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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Characterizing public tolerance of smoke from wildland fires in communities across the United States
Little is known about public tolerance of smoke from wildland fires. By combining data from two household surveys, we sought to determine whether tolerance of smoke from wildland fires varies with its origin or managerial rationale, to describe geographical variation in…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
McAllister, Finney
Wood cribs are often used as ignition sources for room fire tests. A wood crib may also apply to studies of burning rate in wildland fires, because wildland fuel beds are porous and three dimensional. A unique aspect of wildland fires is the ubiquitous presence of wind. However…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Working on a wildland fire incident, you are responsible for the safety of yourself and those around you. At high exposure levels, smoke inhalation can jeopardize this safety by impairing your decision-making abilities. If your health is impaired your judgment and decision…
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
A fire is always contained before it is controlled.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuel moisture content (FMC) is a measure of the amount of water in a fuel, such as vegetation, available to a fire, and is expressed as a percent of the dry weight of that specific fuel.
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
Brown, Jorgenson, Kielland, Verbyla, Prakash, Koch
Climate change coupled with an intensifying wildfire regime is becoming an important driver of permafrost loss and ecosystem change in the northern boreal forest. There is a growing need to understand the effects of fire on the spatial distribution of permafrost and its…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rios, Pastor, Valero, Planas
A wildfire forecasting tool capable of estimating the fire perimeter position sufficiently in advance of the actual fire arrival will assist firefighting operations and optimise available resources. However, owing to limited knowledge of fire event characteristics (e.g. fuel…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
The theme of our special 20th Anniversary Issue focuses on how we need to widen the definition of “survivor” of traumatic fire line accidents. We share the stories, insights, and lessons of four survivors of a line of duty wildland firefighter death. In doing so, we explore the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In this issue we provide an opportunity for two firefighters to share their experiences with things we don’t talk much about: gender and leadership as well as bias and diversity. In the cover story, Rachel Reimer, an Initial Attack Crew Leader in British Columbia, Canada, ties…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vaillant, Kolden, Smith
Wildfire is an ever present, natural process shaping landscapes. Having the ability to accurately measure and predict wildfire occurrence and impacts to ecosystem goods and services, both retrospectively and prospectively, is critical for adaptive management of landscapes.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
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
Gray, Keane, Karpisz, Pedersen, Brown, Russell
A study by Keane and Gray (2013) compared three sampling techniques for estimating surface fine woody fuels. Known amounts of fine woody fuel were distributed on a parking lot, and researchers estimated the loadings using different sampling techniques. An important result was…
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
Hilton, Miller, Sullivan
Computational simulations of wildfires require a model for the two-dimensional expansion of a fire perimeter. Although many expressions exist for the one-dimensional rate of spread of a fire front, there are currently no agreed mathematical expressions for the two-dimensional…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xiao, Gollner, Oran
Fire whirls are powerful, spinning disasters for people and surroundings when they occur in large urban and wildland fires. Whereas fire whirls have been studied for fire-safety applications, previous research has yet to harness their potential burning efficiency for enhanced…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dash, Fraterrigo, Hu
Context: Wildfire activity in boreal forests is projected to increase dramatically in response to anthropogenic climate change. By altering the spatial arrangement of fuels, land-cover configuration may interact with climate change to influence fire-regime dynamics at landscape…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone, Allen, Franklin, Frelich, Harvey, Higuera, Mack, Meentemeyer, Metz, Perry, Schoennagel, Turner
Ecological memory is central to how ecosystems respond to disturbance and is maintained by two types of legacies – information and material. Species life-history traits represent an adaptive response to disturbance and are an information legacy; in contrast, the abiotic and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Conklin, Lenihan, Bachelet, Neilson, Kim
MCFire is a computer program that simulates the occurrence and effects of wildfire on natural vegetation, as a submodel within the MC1 dynamic global vegetation model. This report is a technical description of the algorithms and parameter values used in MCFire, intended to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haase, Sanchez, Weise
A variety of techniques for collecting and processing samples to determine moisture content of wildland fuels in support of fire management activities were evaluated. The effects of using a chainsaw or handsaw to collect samples of largediameter wood, containers for storing and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
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
Lueck, Yoder
Wildfires are heating up once again in the American West. In 2015, wildfires burned more than 10 million acres in the United States at a cost of $2.1 billion in federal expenditures. As the fires burned, the U.S. Forest Service announced that, for the first time, more than half…
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