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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Chowdhury, Hassan
Forest fire is a natural phenomenon in many ecosystems across the world. One of the most important components of forest fire management is the forecasting of fire danger conditions. Here, our aim was to critically analyse the following issues, (i) current operational forest fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander, Thorburn
As an acronym, LACES stands for Lookout(s) - Anchor point(s) - Communication(s) - Escape routes - Safety zone(s) and has gradually become a guideline for wildland firefighter safety in various regions of Canada over the past 15 years or so. LACES constitutes a slight…
Year: 2015
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
Bramwell
From the text ... 'One of the smokejumper program's defining characteristics is its commitment to innovation--a constant refinement of equipment and techniques that hearkens back to the program's earliest days.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Short
Analyses to identify and relate trends in wildfire activity to factors such as climate, population, land use or land cover and wildland fire policy are increasingly popular in the United States. There is a wealth of US wildfire activity data available for such analyses, but…
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
North, Stephens, Collins, Agee, Aplet, Franklin, Fulé
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: 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
Boer, Price, Bradstock
From the text...'Studies in Australia and the United States show that weather is a stronger determinant of fire severity than is fuel...Fuel treatment whether by managed fires or other means, may be most cost-effective when strategically targeted in close proximity to assets at…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huang, Dahal, Liu, Jin, Young, Li, Liu
The albedo change caused by fires and the subsequent succession is spatially heterogeneous, leading to the need to assess the spatiotemporal variation of surface shortwave forcing (SSF) as a component to quantify the climate impacts of high-latitude fires. We used an image…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Girardin, Terrier
Wildfire activity is projected to increase through upcoming decades in boreal Canada due to climatic changes. Amongst the proposed strategies to offset the climate-driven fire risk is the introduction of broadleaf species into dense-coniferous landscapes so as to decrease the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christianson
This article reviews social science research on Indigenous wildfire management in Australia, Canada and the United States after the year 2000 and explores future research needs in the field. In these three countries, social science research exploring contemporary Indigenous…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Chipman, Hudspith, Higuera, Duffy, Kelly, Oswald, Hu
Anthropogenic climate change has altered many ecosystem processes in the Arctic tundra and may have resulted in unprecedented fire activity. Evaluating the significance of recent fires requires knowledge from the paleofire record because observational data in the Arctic span…
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
Hansen
Climate and disturbance regimes are expected to change profoundly in 21st century forests. Whether and where forests may succumb to projected trends and shift to different ecosystem states is poorly resolved but essential for anticipating both ecological and social consequences…
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Glasspool, Scott, Waltham, Pronina, Shao
Analyses of bulk petrographic data indicate that during the Late Paleozoic wildfires were more prevalent than at present. We propose that the development of fire systems through this interval was controlled predominantly by the elevated atmospheric oxygen concentration (p(O2))…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heath, Anderson, Emery, Hicke, Littell, Lucier, Masek, Peterson, Pouyat, Potter, Robertson, Sperry, Bytnerowicz, Jovan, Mockrin, Musselman, Schulz, Smith, Stewart
The Third National Climate Assessment (NCA) process for the United States focused in part on developing a system of indicators to communicate key aspects of the physical climate, climate impacts, vulnerabilities, and preparedness to inform decisionmakers and the public.…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In a period of great ecological and socioeconomic change, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service recognizes the critical importance of restoration to fulfilling its mission to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the Nation’s forests and grasslands to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reconstruction of fire regimes through integrated paleoecological proxy data and ecological modeling
Fire is a key ecological process affecting vegetation dynamics and land cover. The characteristic frequency, size, and intensity of fire are driven by interactions between top-down climate-driven and bottom-up fuel-related processes. Disentangling climatic from non-climatic…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bedía, Herrera, Gutiérrez, Benali, Brands, Mota, Moreno
Fire is an integral Earth system process, playing an important role in the distribution of terrestrial ecosystems and affecting the carbon cycle at the global scale. Fire activity is controlled by a number of biophysical factors, including climate, whose relevance varies across…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Thompson, Dunn, Calkin
In their Policy Forum "Reform forest fire management" (18 September, p. 1280), M. P. North et al. highlight public support and improved spatial planning as key leverage points to deemphasize fire exclusion and expand beneficial fire. Although these steps are necessary, we…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hand, Wibbenmeyer, Calkin, Thompson
Wildfires present a complex applied risk management environment, but relatively little attention has been paid to behavioral and cognitive responses to risk among public agency wildfire managers. This study investigates responses to risk, including probability weighting and risk…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hart
The second of three webinars focusing on insects and fire, Dr. Sarah Hart, Department of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder, presented on November 13th - Influence of recent bark beetle outbreaks on wildfire.
Year: 2015
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Meldrum, Champ, Brenkert-Smith, Warziniack, Barth, Falk
Research across a variety of risk domains finds that the risk perceptions of professionals and the public differ. Such risk perception gaps occur if professionals and the public understand individual risk factors differently or if they aggregate risk factors into overall risk…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES