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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Smith, Kolden, Paveglio, Cochrane, Bowman, Moritz, Kliskey, Alessa, Hudak, Hoffman, Lutz, Queen, Goetz, Higuera, Boschetti, Flannigan, Yedinak, Watts, Strand, van Wagtendonk, Anderson, Stocks, Abatzoglou
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sun
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacGregor, Haynes
The emergence of large fires of long duration (also known as siege fires) with their inherently high costs has raised numerous questions about the opportunities for cost containment. Cost reviews from the 2003 fire season have revealed how additional knowledge created through…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Munson, Fisher
From the text ... 'A transfer of command should not be confused with a transition in fire behavior or in situational complexity on a fire. ...Recognizing potentially deadly changes in fire behavior should begin on the first day of fire season.'
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gass, Robinson
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nute, Potter, Cheng, Dass, Glende, Maierv, Routh, Uchiyama, Wang, Witzig, Twery, Knopp, Thomasma, Rauscher
We present a flexible, extensible method for integrating multiple tools into a single large decision support system (DSS) using a forest ecosystem management DSS (NED-2) as an example. In our approach, a rich ontology for the target domain is developed and implemented in the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Amacher, Malik, Haight
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saint-Germain, Larrivée, Drapeau, Fahrig, Buddle
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sampson, Sampson
The application of hazard and risk analysis to specific project areas prone to uncharacteristic wildland fires is a useful way to estimate the effects of management alternatives (including no action). These project-level analyses need to be done in the context of surrounding…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Maguire, Albright
Organizations managing forest land often make fire management decisions that seem overly risk-averse in relation to their stated goals for ecosystem restoration, protection of sensitive species and habitats, and protection of water and timber resources. Research in behavioral…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Borchers
The risks, uncertainties, and social conflicts surrounding uncharacteristic wildfire and forest resource values have defied conventional approaches to planning and decision-making. Paradoxically, the adoption of technological innovations such as risk assessment, decision…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stephens, Ruth
Forest-fire policy of U.S. federal agencies has evolved from the use of small patrols in newly created National Parks to diverse policy initiatives and institutional arrangements that affect millions of hectares of forests. Even with large expenditures and substantial…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
The 2005 fire season was unusually busy because weather conditions lined up the right combination of dry weather and ignitions from lightning strikes to result in large, long-lasting fires. On September 1, 2005, the number of acres burned in Alaska became greater than that of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Braun, Fouts, Silver, Putnam
The fire shelter is an integral part of wildland firefighting Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). There is growing concern, however, that firefighters may accept greater levels of risk while carrying them. Such concerns are consistent with Risk Homeostasis Theory, which…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has always been large in scale. The depth and breadth of the research conducted here, however, may surprise even many who are engaged in it. Our research programs have a wide geographical and temporal scope, an…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sullivan, Jones, Krueger, Zuuring, Troutwine
Presents a guide to the operation of MAGIS eXpress, a spatial decision support system. This program spatially schedules treatments and road activities for small landscapes to design vegetation management projects. MAGIS eXpress is designed to install and run on personal…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Nielsen-Pincus
Wildfire management requires significant institutional organization, a skilled workforce, facilities, and equipment. Sustaining this wildfire response capacity is critical to both agencies and fire-affected communities. Because fire suppression is seasonal and varies…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Bailey
The Incident Command System (ICS) exists as the nationwide standard for on-site incident management, as called for under the National Incident Management System (NIMS). However, the effectiveness of ICS is debated, both for its systemic efficacy as a response model and for its…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vigneaux
The U.S. federal wildland fire management system continues to experience rises in the number of acres burned annually and increases in management expenditures surrounded by firefighter death and injury. Despite a wealth of relevant academic research regarding wildland…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Alexander
The Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction (FBP) System is a systematic method for assessing wildland fire behavior potential. This field guide provides a simplified version of the system, presented in tabular format. It was prepared to assist field staff in making first…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rollins
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
This video covers 1) The organization of federal fire science; 2) The OSTP subcommittee on disaster reduction; 3) The Joing Fire Science Program and; 4) The Forest Service R&D.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
Lisa Saperstein, chair of the FMAC, provides updates to the Alaska Spring IMT/FMO meeting, March 31, 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
[Executive Summary] The Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 (FLAME Act) called for the development of a National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy). The Cohesive Strategy was created to serve as guidance to assist…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Douglas, Rice
The Department of the Interior’s (DOI’s) wildland fire program coordinates and provides strategic leadership and oversight that is vital to DOI and the American people. This dynamic program has evolved over the past two decades through its policies, organization, management, and…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Exceptional events are unusual or naturally occurring events that can affect air quality but are not reasonably controllable using techniques that tribal, state or local air agencies may implement in order to attain and maintain the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. …
Year: 2016
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES