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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Ziel, Newman, Walbrun
As the fire community aspires to promote firefighter safety and best practices, this webinar strives to share information regarding lessons learned from the 2016 wildfire season. Every fire season there are parts of the country that receive a lot of fire activity and…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Santín, Doerr
Soils are among the most valuable non-renewable resources on the Earth. They support natural vegetation and human agro-ecosystems, represent the largest terrestrial organic carbon stock, and act as stores and filters for water. Mankind has impacted on soils from its early days…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Belcher
Studies of palaeofire rely on quantifying the abundance of fossil charcoals in sediments to estimate changes in fire activity. However, gaining an understanding of the behaviour of palaeofires is also essential if we are to determine the palaeoecological impact of wildfires.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Learn basic fire behavior terminology, including the parts of the fire, types of fire, and associated fire behavior. In this video you will learn: 1) How is fire behavior related to the fire environment? 2) What are the basic measures of fire behavior? 3) What are the parts of a…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
What is dead fuel moisture, how does it changes over time, why it is important for fire management. In this video you will learn: 1) What is dead fuel moisture? 2) Why is this important information for fire managers? 3) What is moisture of extinction? 4) What is equilibrium…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Buchanan, Menakis, Finney, Romero, Human
he Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which established the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) Program, asks that CFLR projects “Facilitate the reduction of wildfire management costs and risks, including through reestablishing natural fire regimes.”…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
The escalating awareness of non-forested landscapes and realization that more emphasis is needed for an all lands approach to management increasingly requires timely information to improve management effectiveness. The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) has been used in a large…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Helmbrecht, Blankenship
The LANDFIRE Program provides 'wall-to-wall' geospatial data of vegetation, wildland fuel, fire regime, disturbance, and topographic characteristics for the United States (Rollins 2009). LANDFIRE data are often an excellent choice for wildland fire and land management planning…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rowell
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Understanding fine-scale variability in understory fuels is increasingly important as physics-based fire behavior models are driving needs for higher resolution ata. Describing fuelbeds three dimensionally is…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Wells, Pimont, Jolly, Linn, Mell
The STANDFIRE project was funded by the JFSP to develop a prototype modeling system that could link widely available fuels data from FFE-FVS to physics-based fire models, providing an alternative approach for calculating fire behavior at stand scales. The objectives of the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Molina
Allen Molina outlines the plans for getting homeowner input and economic data for the Alaska Fuel Treatment Effectiveness project.
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
Thoman, Lader, Mölders
Rick Thoman, Rick Lader, and Nicole Molders presented at the IARC Research Salon Series, May 19, 2016. Rick Thoman, Climate Science and Services Manager, NWS Alaska Region: Seasonal scale forecasting of the atmospheric drivers important to wildfire (0-15:50); Rick Lader, PhD…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cohen
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jolly
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Wildland fire potential is best described as a combination of available fuels, suitable weather conditions and sources of ignitions and weather is the most spatially and temporally variable of these three…
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
Potter, Conkling
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi- State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Bonds, Long
Burning forest canopies when the surface fuels are unavailable to spread has been conceived as a safe way to reduce the hazard of forests susceptible to crown fires (Schroeder and Dakin 2008). In Interior Alaska spruce forests, particularly black spruce, are recognized as a…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McAllister, Finney
Wood cribs are often used as ignition sources for room fire tests and the well characterized burning rates may also have applications to wildland fires. The burning rate of wildland fuel structures, whether the needle layer on the ground or trees and shrubs themselves, is not…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gibson, Turetsky, Cottenie, Kane, Houle, Kasischke
Questions: How does fire severity, measured as depth of burn of ground layer fuels, control the regeneration of understorey species across black spruce-dominated stands varying in pre-fire organic layer depths? Are successional shifts from evergreen to deciduous understorey…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Partain, Alden, Bhatt, Bieniek, Brettschneider, Lader, Olsson, Rupp, Strader, Thoman, Walsh, York, Ziel
The 2015 Alaska fire season burned the second largest number of acres since records began in 1940. Human-induced climate change may have increased the risk of a fire season of this severity by 34%–60%.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Limb, Fuhlendorf, Engle, Miller
Rangelands are fire-dependent ecosystems severely altered through direct fire suppression and fuels management. The removal of fire is a dominant cause of ecological sites moving across thresholds with the majority of North American rangelands currently showing moderate or high…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prescribed fire is applied widely as a management tool in North America to meet various objectives such as reducing fuel loads and fuel continuity, returning fire to an ecosystem, enhancing wildlife habitats, improving forage, preparing seedbeds, improving watershed conditions,…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Parsons, Dupuy, Jolly, Linn, Mell, Pimont, Rigolot, deColigny
Accurate characterization of stand scale fuel treatment effectiveness is necessary before such treatments can be robustly considered at landscape scales. Fire behavior predictions are key components in evaluating fuel treatments, which may include a mixture of mechanical…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES