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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Stewart, Wilmer, Hammer, Aplet, Hawbaker, Miller, Radeloff
Maps of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are both policy tools and powerful visual images. Although the growing number of WUI maps serve similar purposes, this article indicates that WUI maps derived from the same data sets can differ in important ways related to their…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mell, Maranghides, McDermott, Manzello
Fires spreading in elevated vegetation, such as chaparral or pine forest canopies, are often more intense than fires spreading through surface vegetation such as grasslands. As a result, they are more difficult to suppress, produce higher heat fluxes, more firebrands and smoke,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne, Mighetto
The USDA Forest Service and the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH) propose to organize and host an interdisciplinary workshop that brings together environmental historians and scientists to discuss the historical dimensions of the wildland urban interface and its…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Becker
The proposed study includes two parts. The first part focuses on characterizing biomass removal efforts on USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and tribal lands for a total of 10-12 case studies located throughout the country. Information will be collected on project…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Vogt, Butler, Winter
Effective wildland urban interface (WUI) risk management requires action by local communities and individual property owners. Recently enacted federal and state policies provide some strong incentives for local jurisdictions to manage the risks associated with wildland fire.…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Chung, Jones, Spelter
The goal of this project is to provide a synthesis of information products available to federal land mangers to enhance their ability to understand and deal with the economic and financial aspects of woody biomass removal as a component of fire hazard reduction treatments. The…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Haines, Renner, Reams
Wildfire may result from natural processes or as the result of human actions (Ffolliott 1988, Mees 1990). As a natural phenomenon, it is important in sustaining forest health in fire-dependent ecosystems. While some wildfire may be ecologically beneficial, it poses a threat to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cheyette, Rupp, Rodman
Fire behavior modeling systems are playing an increasingly important role in identifying areas of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) that could support intense and fast-moving wildfires. The modeling systems also can be used to prioritize areas for fuels reduction treatments. We…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Butry
This paper examines the effect wildfire mitigation has on broad-scale wildfire behavior. Each year, hundreds of million of dollars are spent on fire suppression and fuels management applications, yet little is known, quantitatively, of the returns to these programs in terms of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS