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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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ANNOTATION: This document describes current US national fuel challenges in the context of increased renewable energy production. There is a description of the Congressionally created Biomass Research and Development Board's mandate: 'to coordinate programs within and among…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephen, Sorbel
In the absence of available LANDFIRE data in Alaska, a FARSITE landscape file was generated for the Tanana Zone Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) prototype by applying a cross-walk to the recently released Alaska National Land Cover Data (NLCD) dataset. In an effort…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephen, Sorbel
Guidelines for running a FSPro analysis and calibrating a FSPro run for Alaska, with the disclaimer that WFDSS/FSPro is a prototype application that is currently under development.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire season officially began on April 1st, and there had been 12 fire numbers issued by that time. The first fire number issued was a False Alarm on February 28th. The first actual fire that received a number was Mat-Su's Mothershead fire (#002) which was a 0.1 acre escaped…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goals for the meeting and process: 1) Using the available statewide fire weather data and combining stations to develop long data sets for fire slowing/ending events probabilities (we will not be doing SE Alaska); 2) Develop prescriptions statewide (except SE) that constitutes a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kuwana, Sekimoto, Saito, Williams
A fire whirl in an open space can cause devastating damage as was experienced in Hifukusho-ato, Tokyo, after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1921. To understand the generation mechanism of the open-space fire whirls, 1/1000th scale-model experiments were conducted in a large, low-…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clements, Zhong, Bian, Heilman, Byun
Wildland fires radically modify the atmospheric boundary layer by inducing strong fire-atmosphere interactions. These interactions lead to intense turbulence production in and around the fire front. Two field experiments were conducted in tall-grass fuels to quantify turbulence…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roxburgh, Rein
The use of counter-fires to gain control over wildfires is a technique used by some fire services around the world. A fire is purposely lighted ahead of the wildfire and the buoyancy induced in-drafts pull it towards the flame front thus creating a fire break of burnt fuel. Well…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mack, Treseder, Manies, Harden, Schuur, Vogel, Randerson, Chapin
Plant biomass accumulation and productivity are important determinants of ecosystem carbon (C) balance during post-fire succession. In boreal black spruce (Picea mariana) forests near Delta Junction, Alaska, we quantified aboveground plant biomass and net primary productivity (…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Girardin, Sauchyn
Annual area burned (AAB) variability in northwestern North America was inferred from 38 tree-ring width chronologies widely distributed across boreal regions and spanning the past 300 years and the minimum 1833-1998 interval. AAB estimates accounted for up to 61% of the variance…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiitala, Wilson
Recent advances in operations research and computer technologies present new opportunities to improve preseason wildland fire planning tools. In this paper, we describe the Wildfire Initial Response Assessment System (WIRAS), a stochastic simulation model that incorporates many…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yoder
In past the fifteen years, many state laws regarding prescribed fire use in the United States have been adopted and revised, and many new statutes now explicitly recognize the benefits of prescribed fire for wildfire risk mitigation. From an economic perspective, the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hatfield, Wiitala, Wilson, Levy
An algorithm is described that quickly calculates minimum travel times between locations for initial response forest fire suppression units. The algorithm was developed for integration into wildfire planning simulation models to quickly identify fire suppression units with the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reams, Haines, Renner
Recent years have brought dramatic expansion of residential development into the Wildland-Urban-Interface (WUI). This rapid development places property, natural assets and human life at risk from wildfire destruction. The U.S. National Fire Plan encourages communities to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Omi
Wildfires continue to burn in the US despite rising concerns for the costs and losses associated with recurrent fire episodes. Prescribed fire and other fuel treatments have been proposed as potential solutions to US fire problems, though fire hazard reduction through fuels…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roose, Ballard, Manley, Saleen, Harbert
Following the 1994 fire season in the United States of America the five federal wildland fire agencies and bureaus within the Departments of Agriculture and Interior along with the State Foresters conducted a review of the Federal Fire Policy. Lack of a common, interagency fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robertson, Roose
Direction for fire management planning has been recently revised for all federal wildland fire agencies in the U.S. Fire management plans have become important planning tools that spatially document fire management strategies that support land and resource management planning…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jensen
Researchers, politicians, and land managers have described a "fire crisis" in the United States during the late 20th and early 21st centuries: Fuels have built up over decades of fire suppression and combined with an ever-expanding urban-wildland interface to result in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Botti, Rideout, Kirsch
Fire use enables fire managers to take advantage of the beneficial effects that natural ignitions may have on the landscape. Under the right circumstances, fire managers may choose to forgo initial attack in favor of monitoring and managing natural ignitions in ways that improve…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout, Ziesler
Three longstanding and pervasive myths of wildland fire management are identified and explained using a basic application of economic theory. Each myth is explained and the collection of myths is examined to identify a common misapplication of the theory that ties them together…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lankoande, Yoder
Wildfire risk mitigation through ex ante vegetation management is receiving more attention in the United States after a strong emphasis on suppression for a hundred years. This paper presents a dynamic economic model with three sets of input choice variables: the timing of pre-…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
MacGregor, González-Cabán
Although the vast majority of wildland fires are suppressed effectively in initial or extended attack, on relatively rare occasions fires become exceptionally large, resulting in unusual resource damages, significant financial impacts and/or loss of life. Understanding how to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jurvélius
This presentation focuses on some legal aspects of forest fire management, namely international agreements and national legislation dealing with forest fires and is based on the updating work of Frédéric St-Martin, Legal Consultant; carried out in March 2004. The main objectives…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ingalsbee, Henry, Catranides, Schulke
Successfully educating homeowners and communities about wildland fire ecology and management, reducing hazardous fuels, and restoring fire-adapted forest ecosystems will place enormous demands on the budgets, resources, and staff of federal agencies for several decades to come.…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Interagency Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation Procedures Guide provides standardized procedures, specifically associated with the planning and implementation of prescribed fire. These procedures meet all policy requirements described in the 2003 Interagency…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES