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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Anderson, Hallett, Berg, Jass, Toney, De Fontaine, De Volder
Several studies have noted a relationship between vegetation type and fire frequency, yet despite the importance of ecosystem processes such as fire the long-term relationships between disturbance, climate and vegetation type are incompletely understood. We analysed pollen,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brackley, Nicholls, Stiefel
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shepperd, Abt, Barbour, Fight, Miles, Reinhardt, Skog
The Fuel Treatment Evaluator (FTE 3.0) is a web-based tool that can be used to explore the impacts of alternative thinning intensities for any forest area in the United States. This paper will explain the Stand Density Index-based prescription engine used in uneven-aged…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott
Federal wildland fire management programs have readily embraced the practice of fuel treatment. Wildland fire risk is quantified as expected annual loss ($ yr-1 or $ yr-1 ac-1). Fire risk at a point on the landscape is a function of the probability of burning at that point, the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Lutes, Scott
This paper describes the FuelCalc computer program. FuelCalc is a tool to compute surface and canopy fuel loads and characteristics from inventory data, to support fuel treatment decisions by simulating effects of a wide range of silvicultural treatments on surface fuels and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons
Efforts to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of fuels treatments are hampered by inconsistencies between the spatial scale at which fuel treatments are implemented and the spatial scale, and detail, with which we model fire and fuel interactions. Central to this scale…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McHugh
Fire managers are required to evaluate and justify the effectiveness of planned fuel treatments in modifying fire growth, behavior and effects on resources and assets. With the number of models currently available, today's fire manager can become overwhelmed when deciding which…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hom, Van Tuyl, Iverson, Cole, Clark, Skowronski, Patterson
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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
Sturtevant, McCaffrey
Managers may often wonder why some people do not choose to adopt defensible space practices despite understanding the benefits of doing so. Research has sought to understand why a new practice or innovation is or is not adopted. This paper will briefly discuss factors found to…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stewart, Radeloff, Hammer
This paper presents a map of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) in 2000 for the lower 48 States of the United States. The WUI was extensive, covering 9 percent of the land area in the lower 48 States and encompassing 38 percent of all homes. Major WUI areas are located along the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shiralipour, Monroe, Nelson, Payton
Several government agencies and other natural resource managers have instituted outreach programs to promote wildfire preparedness in wildland-urban interface (WUI) neighborhoods that complement community-wide efforts. To help these programs become more effective, research was…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Prototype Project, or LANDFIRE Prototype Project, began in April of 2002 and ended in April of 2005. The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior. The…
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
Myers, O'Brien, Morrison
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Monroe, Pennisi, McCaffrey, Mileti
A series of syntheses were commissioned by the USDA Forest Service to aid in fuels mitigation project planning. This synthesis focuses on how managers can most effectively communicate with the public about fuels management efforts. It summarizes what is known about the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
Presents key social science findings from three National Fire Plan-sponsored research projects. Articles highlight information of likely interest to individuals working to decrease wildfire hazards on both private and public lands. Three general topic areas are addressed: (1)…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutes, Keane, Caratti, Key, Benson, Sutherland, Gangi
Monitoring and inventory to assess the effects of wildland fire is critical for 1) documenting fire effects, 2) assessing ecosystem damage and benefit, 3) evaluating the success or failure of a burn, and 4) appraising the potential for future treatments. However, monitoring fire…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Holsinger
This paper describes WXFIRE, a computer program that computes spatially explicit climate-based, biophysical variables at any landscape scale or resolution using daily weather data, topography, and soils parameters, and a diverse set of integrated environmental functions. WXFIRE…
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
McCaffrey
Public risk perception that managers may see as inappropriately low may not necessarily be a result of poor understanding but instead may be a result of self-selection and of mental balancing of benefits and risk. This study highlights the complexity of factors considered when…
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
Conard, Hilbruner, Riebau, Langner, Burch, Beighley, Weise, Sandberg, Edminster, Heilman, Jewell, Saveland, Miller, Parsons, Hoover, Ottmar, Potter, Brett
This document presents the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Wildland Fire and Fuels Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan for the next 10 years (through 2015). The plan provides a framework to implement a national program of research and science…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES