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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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 Twelfth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Committee on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, was held 15-18 May 2018 at the Boise Centre, downtown Boise, Idaho. It was concurrently held with the…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Terzi, Kartal, Piskin, Stark, Figen, White
The use of raw boron minerals (i.e. tincalconite, colemanite, and ulexite) was evaluated to increase the fire performance of wood plastic composites (WPCs) in comparison with commercially available fire retardants (FRs). Cone calorimetry and limited oxygen index tests were…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yedinak, Strand, Hiers, Varner
Wildland fire behavior research has largely focused on the steady-state interactions between fuels and heat fluxes. Contemporary research is revealing new questions outside the bounds of this simplified approach. Here, we explore the complex interactions taking place beyond…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Lauer, Calkin, Rieck, Stonesifer, Hand
The Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, defines success in the wildland fire response environment as 'safely achieving reasonable objectives with the least firefighter exposure necessary while enhancing stakeholder support for our management efforts'. However,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Potter
As a pervasive disturbance agent operating at many spatial and temporal scales, wildland fire is a key abiotic factor affecting forest health both positively and negatively. In some ecosystems, for example, wildland fires have been essential for regulating processes that…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques for…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This issue focuses on the “Bad Apple Theory” and provides related insights into Paul Gleason and the Cerro Grande Fire. Links to a Podcast and 3 Blog Posts are essential elements to this Two More Chains.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berger, Fitzgerald, Leavell, Peterson
Compares the impacts that prescribed fires and wildfires have on air quality. One in a series of fire FAQs that are based on questions Forest & Natural Resource Extension agents and specialists have received from the people they serve.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pausas, Parr
Wildfires underpin the dynamics and diversity of many ecosystems worldwide, and plants show a plethora of adaptive traits for persisting recurrent fires. Many fire-prone ecosystems also harbor a rich fauna; however, knowledge about adaptive traits to fire in animals remains…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Abatzoglou, Balch, Bradley, Kolden
Large wildfires (>40 ha) account for the majority of burned area across the contiguous United States (US) and appropriate substantial suppression resources. A variety of environmental and social factors influence wildfire growth and whether a fire overcomes initial attack…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, Butteri, DeVelice, Howard, Hrobak, Loehman, Lojewski, Martin, Miller, Rowe, St. Clair, Saperstein, Schulz, Sorbel, Wahrenbrock, Weddle, York, Ziel
The Fuel Model Guide to Alaska Vegetation (Cella et al. 2008) was developed by an interagency team of fire practitioners and vegetation mappers/specialists in 2008. It crosswalked vegetation types described in the Alaska Vegetation Classification (Viereck et al. 1992) with the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Barnes
For many years, firefighters in Alaska have been using sprinkler treatments for point protection without fully knowing the limits of effectiveness. Our results in feathermoss fuel beds in lowland spruce forests indicate that bringing the top 5 inches of duff to saturation…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kremens
The energy flow from a wildland fire is the most important measurable physical quantity. If we understand the time history of the energy flows, we can derive all other fire behavior and fire effects parameters. Dr. Bob Kremens will describe the difficulties in measuring the…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Zelinka, Hasburgh, Bourne, Tucholski, Ouellette
Five full-scale fire experiments were conducted to observe the performance of a two-level apartment-style structure constructed of mass timber. Each level consisted of a one bedroom apartment, an L-shaped corridor, and a stairwell connecting the two levels. One of the primary…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Sokolik
We examine the 2002 Yakutsk wildfire event and simulate the impacts of smoke aerosols on local radiative energy budget, using the WRF-Chem-SMOKE model. When comparing satellite retrievals (the Surface Radiation Budget (SRB) dataset) with model simulations, we found that the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stuefer, Starkweather, Brubaker
These presentations highlight existing wildfire forecasting tools, especially resources that can be used by communities to aid in preparedness efforts. Speakers discuss existing tools and provide examples of their use in communities or their potential applications if not…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wehmas
The boreal forest is a carbon reservoir containing roughly 40% of the world's reactive soil carbon, which is mainly cycled by wildland fires. Climate warming in boreal Alaska has changed the wildfire regime such that an increase in broadleaf forest relative to conifer forest is…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Treatment of natural fuels has been carried out in support of management objectives throughout the history of natural resource management across the United States. While research activities have been conducted for over 50 years, an urgent need still exists to provide better…
Year: 2018
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
This project provided an integrated assessment of the effects of fires under different future climate and population scenarios on fine particulate matter mass (PM2.5) and ozone (O3) at global scale, with a particular focus on the United States. We employed the global Community…
Year: 2018
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Black, Fox, Gabor, Thomas, Ziegler
This Research Brief summarizes findings of a Joint Fire Science Program project focused on understanding radio communications as part of risk communication and sensemaking in wildland fire operations. Through observation of live and simulated radio conversations, analysis of…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Singletary, Evans
This agreement is made and entered into by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Joint Fire Science Program (BLM), and the University of Nevada Reno for the purpose of Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Regional Consortia.
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Guo, Brockway, Larson, Wang, Ren
Common practices for invasive species control and management include physical, chemical, and biological approaches. The first two approaches have clear limitations and may lead to unintended (negative) consequences, unless carefully planned and implemented. For example, physical…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Coyle
Some forest managers have had concerns that prescribed burning after drought will stress mature pines, and increase their susceptibility to beetle attack. However, this concern resulted in many missed opportunities for applying fire after a recent drought abated, as not burning…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Falke, Gray
Fire is the dominant ecological disturbance process in boreal forests (coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches) and fire frequency, size and severity are increasing in Alaska owing to climate warming. However, interactions among fire, climate,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This collection of essays-divided into three key categories: Risk, Culture, and Operations-daylights qualities and practices in the wildland fire service across a broad spectrum, from outdated and unwarranted to honorable and profound. We must acknowledge our current culture and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES