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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Potter, Conkling
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grootemaat, Wright, van Bodegom, Cornelissen, Cornwell
In fireprone ecosystems, two important alternative fates for leaves are burning in a wildfire (when alive or as litter) or they get consumed (as litter) by decomposers. The influence of leaf traits on litter decomposition rate is reasonably well understood. In contrast, less is…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Pausas
Bark is a vital and very visible part of woody plants, yet only recently has bark characteristics started to be considered as key traits structuring communities and biomes. Bark thickness is very variable among woody plants, and I hypothesize that fire is a key factor selecting…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vose
The pace of environmental and socioeconomic change over the past 100 years has been rapid. New stressors such as air pollution, invasive species, changes in fire regimes, and land use change have shaped the structure and function of most forest ecosystems, including eastern oak…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
French, Hierholzer, Sherlock
Peer learning session objectives: Share and discuss various approaches to three critical activities that often take place after a fire, including: 1) Dealing with the NEPA implications of 'significant new information or circumstances,' post-fire within a project area; 2)…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Diaz, Evans
Prescribed fire has become a widely adopted tool to manage ecosystems and mitigate the risk of wildfire across the country. Obstacles for the implementation of prescribed fire continue to be identified. Based on a national survey, capacity was reported to be a primary impediment…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nowell, Steelman
Communication networks among responders are critical to effective coordination and information transfer across agencies active in a disaster response. Using the theory of embeddedness, we investigate how aspects of relational and institutional embeddedness influence the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The information in this report comes from wildland fire incidents-from various agencies-submitted to and gathered by the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center (LLC) in 2015. The primary source of data is accident reports (FLA, RLS, SAI, etc.). Most of these reports have been…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steed, Burton
This report covers insects impact on Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx).
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dennison, Fryer, Campbell, Cova, Butler
Safety zones are designated areas that reduce firefighter heat exposure to tolerable levels by providing separation between personnel and fuels. Along with Lookouts, Communications, and Escape routes, Safety zones are a component of the 'LCES' procedures for reducing risk of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Davis
The mission was the same back then as it is today. The methods, tools, and rules for accomplishing that mission, however, were different back then than those of today.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goldammer
'First load to the box.' Calmly, but with urgency, these words rolled through the intercom while I was in the loft working on a project for the afternoon. As the alarm sounded through the building, I knew that meant we had a fire call, and without hesitation, I dropped…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cottrell
What does it take to become a smokejumper is a question that smokejumpers across the country are regularly asked, but the answer is not simple. Each year, there are hundreds of applicants seeking to become smokejumpers.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bramwell
This year celebrates the 75th anniversary of the first test of one of fire management's most iconic activities: smokejumping. Whether one counts as the true dawn of the smokejumper the first test jumps conducted in Winthrop, WA, in 1939, or the first live fire jump a year later…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paveglio, Moseley, Carroll, Williams, Davis, Fischer
Understanding the local context that shapes collective response to wildfire risk continues to be a challenge for scientists and policymakers. This study utilizes and expands on a conceptual approach for understanding adaptive capacity to wildfire in a comparison of 18 past case…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wei, Bevers, Belval, Bird
This research developed a chance-constrained two-stage stochastic programming model to support wildfire initial attack resource acquisition and location on a planning unit for a fire season. Fire growth constraints account for the interaction between fire perimeter growth and…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Belval, Wei, Bevers
Wildfire suppression combines multiple objectives and dynamic fire behavior to form a complex problem for decision makers. This paper presents a mixed integer program designed to explore integrating spatial fire behavior and suppression placement decisions into a mathematical…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dague, Hirami
A former US Forest Service Sector Boss recalls the introduction of the Incident Command System in 1975, and how it became a model for international disaster response.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boschetti, Roy, Justice, Humber
Fire products derived from coarse (500 m to 1 km) spatial resolution satellite data have become an important source of information for the fire science and applications communities. There is however a demand for moderate (30 m) spatial resolution burned area data sets,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kiefer, Heilman, Zhong, Charney, Bian
This study examines the sensitivity of mean and turbulent flow in the planetary boundary layer and roughness sublayer to a low-intensity fire and evaluates whether the sensitivity is dependent on canopy and background atmospheric properties. The ARPS-CANOPY model, a modified…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Haas, Finney, Calkin, Hand, Browne, Halek, Short, Grenfell
Wildfire activity and escalating suppression costs continue to threaten the financial health of federal land management agencies. In order to minimize and effectively manage the cost of financial risk, agencies need the ability to quantify that risk. A fundamental aim of this…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Thompson, Haas, Gilbertson-Day, Scott, Langowski, Bowne, Calkin
Applying wildfire risk assessment models can inform investments in loss mitigation and landscape restoration, and can be used to monitor spatiotemporal trends in risk. Assessing wildfire risk entails the integration of fire modeling outputs, maps of highly valued resources and…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Potter, Anaya
Convective instability can influence the behaviour of large wildfires. Because wildfires modify the temperature and moisture of air in their plumes, instability calculations using ambient conditions may not accurately represent convective potential for some fire plumes. This…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bosomworth, Handmer, Thornton
Global social-economic and environmental changes are increasing the challenges of wildfire risk management. Addressing these challenges requires perspectives beyond knowledge of the bio-physical dynamics of fire. This Special Section provides some such perspectives, including…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane
Wildland fuels are a critical factor in fire management because they are the one factor that managers can control. However, fuels have always been defined, described, and quantified in the context of inputs to fire behavior models. Wildland fuel science was always considered…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES