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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McNamara, Mell
Fires resulting from antecedent fires, known as exposure fires, can manifest across diverse environments, including suburban, urban, and rural areas. Notably, exposure fires represented by structure-destroying fires within the wildland–urban interface (WUI) can extend into non-…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Erni, Wang, Swystun, Taylor, Parisien, Robinne, Eddy, Oliver, Armitage, Flannigan
Large and intense wildfires are an integral part of many Canadian landscapes, playing a critical role in ecosystem dynamics. However, the recent catastrophic fire seasons have highlighted the threat that wildfires can pose to human communities. Identifying areas at higher fire…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Plevel
Wildland fires are destroying more homes and threatening more urban areas in the United States every year. Much of this destruction happens because more people are moving into the wildland-urban interface. A problem once thought unique to Southern California is now recognized as…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holsten
The spruce bark beetle Denaroctonus rutipennis activity levels in sc Alaska have increased to nearly a million acres of 'active' infestation. There have been many questions about the fire danger associated with the different phases of the spruce bark beetle's attack on a forest…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This brochure discusses what the Alaskan homeowner can do to help prevent a spruce beetle infestation in their trees and how to reduce fire hazard if they live in a forested area.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen, Saveland
The wildland-urban interface (W-UI) refers to residential areas surrounded by or adjacent to wildland areas. In recent years, significant W-UI residential fire losses have occurred nationwide in the United States that have focused attention on the principal W-UI problem - losses…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark, Hardy
Alaskans in general felt that fires burned communities elsewhere but not in their backyard. That all started to change after the disastrous Miller's Reach Fire in June of 1996. Now Alaskans are thinking about and discussing the hazards and destructive power of wildfire.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES