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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Riley, Grenfell
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. We used a random forests machine learning process to produce a tree-level model of the US by assigning forest plot data from Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA) to landscape data from LANDFIRE at 30x30 resolution.…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Thompson
In this presentation, Dr. Thompson will explore themes of slack and scarcity and how they relate to multi-scale concepts of strategy, performance, and analytics in wildfire. While the description is short, this webinar contained a fascinating collection of concepts, statistics,…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Dockter
In this Open Office Hour, KBR Vegetation Scientist, Daryn Dockter discusses the ins and outs of how LANDFIRE maps Existing Vegetation Cover and Existing Vegetation Height products. Throughout the talk, he describes the update process and methods used to develop these highly…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Makowiecki
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. In-situ measurements of combustion systems are challenging due to high temperatures, rapidly varying spatial properties, and limited physical and optical access. In biomass combustion these challenges are further…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

An overview of the International Crown Fire Modeling Experiments in Canada's Northwest Territories.
Year: 1997
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Fillmore, McCaffrey
To improve understanding of the managed wildfire decision-making process on federal lands (USA), we conducted a mixed methods review of the existing literature. The review was published in September, 2021 in the journal Fire. The review spanned from 1976 to 2013 and used…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Healey, Yang
Part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2022 Webinar Series sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Research Station Forest managers increasingly require statistically grounded estimates of forest carbon storage at the resolution of individual ownerships (a few thousand acres).  Carbon…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Stonesifer
Part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2022 Webinar Series sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Research Station Aircraft are important fire management tools, but their use can bring substantial costs and associated risks. We developed the Aviation Use Summary (AUS), which is a…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Meddens
This presentation is part of the University of Idaho's College of Natural Resources, Natural Resources and Society Spring 2022 Invited Speaker Seminar Series.
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Jain, Hood, McKinney, Ott, Urza
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need. Rocky Mountain Research Station…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

McCarty
Fire activity and severity is increasing in the high northern latitudes, including burning landscapes long thought to be "fire resistant." Across the Pan-Arctic, smoke impacts from lengthening fire seasons in the boreal and the Arctic mean new public health challenges, as well…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Alexander
Marty Alexander (Wild Rose Fire Behavior) and Luc Bibeau (FireSmart Specialist with Yukon Wildland Fire Management, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory) discuss the 3-m tree crown spacing guideline for the prevention of crowning wildfires. This podcast interview was hosted in…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Palm
Caribou from studied Canada and Alaska herds avoided burned areas, especially in winter and at larger spatial and temporal scales.
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Keane, Schultz, Thompson
FOREST SERVICE FIRE MANAGEMENT AND THE ELUSIVENESS OF CHANGE In this episode of the Association for Fire Ecology's Fire Ecology Chats Podcast Series, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane talks with Courtney Schultz (Colorado State University) and Matthew Thompson (US Forest Service)…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

"Mounting the Attack on Wildfire" is a 18-minute video produced in 1987 by the Canadian Forest Service that offers an overview of the co-operative experimental burning project conducted with the Alberta Forest Service at Big Fish Lake in north-central Alberta during the mid to…
Year: 1987
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Ichoku
Wildfires and other types of biomass burning are a seasonal phenomenon in different land ecosystems around the world. Such fires are estimated to consume biomass containing a total of 2-5 petagrams of carbon globally every year, generating heat energy and emitting smoke plumes…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Lindley, Ziel, Teske, Jolly, Law
The Fire Environment Continuing Education SubCommittee presents the 2020 Fall Fire Environment Post Season Lessons Learned Webinar Topics will include: Satellite-derived data WildfireSAFE Tips for Remote fire analysis assignments
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Faivre, Amoako, Bird, Conedera
Sparking FireSmart Policies in the EU: The Importance of an Integrated Fire Management Approach - Nicolas Faivre, Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation (RTD), European Commission, Belgium The presentation will introduce the recent EU policy developments…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

The 2019 McKinley Fire devastated a 10-mile stretch of homes along Alaska's Parks Highway. This video describes the fire and its aftermath through interviews with residents and fire professionals, and discusses ways to protect structures from wildfires. Useful websites about…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Brown
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Zylstra
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. In 2017, approximately 57.3 million gallons of retardant was loaded onto airtankers.  Of that, approximately 19 million gallons were dropped onto NFS lands. The use of fire chemicals is not without controversy.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
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

Ray, Rappold, Hano
These webinars are part of the U.S. EPA Environmental Justice Webinar Series for Tribes and Indigenous Peoples - to build the capacity of tribal governments, indigenous peoples and other environmental justice practitioners, and discuss priority EJ issues of interest to tribes…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

McCaughey, Clements, Holder, Weston
These webinars are part of the U.S. EPA Environmental Justice Webinar Series for Tribes and Indigenous Peoples - to build the capacity of tribal governments, indigenous peoples and other environmental justice practitioners, and discuss priority EJ issues of interest to tribes…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES