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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Lu, Sokolik
We examine the 2002 Yakutsk wildfire event and simulate the impacts of smoke aerosols on local radiative energy budget, using the WRF-Chem-SMOKE model. When comparing satellite retrievals (the Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) dataset) with model simulations, we found that the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Stuefer, Starkweather, Brubaker
These presentations highlight existing wildfire forecasting tools, especially resources that can be used by communities to aid in preparedness efforts. Speakers discuss existing tools and provide examples of their use in communities or their potential applications if not…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Wehmas
The boreal forest is a carbon reservoir containing roughly 40% of the world's reactive soil carbon, which is mainly cycled by wildland fires. Climate warming in boreal Alaska has changed the wildfire regime such that an increase in broadleaf forest relative to conifer forest is…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Treatment of natural fuels has been carried out in support of management objectives throughout the history of natural resource management across the United States. While research activities have been conducted for over 50 years, an urgent need still exists to provide better…
Year: 2018
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES

This project provided an integrated assessment of the effects of fires under different future climate and population scenarios on fine particulate matter mass (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) at global scale, with a particular focus on the United States. We employed the global Community…
Year: 2018
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES

Black, Fox, Gabor, Thomas, Ziegler
This Research Brief summarizes findings of a Joint Fire Science Program project focused on understanding radio communications as part of risk communication and sensemaking in wildland fire operations. Through observation of live and simulated radio conversations, analysis of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Singletary, Evans
This agreement is made and entered into by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Joint Fire Science Program (BLM), and the University of Nevada Reno for the purpose of Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Regional Consortia.
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

Guo, Brockway, Larson, Wang, Ren
Common practices for invasive species control and management include physical, chemical, and biological approaches. The first two approaches have clear limitations and may lead to unintended (negative) consequences, unless carefully planned and implemented. For example, physical…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Coyle
Some forest managers have had concerns that prescribed burning after drought will stress mature pines, and increase their susceptibility to beetle attack. However, this concern resulted in many missed opportunities for applying fire after a recent drought abated, as not burning…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Falke, Gray
Fire is the dominant ecological disturbance process in boreal forests (coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches) and fire frequency, size and severity are increasing in Alaska owing to climate warming. However, interactions among fire, climate,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

This collection of essays-divided into three key categories: Risk, Culture, and Operations-daylights qualities and practices in the wildland fire service across a broad spectrum, from outdated and unwarranted to honorable and profound. We must acknowledge our current culture and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

How to cope and navigate through changes and their associated dangers. Brit Rosso, outgoing Director of the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center, shares his firsthand insights into how to prepare yourself for moving through difficult transitions.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Barrett
Some have wondered whether the 2017 Montana fre season was a rare apocalypse or whether it was simply Nature being Nature. The short answer is, some of both. Today’s forests clearly are experiencing a highly active fre period, one of many during the past several thousand years.…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Furman, Linn
Current fire spread models are inadequate for predicting the complex infuences of atmosphere, forest structure, and self-generating fire processes on wildland fire behavior. FIRETEC is a physics-based, three-dimensional computer code developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bramwell
Interagency hotshot crews (IHCs) form the backbone of the Federal Government's response to wildland fre. Their high level of physical ftness, training, self-reliance, and expertise make the IHCs the world's elite wildland frefghters; these men and women are dispatched to the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Briggs
The incidence and degree of stand disturbance (that is, from fre, insects, and disease) are driving excess tree mortality in the Western United States. Hot and dry conditions associated with drought have stressed forests over a wide geographic area, contributing directly to tree…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fire control opportunities don’t know boundaries; let’s plan with that in mind. The RMRS Wildfire Risk Management Science Team has developed a series of tools (quantitative wildfire risk assessment, suppression difficulty index, potential control locations, PODS) to support…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Fire season has arrived on the Ponderosa Pine National Forest, but this year is different. After working with the Wildfire Risk Management Team at RMRS, they understand risks better. They use detailed data and analysis to complement years of experience on the ground. When…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

First in a three-part video series describing the work and cutting edge risk management tools developed by the Rocky Mountain Research Station Wildfire Risk Management Science Team. The Team works with National Forests and other fire managers to plan ahead of the fire season.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Smith, Lee
A knowledge broker is an organization or individual that translates and disseminates esearch findings to working professionals (Konijnendijk 2004). Knowledge brokers participate in a variety of activities, including translating, spreading and commissioning research, and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Gallego, Plana Bach, Molina-Terrén
The socio-environmental dimension in wildland fire management is critical for moving towards a baseline of firewise planning. Wildland fire risk planning is a land use planning tool that should be able to keep pace with rapid rates of social and environmental change. Changes in…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Pyne
Modern wildland fire management effectively began in the aftermath of the Great Fires of 1910. The Big Blowup traumatized the fledgling Forest Service and its Chiefs for decades. One of the aftershocks, the 1911 Weeks Act, established the basis for a national infrastructure,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Delaney
Wildland fire management involves specialization and a division of labor. When you order supplies on a wildland fire, you should keep that in mind. In your own specialty area, you need support from others who don’t necessarily have your level of knowledge. To get what you need,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Riebau, Fox, Huber
The Smoke Science Plan (SSP) was built upon personal interviews and an extensive web-based needs identification with scientists, fire managers, and air quality managers using online questionnaires (Riebau and Fox 2010a, 2010b). It is structured around four themes, which are…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Tidwell
Each year, the wildfire season in the Western United States brings headlines and news reports, mostly factual but sometimes misleading. This year is no different, a case in point being 'Let Forest Fires Burn? What the Black-Backed Woodpecker Knows' (Gillis 2017).
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES