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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lankoande, Yoder
We estimate a model of suppression productivity for individual fires, where suppression productivity is measured in terms of the reduction in the estimated market value of wildfire losses. Estimation results show that at the margin, every dollar increase in suppression costs…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Since the advent of the National Fire Plan in 2000, governmental and non-governmental entities have collaborated to make significant progress on multiple fronts in addressing the issues brought to national attention by the fires of 2000 and addressed in the 10-Year Strategy and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon, Abt, Huggett, Barbour, Ince, Cubbage, Rummer, Fight
Large-scale biomass removal programs done to lower wildfire risks and associated damages on public and private lands may have short-term and long-term economic impacts on local, regional, and national forest product markets. These kinds of market, timber growing, and land use…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nicholls, Patterson, Uloth
Cofiring wood and coal at Fairbanks, Alaska, area electrical generation facilities represents an opportunity to use woody biomass from clearings within the borough's wildland-urban interface and from other sources, such as sawmill residues and woody material intended for…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak
A hazard fuel reduction project was conducted along the border of Ft. Wainwright and the Shannon Park housing subdivision following the 1999 wildfire that threatened many homes and structures. Several acres of primarily black spruce forest were thinned to an approximate 8 x 8…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hrobak, Jandt
Local residents, working with the village council and Alaska Fire Service, received federal funding to reduce the fire risk and hazard to private residential structures by modifying fuel structure and continuity of 66 acres around the community of Tanacross. Additional acres…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fight, Hartsough, Noordijk
ANNOTATION: FRCS is a spreadsheet application useful for estimating the cost of forest operations undertaken to reduce forest fuel loads by cutting and removing trees for solid wood products or chips. It can also be used to estimate the cost of collecting and chipping forest…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Canton-Thompson, Thompson, Gebert, Calkin, Donovan, Jones
This study uses qualitative sociological methodology to discover information and insights about the role of Incident Management Teams in wildland fire suppression costs. We interviewed 48 command and general staff members of Incident Management Teams throughout the United States…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bevers
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon, Abt
Decades of fire suppression in fire-prone forested regions of the western and southern United States has created conditions favorable for catastrophic wildfires. Systematic stand density reduction through mechanical methods or a combination of mechanical methods and prescribed…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Butler
This proposal outlines a request for funding to pay for equipment and travel costs incurred by a team that can be rapidly deployed to obtain measurements of energy transfer as naturally burning fires burn into and around clearings that may be characterized as firefighter safety…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Bevers
Recent studies for optimally deciding seasonal allocations of fire fighting resources suggest that stochastic integer programming and chance-constrained integer programming approaches should be explored. These problems can be very difficult to solve. This study develops…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Williams
Document detailing eight key steps to successfully developing CWPPs. As communities develop and implement their community wildfire protection plans (CWPP), they have successes that other communities may find useful as they begin their CWPP efforts. At a recent meeting of people…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bujak
To develop a web-based, GIS-interfaced CWPP monitoring tool to assess progress and outcomes of CWPP's. The availability of this web-based inventory and assessment tool will build capacity among key agencies, programs, and associations to link emerging CWPP's with geographic…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bujak, Burns
The primary intent of this update is to acquaint interested parties with the general framework for the upcoming case study research, and the significant areas of inquiry being pursued. The inquiry into collaboration in CWPP development is focused within three primary areas: the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bujak, Burns
Overview of transfer the practical knowledge gathered from the JFSP-CWPP project to selected wildfire mitigation, community and professional practitioners, local government officials, and fire managers at all levels. The inquiry into collaboration in CWPP development is focused…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gercke, Stewart
In 2005, eight U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management interdisciplinary teams participated in a test of strategic placement of treatments (SPOTS) techniques to maximize the effectiveness of fuel treatments in reducing problem fire behavior, adverse fire effects, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Finney
Modeling and experiments have suggested that spatial fuel treatment patterns can influence the movement of large fires. On simple theoretical landscapes consisting of two fuel types (treated and untreated) optimal patterns can be analytically derived that disrupt fire growth…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Page-Dumroese, Jurgensen
When sampling woody residue (WR) and organic matter (OM) present in forest floor, soil wood, and surface mineral soil (0-30 cm) in 14 mid- to late-successional stands across a wide variety of soil types and climatic regimes in the northwestern USA, we found that 44%-84% of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doane, O'Laughlin, Morgan, Miller
American society has a general cultural bias toward controlling nature (Glover 2000) and, in particular, a strong bias for suppressing wildfire, even in wilderness (Saveland et al. 1988). Nevertheless, the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy directs managers to 'allow…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
DeWilde, Chapin
Wildfire is the major natural agent of disturbance in interior Alaska. We examined the magnitude of human impact on fire by comparing fire regime between individual 1-km2 grid cells designated for fire suppression with lands where fires are allowed to burn naturally. Two-thirds…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Converse, White, Farris, Zack
Forest fuel reduction treatments are increasingly used by managers to reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire and to manage changes in the ecological function of forests. However, comparative ecological effects of the various types of treatments are poorly understood. We…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS