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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Winkler
Planning for future fire regimes and fuel conditions involves predicting future fuel loads and conditions, as well as evaluating how the atmospheric potential for large or dangerous fires will change in the future. There have been several studies examining the potential changes…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Ferguson, Larkin
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) was completed with Joint Fire Science Program support in 2000 under a 1998-2000 project called, Assessing Values of Air Quality and Visibility at Risk from Wildiand Fires. It is a twice-daily, 30- year database of surface wind,…
Year: 2007
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Absher, Vaske
A multi-year, community-based project to look at social and cognitive barriers to wildfire risk reduction by focusing on better completion of defensible space behaviors through the use of promising social science approaches. The project seeks to identify practical steps for…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Burns, Cheng, Jakes, Nelson, Sturtevant
Multi-stakeholder collaboration has a long tradition in natural resource management. Recent initiatives such as the National Fire Plan have encouraged collaboration in wildland fire and fuels management. Collaboration for fuels management has received even greater impetus with…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Vogt, Butler, Winter
Effective wildland urban interface (WUI) risk management requires action by local communities and individual property owners. Recently enacted federal and state policies provide some strong incentives for local jurisdictions to manage the risks associated with wildland fire.…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Ager, Finney
This project builds on and extends the completed work from JFSP project #01-1-1-05 to compare and evaluate burn probability (BP) models, and incorporate these into a risk analysis framework. During that JFSP project, the GIS model BurnPro was developed and used to estimate…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olmstead, Kousky, Sedjo
This project will test the hypothesis that public fire suppression in forested areas increases the fraction of developed land in these areas, drawing people and structures into the wildland/urban interface. To test this hypothesis, we will construct statistical models that…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black, Jahn, Putnam
Wildland firefighting crews are considered High Reliability Organizations (HROs) because their members operate in hazardous environments with low rates of error. However, the level of error currently experienced is higher than desired. To improve the safety and performance…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
We propose development of a new methodology that can be used by forest and fire managers and planners to consider the potential effects of all aspects of fire management (i.e., fuels reduction to post-fire restoration) on native stream fishes and their habitats. State-of-the-art…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wright, Aman
Wildfire hazard is a growing problem in many areas of the United States, especially in the wildland-urban interface, where homes and other structures border or intermingle with forests, shrubs and grasslands. Despite years of educational outreach by fire management officials…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Beyers, Elliot, Pierson
The recent dramatic increase in spending for post-fire rehabilitation treatments has caused concern regarding the appropriate use of various treatments for reducing erosion risk and downstream flooding and sedimentation. Our current Joint Fire Science project, RISK ASSESSMENT OF…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Mann
Land managers face unique challenges in Alaska. Most of the boreal forest is currently managed as wilderness. Though largely free of direct human impacts, the boreal forest grows in a region that is now experiencing significant climate changes. In addition, the fire ecology of…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Chung, Jones, Spelter
The goal of this project is to provide a synthesis of information products available to federal land mangers to enhance their ability to understand and deal with the economic and financial aspects of woody biomass removal as a component of fire hazard reduction treatments. The…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Ottmar
Concerns about wildland fuel levels and a growing wildland-urban interface (WUI) have pushed wildland fire risk mitigation strategies to the forefront of fire management activities. Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinnings) fuel treatments have become the…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Cruz
CFIS is a software tool incorporating several recently developed models designed to simulate crown fire behavior. The main outputs of CFIS are: 1) the likelihood of crown fire initiation or occurrence; 2) the type of crown fire (active vs. passive) and its rate of spread; and 3…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Tree cores were collected during 1997-1998 as part of a spruce bark beetle study in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve (eastern Alaska). Data was collected from every tree on a 20-m x 20-m plot or the three largest trees were cored (at increment bore height on…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The assessment ranks the risk of allotments to fire damage by various threat components. Improvements are verified on the parcels and attributes are collected on the improvements with respect to the standing fuels. Each improvement is located with a global positioning system (…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
A number of fuels management and forest inventory projects are being conducted by the Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) Forestry Program. The TCC forestry program provides a wide range of forestry and fire management services to Native allotments and their owners via the trust…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Finney
FARSITE has been incorporated into FlamMap and is no longer supported separately or available for download.
FARSITE is a fire behavior and growth simulator for use on Windows computers. It is used by Fire Behavior Analysts from the U.S. FS, USDI NPS, USDI BLM,…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The Rare Event Risk Assessment Process (RERAP) helps calculate the information needed to manage prescribed fires, wildland fire use fires, and wildland fires. RERAP allows a user to dynamically calculate the risk of undesired fire movement, including how to: 1) identify high and…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rorig, Ferguson, Goodrick, Werth
Lightning causes most wildfires in the western United States, and is a major cause of fire elsewhere in the U.S. Because most lightning occurs with significant precipitation, however, simple predictions of Lightning Activity Level (LAL) do not accurately determine fire ignition…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Reinhardt, Parsons, Soedal, Tarkalson
NEXUS 2.0 is crown fire hazard analysis software that links separate models of surface and crown fire behavior to compute indices of relative crown fire potential. NEXUS can be used to compare crown fire potential for different stands, and to compare the effects of alternative…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Neilson
Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System Seasonal Fire Risk Forecasts (Wildland fire management agencies are increasingly interested in more long-term forecasts of fire business. Several short-term fire potential assessments are currently available ranging from Wildland Fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The FireFamily Plus software allows a user to review, summarize and analyze daily weather and fire occurrence observations, compute fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS), generate Season Reports (summaries of seasonal variations of fuel…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
A modeling analysis was undertaken to explore the long-term impacts of the white spruce (die-back on vegetation cover and wildfire behavior) on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. During the 1990's a significant portion of the white spruce stands were killed by infestation with the…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES