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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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"Outcomes". The final video in the three part series about the Wildfire Research (WiRē) Team describes how a better understanding of a community can be used to develop more effective wildfire programs. The Wildfire Research (WiRē) Team’s unique approach based on community-…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
"The Process". The second video in the three-part series about the Wildfire Research (WiRē) Team delves into the details of the WiRē Team process of pairing social data from residents living in the wildland urban interface with parcel level wildfire risk data. Using the…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
"The Big Picture". Meet the WiRē team. The first video in the three part series introduces the Wildfire Research (WiRē) Team and explains how they are helping communities adapt to wildfire. The WiRē team’s unique approach unites researchers and wildfire mitigation practitioners…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mell, Maranghides, McDermott, Manzello
Fires spreading in elevated vegetation, such as chaparral or pine forest canopies, are often more intense than fires spreading through surface vegetation such as grasslands. As a result, they are more difficult to suppress, produce higher heat fluxes, more firebrands and smoke,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reszka, Borowiec, Steinhaus, Torero
A methodology for the estimation of ignition times on solid materials is presented. It is based on the observation that the time to ignition is proportional to the squared time integral of the incident heat flux. This relationship can be readily demonstrated for the classical…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
A presentation recorded at the 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jeffery
Wildfire is often a naturally occurring process, hence the term 'natural hazard,' but unlike other natural, potentially disastrous weather-related events, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods, there are two critical human elements unique to a wildfire: it is the only…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boham
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jain
From introduction: The ineffective and inconsistent use of terminology among fire managers, scientists, resource managers and the public is a constant problem in resource management. In fire management and fire science, the terms fire severity, burn severity and fire intensity…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winter, Vogt, Fried
Forest fuels reduction has the best chance of success if managers understand the factors that influence public acceptance of fuel management. This article reports an analysis of focus group interviews with wildland-urban interface residents at sites selected to provide variation…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Thorburn, MacMillan, Alexander
Interactive multimedia technology has been utilized in the development of a CD-ROM based wildland fire safety training course, Wildland Fire-Safety on the Fireline. Interactive multimedia technology allows delivery of training to a large number of students on a consistent basis…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sturm, Weaver
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stewart, Radeloff, Hammer, Hawbaker
Federal wildland fire policy in the United States has been substantially revised over the past 10 years and new emphasis has been given to the wildland- urban interface (WUI), which creates a need for information about the WUI's location and extent. We operationalized a policy…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Simard
The paper describes attributes of space, time, and process in terms of their relations to wildland fire. It then presents a generic framework, based on eight interrelated scale classes for space, time, and process. The effects of changing scales are discussed in a wildland fire…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Reams, Haines, Renner, Wascom, Kingre
The dramatic expansion into the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) places property, natural assets, and human life at risk from wildfire destruction. The U.S. National Fire Plan encourages communities to implement laws and outreach programs for pre-fire planning to mitigate the risk…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Radke, Ward, Riggan
Forestry, conservation, wildfire risk reduction, and agricultural uses of planned or prescribed fires as a tool for meeting the needs of wildland managers are increasingly in collision at the air pollution control and climate change cross-roads. The inevitable conflict resulting…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Radeloff, Hammer, Stewart, Fried, Holcomb, McKeefry
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. The WUI is thus a focal area for human-environment conflicts, such as the destruction of homes by wildfires, habitat fragmentation, introduction of exotic…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This site was created to enhance networking and dialogue, and increase the sharing of learning and innovations related to community wildfire resilience. The blog will foster a community of practice comprised of local leaders, firefighters, land managers, business owners and…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit provides scientific tools, information, and expertise to help people manage their climate-related risks and opportunities, and improve their resilience to extreme events. The site is designed to serve interested citizens, communities,…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The US Drought Monitor, established in 1999, is a weekly map of drought conditions that is produced jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the US Department of Agriculture, and the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) at the University of Nebraska-…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
This website gives you access to the rich tools and resources available for the text 'Fire on Earth: An Introduction' by Andrew C. Scott, David M.J.S. Bowman, William J. Bond, Stephen J. Pyne and Martin E. Alexander. It includes: powerpoints of all figures from the book for…
Year: 2014
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The term "fire adapted communities" was codified in the 2005 Quadrennial Fire and Fuel Review, and subsequently became one of the three tenets of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Strategy. Fire adapted communities is not a program, rather it is a continual process with no…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska Fire Science Consortium (AFSC) is one of fifteen regional consortia supported by the Joint Fire Science Program and is part of a national fire science knowledge exchange network. Their primary purpose is to strengthen the link between fire science research and on-the-…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
A list of tools that can help homeowners, community leaders, and researchers better understand where wildfires occur and how to protect homes and neighborhoods.
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
Wildland fires are a force of nature that can be nearly as impossible to prevent, and as difficult to control, as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods.
Wildland fire can be a friend and a foe. In the right place at the right time, wildland fire can create many environmental…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES, TTRS