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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
Type
Topic
Year
Displaying 51 - 75 of 76
Behrendt, Payyappalli, Zhuang
The estimated cost of fire in the United States is about $329 billion a year, yet there are gaps in the literature to measure the effectiveness of investment and to allocate resources optimally in fire protection. This article fills these gaps by creating data‐driven empirical…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ager, Houtman, Day, Ringo, Palaiologou
US public land management agencies are faced with multiple, often conflicting objectives to meet management targets and produce a wide range of ecosystem services expected from public lands. One example is managing the growing wildfire risk to human and ecological values while…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parajuli, Joshi, Poudyal, Kreuter
Prescribed burning is a widely used tool in forest and grassland management. However, because fire that escapes from a prescribed burn accidentally may cause property damage, injuries, and even human casualties, purchasing insurance to cover such damages may be beneficial for…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A Preparedness Guide for Firefighters and Their Families provides honest information, resources, and conversation starters to give you, the firefighter, tools that will be helpful in preparing yourself and your family for realities of a career in wildland firefighting. This…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steblein, Miller
Wildland fire characteristics, such as area burned, number of large fires, burn intensity, and fire season duration, have increased steadily over the past 30 years, resulting in substantial increases in the costs of suppressing fires and managing damages from wildland fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmeltz, Marcotullio
Government officials, health professionals, and other decision makers are tasked with characterizing vulnerability and understanding how populations experience risks associated with exposure to climate-related hazards. Spatial analyses of vulnerable locations have given rise to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
As a pervasive disturbance agent operating at many spatial and temporal scales, wildland fre is a key abiotic factor affecting forest health both positively and negatively. In some ecosystems, for example, wildland fres have been essential for regulating processes that maintain…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This video provides a brief overview of a new approach to examine the potential health effects that wildland firefighters may experience working on wildland fires. This effort is a collaboration between the National Institute for Occupation Safety and Health (NIOSH), the U.S.…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jolly, Freeborn, Page, Butler
Despite major advances in numerical weather prediction, few resources exist to forecast wildland fire danger conditions to support operational fire management decisions and community early-warning systems. Here we present the development and evaluation of a spatial fire danger…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morton, Magness
The western Kenai has warmed and dried in last 50 years. Large ecological changes which have been documented include: – decreasing available water (60% loss since 1968); drying wetlands (6 – 11% per decade); receding glaciers (-11% surface area, -21m elevation, +55% thinning…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hammond, Strand, Hudak, Newingham
Background: Fire has historically been a primary control on succession and vegetation dynamics in boreal systems, although modern changing climate is potentially increasing fire size and frequency. Large, often remote fires necessitate large-scale estimates of fire effects and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Meldrum, Brenkert-Smith, Champ, Gomez, Falk, Barth
Fire science emphasizes that mitigation actions on residential property, including structural hardening and maintaining defensible space, can reduce the risk of wildfire at a home. Accordingly, a rich body of social science literature investigates the determinants of wildfire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Page, Freeborn, Butler, Jolly
Wildland firefighters in the United States are exposed to a variety of hazards while performing their jobs. Although vehicle accidents and aircraft mishaps claim the most lives, situations where firefighters are caught in a life-threatening, fire behaviour-related event (i.e. an…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McEvoy
Presented by Dan McEvoy, Desert Research Institute and Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV
Despite a clear link between drought and wildfire, there is currently a lack of information for stakeholders at the regional and local levels for improved wildfire risk management…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bastian
The Landscape Burn Probability Model quantifies the likelihood and intensity of a fire occurring under a fixed set of weather and fuel moisture conditions. It is one of the key pieces to conducting an Exposure Analysis which contributes to a comprehensive Quantitative Wildfire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rossiello, Szema
Global warming is a phenomenon that is affecting society in sundry ways. As of 2017, Earth’s global surface temperature increased 0.9°C compared to the average temperature in the mid-1900s. Beyond this change in temperature lies significant threats to human health in the form of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
DeFlorio-Barker, Crooks, Reyes, Rappold
Background: The effects of exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) during wildland fires are not well understood in comparison with PM2.5 exposures from other sources. Objectives: We examined the cardiopulmonary effects of short-term exposure to PM2.5 on smoke days in the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roberts, Jones, Duke, Shinbrot, Harper, Fons, Cheng, Wolk
A number of watershed partnerships have emerged in the western US to address the impacts of wildfire through investing in wildfire mitigation activities. To motivate collective action and design effective risk mitigation programs, these stakeholders draw on evidence linking…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reich, Rappold, Johnston, Morgan, Fann, Cope, Broome
Fire smoke is a major contributor to both particulate matter (PM) and ozone exposure in urban centers. Epidemiological, clinical, and toxicological studies have demonstrated a casual relationship between these pollutants and cardiovascular and respiratory related deaths and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Snyder, Butler, Markowski-Lindsay
Sixty percent of family forest ownerships in the United States of America (USA) own between 0.4 and 4.0 ha (1–9 ac). Yet, little is known about this segment of family forest ownerships because they are often excluded from data collection or analyses. We utilized national data…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Naderpour, Rizeei, Khakzad, Pradhan
Forest fires threaten a large part of the world's forests, communities, and industrial plants, triggering technological accidents (Natechs). Forest fire modelling with respect to contributing spatial parameters is one of the well-known ways not only to predict the fire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Corrieri, Roy, Rose-Davison, Roy
The incidence of large, uncontained wildfires in North America has increased in recent years, significantly impacting both urban and agriculturally-focused areas. The physical damage and health pressures left in the wake of uncontrolled fires has especially devastated farm and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaur, Sood
Wildfires are extremely destructive disasters that cause significant loss of lives, forest cover and wildlife. This is due to their uncontrolled, erratic, rapid spread and behaviour. The incidence of wildfires is expected to increase worldwide because of Global Warming.…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jain
Mastication, a method once used almost exclusively by utility companies to reduce vegetation beneath power lines, is now also regarded as a useful treatment for preparing a site for planting, releasing sapling-sized trees, or reducing surface fuels in fire-prone forest …
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES