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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
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
This open access book synthesizes current information on wildland fire smoke in the United States, providing a scientific foundation for addressing the production of smoke from wildland fires. This will be increasingly critical as smoke exposure and degraded air quality are…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey, Rappold, Hano, Navarro, Phillips, Prestemon, Vaidyanathan, Abt, Reid, Sacks
At a fundamental level, smoke from wildland fire is of scientific concern because of its potential adverse effects on human health and social well-being. Although many impacts (e.g., evacuations, property loss) occur primarily in proximity to the actual fire, smoke can end up…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bayham, Yoder, Champ, Calkin
Wildfire is a natural phenomenon with substantial economic consequences, and its management is complex, dynamic, and rife with incentive problems. This article reviews the contribution of economics to our understanding of wildfire and highlights remaining knowledge gaps. We…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
KC, Rupert, Painter, Muller
Wildfires in the United States have become more catastrophic and expensive in recent years, with the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Forest Service nearly doubling their combined spending on wildfire management in the past decade. As more frequent and severe fires drive…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Simon, Crowley, Franco
Wildfire is an integral part of many ecosystems, and wildland fires also have the potential for costly impacts to human health and safety, and damage to structures and natural resources. Public land managers use various strategies for managing landscape conditions that can…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
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
Clark
Aircraft play vital roles in managing wildfire, but their use is both costly and inherently risky. On average, USDA Forest Service aviation costs represent 30 percent of annual firefighting expenditures. And despite improvements in airworthiness and safety in the last decade,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wollstein, O'Connor, Gear, Hoagland
• Effective wildland fire response and suppression are critical for reducing the size of frequent and severe wildfires, thereby reducing the risk of post-fire conversion to invasive annual grass-dominated plant communities.
• Wildland firefighter safety and strategic deployment…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To do so, this review presents a…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jeffery
From the text ... 'Wildfires are part of a natural environmental cycle and will continue to be a part of our planet's processes along with other weather-related disaster events. But the unique ability of humans to suppress and contain the flames, as well as mitigate the damage,…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topik
From the text ... 'With just over 3 months remaining, it looks like 2015 could be a record-breaking year for wildfires in the United States. So far this year, more than 8.5 million acres have burned and severe fires often happen in October. For the first time, the U.S. Forest…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
North, Stephens, Collins, Agee, Aplet, Franklin, Fulé
From the text ... 'Management reform in the United States has failed, not because of policy, but owing to lack of coordinated pressure sufficient to overcome entrenched agency disincentive to working with fire. Responding to established research, official agency policy now…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Duff, Tolhurst
Wildfires are an inherent part of the landscape in many parts of the world; however, they often impose substantial economic burdens on human populations where they occur, both in terms of impacts and of management costs. As wildfires burn towards human assets, a universal…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Christman, Rollins
Wildfire-potential information products are designed to support decisions for prefire staging of movable wildfire suppression resources across geographic locations. We quantify the economic value of these information products by defining their value as the difference between two…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paveglio, Brenkert-Smith, Hall, Smith
There is no uniform means for assessing social impact from wildland fires beyond statistics such as home loss, suppression costs and the number of residents evacuated. In this paper we argue for and provide a more comprehensive set of considerations for gauging social impact…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lueck, Yoder
This article examines the complex structure of wildland firefighting using the economic theories of contracts, property rights, and organization. We examine historical and cross-sectional case studies and consider the implications for contemporary wildfire management. Wildfires…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lee, Schlemme, Murray, Unsworth
Little research has focused on the economic impact associated with climate-change induced wildland fire on natural ecosystems and the goods and services they provide. We examine changes in wildland fire patterns based on the U.S. Forest Service's MC1 dynamic global vegetation…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Farmer, Meretsky, Knapp, Chancellor, Fischer
In the United States, the amount of land protected by conservation easements dramatically increased between 2000 and 2010. As this mechanism for private land conservation continues to draw the attention of scientists, professionals, and policy makers, more information is needed…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The wildland/urban inferface (WUI) is a geographic location where structures and flammable vegetation merge in a wildfire-prone environment.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lowell, Parrent, Deering, Bihn, Becker
The Community Biomass Handbook. Volume 2: Alaska, Where Woody Biomass Can Work, is a companion volume to the Community Biomass Handbook. Volume 1: Thermal Wood Energy, published in April 2014 (Becker et al. 2014). Why an Alaska volume? The original handbook contains information…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rappold
A recent study of simulated forecast-based interventions as a tool to reduce the health and economic burden during smoke episodes. The study illustrated a large health burden associated with these events and the potential benefit an adaptation of current forecasting technologies…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Christman, Rollins
Wildfire-potential information products are designed to support decisions for prefire staging of movable wildfire suppression resources across geographic locations. We quantify the economic value of these information products by defining their value as the difference between two…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rebennack, Santi, Kaffine, Staley
In this study we developed methods to comprehensively analyze the economic risk of post-wildfire debris flows and proof of concept models to optimally allocate resources towards various mitigation options. These methods utilize previously existing post-fire hazard assessment…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES