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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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: FRAMES
Coleman
This webinar will describe qualitative, case study research that investigated four projects in the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) to understand how varying organizational structures impacted collaboration. Kimberly Coleman selected the four case…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing revisions to certain sections within the regulations that govern the exclusion of event-influenced air quality data from certain regulatory decisions under the Clean Air Act (CAA). The EPA’s mission includes preserving and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In this paper, researchers examine the problem of growing wildfire risk through a coupled natural and human systems (CNHS) perspective. They characterized the primary social and ecological dimensions of what they termed a socioecological pathology of wildfire risk in temperate…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Doerr, Santín
Wildfire has been an important process affecting the Earth's surface and atmosphere for over 350 million years and human societies have coexisted with fire since their emergence. Yet many consider wildfire as an accelerating problem, with widely held perceptions both in the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Minas, Hearne
Fire is a natural component of many terrestrial ecosystems; however, uncontrolled intense wildfires can cause loss of human life and destruction of natural resources. Prescribed burning is a management activity undertaken for the purposes of both wildfire hazard reduction and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This website contains links to podcasts produced by the Wildland Fires Lessons Learned Center.
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Ellersick
USDA Forest Service R&D has been conducting research for many years with tribes and in Indian country and has collaboratively developed the USDA Forest Service Research and Development Tribal Engagement Roadmap (Tribal Engagement Roadmap) to help highlight and prioritize the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
National Weather Service Incident Meteorologists (IMET) provide onsite, tactical weather support for wildland fires and other incidents.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Swaty
LANDFIRE products have become the toolbox for large landscape management, way beyond obvious applications to do with fire and fuels. From mapping arbuscular fungi to modeling scary cryptic zooid habitat, from tracking grizzly bears to protecting butterflies, from developing full…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Verrucci, Perez-Fuentes, Rossetto, Bisby, Haklay, Rush, Rickles, Fagg, Joffe
Natural or human-made hazards may occur at any time. Although one might assume that individuals plan in advance for such potentially damaging events, the existing literature indicates that most communities remain inadequately prepared. In the past, research in this area has…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is a plan developed by a community in an area at-risk from wildfire.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marshall
Join guest expert, Gary Marshall, NFPA Wildfire Field Rep, and discover the three distinct areas surrounding structures within a home ignition zone and identify how mitigation and maintenance in each section plays a distinct role in improving survivability during a wildfire.…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ellicott
In this presentation Evan will provide a brief introduction to efforts at the University of Maryland and the Joint (NASA and NOAA) Polar Science System’s (JPSS) Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) program. The goal of the PGRR project is to leverage the VIIRS AF products…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ellicott, Jenkins
In this presentation Evan will provide a brief introduction to efforts at the University of Maryland and the Joint (NASA and NOAA) Polar Science System’s (JPSS) Proving Ground and Risk Reduction (PGRR) program. The goal of the PGRR project is to leverage the VIIRS AF products…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Prescribed Fires in Alaska presented by Eric Miller. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a Changing Climate for Educators." ANROE provided workshops during the spring of 2016 that…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McGee, Curtis, McFarlane, Shindler, Christianson, Olsen, McCaffrey
The importance of knowledge transfer between researchers, policy makers and practitioners is widely recognized. However, barriers to knowledge transfer can make it difficult for practitioners to apply the results of scientific research. This paper describes a project that…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer, Spies, Steelman, Moseley, Johnson, Bailey, Ager, Bourgeron, Charnley, Collins, Kline, Leahy, Littell, Millington, Nielsen-Pincus, Olsen, Paveglio, Roos, Steen-Adams, Stevens, Vukomanovic, White, Bowman
Wildfire risk in temperate forests has become a nearly intractable problem that can be characterized as a socioecological 'pathology': that is, a set of complex and problematic interactions among social and ecological systems across multiple spatial and temporal scales.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This Plan (AIWFMP 2016) updates and supersedes the Alaska Interagency Wildland Fire Management Plan, as amended 2010 (AIWFMP 2010). It provides operational detail for the Alaska Master Cooperative Wildland Fire Management and Stafford Act Response Agreement (Alaska Master…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steelman
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar hosted by NC State University and presented by Toddi Steelman, Executive Director and Professor at the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan. This 1-hour webinar discussed US fire policy as a complex problem…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The Incident Command System (ICS) was developed to help agencies (federal, state, and local) manage wildland fires.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy is a collaboration effort involving federal and state agencies, local governments, tribes, and interested stakeholders throughout the nation to improve coordination across the various jurisdictions for managing wildfire.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Zimmerman, Mindar, Taber
Risk management is being increasingly promoted as an appropriate method for addressing wildland fire management challenges. However, a lack of a common understanding of risk concepts and terminology is hindering effective application. In response, this General Technical Report…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, MacGregor, Calkin
The Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture faces a future of increasing complexity and risk, pressing financial issues, and the inescapable possibility of loss of human life. These issues are perhaps most acute for wildland fire management, the highest risk activity in…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vejmelka, Kochanski, Mandel
Fuel moisture has a major influence on the behaviour of wildland fires and is an important underlying factor in fire risk assessment. We propose a method to assimilate dead fuel moisture content (FMC) observations from remote automated weather stations (RAWS) into a time lag…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS