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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Reeves
The FVS is currently incapable of estimating succession, biomass and fuels of non-forested landscapes, yet decision support models such as the Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFT-DSS) require this information. In response, we propose development of the…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Fuel moisture content (FMC) is a measure of the amount of water in a fuel, such as vegetation, available to a fire, and is expressed as a percent of the dry weight of that specific fuel.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ellersick
USDA Forest Service R&D has been conducting research for many years with tribes and in Indian country and has collaboratively developed the USDA Forest Service Research and Development Tribal Engagement Roadmap (Tribal Engagement Roadmap) to help highlight and prioritize the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gray, Keane, Karpisz, Pedersen, Brown, Russell
A study by Keane and Gray (2013) compared three sampling techniques for estimating surface fine woody fuels. Known amounts of fine woody fuel were distributed on a parking lot, and researchers estimated the loadings using different sampling techniques. An important result was…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Swaty
LANDFIRE products have become the toolbox for large landscape management, way beyond obvious applications to do with fire and fuels. From mapping arbuscular fungi to modeling scary cryptic zooid habitat, from tracking grizzly bears to protecting butterflies, from developing full…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Haase, Sanchez, Weise
A variety of techniques for collecting and processing samples to determine moisture content of wildland fuels in support of fire management activities were evaluated. The effects of using a chainsaw or handsaw to collect samples of largediameter wood, containers for storing and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is a plan developed by a community in an area at-risk from wildfire.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Twidwell, Allen, Detweiler, Higgins, Laney, Elbaum
During the past century, fire management has focused on techniques both to protect human communities from catastrophic wildfire and to maintain fire-dependent ecological systems. However, despite a large and increasing allocation of resources and personnel to achieve these goals…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Aponte, de Groot, Wotton
The papers in this section focus on three main themes that emerged during the sessions. First, fire regimes are changing as a result of changes in climate conditions. Second, changes in fire regimes may have significant ecoloogical consequences because the newly emerged regimes…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Miller
Prescribed Fires in Alaska presented by Eric Miller. This webinar was part of a series hosted by the Alaska Natural Resource and Outdoor Education (ANROE) Association titled "Fire in a Changing Climate for Educators." ANROE provided workshops during the spring of 2016 that…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Littell, Peterson, Riley, Liu, Luce
The historical and presettlement relationships between drought and wildfire are well documented in North America, with forest fire occurrence and area clearly increasing in response to drought. There is also evidence that drought interacts with other controls (forest…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bixler, Bixler, Ellison, Moseley
Changes in land use and management practices throughout the past century-in addition to drought and other stressors exacerbated by climate change-have degraded the nation’s forests and led to overgrowth and accumulation of hazardous fuels (GAO 2015). Because of these fuels, some…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) is jointly funded by the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior, and governance is through a 12-member Governing Board with 6 members from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and 1 member each from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bureau…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steelman
A Southern Fire Exchange webinar hosted by NC State University and presented by Toddi Steelman, Executive Director and Professor at the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan. This 1-hour webinar discussed US fire policy as a complex problem…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Aplet
Wilderness has played an invaluable role in the development of wildland fire science. Since Agee's review of the subject 15 years ago, tremendous progress has been made in the development of models and data, in understanding the complexity of wildland fire as a landscape process…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Summary: Why does the feathermoss fuel bed fit so poorly into fire behavior and fire danger rating systems? What do we know or think we know? This presentation will explore the feathermoss fuel bed in the context of poikilohydry in bryophytes, hydro-/cryology- , FFMC, saturation…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rossa, Veloso, Fernandes
Observational evidence of an effect of live vegetation moisture content on fire spread rate remains extremely scarce despite the significance of fire activity in fuel complexes dominated by live components. This study assessed the moisture content effect of quasi-live fuels on…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Vejmelka, Kochanski, Mandel
Fuel moisture has a major influence on the behaviour of wildland fires and is an important underlying factor in fire risk assessment. We propose a method to assimilate dead fuel moisture content (FMC) observations from remote automated weather stations (RAWS) into a time lag…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Long
LANDFIRE produces a comprehensive, consistent, scientifically based suite of spatial layers and databases for the entire United States and territories. In 2009 the first wall to wall National data set was delivered for the fifty United States. Since this accomplishment,…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Thinning and pruning treatments at the experimental 2009 Nenana Ridge fuel treatment study reduced fire intensity during 2015 wildfire which entered unburned experimental fuel treatments.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stonesifer, Calkin, Thompson, Stockmann
Large airtanker use is widespread in wildfire suppression in the United States. The current approach to nationally dispatching the fleet of federal contract airtankers relies on filling requests for airtankers to achieve suppression objectives identified by fire managers at the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hunter
An assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the Joint Fire Science Program was conducted to determine whether or not science has been used to inform management and policy decisions and to explore factors that facilitate use of fire science. In a web survey and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lojewski
Thinning and masticated treatments near the Funny River road on the Kenai Peninsula reduced fire intensity during 2014 Funny River wildfire and aided protection of Soldotna.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Nelson, Long, Connot
The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) 2010 data release provides updated and enhanced vegetation, fuel, and fire regime layers consistently across the United States. The data represent landscape conditions from approximately 2010 and are the latest…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Hrobak
A summary of fire ecology activities and program information for the Alaska Region National Park Units including fire effects plot workload, staffing, management objectives and monitoring results, and planning, fire monitoring, communications, and research. Also included are…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES