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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wildfire smoke is typically a mixture of water vapor, gases, fine particles, and trace minerals from burning fuels like trees and vegetation, other organic components, and, sometimes, building materials.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gillson, Whitlock, Humphrey
Fire management around the world is now undergoing extensive review, with a move toward fire management plans that maintain biodiversity and other ecosystems services, while at the same time mitigating the negative impacts to people and property. There is also increasing…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Neary
Wildfires and prescribed fires cause a range of impacts on forest soils depending on the interactions of a nexus of fire severity, scale of fire, slope, infiltration rates, and post-fire rainfall. These factors determine the degree of impact on forest soils and subsequently the…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Allison
Carrie Allison's (US Fish and Wildlife Service) presentation to the 2019 Fire in Eastern Oak Forests Conference in State College, PA.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Kochanski, Baker, Mell, Linn, Paugam, Mandel, Fournier, Jenkins, Goodrick, Achtemeier, Zhao, Ottmar, French, Larkin, Brown, Hudak, Dickinson, Potter, Clements, Urbanski, Prichard, Watts, McNamara
There is an urgent need for next-generation smoke research and forecasting (SRF) systems to meet the challenges of the growing air quality, health and safety concerns associated with wildland fire emissions. This review paper presents simulations and experiments of hypothetical…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
For many fire-adapted ecosystems, prescribed fires and managed wildfires are valuable tools for mimicking and maintaining natural fire’s full assortment of invaluable Ecosystem Services.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
We’ve spent 100 years growing a tinderbox across the West. Now it's wildfire season. Controlled burning - an indigenous tradition that's been used for millennia - might be a solution.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Before conducting any prescribed fire, landowners need to work with certified professionals to ensure they are following local, state and federal policies. On Trust land, BIA fire management officers can assist with your planning efforts.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Abella
National guidance is provided for new and updated invasive plant management plans that meet federal standards.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dey, Knapp, Battaglia, Deal, Hart, O'Hara, Schweitzer, Schuler
For millennia, natural disturbance regimes, including anthropogenic fire and hunting practices, have led to forest regeneration patterns that created a diversity of forest lands across the USA. But dramatic changes in climates, invasive species, and human population, and land…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Prichard, Andreu, Ottmar, Eberhardt
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) was designed to store and archive wildland fuel characteristics within fuelbeds, defined as the inherent physical characteristics of fuels that contribute to fire behavior and effects. The FCCS represents fuel characteristics…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Broyles
Smoke exposure data among U.S. wildland firefighters for carbon monoxide, respirable particulate and respirable crystalline silica are presented from a field surveillance program between 2009 and 2012. Models to predict fireline-average exposure to each inhalation hazard were…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robertson
There is wide agreement that prescribed fire is essential and under-utilized for restoring and maintaining natural ecosystem function, sustaining native wildlife populations, and mitigating wildfire hazard. There is less agreement on the history of fire, specifically the degree…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Baghdikian
The purpose of this document is to outline the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) wildland fire priorities and coordinate the EPA Office of Research and Development’s (ORD’s) wildland-fire-related research across multiple National Research Programs (NRPs) to be…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Massman
Accurately modeling the duration and extent of soil heating from prescribed fires and wildfires is vital to predicting many second-order fire effects, including development of soil hydrophobicity and other biological, chemical, and physical effects. Advancements have been made…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES