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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ottmar, Hardy, Hilbruner, Vanderlinden, Vihnanek, Wade, Weise, Wooster
The primary objective of this project is: To continue the development of the natural fuels photo series to include a maximum of 10 additional fuel types not covered by previous projects. The goals of this objective are to: (1) complete an assessment of the literature and the…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Hiers
Knowing the amount of biomass and other fuel characteristics across a landscape is becoming increasingly important to fire managers as new fuel and fire management decision support systems come on line, Often, few fuel characteristic data are available to the extent, or…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Agee, Decker
There is relatively little scientific understanding of mixed severity fire regimes, compared to low severity fire regimes. However, mixed severity regimes widespread in the United States, and ecology and fuel treatments must be considered in the current manadate to accelerate…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Scott
The project has four general objectives: link two JFSP-funded studies, take advantage of a unique opportunity to use inventory data and stand treatments that have already been funded to enrich our study of canopy fuels, add forest types and conditions to the canopy fuels photo…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Jakes
This Joint Fire Science Program proposal seeks to characterize and compare different collaborative planning efforts for community protection and ecosystem restoration related to wildfire, and to determine key elements of collaborative success (Task 2 of AFP, 2003-1). There is a…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Bradshaw, Ferguson, Goodrick, Werth
Fine-scale weather data are becoming increasing available for fire weather and fire danger forecasting to support tactical fire preparedness and prescribed fire planning. Unfortunately, appropriate techniques to implement the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) with short…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Parsons
Unroaded areas and areas managed as wilderness provide unique opportunities for applying wildland fire use (WFU) as a fuels management strategy and as a method for restoring historical fire regimes. But can WFU successfully restore historical fire regimes? An untested but common…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hesseln, Loomis, Rideout
This study is an integrated economic assessment of alternative fuels treatments. We examine ecological, economic and financial aspects of alternative fuels treatments paying particular attention to market and non-market costs and benefits, property damage, smoke, air quality,…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Bowker, Green, Johnson, Rideout-Hanzak
The proposed project is designed to contribute to Task 1, Part 3 of RFP 2001-1 from the JFSP. Generally, the proposed study aims to improve understanding of the perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes of the public regarding fire, fire risk and fire recovery techniques in…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Day, Brown, Hitchcock, Latham, Wiitala
The purpose of this pre-proposal is to investigate the complex decision environment related to predicting preparedness levels for the national wildland fire program to a degree sufficient to develop a proposal for submission to the Joint Fire Sciences Program and the National…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Omi, Hunter, Kalkhan, Martinson
We propose the first standardized investigation of the relationships among fuels, wildfire severity, exotic plant invasions, and post-fire fuel flammability in grasslands, shrublands, and forests across the western US. This proposal responds to the 2000-1 Request for Proposals (…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Brunson
This study is designed to evaluate the public's understanding and acceptance of different wildland fuel treatments in federal forest and rangeland settings. Specifically, its purpose is to 1) identify the factors that influence the acceptability of fuels reduction strategies and…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Zhu, Fleming, Hoppus, Ohlen, van Wagtendonk
This project addresses requirements by the current RFP for more accurate, efficient, and cost-effective development of data for fire fuel research and management (Task 3). By focusing on development of fire fuel input layers, we propose to develop a simple and innovative…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Elliot, Pierson, Wohlgemuth
The specific objectives to accomplish this goal are: 1. To adapt existing technology and incorporate new information into an integrated management tool for predicting erosion risk from fire and fuel management practices. 2. To determine hillslope characteristics that govern dry…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Maus
Mapping bum severity after wildfire events has been the focus of burn rehabilitation crews for decades. Burn severity can vary depending upon the type of fuel present and the duration of the fire in a given location, typically, burn severity is mapped as high, medium, or low.…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Edminster, Swetnam
Forum: Bring together key decision makers, information providers, researchers, and managers to discuss climate implications for management of forest fire hazards and prescribed burning. Consensus Climate Forecast. Climate forecast experts will present their latest seasonal…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Adams, Dale, Mann, Vanderlinden
Interior Alaska contains 140 million burnable acres and includes the largest National Parks and National Wildlife Refuges in the country. On average, wildland fires burn 1,000,000 acres in Interior Alaska each year and threaten the lives, property, and timber resources of Alaska…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
The over all objective of the Rainbow Series Project is to write, publish, and distribute a series of 'state of the art' reviews of the effects of fire on fauna, flora, air, cultural resources, and soil and water (5 volumes). The Missoula Fire Lab proposes to complete the…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mell, Forney, Rehm
Currently there are no fire spread models evaluated for use in wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. A number of possible model approaches can be applied to WUI fires. They can range from the relatively simple rule or empirically based to the very complex physics based. Each…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Foltz, Showers
The increased size and severity of wildland fires require increasingly effective BAER treatments. A commonly used BAER treatment is mulching, the spreading of agricultural straw by hand or from the air using a helicopter. While widely used and fairly reasonably effective at…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon
A Fire Prevention Effectiveness Assessment for Multiple Ownerships Fire managers and policy makers have a variety of means of intervening in fire processes to reduce the long-run discounted sum of costs and losses from wildfire. These include preventing and suppressing wildfires…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olmstead, Kousky, Sedjo
This project will test the hypothesis that public fire suppression in forested areas increases the fraction of developed land in these areas, drawing people and structures into the wildland/urban interface. To test this hypothesis, we will construct statistical models that…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black, Jahn, Putnam
Wildland firefighting crews are considered High Reliability Organizations (HROs) because their members operate in hazardous environments with low rates of error. However, the level of error currently experienced is higher than desired. To improve the safety and performance…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Vavra, Cook, Wisdom
Landscape Fire Succession Models (LFSMs) are not able to account for influences that large grazing herbivores have on succession and fuel dynamics. Grazing is nevertheless a highly variable disturbance agent that does influence the development of wild land fuels, and thus by…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Loehman
Climate projections for the next 20-50 years forecast higher temperatures and variable precipitation for many landscapes in the western United States and many ecosystem and fire modelers are using gridded future climate data generated and synthesized from one or more Global…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES