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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Pratt
A discussion about the calibration of fire models is presented by Ben Pratt.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCoy, Elenz, Vergari, Floyd, Dykehouse, Soper, Fay
Listen to the experiences and lessons learned from veteran fire management officers regarding prescribed fire and fire use.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Schaefers, Tremblatt
Julie Schaefers, Social Scientist, and Carrie Tremblatt, US Forest Service, Region 2, discuss the social science components of prescribed fire and other management activities at the Hayman Fire Science Symposium: Lessons Learned after Ten Years of Recovery, Rehabilitation, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Miller
Important seasonal fuel moisture data is lacking in Alaska. In 2012, several areas collected duff and live fuel moisture samples throughout the summer to calibrate and validate CFFDRS indices, to monitor prescribed fires and adjust staffing levels. Continued monitoring in 2013…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jolly
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
This webinar focuses on how plants burn and where and under what conditions. It is a mixture of plant physiology and combustion characteristics, and understanding why plants burn at certain times.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jolly
Live fuel moisture is measured frequently throughout the country as an indicator of potential fire behavior but little is known about the primary factors that drive their seasonal variations. Dr. Matt Jolly will delve into the interactive factors that control live fuel moisture…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cochrane
Large wildfire frequency has increased several-fold in recent decades throughout the western United States. These changes have resulted from a combination of human land use practices, altered climates and shifting forest and fire management policies. These fires have had…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McHugh
FlamMap is a fire behavior mapping and analysis program that computes potential fire behavior characteristics (spread rate, flame length, fireline intensity, etc.) over an entire FARSITE landscape for constant weather and fuel moisture conditions. Since 2006 FlamMap3 has been…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Drury
The web-based Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) was designed to provide fire and fuels managers with a single software solution to manage the many data types, software applications, and tools available for fuels treatment planning. The IFTDSS project…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Blankenship
The LANDFIRE product suite includes a set of aspatial, quantitative, ecological models that describe vegetation and disturbance dynamics for every Biophysical Setting (BpS) mapped by LANDFIRE. The models were developed by more than 700 experts through a series of workshops and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Long
One of the main objectives for the LANDFIRE project recently has been to update vegetation and fuel products to reflect disturbance and vegetation succession that have occurred on the landscape since the initial LANDFIRE National circa 2001 products. This process has resulted in…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Blankenship
LANDFIRE fire regime products characterize reference fire frequency and severity and vegetation departure for the entire U.S. The datasets in this product suite include Biophysical Settings, Succession Class, Fire Regime Group, Mean Fire Return Interval, Reference Fire Severity…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Smail
This presentation will provide spatial fuel analysts an evolutionary assessment on the development of LANDFIRE (LF) fuel attributes. Reviewing the progression of LANDFIRE fuel data layers will point out critical junctures, important user input, processing procedures, and the…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Lundberg
To help develop and update LANDFIRE data products, LANDFIRE has relied on a vast collection of geo-referenced data. LANDFIRE 2001 National data collection efforts were focused on vegetation and fuel plot data, which were processed into the LANDFIRE Reference Database (LFRDB).…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rollins
Since its inception in 2003, the LANDFIRE project has employed a wide range of nationally consistent methods in order to produce a large suite of vegetation and fuel and fire regime products for the fire management community. These products have also been found to be useful for…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Peterson
A facilitated panel discussion of the eight presentations (including the introduction) from the the session: Looking Back for a Clear View of the Future: 1999 to 2012 (a concurrent session of the Fifth International Fire Ecology and Management Congress: Uniting Research,…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Fuels are often defined based on the physical characteristics of live and dead biomass that contribute to wildland fire. Because these characteristics affect the character, size, intensity, and duration of fires, fuels are important to the understanding of fire behavior and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Werth
Extreme fire behavior indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning/spotting, presence of fire whirls, and strong convection…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barrett, Jones
The FRCC Mapping Tool quantifies the departure of vegetation conditions and fire regimes from a set of reference conditions representing the historical range of variation. The tool, which operates from an ArcGIS platform, derives several metrics of departure (e.g., vegetation…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wright
Recent science communication studies of the federal fire management community suggest managers access research via informal information networks, and that these networks vary by both agency and position. We used a phone survey to understand the informal science communication…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Vaillant
Wildland fire risk assessment and fuel management planning on federal lands in the U.S. is a complex problem that often requires advanced fire behavior modeling and intensive spatial data analyses. Both the benefits and potential impacts of proposed fuel treatments must be…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ager
The Landscape Treatment Designer (LTD) is a multicriteria spatial prioritization and optimization system to help design and explore landscape fuel treatment scenarios. The program fills a gap between fire model programs such as FlamMap, and planning systems such as ArcFuels, in…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Barrett
Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) is an interagency, standardized tool for determining the degree of departure from reference condition vegetation structure and composition and fire regimes. FRCC metrics can help guide management objectives and set priorities for treatments.…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strand, Hyde
WFAT provides an interface between ArcMap, FlamMap 5, and the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), combining their strengths into a spatial fire behavior and fire effects analysis tool in GIS. In the webinar, you will learn how to use WFAT to locate potential fuel treatment…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Toney, Jones
Chris Toney (US Forest Service, RMRS/LANDFIRE Project) and Jeff Jones (RMRS Wildland Fire Management RD&A, Whitefish, MT), presented the webinar titled LANDFIRE Data Access Tool, on February 15, 2012 at 12 pm MST. The LANDFIRE Data Access Tool (LFDAT) allows users to…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES