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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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 economic value of fuel treatments: a review of the recent literature for fuel treatment planning
This review synthesizes the scientific literature on fuel treatment economics published since 2013 with a focus on its implications for land managers and policy makers. We review the literature on whether fuel treatments are financially viable for land management agencies at the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jones, McDermott
We undertake a nationwide US study to estimate how mega-fires (defined as wildfires >100,000 acres in size) affect short-term infant health outcomes in communities located within the flame zone. This is the first study to look exclusively at mega-fires, which have unique…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
To collect partner and employee input on the Wildfire Crisis Strategy 10-year Implementation Plan, the Forest Service and National Forest Foundation hosted a series of roundtable discussions in the winter and spring of 2022. Individual roundtables were focused on each of the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fox, Holman, Rigo, Al Suwaidi, Grice
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) are routinely used as proxies for wildfire in geological sediments associated with large igneous province (LIP) driven CO2 increases and mass extinction events. One example is the end-Triassic mass extinction event (ETE) driven by Earth's…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paul, LeDuc, Lassiter, Moorhead, Noyes, Leibowitz
Wildfires have increased in frequency in many ecosystems, with implications for human health and the environment, including water quality. Increased fire frequency and urbanization also raise the prospect of fires burning into urban areas, mobilizing pollutants few have…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires in America are becoming larger, more frequent, and more destructive, driven by climate change and existing land management practices. Many of these fires occur at the wildland-urban interface (WUI), areas where development and wildland areas overlap and which are…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In the spring of 2022, wildfires caused by escaped prescribed fires compelled Chief Randy Moore of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service to call for a 90-day pause in the agency’s prescribed fire program pending a program review.
A review team led…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liang, Liu, Wang, Wang
Climate change is exacerbating the fire activity in Alaska, which exposes lives and properties to great risk, especially residents living in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI). Therefore, it is crucial to characterize the spatial distribution and temporal dynamics of WUI and assess…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Christianson, Sutherland, Moola, Bautista, Young, MacDonald
Purpose of Review: Indigenous perspectives have often been overlooked in fire management in North America. With a focus on the boreal region of North America, this paper provides a review of the existing literature documenting Indigenous voices and the historical relationship of…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Jha, Zhou
This article presents a machine learning (ML) based metamodeling framework for firebrand production prediction. This framework was implemented to predict the firebrand areal mass density (FAMD) and firebrand areal number density (FAND) of landing firebrands using a large set of…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zong, Tian
Most wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas in the world will face severe wildfire risks due to climate warming and rapid urbanization. Mitigating the damage caused by WUI fires has become a worthy topic for fire researchers and managers. In recent years, WUI fires have occurred…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jorgenson, Brown, Hiemstra, Genet, Marcot, Murphy, Douglas
Alaska has diverse boreal ecosystems across heterogeneous landscapes driven by a wide range of biological and geomorphic processes associated with disturbance and successional patterns under a changing climate. To assess historical patterns and rates of change, we quantified the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thomas, Escobedo, Sloggy, Sanchez
Larger and more severe wildfires are becoming more frequent and impacting different communities and human settlements. Much of the scientific literature and media on wildfires has focused on area of ecosystems burned and numbers of structures destroyed. Equally unprecedented,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires are among the worst natural and man-made disasters currently facing our nation. The damage a wildfire causes is multifaceted as it affects multiple areas of civilization and the safety and health of responding firefighters. Today, factors such as climate change and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Elhami-Khorasani, Ebrahimian, Buja, Cutter, Kosović, Lareau, Meacham, Rowell, Taciroglu, Thompson, Watts
Wildfires are an essential part of a healthy ecosystem, yet the expansion of the wildland-urban interface, combined with climatic changes and other anthropogenic activities, have led to the rise of wildfire hazards in the past few decades. Managing future wildfires and their…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Margolis, Guiterman, Chavardes, Coop, Copes-Gerbitz, Dawe, Falk, Johnston, Larson, Li, Marschall, Naficy, Naito, Parisien, Parks, Portier, Poulos, Robertson, Speer, Stambaugh, Swetnam, Tepley, Thapa, Allen, Bergeron, Daniels, Fulé, Gervais, Girardin, Harley, Harvey, Hoffman, Huffman, Hurteau, Johnson, Lafon, Lopez, Maxwell, Meunier, North, Rother, Schmidt, Sherriff, Stachowiak, Taylor, Taylor, Trouet, Villarreal, Yocom, Arabas, Arizpe, Arseneault, Tarancón, Baisan, Bigio, Biondi, Cahalan, Caprio
Fire regimes in North American forests are diverse and modern fire records are often too short to capture important patterns, trends, feedbacks, and drivers of variability. Tree-ring fire scars provide valuable perspectives on fire regimes, including centuries-long records of…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
The Pyrocene tells the story of what happened when a fire-wielding species, humanity, met an especially fire-receptive time in Earth's history. Since terrestrial life first appeared, flames have flourished. Over the past two million years, however, one genus gained the ability…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Perez-Ramirez, Graziani, Santoni, Ziegler, Hoffman, Mell, Tihay-Felicelli, Ganteaume
Research applications of three-dimensional, time-dependent, computational fluid dynamics fire behavior models, such as the Wildland Urban Interface Fire Dynamics Simulator (WFDS) [1,2], FIRETEC [3], or FIRESTAR3D [4], are progressively increasing. This is due to advances in…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hattenbach
A special session by the Fuels Community of Practice.
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Clark, Nkonya, Galford
As global climate change progresses, the United States (US) is expected to experience warmer temperatures as well as more frequent and severe extreme weather events, including heat waves, hurricanes, and wildfires. Each year, these events cost dozens of lives and do billions of…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Since 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has provided funding and science delivery for scientific studies associated with managing wildland fire, fuels, and fire-impacted ecosystems to respond to emerging needs of managers, practitioners, and policymakers from local to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hill, Jaeger, Smith
[From the Report Summary]
Background: The American Lung Association commissioned a report, written by PSE Healthy Energy, to answer the question: What does the current research say about the potential of prescribed fire to mitigate the increasing health and air quality risks…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The American Lung Association recently released a report titled "Can Prescribed Fire Mitigate Health Harm? A Review of Air Quality and Public Health Implications of Wildfire and Prescribed Fire." This report, commissioned by the American Lung Association and written by PSE…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Snitker, Roos, Sullivan, Maezumi, Bird, Coughlan, Derr, Gassaway, Klimaszewski-Patterson, Loehman
Humans have influenced global fire activity for millennia and will continue to do so into the future. Given the long-term interaction between humans and fire, we propose a collaborative research agenda linking archaeology and fire science that emphasizes the socioecological…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES