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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Winter, Bigler-Cole
A user needs assessment surrounding National Predictive Services was conducted involving current and prospective customers. Needs assessments (Rossi, Freeman and Lipsey 1999) are a useful form of program evaluation. National Predictive Services offers products and services…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The danger of being entrapped or burned over and possibly killed or seriously injured by a wildfire is very real threat for people living, working or visiting rural areas subject to wildfires. Sometimes there may be no chance to easily escape an approaching wildfire. Injuries…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Forthofer, Finney, Bradshaw, Stratton
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technology has been used to model wind speed and direction in mountainous terrain at a relatively high resolution compared to other readily available technologies. The process termed "gridded wind"; is not a forecast, but rather represents a…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire is one of the oldest tools used by humans to manage vegetation. Its use can be traced back to pre-historic times when it was used to manipulate vegetation to improve opportunities for hunting wildlife and to increase production of plant species that were used for food,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barkley
A University of Idaho Extension publication explaining the causes, mechanics, behavior and suppresion of wildfire. Identifies potential effects on vegetation, wildlife, soils and watersheds and offers a postfire management plan.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rapp
Over the last several decades, the overall air quality goal in the United States has been to protect public health and clear skies by reducing emissions. At the same time, however, the risk of catastrophic fire has been rising in forests around the country as overly dense trees…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cooper, Wilfong, Peterson
The 10.25 million acres of the Kenai Peninsula Borough in Southcentral Alaska is at risk for catastrophic wildfire due to hazardous fuel accumulations created by the spruce bark beetle epidemic. The All Lands/All Hands Action Plan for FY 2005-2009 was developed for: (1) fire…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A rational approach to monitoring and assessment is prerequisite for sustainable management of ecosystem resources. This features innovative ways to advance the concept of monitoring ecosystem sustainability across spheres of environmental concern, natural and anthropogenic…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Westhaver
Preventing the occurrence of wildfires that threaten homes and communities is a growing priority in Canada. To reduce risk, a consistent set of standards for managing forest fuel has been adopted. However, these largely disregard concerns for wildlife and wildlife habitat.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Larkin, Nikolov
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
van Wagtendonk, Baldwin, Bevers, Finney, Haight
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Since the advent of the National Fire Plan in 2000, governmental and non-governmental entities have collaborated to make significant progress on multiple fronts in addressing the issues brought to national attention by the fires of 2000 and addressed in the 10-Year Strategy and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stewart, Radeloff, Hammer
This paper presents a map of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) in 2000 for the lower 48 States of the United States. The WUI was extensive, covering 9 percent of the land area in the lower 48 States and encompassing 38 percent of all homes. Major WUI areas are located along the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nikolov, Teixeira, Snook, Zeller, Fajardo
Accurate forecasting of regional weather is an important aspect of modern fire and smoke management. Fire weather impacts prescribed burn decisions, allocation of firefighting resources, and fire-fighters safety. Regional weather forecasts are currently produced by 3-D numerical…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Myers, O'Brien, Morrison
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Waide, Bevers
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kruger, Mazza
This problem analysis describes a variety of human-resource interaction issues and identifies related social science research and development needs that serve as the foundation for the Alaska Communities and Forest Environments Team within the Pacific Northwest Research Station…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gebert, Prestemon, Abt
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gebert
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fight, Hartsough, Noordijk
ANNOTATION: FRCS is a spreadsheet application useful for estimating the cost of forest operations undertaken to reduce forest fuel loads by cutting and removing trees for solid wood products or chips. It can also be used to estimate the cost of collecting and chipping forest…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Conard, Hilbruner, Riebau, Langner, Burch, Beighley, Weise, Sandberg, Edminster, Heilman, Jewell, Saveland, Miller, Parsons, Hoover, Ottmar, Potter, Brett
This document presents the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Wildland Fire and Fuels Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan for the next 10 years (through 2015). The plan provides a framework to implement a national program of research and science…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bevers
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cui, Perera
The scientific, social, and economic significance of the knowledge of boreal forest fire regimes is becoming increasingly evident in North America. One synoptic indicator of fire regimes is the probability distribution of the fire size events, commonly known as the fire size…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland, Pilliod
The Wildlife Habitat Response Model (WHRM) is a web-based tool meant to assist fuel treatment planners in evaluating the effects of fuel treatment alternatives on wildlife habitats. WHRM does not provide estimates of wildlife population changes or viability. WHRM is based on…
Year: 2006
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Biesecker, Fight
Every fuel reduction treatment has its price, and finding that price involves sorting through a confusing array of choices. Among them are which trees to cut, what material to utilize for forest products versus treatment in place, equipment options, and what types of stands to…
Year: 2006
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES