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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Forthofer
Currently, no methods of predicting microscale, terrain influenced winds are available to fire managers. This study evaluated three methods of providing surface wind information to fire growth models. One was simply a uniform wind speed and direction, a method that has been…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
FACA regulates Federal agency establishment or utilization of a group to obtain consensual advice or recommendations. FACA defines when such a group can be considered an advisory committee and the process necessary for its formation and proper functioning. 'Utilizing' a group is…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The vision for Cooperative Conservation in the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is to make shared stewardship of America's public lands the BLM's operating principle. It is the primary directive for land restoration, place-based conservation, and sustainable resource use in the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White, McCaffrey
A century of fire suppression has created heavy fuel loads in many U.S. forests, leading to increasingly intense wildfires. Addressing this problem will require widespread fuels treatments, yet fuels treatment planners do not always have access to the current scientific…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bahro, Barber, Sherlock, Yasuda
Natural resource land managers today face a difficult challenge of developing a cohesive fuels and vegetation management strategy that addresses the widely acknowledged wildfire threat. Treatments must also be compatible with a wide variety of other land management goals, such…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark
This report highlights selected accomplishments achieved by USDA Forest Service National Fire Plan Research and Development projects from 2001 through 2006. The projects highlighted here are examples of the broad range of knowledge and tools developed by the National Fire Plan…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Burns, Cheng, Saeli, Brummel, Grayzeck-Souter, Sturtevant, Williams
Community wildfire protection plans (CWPPs) are being developed and implemented in communities across the United States. In a series of case studies, researchers found that the process of developing a CWPP can lead to benefits beyond those associated with fuels reduction,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eidenshink, Schwind, Brewer, Zhu, Quayle, Howard
Elected officials and leaders of environmental agencies need information about the effects of large wildfires in order to set policy and make management decisions. Recently, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC), which implements and coordinates the National Fire Plan (NFP…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Miller
What better way to learn about fire ecology than to allow fires to burn during their own season, at their own pace, and without interference from humans? The strategy known as wildland fire use (WFU) does just that, and is being increasingly applied, with over one million acres…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Trethewey
A helicopter comparison index was developed to incorporate cost and benefit information for individual helicopters for large wildland fire suppression operations. The costs and benefits for individual helicopters are unique. Costs consist of daily availability and hourly flight…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hardy, Hardy
Fire scientists in the United States began exploring the relationships of fire-danger and hazard with weather, fuel moisture, and ignition probabilities as early as 1916. Many of the relationships identified then persist today in the form of our National Fire-Danger-Rating…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Andrews, Finney, Fischetti
The number of catastrophic wildfires in the U.S. has been steadily rising. The nation has spent more than $1 billion annually to suppress such fires in eight of the past 10 years. In 2005 a record 8.7 million acres burned, only to be succeeded by 9.9 million acres in 2006. And…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The objective of the Fire Use Modules Operations Guide is to provide standards for the operations of all Fire Use Modules (FUM). These standards will be used by staff, supervisors, specialists, and technicians for planning, administering and conducting FUM operations. These…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barbour, Fight
The financial analysis component of the fuel synthesis project was guided by the general specifications of the broader project. The project was requested on behalf of specific users (fuel treatment planners), to address specific questions (how to design and implement fuel…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wright, Vihnanek, Ottmar
The Digital Photo Series (DPS) is a web-based application that provides access to the Natural Fuels Photo Series database and photographs. The DPS works through a user's internet browser, but has also been designed to work as a stand-alone application when the computer is…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
LANDFIRE (Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project) is an interagency vegetation, fire, and fuel characteristics mapping project. It is a shared project between the DOI and Forest Service wildland fire management programs and is sponsored by the Wildland…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wordell, Carlton
Cheetah 3 (Computerized Harmonic Evaluation of Episodes and Tools for Assessment of Help) was developed to support examination of fire occurrence patterns and fire suppression resource requirements at the National and Geographic Area level. Questions are frequently asked…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lentile, Morgan, Hardy, Hudak, Means, Ottmar, Robichaud, Sutherland, Szymoniak, Way, Fites-Kaufman, Lewis, Mathews, Shovik, Ryan
Rapid Response Research is conducted during and immediately after wildland fires, in coordination with fire management teams, in order to collect information that can best be garnered in situ and in real-time. This information often includes fire behavior and fire effects data,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Johnson
A scientific foundation coupled with technical support is needed to develop long-term strategic plans for fuel and vegetation treatments on public lands. These plans are developed at several spatial scales and are typically a component of fire management plans and other types of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Esposito, Jakes
Large fires can result in a series of disasters for individuals and communities in the wildland-urban interface. They create significant disruptions to ongoing social processes, result in large financial losses, and lead to expensive restoration activities. By being aware of the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berg
Introduction to the December 2007 Special Forum on the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) which includes 7 articles related to FCCS.
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Toman, Kruger, Stankey
This report provides a detailed summary of research conducted in multiple forest communities throughout the U.S. by forest social scientists at Oregon State University. Project work was supported by the USDA/USDI Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in cooperation with the USDA…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ferguson, Hoadley, Larkin
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) provides a web interface to a twice-daily, 40-year database of wind speed, mixing height and ventilation index for the United States at a spatial resolution of approximately 5km (Ferguson et al. 2003). This provides smoke…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Miller, Wright, Walker, Ballard, Nasiatka, Fay, Chappell, Calkin
The principal objectives were to: 1) increase distribution and awareness of FEPF. We met this through on-site visits, web-based training and explanatory materials, trainings and workshops); 2) develop a stand-alone training module for FEPF that can be integrated into existing…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McDaniel
FSPro is a spatial model that maps the probability of free-burning fire spread for a set period of time. RAVAR is an economic model that provides dollar estimates of values (structures, infrastructure and more) threatened by a fire, as well as assessments of non-monetary values…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES