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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Garvin
Learning in Action author David Garvin shares effective decision-making skills for fire managers in this 53-minute video.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCoy, Elenz, Vergari, Floyd, Dykehouse, Soper, Fay
Listen to the experiences and lessons learned from veteran fire management officers regarding prescribed fire and fire use.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rice
Carol Rice, coauthor of the book 'Managing Fire in the Urban Wildland Interface,' discusses appropriate land use policy, community layout, infrastructure, building requirements, and vegetation management in the WUI. This webinar is targeted for local planners, resource managers…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Robertson
The Northwestern Interior Forest Landscape Conservation Cooperative (NWIF LCC) is focusing efforts on establishing management information needs including fire science, forestry, fisheries, subsistence, climate and other pertinent topics. The NWIF LCC is hosting an upcoming…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Melvin
Annual wildfire activity has been tracked for decades. These data are necessary for securing resources, instituting fire-fighter training standards, monitoring trends, providing public safety measures, and guiding national policy needed to manage wildfire across the U.S. Much…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Drury
The web-based Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) was designed to provide fire and fuels managers with a single software solution to manage the many data types, software applications, and tools available for fuels treatment planning. The IFTDSS project…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Blankenship
The LANDFIRE product suite includes a set of aspatial, quantitative, ecological models that describe vegetation and disturbance dynamics for every Biophysical Setting (BpS) mapped by LANDFIRE. The models were developed by more than 700 experts through a series of workshops and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Long
One of the main objectives for the LANDFIRE project recently has been to update vegetation and fuel products to reflect disturbance and vegetation succession that have occurred on the landscape since the initial LANDFIRE National circa 2001 products. This process has resulted in…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Connot
Updating the LANDFIRE data layers is an ambitious undertaking. Updates to LANDFIRE datasets reflect the best available data depicting the landscape. LANDFIRE relies upon field contributed spatial information reflecting landscape change and fire severity mapping products from…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Blankenship
LANDFIRE fire regime products characterize reference fire frequency and severity and vegetation departure for the entire U.S. The datasets in this product suite include Biophysical Settings, Succession Class, Fire Regime Group, Mean Fire Return Interval, Reference Fire Severity…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rollins
Since its inception in 2003, the LANDFIRE project has employed a wide range of nationally consistent methods in order to produce a large suite of vegetation and fuel and fire regime products for the fire management community. These products have also been found to be useful for…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Peterson
A facilitated panel discussion of the eight presentations (including the introduction) from the the session: Looking Back for a Clear View of the Future: 1999 to 2012 (a concurrent session of the Fifth International Fire Ecology and Management Congress: Uniting Research,…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kurth
Recommendation 7 from the conference and workshop 'Crossing the Millennium: Integrating Spatial Technologies and Ecological Principles for a New Age in Fire Managemen' is:' ...a new emphasis on training that incorporates the latest developments in remote sensing, geographic…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Elenz
Recommendation 5 submitted to the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board a decade ago stated that "Collaborative approaches to research, development, and implementation of new information and decision support tools need to be encouraged". A number of advances have been made…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Menakis, Engert
Recommendation 4 submitted to the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board a decade ago stated that "Technology development, transfer, and communication need to be improved between developers and user communities". A decade ago computer technology had advanced to a point that…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cissel
Recommendation 3 submitted to the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board over a decade ago stated that "The process of tool use including comparison, selection, acquisition, training, implementation, evaluation, and support needs national administrative focus, guidance, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Fuels are often defined based on the physical characteristics of live and dead biomass that contribute to wildland fire. Because these characteristics affect the character, size, intensity, and duration of fires, fuels are important to the understanding of fire behavior and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hann, Keane
A 23-minute video in which Robert Keane and Wendel Hann discuss advances in fire technology, particularly modeling, assessments, and mapping, since 2000, and technological needs for the future, including those that include climate change. Presented at the Fifth International…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
In this presentation, Kevin Ryan provides a welcome, background, and goals for the session: "Looking Back for a Clear View of the Future: 1999 to 2012," a concurrent session of the Fifth International Fire Ecology and Management Congress: Uniting Research, Education, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
This webinar will provide an introduction to the new edition of the Rainbow series that provides fire and land management professionals and policy makers with a greater understanding of the value of cultural resource protection and the methods available to evaluate and mitigate…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Vaillant
Wildland fire risk assessment and fuel management planning on federal lands in the U.S. is a complex problem that often requires advanced fire behavior modeling and intensive spatial data analyses. Both the benefits and potential impacts of proposed fuel treatments must be…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ager
The Landscape Treatment Designer (LTD) is a multicriteria spatial prioritization and optimization system to help design and explore landscape fuel treatment scenarios. The program fills a gap between fire model programs such as FlamMap, and planning systems such as ArcFuels, in…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barrett
Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) is an interagency, standardized tool for determining the degree of departure from reference condition vegetation structure and composition and fire regimes. FRCC metrics can help guide management objectives and set priorities for treatments.…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hunter
Molly Hunter will present a webinar on January 26, 1 PM MST. In this webinar we will highlight the latest research from JFSP funded projects and show participants how to find more in depth information on the projects. Topics include climate change and fire, revegetating arid…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES