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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zelinka, Hasburgh, Bourne, Tucholski, Ouellette
Five full-scale fire experiments were conducted to observe the performance of a two-level apartment-style structure constructed of mass timber. Each level consisted of a one bedroom apartment, an L-shaped corridor, and a stairwell connecting the two levels. One of the primary…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wehmas
The boreal forest is a carbon reservoir containing roughly 40% of the world's reactive soil carbon, which is mainly cycled by wildland fires. Climate warming in boreal Alaska has changed the wildfire regime such that an increase in broadleaf forest relative to conifer forest is…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Falke, Gray
Fire is the dominant ecological disturbance process in boreal forests (coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches) and fire frequency, size and severity are increasing in Alaska owing to climate warming. However, interactions among fire, climate,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This collection of essays-divided into three key categories: Risk, Culture, and Operations-daylights qualities and practices in the wildland fire service across a broad spectrum, from outdated and unwarranted to honorable and profound. We must acknowledge our current culture and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire control opportunities don’t know boundaries; let’s plan with that in mind. The RMRS Wildfire Risk Management Science Team has developed a series of tools (quantitative wildfire risk assessment, suppression difficulty index, potential control locations, PODS) to support…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fire season has arrived on the Ponderosa Pine National Forest, but this year is different. After working with the Wildfire Risk Management Team at RMRS, they understand risks better. They use detailed data and analysis to complement years of experience on the ground. When…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
First in a three-part video series describing the work and cutting edge risk management tools developed by the Rocky Mountain Research Station Wildfire Risk Management Science Team. The Team works with National Forests and other fire managers to plan ahead of the fire season.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Gallego, Plana Bach, Molina-Terrén
The socio-environmental dimension in wildland fire management is critical for moving towards a baseline of firewise planning. Wildland fire risk planning is a land use planning tool that should be able to keep pace with rapid rates of social and environmental change. Changes in…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kramer, Frederick
The Wildland Urban Interface or WUI is used throughout the fire world as a designation for where to focus pre-fire risk mitigation and active fire tactics. The WUI is composed of interface WUI, where buildings and vegetation meet, and intermix WUI, where they intermingle. WUI…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Strader
AICC Predictive Services meteorologist Heidi Strader provides an outlook for the 2018 fire season in Alaska and reviews the projects that Predictive Services staff have been involved in over the winter to improve their results. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Operations Meeting.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bhatt
UAF professor Uma Bhatt reviews progress on the NOAA funded project to improve longer-term predictions of Alaska's fire season. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kane
October 10th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fall Fire Review, Kelly Kane, USFS Risk Management Program Specialist, presents on human performance.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Moore
October 11th, 2018. Part of the annual Fall Fire Review, the presentation assessed the new National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) vs the Fire Weather Index (FWI) for Alaska.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Little, Jandt
October 9th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave a final report on fuel treatments.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bhatt, Veazey
Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave a progress report on seasonal and subseasonal predictions as well as an introduction to a EPSCoR project.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), completed in November 2018, is a comprehensive and authoritative report on climate change and its impacts in the United States.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Poulos, Barton, Slingsby, Bowman
The development of frameworks for better-understanding ecological syndromes and putative evolutionary strategies of plant adaptation to fire has recently received a flurry of attention, including a new model hypothesizing that plants have diverged into three different plant…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stratton
Rick Stratton explains the use of exceedance probability (EP) curves and how the information can inform decision makers regarding tradeoffs or potential impacts of fire to resources identified on the landscape.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Ziel
With support from the NASA Applied Sciences Program, the Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC; part of the International Arctic Research Center at UAF) organized an international workshop in April 2017 to advance the application of remote sensing tools and data by Alaska fire…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Christiansen
The topic of collaboration across boundaries is fitting for me and for the Forest Service because our national priorities revolve around just that-collaboration across boundaries-especially when it comes to wildland fire. We are committed to improving the conditions of the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prudhomme
The Firewise USA™ national recognition program evolved from a 1986 cooperative agreement between the Forest Service and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). The agreement enabled NFPA, as a national nonprofit safety organization with an extensive history of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Quarles
Buildings ignite during wildfires when exposed to: 1. Burning embers (also called firebrands), 2. Radiant heat, and/or 3. Direct flame.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Leschak
The wildfire landscape is like a patchwork quilt. Each piece represents a stakeholder: private timber producers; State lands; rural homes and farms; communities; Tribes, pueblos, or reservations; refuges; Federal lands and watersheds; and community parks. And all of those…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Strategy on fire management to reduce Impacts of wildfire through collaboration and partnership.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES