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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Jain, Abrahamson, Anderson, Hood, Hanberry, Kilkenny, Ott, Urza, Chambers, Battaglia, Varner, O'Brien
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need. We synthesized existing scientific…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lake
As collaborative fire management projects between tribal and non-tribal entities are increasingly recognized for their potential to achieve both ecological and cultural fire management goals in a warming climate, it’s important that non-tribal researchers and resource managers…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hood, McKinney, Ott, Hanberry, Jain
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need. Rocky Mountain Research Station…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Nowell, Steelman
A growing body of work has been focusing on how to govern and manage across jurisdictionally fragmented landscapes in an effort to promote more effective wildfire preparedness and response. We contribute to this worthy goal in the following five ways through the research…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ramírez
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Technosyva is a company of 50 professionals based in San Diego and in Leon, Spain. Since 1997 we focused on developing technology and applications for the wildland fire community, with a strong partnership with…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Leverkus, Thorn, Gustafsson, Noss, Müller, Pausas, Lindenmayer
[from the text] A recent warning to humanity signed by >15 000 scientists identified global environmental threats that require urgent policy response from world leaders (Ripple et al 2017). Here, we document challenges and propose solutions related to ongoing shifts in…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Son, Kim, Wang, Jeong, Woo, Jeong, Lee, Kim, LaPlante, Kwon
The 2015 Paris Agreement led to a number of studies that assessed the impact of the 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C increases in global temperature over preindustrial levels. However, those assessments have not actively investigated the impact of these levels of warming on fire weather. In…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Estimates of temporal-spatial variability of wildfire danger across the Pan-Arctic and extra-tropics
Satellite-based hot-spot analysis for the Pan-Arctic, shows that Asia experiences a greater number of fires compared to North America and Europe. While hot spots are prevalent through the year in Asia, Europe (North America) exhibits marked annual (semi-annual) variability. The…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Littell, Trainor
Sarah Trainor & Jeremy Littell present at the 2021 Association for Fire Ecology Conference special session: The Nexus of Climate Change and Fire: Taking Science to Action
Addressing the unprecedented challenges of climate change, wildland fire, and human land use requires…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hanes, Wotton, McFayden, Jurko
The Fire Weather Index (FWI) System codes and indices are commonly communicated and interpreted using a classification system (i.e., Low, Moderate, High, Extreme) by fire management agencies. Adjective classes were developed provincially shortly after the FWI System was…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arab, Khodaei, Eskandarpour, Thompson, Wei
Wildfires pose a significant challenge to the natural and the built environments, as well as the safety and economic wellbeing of the communities residing in wildfire-prone areas. The electric power grid is specifically among the built environments most affected by, and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Champ, Barth, Brenkert-Smith, Falk, Gomez, Meldrum
Wildland-urban interface residents, who occupy the areas where wildlands meet and mix with human development, are both contributors to and recipients of the disastrous effects of wildland fires. They contribute through fire starts, flammable homes, unmitigated properties,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The challenges of the 2020 Fire Year have validated the Cohesive Strategy and proven its foundational value for additional success and achievement across boundaries and landscapes in the West. The following pages offer a snapshot of 2020 activities and successes in the Western…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pennick McIver, Cook, Becker
The number and size of wildfires in the western United States have increased dramatically in the last 30 years. The rising cost of wildfire suppression has become a significant concern for all levels of government, although most attention has been focused on the federal level.…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This edited volume presents original scientific research and knowledge synthesis covering the past, present, and potential future fire ecology of major US forest types, with implications for forest management in a changing climate. The editors and authors highlight broad…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yue, Dong, Zhao, Ye
Massive Geo-tagged social media data provide new opportunities for disaster risk assessment, prevention, and management. This article presents a proof of concept for assessing wildfire risk using Geo-tagged social media data, by taking wildfire risk as a function of wildfire…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Marty Alexander (Wild Rose Fire Behavior) and Luc Bibeau (FireSmart Specialist with Yukon Wildland Fire Management, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory) discuss the 3-m tree crown spacing guideline for the prevention of crowning wildfires.
This podcast interview was hosted in…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Toman, Wilson, Jolly, Olsen
Fire weather tools, such as the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) and the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS), have been developed to support wildland fire management decisions. However, little is known about how these tools are used in practice, the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bayham, Belval, Thompson
Motivation. The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 just as the southwestern region begins to see increased fire activity. The project PIs had been collaborating on other wildfire projects but also had expertise in infectious disease…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hood, Falk, Nie
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (hereafter: Cohesive Strategy) mandates the restoration and maintenance of landscapes, with the goal that “landscapes across all jurisdictions are resilient to fire-related disturbances in accordance with management…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bunty, Brandt, Flatley, Klein, Lane
Recording of the 3rd panel discussion in the Fueling Collaboration Series. Jenifer Bunty (Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers & Scientists/Clemson University) moderates a panel of fire professionals and climate change specialists. They discuss how to incorporate climate…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rapp, Wilson, Toman, Jolly
Background: Weather plays an integral role in fire management due to the direct and indirect effects it has on fire behavior. However, fire managers may not use all information available to them during the decision-making process, instead utilizing mental shortcuts that can bias…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney, McAllister, Grumstrup, Forthofer
Wildland fires have an irreplaceable role in sustaining many of our forests, shrublands and grasslands. They can be used as controlled burns or occur as free-burning wildfires, but can also be dangerous and destructive to fauna, human communities and natural resources. Through…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The U.S. Forest Service has created a Fuels Academy Pilot Project to accelerate and improve the training for new and aspiring Fuels Specialists. This Training and Career Guide represents the latest iteration in a continuing effort to help our developing employees gain competence…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Patto, Rosa
As the frequency and severity of wildfires escalates in many regions, the study of fire-resilient forestry practices becomes crucial. While forest owners may employ several silvicultural practices to mitigate fire damage, the analytical study of optimal forest management has…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES