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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Improving fire outcomes for communities requires local organizing and action. The Fire Adapted Communities (FAC) Pathways Tool helps communities identify a set of strategies which are tailored to their strengths and needs, and based on practices which have been successful in…
Year: 2022
Type: Tool
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
Howe, St. Clair, Bachelet, Stevenson-Molnar
The Seedlot Selection Tool (SST) is a GIS mapping program designed to help forest managers match seedlots with planting sites based on climatic information. The climates of the planting sites can be chosen to represent current climates, or future climates based on selected…
Year: 2019
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
An understanding of the processes that control wildland fuel accumulation, including the roles played by climate change and fire management activities, is crucial for designing wildland management policies. Boreal ALFRESCO simulates the responses of subarctic and boreal…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Atmospheric circulation patterns influence seasonal temperature and precipitation across large regions of Alaska. This experimental product uses to information to produce a forecast of area burned in Interior Alaska (i.e. South of the Brooks Range and North of the Alaska Range…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The RAWS USA Climate Archive website provides detailed Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) observations for all stations in the United States, along with weather station information, maps, graphs,and photos. Weather observations are archived, with past and current hourly…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
ANNOTATION: FRCS is a spreadsheet application useful for estimating the cost of forest operations undertaken to reduce forest fuel loads by cutting and removing trees for solid wood products or chips. It can also be used to estimate the cost of collecting and chipping forest…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
ANNOTATION: FoRTS is a spreadsheet based calculator designed to help compare alternative methods of moving biomass from the forest to a wood-using facility. It will estimate loading and hauling costs for different combinations of equipment, evaluate the best mix (numbers and…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Fried, Barbour, Fight
ANNOTATION: FIA BioSum is a concept-based methodology that generates cost estimates, identifies opportunities and evaluates the effectiveness of fuel treatments in region-wide forested landscapes. The BioSum modeling framework incorporates a transportation cost model, a…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) assists fire managers and analysts in making strategic and tactical decisions for fire incidents. It has replaced the WFSA (Wildland Fire Situation Analysis), Wildland Fire Implementation Plan (WFIP), and Long-Term Implementation…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Zuuring, Sullivan, Krueger, Wood, Troutwine
MAGIS EXPRESS is structured primarily as a timber harvest-road access tool. Two GIS coverages (or shapefiles) are used: Treatment units and Roads. Forest vegetation on the treatment unit polygons is represented using a 'vegetative state and pathway' paradigm. Vegetative 'states…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson, Larkin, Hoadley
The ventilation climate information system (VCIS) allows users to assess risks to values of air quality and visibility from historical patterns of ventilation conditions. It is available through an interactive, Internet map server that allows maps of ventilation potential to be…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
PLATA is a Windows-based application for doing economic analysis of a planning project. PLATA does an 'efficiency' analysis, using net present value, cost/benefit ratio, and annual equivalent value. It also calculates trust fund sufficiency, allocates treatment costs by fund…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
This glossary provides the wildland fire and fire use communities a single source for wildland fire, prescribed fire, fire use and incident management terminology commonly used by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) and its Working Teams. The NWCG has directed that…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Biesecker, Fight
Every fuel reduction treatment has its price, and finding that price involves sorting through a confusing array of choices. Among them are which trees to cut, what material to utilize for forest products versus treatment in place, equipment options, and what types of stands to…
Year: 2006
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
MAGIS EXPRESS is structured primarily as a timber harvest-road access tool. Two GIS coverages (or shapefiles) are used: Treatment units and Roads. Forest vegetation on the treatment unit polygons is represented using a 'vegetative state and pathway' paradigm. Vegetative 'states…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Neilson, Bachelet, Lenihan, Drapek, Balduman
MAPSS is a model that was developed to simulate the potential natural vegetation that could exist on any upland site in the world under present, past or future climate. MAPSS operates on the fundamental principle that ecosystems will tend to maximize the leaf area that can be…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The FORBS Program is based on the National Fire Management Analysis System (NFMAS). It utilizes existing Personal Computer Historical Analysis (PCHA), Interagency Initial Attack Assessment (IIAA), and Arc View processes. FORBS is tied to the Suppression Analysis developed in…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
FirePlan GIS from SIG uses advanced GIS technology to help identify cost-effective fire prevention solutions. Using the FARSITE fire model in conjunction with Arc View software, FirePlan can help land managers identify and prioritize areas for vegetative treatment. Not only will…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Statistics System (FIRESTAT) is a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service (FS) application used to electronically enter, update, and delete required information on the Individual Fire Report (form FS-5100-29) as required by FSH 5109.14, the Individual Fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Statistics System (FIRESTAT) is a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service (FS) application used to electronically enter, update, and delete required information on the Individual Fire Report (form FS-5100-29) as required by FSH 5109.14, the Individual Fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Statistics System (FIRESTAT) is a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service (FS) application used to electronically enter, update, and delete required information on the Individual Fire Report (form FS-5100-29) as required by FSH 5109.14, the Individual Fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Statistics System (FIRESTAT) is a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service (FS) application used to electronically enter, update, and delete required information on the Individual Fire Report (form FS-5100-29) as required by FSH 5109.14, the Individual Fire…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The purpose of the Fire Program Analysis (FPA) System is to provide managers with a common interagency process for fire management planning and budgeting to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative fire management strategies through time, to meet land management goals and…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Grissino-Mayer
FHX2 is software that helps analyze fire history using fire scars and other fire-related injuries found in the annual growth rings of trees. FHX2 provides a means for entering, archiving, storing, editing, and manipulation of fire history information from tree rings, which in…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES