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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Alexander, Taylor, Page
Using the 2013 Yarnell Hill fatality fire in Arizona as a backdrop, this paper considers whether the global wildland fire community has failed on-the-ground firefighters. To begin answering this question two specific lines of inquiry are addressed: (i) was the fire behavior…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kirsch, Rideout
Increased scruitiny of federally funded programs combined with changes in fire management has created a demand for a new fire program analysis model. There is now a need for a model that displays tradeoffs between initial attack effectiveness and alternative funding levels. The…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Acuna, Palma, Weintraub, Martell, Cui
Harvest planners often consider potential fire losses and timber production plans can influence fire management, but most timber harvest planning and fire management planning activities are carried out largely independently of each other. But road construction, timber harvesting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Sparks, Kolden, Abatzoglou, Talhelm, Johnson, Boschetti, Lutz, Apostol, Yedinak, Tinkham, Kremens
Most landscape-scale fire severity research relies on correlations between field measures of fire effects and relatively simple spectral reflectance indices that are not direct measures of heat output or changes in plant physiology. Although many authors have highlighted…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Talhelm, Kolden, Newingham, Adams, Cohen, Yedinak, Kremens
A recent study by Davies et al. sought to test whether winter grazing could reduce wildfire size, fire behaviour and intensity metrics, and fire-induced plant mortality in shrub-grasslands. The authors concluded that ungrazed rangelands may experience fire-induced mortality of…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Kolden, Paveglio, Cochrane, Bowman, Moritz, Kliskey, Alessa, Hudak, Hoffman, Lutz, Queen, Goetz, Higuera, Boschetti, Flannigan, Yedinak, Watts, Strand, van Wagtendonk, Anderson, Stocks, Abatzoglou
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Episode 3 of the Fire Danger Learning System describes the dataflow of weather data into the various databases and processors that provide fire danger calculations for the US National Fire Danger Rating System.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Episode 2 of the Fire Danger Learning Series discussing the forthcoming 2016 revision to the US National Fire Danger Rating System.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Episode #1 of the Fire Danger Learning Series presents the components and indices that compose the US National Fire Danger Rating System.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Noordijk
From the text ... 'Wildfires consume budgets and put the heat on fire managers to justify and control suppression costs. ...We used data from the 2002 fire season to determine how WFSA-predicted outcomes compared to actual outcomes. ...Fire managers often underestimated the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lutes
FOFEM - A First Order Fire Effects Model - is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. Quantitative predictions of fire effects are needed for planning prescribed fires that best…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Faircloth, Reid, Valentine, Eo, Terhune, Glenn, Palmer, Nairn, Carroll
We describe primers and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) conditions to amplify four dinucleotide, one trinucleotide, and three tetranucleotide microsatellite DNA loci from the bobcat (Lynx rufus). The primers were tested on 22 individuals collected from a population located…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Saab, Kotliar, Block
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sun
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stephens, Ruth
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christensen
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christensen
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Aplet, Wilmer
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kilgore, Christensen, Aplet, Wilmer, Stephens, Ruth, Hardesty, Myers, Fulks
[Excerpted from the introduction to the issue] When national parks were originally establishde in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s, most people thought you simply needed to protect them as they were, with nochanges over time, to achieve the objective of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McIntire, Duchesneau, Kimmins
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gan
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schlauer, Nerz, Rischer
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sozer, Nijman
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palacios-Orueta, Chuvieco, Parra, Carmona-Moreno
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barclay, Li, Benson, Taylor, Shore
Monte-Carlo simulation was used to examine the effects of fire return rates on the equilibrium age structure of a one-million-hectare lodgepole pine forest (Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm. ex S. Wats.; Pinaceae) and yielded a mosaic of ages over the one million hectares…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS