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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Buisson, Archibald, Fidelis, Suding
Grasslands, which constitute almost 40% of the terrestrial biosphere, provide habitat for a great diversity of animals and plants and contribute to the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people worldwide. Whereas the destruction and degradation of grasslands can occur rapidly,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Santo, Huber-Stearns, Smith
This review paper synthesizes peer-reviewed empirical research published between 2010 and 2021 about wildland fire communication practices. Our goal was to systematically review and provide an overview of how wildland fire communication has been empirically studied, and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
To collect partner and employee input on the Wildfire Crisis Strategy 10-year Implementation Plan, the Forest Service and National Forest Foundation hosted a series of roundtable discussions in the winter and spring of 2022. Individual roundtables were focused on each of the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This open access book synthesizes current information on wildland fire smoke in the United States, providing a scientific foundation for addressing the production of smoke from wildland fires. This will be increasingly critical as smoke exposure and degraded air quality are…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In the spring of 2022, wildfires caused by escaped prescribed fires compelled Chief Randy Moore of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service to call for a 90-day pause in the agency’s prescribed fire program pending a program review.
A review team led…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bousquet, Mialon, Rodriguez-Fernandez, Mermoz, Kerr
Anthropogenic climate change is now considered to be one of the main factors causing an increase in both the frequency and severity of wildfires. These fires are prone to release substantial quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere and to endanger natural ecosystems and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires are among the worst natural and man-made disasters currently facing our nation. The damage a wildfire causes is multifaceted as it affects multiple areas of civilization and the safety and health of responding firefighters. Today, factors such as climate change and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, D’Evelyn
Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United States has created an environmental and social crisis that must be approached from a transdisciplinary perspective. This presentation will summarize a recently published article in Current Environmental Health…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Steen-Adams, Lake, Jones, Kruger
Multiple aspects of forest land management present research partnership opportunities for the USDA Forest Service and tribal nations. These aspects include forests, fuels, and ecocultural resources that often are appropriate to manage at the landscape scale. The impacts of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fernández-García, Marcos-Porras, Francos, Jiménez-Morillo, Calvo
[from the text] Impacts of fire on forest soils have been widely studied in the last decades. Early studies compared burned and unburned areas, revealing that soil properties and dynamics are significantly affected by fire. Moreover, the advancements in soil and fire sciences…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lake
As collaborative fire management projects between tribal and non-tribal entities are increasingly recognized for their potential to achieve both ecological and cultural fire management goals in a warming climate, it’s important that non-tribal researchers and resource managers…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Beginning in 1973, the National Silviculture Workshop (NSW) purposely brought together USDA Forest Service scientists from Research and Development and forest managers from the National Forest System to meet face-to-face to build a science and management partnership in…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Franz
The topic of “managed wildfire” is mired in complexity, starting with what to call it. This fire management approach has been known as “prescribed natural fire,” “wildland fire use,” “resource objective fire,” and more. All names refer to the same essential idea: leveraging…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Schultz, Bertone-Riggs, Brown, Goulette, Greiner, Kruse, Shively, Smith
[from the text] Our steering committee is dedicated to advancing federal policy to support wider use of prescribed fire and wildfire managed for resource benefits. Both these uses of fire are essential tools for fuel reduction, community protection, and the restoration of fire-…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in part because of changing climate conditions and decades of fire suppression. Though fire is a natural ecological process in many forest ecosystems, extreme wildfires now pose a growing threat to the nation’s natural…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Page-Dumroese, Coleman, Thomas
Biochar may be useful for restoring or revitalizing degraded forest soils and help with carbon sequestration, nutrient leaching losses, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, biochar is not currently widely used on forested lands across North America. This chapter…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Girona-García, Cretella, Fernández, Robichaud, Vieira, Keizer
Wildfires usually increase the hydrological and erosive response of forest areas, carrying high environmental, human, cultural, and financial on- and off-site effects. Post-fire soil erosion control measures have been proven effective at mitigating such responses, especially at…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hattenbach
A special session by the Fuels Community of Practice.
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Galatowitsch
Organizations entrusted with responsibilities and resources to repair ecosystems have for many decades pursued their defining purpose against long odds created by a host of inherent challenges, notably the long time frames required for ecological recovery and landscape-level…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Svejcar, Kerby, Svejcar, Mackey, Boyd, Baughman, Madsen, Davies
Restoration in dryland ecosystems is hindered by low establishment of seeded species. As such, evaluations of current seeding methods are critical to understanding limitations and barriers to seeding success. Drill seeding is perceived as an optimal seeding strategy in many…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Kennedy, Harrison, Alvarado, Desautel, Holford, Logue
Salvage logging is a controversial tool for post-wildfire management that removes fire-killed trees. We use a generalized randomized experimental design to fulfill two main objectives: (1) quantify the immediate (1-year post-harvest) effects of salvage logging on stand structure…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Charnley, Adams
Both the US Forest Service Wildfire Crisis Strategy and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that is funding the agency’s initial investments to reduce wildfire risk under the Strategy call for considering equity and environmental justice when implementing projects. During this…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Since 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has provided funding and science delivery for scientific studies associated with managing wildland fire, fuels, and fire-impacted ecosystems to respond to emerging needs of managers, practitioners, and policymakers from local to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pugh, Colley, Dugdale, Edwards, Flitcroft, Holz, Johnson, Mariani, Means-Brous, Meyer, Moffett, Renan, Schrodt, Thorne, Valman, Wijayratne, Field
Background
Historically, wildfire regimes produced important landscape-scale disturbances in many regions globally. The “pyrodiversity begets biodiversity” hypothesis suggests that wildfires that generate temporally and spatially heterogeneous mosaics of wildfire severity and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES