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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Keywood, Kanakidou, Stohl, Dentener, Grassi, Meyer, Torseth, Edwards, Thompson, Lohmann, Burrows
Fire has a role in ecosystem services; naturally produced wildfires are important for the sustainability of many terrestrial biomes and fire is one of nature's primary carbon-cycling mechanisms. Under a warming climate, it is likely that fire frequency and severity will increase…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bastian, Keske, Mcleod, Hoag
Conservation easements offer sustainable land use and environmental conservation through land use restrictions. Opportunities exist to improve the efficiency by which parties interested in conservation easement transactions are matched, which may contribute to the overall…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Middleton
Protection of culturally important indigenous landscapes has become an increasingly important component of environmental management processes, for both companies and individuals striving to comply with environmental regulations, and for indigenous groups seeking stronger laws to…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Climate change projections for the coming decades suggest that forested landscapes will experience greater number of fires and a larger total area burned each year. The undesirable impacts of fire may be avoided or reduced through global strategies, and policymakers should not…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire management is dictated by community and political pressure-at least that's what conventional wisdom in the fire community tells us. However, few studies have investigated the validity of that axiom, and little is known about the relative influence of internal and external…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephens, Agee, Fulé, North, Romme, Swetnam, Turner
With projected climate change, we expect to face much more forest fire in the coming decades. Policy-makers are challenged not to categorize all fires as destructive to ecosystems simply because they have long flame lengths and kill most of the trees within the fire boundary.…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the United States Congress have repeatedly asked the Office of Wildland Fire in the Department of Interior (DOI) and the United States Forest Service (USFS) to critically examine and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
The Western Governors’ Association hosted the webinar, Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges on Dec. 19, 2017 as part of the series for the National Forest and Rangeland Management Initiative. Prescribed fire is a tool for land managers to address wildfire…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mockrin
Becoming a fire-adapted community that can live with wildfire is envisioned as a continuous, iterative process of adaptation. We combined national and case study research to examine how experience with wildfire alters the built environment and community- and government-level…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mockrin
Becoming a fire-adapted community that can live with wildfire is envisioned as a continuous, iterative process of adaptation. In eight case study sites across the United States we examined how destructive wildfire affected altered progress towards becoming fire-adapted, focusing…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hyde, Yedinak, Talhelm, Smith, Bowman, Johnston, Lahm, Fitch, Tinkham
Wildland fire emissions degrade air quality and visibility, having adverse economic, health and visibility impacts at large spatial scales globally. Air quality regulations can constrain the goals of landscape resilience and management of fire-dependent ecosystems. Here, we…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Roger Ottmar, Research Forester with the USFS Pacific Northwest Fire & Environmental Research Applications Team, gave a talk on air quality, wildfire smoke components and smoke impacts on human health with an eye to how air quality regulations may impact prescribed burn…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
This talk will focus on a four-step approach to integrating wildfire planning for the wildland-urban interface (WUI) through a variety of planning and implementation processes that work across departments within local governments. Attendees may wish to review the guide on which…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Roger Ottmar led numerous field studies on the effects of smoke on firefighter health. He presented this talk at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This 30 minute module (RX410 Unit 5B) covers effects of various smoke components…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Roger Ottmar has a long and distinguished career studying smoke and effects on firefighter and public health. He presented this talk on the public health impacts of smoke at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This introductory (…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Walsh, Trainor
The US Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment (NCA), synthesizes the latest science on climate change and provides information for communities about the current and projected impacts. A draft of the 2013 NCA Report is available for expert review and public…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES