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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Friggens
FireCLIME (Fire-Climate Landscape Interactions in Montane Ecosystems) Vulnerability Assessment v3.1 is a macro-enabled Excel file (xlsm). A user guide is also available below.
Year: 2019
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Hamilton, Hamilton
Now in its third version, the Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) Software Application (FRCCSA) is a simple, non-spatial tool for quickly summarizing FRCC at multiple scales using the Standard Landscape Worksheet Method.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Hamilton, Hann
Provides an efficient system for analyzing and storing field-based FRCC data. The tool also produces automated reports with data tables and FRCC graphics.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Zuuring, Sullivan, Krueger, Wood, Troutwine
MAGIS EXPRESS is structured primarily as a timber harvest-road access tool. Two GIS coverages (or shapefiles) are used: Treatment units and Roads. Forest vegetation on the treatment unit polygons is represented using a 'vegetative state and pathway' paradigm. Vegetative 'states…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Lutes, Keane
The Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System (FIREMON) is an agency independent plot level sampling system designed to characterize changes in ecosystem attributes over time. The system consists of a sampling strategy manual, standardized sampling methods, field forms,…
Type: Tool
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
Roe, Robson, Robinson, Kuit, Frid, Daniel, Carr, Beukema, Bailey, Abraham
The Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT) is a user-friendly, Windows-based computer tool which provides a state and transition landscape modelling framework for examining the role of various disturbance agents and management actions in vegetation change. It allows users…
Year: 2007
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Sutherland, Sutherland, Miller
The Understory Response Model is a species-specific computer model that qualitatively predicts change in total species biomass for grasses, forbs, and shrubs after thinning, prescribed fire, or wildfire. The model examines the effect of fuels management on plant survivorship (…
Year: 2005
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Abraham, Bailey, Beukema, Carr, Daniel, Frid, Robinson, Robson, Kurz
The Tool for Exploratory Landscape Scenario Analyses (TELSA) is a spatially explicit, GIS-based landscape-level model for simulating terrestrial ecosystem dynamics. It helps resource managers and planners assess the consequences of alternative management scenarios at the…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
This glossary provides the wildland fire and fire use communities a single source for wildland fire, prescribed fire, fire use and incident management terminology commonly used by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) and its Working Teams. The NWCG has directed that…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The National Fire danger Rating System is a set of computer programs and algorithms that allow land management agencies to estimate today's or tomorrow's fire danger for a given rating area. NFDRS characterizes fire danger by evaluating the approximate upper limit of fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
MAGIS EXPRESS is structured primarily as a timber harvest-road access tool. Two GIS coverages (or shapefiles) are used: Treatment units and Roads. Forest vegetation on the treatment unit polygons is represented using a 'vegetative state and pathway' paradigm. Vegetative 'states…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The FORBS Program is based on the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS). It utilizes existing Personal Computer Historical Analysis (PCHA), Interagency Initial Attack Assessment (IIAA), and Arc View processes. FORBS is tied to the Suppression Analysis developed in…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Fuel Characterization Classification System (FCCS) offers fire managers, air quality managers, researchers, and carbon modelers across the United States a comprehensive, nationally consistent, and durable system of fuelbed classification that captures the structural…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Podolsky
Fire Tower lets land managers and foresters simulate how fires spread through the land, allowing managers to conduct scenarios useful in predicting the behavior of wildfires.
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
FirePlan GIS from SIG uses advanced GIS technology to help identify cost-effective fire prevention solutions. Using the FARSITE fire model in conjunction with Arc View software, FirePlan can help land managers identify and prioritize areas for vegetative treatment. Not only will…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Statistics System (FIRESTAT) is a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service (FS) application used to electronically enter, update, and delete required information on the Individual Fire Report (form FS-5100-29) as required by FSH 5109.14, the Individual Fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Statistics System (FIRESTAT) is a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service (FS) application used to electronically enter, update, and delete required information on the Individual Fire Report (form FS-5100-29) as required by FSH 5109.14, the Individual Fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Statistics System (FIRESTAT) is a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service (FS) application used to electronically enter, update, and delete required information on the Individual Fire Report (form FS-5100-29) as required by FSH 5109.14, the Individual Fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Statistics System (FIRESTAT) is a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service (FS) application used to electronically enter, update, and delete required information on the Individual Fire Report (form FS-5100-29) as required by FSH 5109.14, the Individual Fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Grissino-Mayer
FHX2 is software that helps analyze fire history using fire scars and other fire-related injuries found in the annual growth rings of trees. FHX2 provides a means for entering, archiving, storing, editing, and manipulation of fire history information from tree rings, which in…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Effects Tradeoff Model (FETM) is a disturbance effects model designed to simulate the tradeoffs between alternative land management practices over long periods of time (up to 300 years) and under diverse environmental conditions, natural fire regimes, and fuel and fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Effects Information System is an online collection of reviews of the scientific literature about fire effects on plants and animals and about fire regimes of plant communities in the United States. FEIS reviews are based on thorough literature searches, often…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
FEAT is a comprehensive, relational database management system that was developed to support immediate and long-term monitoring and reporting of fire effects in the National Park Service units. The system will make monitoring data readily available at the Park level, with the…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Means
ANNOTATION: BIOPAK is a software package that contains a plant measurement library of over 1,100 documented equations that estimate plant components, e.g. leaf mass, leaf area, stem wood mass, bark mass, fuel size classes. BIOPAK can choose equations from those contained in an…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES