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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wiitala
Resource managers are frequently concerned that the area burned by wildfire over time will impede achievement of land management objectives. Methods that use the Poisson probability model to quantify that risk are described. The methods require a concise statement of an adverse…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiitala
A mathematical optimization model, based on the operations research technique of deterministic dynamic programming, is offered as a method to search quickly through available options to find the economically efficient set of initial attack resources to suppress a wildfire.…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This guide will help you translate the complicated scientific and technical information generated at CDC into material that captures and keeps the interest of your intended readers. It will teach you how to write simply, use language and visuals that your audience relates to and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The 'public' are all the stakeholders in the resource-planning area. The public includes those who serve on the Planning Committee, and those who are not actively involved in the planning process. This fact sheet focuses on noncommittee members of the public, and ways that…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trelles, McGrattan, Baum
The effect that the wind's vertical variation has on fire plume behaviour is investigated. A parabolized set of governing equations are discretized using finite differences to arrive at the numerical model. Lagrangian particles are used to visualize the flow, account for…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weber
International fire research activities, priorities, constraints and opportunities are examined from a late 20th century vantage point. Recent accomplishments in computer technology are identified as the single most important phenomenon responsible for the advancement of the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jackson, Adams, Jackson
In a simulation model, the relative advantage of negative versus positive allometry of defense, that is, early versus delayed defensive investment, depends on the forms of the relationships between body size and growth, body size and mortality deterrence, and defense size and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Johnson, Miyanishi
Prescribed burns are increasingly being used in ecological restoration and vegetation management. Despite the accumulation of scientific information on fire behavior and fire effects, however, in many cases fires are prescribed without consideration of such information and often…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eenigenburg, Main
United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) uses the METAFIRE Severity Index to justify fire emergency funding requests. In addition, many fire managers use it successfully to support applications for those very funds. The METAFIRE Information System has assembled…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leighty, Blume
Current information is presented detailing the interagency fire management planning efforts between the Bureau of Land Management's Grand Junction District and the USDA Forest Service's White River National Forest. The project is based on interdisciplinary input from an…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Slaughter
Flexibility in the Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plan allowed for varied responses to three Modified fires, all located within 15 miles of Bettles, Alaska. Discussions with land managers about values at risk, potential cost, probability of success, fuels, and fire behavior…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mangan
Standardizing equipment and clothing can reduce the costs of fighting wildfires by allowing items to be purchased in large quantities. In the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, equipment is developed at two Technology and Development Centers, one in Missoula,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cleaves, Haines, Martínez
The results of a survey from 1985 to 1994 of the USDA Forest Service's National Forest System prescribed burning activity and costs are examined. Fuels management officers from 95 National Forests reported costs and acreage burned for 4 types of prescribed fire, including slash…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout, Loomis, Omi
The increased importance of non-market values in land management planning means that fire management and planning needs to more directly and effectively incorporate them into the planning and decision-making process. This means developing better understanding of the role of non-…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
Understanding how ignitions occur is critical for effectively mitigating home fire losses during wildland fires. The threat of life and property losses during wildland fires is a significant issue for Federal, State, and local agencies that have responsibilities involving homes…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hesseln, Rideout
Evolving wildfire management policies are aimed at more comprehensive treatments of current wildland fire management problems. Key policies are identified that affect wildfire and fuels management. Policies are discussed in the context of institutional factors such as…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Snyder
Wildland fire protection in the United States has evolved from predominantly protecting natural resources values to protecting values of the urban-wildland interface. Providing fire protection in this 'unnatural' ecosystem has become more complex. Wildland fire suppression costs…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hesseln, Rideout
Wildland fire management strategies often have long-term economic and ecological impacts, as evidenced by the increase in fire danger resulting from the total suppression policy of the last several decades. In the long run, the choice of an optimal wildland fire management…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Rideout, Omi
The economic efficiency of the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS) and FIREPRO is examined. A brief history of the two programs is provided, as well as recent improvements to the contemporary theory of cost plus net value change (C+NVC). The NFMAS process is…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McAlpine, Hirsch
The Level of Protection Analysis System (LEOPARDS) allows the structured assessment of the outcomes and costs associated with alternative fire management policies, budgets, and suppression resource mixes. Its primary component is a deterministic, spatially conscious simulation…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schuster, Krebs
A sensitivity analysis was conducted of the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS) to better understand the relationship between data input and model output. After consultations with fire managers and researchers, five input variables were selected for sensitization:…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lundgren
Wildland fire suppression policy in the USDA Forest Service has evolved over the years from forceful attempts to control all wildland fires at the smallest possible size to consideration of other land management and economic factors during suppression decision making. In 1978,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schuster
Soaring expenditures for fire management in the USDA Forest Service have caused substantial concern over fire management costs, especially in light of questions about the role of fire in ecosystems. This report contains analysis of most Forest Service fire management…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mangan
To significantly reduce the costs of fighting large wildfires, fire managers must address the most costly areas. These areas are in aviation resources; equipment, food, showers, and toilets (56.6 percent of total costs); and in personnel (31.7 percent of total costs). Because…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gebert, Schuster
A quantitative tool was developed to predict USDA Forest Service fire suppression expenditures by fiscal year on the basis of fire activity data (i.e., number of fires and acres burned) from Incident Management Situation Reports. Regional regression models were developed with…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES