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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Armatas, Borrie, Watson
Despite the generally accepted need for understanding social vulnerability within the context of USDA Forest Service planning and management, there is a lack of structured approaches available to practitioners to gain such an understanding. This social vulnerability protocol…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
CMATs work closely with incident management teams, Forest Service or other land management agencies, community residents and leaders to identify mitigation opportunities before a wildfire impacts the community. CMATs work with local partners to identify and help them resolve…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Potter, Borsum, Haines
From the text ... 'This article updates the uses of the fire severity index called the Haines Index (HI). We discuss the original intended use of HI, its current operational use, some ways that users have modified it, and different aspects of HI that researchers are examining to…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
From the text ... 'This article discusses factors that are critical to both firefighters and fire managers in ensuring a safe and productive workforce. First, it discusses such items as the work environment, the firefighter workforce, physical fitness, nutrition, work/rest…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The following table shows how safety violations identified by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) during its investigation of the Thirtymile Fire accident correspond to action items called for under the USDA Forest Service's Thirtymile…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nazzaro, Bixler, Barden, Braza, Davis, Feehan, Johnson, O'Neill, Padilla, Pagano
From What GAO Recommends ... 'GAO is recommending that the Forest Service and BLM improve their information on whether postfire rehabilitation and restoration needs are met, and that the Forest Service augment research to help guide decisions. In commenting on a draft of this…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Driessen
Describes the role played by crew cohesion in the deaths of firefighters in three firefighting tragedies: the Mann Gulch Fire, the South Canyon Fire, and the Thirtymile Fire. Two types of cohesion are involved, the cohesion within a crew (intracrew cohesion) and the cohesion…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hill, Janik, Belak, Cotton, Dominicci, Johnson, Jones, Joy, Vargas
From the text ... 'Our work has shown that a single focal point is critical for efforts -- such as reducing severe wildland fires and the vegetation that fuels them -- that involve many federal agencies as well as state and local governments, the private sector, and private…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kenworthy
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cansler
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Predictive models of tree mortality and survival are vital for management planning and understanding fire effects in forest communities and landscapes. Post-fire tree mortality has been traditionally modeled as…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Prichard, Kennedy, Andreu, Eagle, French, Billmire
Biomass mapping is used in variety of applications including carbon assessments, emission inventories, and wildland fire and fuel planning. Single values are often applied to individual pixels to represent biomass of classified vegetation, but each biomass estimate has…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kerski
Use modern web-based geotechnologies to collect, map, spatially analyze, and explain the results of your work to others. These tools include Survey123, ArcGIS Online, Operations Dashboards, and story maps. Join geographer and educator Joseph Kerski for an exploration and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Belval, Wei, Bevers
Wildland firefighting requires managers to make decisions in complex decision environments that hold many uncertainties; these decisions need to be adapted dynamically over time as fire behavior evolves. Models used in firefighting decisions should also have the capability to…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moore
Purpose of Review: This review is on global wildland fire management research needs from the standpoint of 'integrated fire management'. It seeks to apply a characterisation of fires to frame research needs, and also recognise some differences in research needs between 'normal…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Noble, Anderson
A demonstration of the Landscape Burn Probability in IFTDSS.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ernstrom, Hyde
Current and future development of IFTDSS and a demonstration of the Map Values feature that was added in Version 3.2.0.2.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt
Presented by: Randi Jandt, Alaska Fire Science Consortium
November 20th, 2019
Powerpoint presentation from Special Session Fire in the Last Frontier: 21st Century Fire Patterns, Behavior, and Pyroecology of North American Boreal Forests and Tundra presented as part of the 8th…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE) - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) initiated the Fire and Smoke Model Experiment (FASMEE) (https://sites.google.com/firenet.gov/fasmee/) by funding Project 15-S-01-01 to identify and collect a set of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
Presented for Lesson 31 of the S-590 Advanced Fire Behavior Interpretation Course at the National Advanced Resource Technology Center in Marana, Arizona, 10-22 March 2002.
Outline of Presentation:I. CFFDRS StructureII. Fire Weather Index Module or SubsystemIII. Fire Behavior…
Year: 2002
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brown
In the last 50 years, Federal fire policy has undergone tremendous change. Some people (including the author) can still remember when the goal of wildland firefighting was simple: put out every fire by 10 a.m. on the morning after it was first detected. Since then, Federal…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Boyatzis, Thiel, Rochford
Effective leadership of wildland fire operations requires paying careful attention to the fire itself and to relationships both internal and external to the incident. At the center of the action is the incident commander (IC), who must integrate her or his skill in managing the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harbour
Fires that occur outside buildings, improvements, and structures, whether fueled by grass, brush, forest, timber, or other materials, are the wildland fires we deal with in the fire service. A wildland fire can take many forms: thousands of acres of trees on fire; the purposeful…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Christiansen
Historically, wildland fire fundamentally shaped the American landscape, and it continues to do so today in a highly modified environment. Forest, brush, and range fires were common in 'presettlement' times, and the American Indians realized the important role fire played in…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Friggens
FireCLIME (Fire-Climate Landscape Interactions in Montane Ecosystems) Vulnerability Assessment v3.1 is a macro-enabled Excel file (xlsm). A user guide is also available below.
Year: 2019
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES