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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Bieniek
Presentation by Peter Bieniek at the 2017 Alaska Fall Fire Science Workshop, October 10, 2017.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
de Groot
This webinar addresses the following subjects regarding CanFIRE: CFFDRS science-management integration model; Stand-level, fire behaviour-based model; Simulates physical and ecological fire effects; Small scale (fire behaviour) to large scale (fire regimes); New fuel consumption…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rutherford, Schultz
Presentation by Courtney Schultz and Tait Rutherford at the 2017 Alaska Fall Fire Science Workshop, October 10, 2017.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mockrin
Becoming a fire-adapted community that can live with wildfire is envisioned as a continuous, iterative process of adaptation. We combined national and case study research to examine how experience with wildfire alters the built environment and community- and government-level…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Colavito
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) is a boundary organization that works across the science-management interface to enhance the role that scientific information plays in decision-making for fire management in Alaska. We conducted a case study of AFSC to examine how they…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Dunn, Calkin
A changing climate, changing development and land use patterns, and increasing pressures on ecosystem services raise global concerns over growing losses associated with wildland fires. New management paradigms acknowledge that fire is inevitable and often uncontrollable, and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The National Incident Management System: Wildland Fire Qualification System Guide standardizes the minimum NWCG requirements for federal state, and local agencies in providing resources to fill a national interagency request for all types of wildland fire incidents.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a forest dynamics modeling system with geographic variants covering forested areas of the contiguous United States. As a direct descendant of the Prognosis model of the 1970/80s, FVS has seen continuous development and use for over 40…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bastian
This webinar, led by LANDFIRE Business Lead Henry Bastian, will cover more than a decade old program (LANDFIRE) at producing and updating land cover data products across all 50 United States and insular areas. Although many have thought of LANDFIRE as only a wildland fire data…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Holt, Lehr, Lynn
FEMA Region 10 supports 271 tribes of which many have proactively developed a tribal mitigation plan. Tribal mitigation planning provides the framework for a multidisciplinary approach to natural hazards risk reduction. Join the FEMA Region 10 Mitigation Planning team as we…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Dunn, Thompson, Calkin
The impacts of wildfires have increased in recent decades because of historical forest and fire management, a rapidly changing climate, and an increasingly populated wildland urban interface. This increasingly complex fire environment highlights the importance of developing…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
When disaster strikes, people pitch in to help the response effort. One of the key positions in this effort is the Resource Advisor (READ). They provide professional knowledge and expertise for the protection of natural, cultural, and special management areas. This guide will…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Skaggs, Rizza, Cardwell
Addressing ‘climate change’ at the local, state, or Tribal-level may feel like trying to tackle an amorphous idea, on top of an already heavy work load. The natural hazards mitigation plan, however, can provide a structured format for addressing specific impacts of climate…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The Interagency Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation Procedures Guide establishes national interagency standards for the planning and implementation of prescribed fire. These standards: 1) Describe what is minimally acceptable for prescribed fire planning and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Prescribed Fire Complexity Rating System Guide establishes interagency prescribed fire complexity analysis standards. The analysis provides a focused, subjective assessment by qualified prescribed fire burn bosses that is evaluated and approved by Agency Administrators, and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holt, Perry, Adams
The heart of any natural hazards mitigation plan is the mitigation strategy. The strategy serves as the long-term blueprint for reducing your potential losses identified in the risk assessment. The mitigation strategy describes how you will accomplish the overall purpose of the…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Blankenship, Beauchaine, Helmbrecht, Patton
Keeping fuel data current over time is an issue faced by many wildland fire managers. Natural events like wildfires and hurricanes, and human activities, such as forest thinning, prescribed fire, and development constantly change the landscape and quickly render fuel data out of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Officials GAO interviewed from the five federal agencies responsible for wildland fire management-the Forest Service with in the Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service with in…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Katuwal, Dunn, Calkin
Currently, limited research on large-fire suppression effectiveness suggests fire managers may over-allocate resources relative to values to be protected. Coupled with observations that weather may be more important than resource abundance to achieve control objectives, resource…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stonesifer, Calkin, Hand
Wildland firefighting in the United States is a complex and costly enterprise. While there are strong seasonal signatures for fire occurrence in specific regions of the United States, spatiotemporal occurrence of wildfire activity can have high inter-annual variability.…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dunn, Calkin, Thompson
Wildfire’s economic, ecological and social impacts are on the rise, fostering the realisation that business-as-usual fire management in the United States is not sustainable. Current response strategies may be inefficient and contributing to unnecessary responder exposure to…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rollins, Rodriguez-Franco, Haan, Conard
The Research and Development (R&D) Wildland Fire and Fuels program at the Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, continues to be an internationally renowned program for generating critical and essential data, knowledge, and applications for all…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This guide provides homeowners with tools to assess your home's wildfire risk and prioritizes actions you can take to reduce that risk. The assessment worksheet included with this guide is intended to help you understand your risk and where vulnerabilities on your property may…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schoennagel, Balch, Brenkert-Smith, Dennison, Harvey, Krawchuk, Mietkiewicz, Morgan, Moritz, Rasker, Turner, Whitlock
Wildfires across western North America have increased in number and size over the past three decades, and this trend will continue in response to further warming. As a consequence, the wildland–urban interface is projected to experience substantially higher risk of climate-…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hvizdak, Bailey, Fischer, Boykin, Decker
As part of our effort to advance policies and practices that sustain working lands, connected landscapes, and native species, WLA is offering this interactive practitioner exchange focused on prescribed fire on private land. We are enlisting a panel of experts from across the…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES