaver, 1992; Day and others, 1988, Van…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'The 1988 fire season showed us much about the importance of basing decisions on fire regimes and their associated fire behavior characteristics. Although our policies are necessarily broad, we are learnng that implementation of programs must be based on the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
van Wagtendonk
To trully allow fires to play their natural role in wilderness ecosystems, it is sometimes necessary to have large fires of long duration. Large fires are ecologically significant events that drive many other ecosystem processes. However, these fires pose significant management…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Poncin
Decision making for managers in a fire situation can be very complicated. The information brought to the decision maker must be well though out and accurate. Before meaningful strategy can be formulated, realistic agreed-upon objectives for the incident are needed. With…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Norum
From the text ... 'The National Park Service objective for fire in wilderness (and parks managed as wilderness) is to include, to the fullest extent possible, fire as a natural, accepted, and irreplaceable functional factor in the proper management of natural systems.'
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leenhouts
From the text ... 'Wilderness areas are planned and managed as part of the entire Service land unit with appropriate management to comply with the Wilderness Act, and in Alaska, the Alaska National Interests Lands Conservation Act. The Service has long recognized that ecosystems…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LaSalle
From the text ... 'If we can change people's perceptions about fire we will significantly reduce the political pressure placed on our leaders to spend money where it isn't needed, leaving impacts in wilderness that clearly display the effects of man's activities.'
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kilgore, Nichols
From the text ... 'In this paper we will review those changes [the National Park Service made after the Yellowstone fires of 1988 in the way fire policies had previously been implemented] to determine what impacts they have had during the past four years on prescribed fire…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christensen
From the text ... 'In recognizing that fire is critical to sustained ecosystem function, it is also important to achnowledge that fire cannot itself be the goal or endpoint of management. Rather, we must identify and set objectives for the key ecosystem elements and processes…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunnell
The decision process involved in developing any plan to manage a prescribed natural fire must consider several divergent resource and management goals. In many cases, these fires may be projected to be, and eventually become, large and long-duration events. The exact final fire…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hogenbirk, Sarrazin-Delay
There are areas in the boreal forest where the combination of highly flammable vagetation and frequent ignition events create a high fire hazard. The resultant fires cause considerable economic and social damage. During global change, fire frequency may increase in parts of the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Telfer
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Robberecht, Defosse
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pimont, Parsons, Rigolot, deColigny, Dupuy, Dreyfus, Linn
Scientists and managers critically need ways to assess how fuel treatments alter fire behavior, yet few tools currently exist for this purpose. We present a spatially-explicit-fuel-modeling system, FuelManager, which models fuels, vegetation growth, fire behavior (using a…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Katuwal, Calkin, Hand
This study examines the production and efficiency of wildland fire suppression effort We estimate the effectiveness of suppression resource inputs to produce controlled fire lines that contain large wildland fires using stochastic frontier analysis. Determinants of inefficiency…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drury, Rauscher, Banwell, Huang, Lavezzo
The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based software and data integration framework that organizes fire and fuels software applications into a single online application. IFTDSS is designed to make fuels treatment planning and analysis more…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Steelman
There are fundamental spatial and temporal disconnects between the specific policies that have been crafted to address our wildfire challenges. The biophysical changes in fuels, wildfire behavior, and climate have created a new set of conditions for which our wildfire governance…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barrett, Loboda, McGuire, Genet, Hoy, Kasischke
Wildfire, a dominant disturbance in boreal forests, is highly variable in occurrence and behavior at multiple spatiotemporal scales. New data sets provide more detailed spatial and temporal observations of active fires and the post-burn environment in Alaska. In this study, we…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hayasaka, Tanaka, Bieniek
Recent concurrent widespread fires in Alaska are evaluated to assess their associated synoptic-scale weather conditions. Several periods of high fire activity from 2003 to 2015 were identified using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) hotspot data by…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS