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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Displaying 51 - 75 of 1982
Baker
It is predicted that under a warming climate, wildfire frequency will likely increase. The increase in fire activity is hypothesized as a likely consequence of increased atmospheric CO2-driven climate warming having the potential to influence fire weather and increase ignition…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Velasco Hererra, Soon, Pérez-Moreno, Velasco Herrera, Martell-Dubois, Rosique-de la Cruz, Fedorov, Cerdeira-Estrada, Bongelli, Zúñiga
The boreal forests of the Northern Hemisphere (i.e., covering the USA, Canada and Russia) are the grandest carbon sinks of the world. A significant increase in wildfires could cause disequilibrium in the Northern borealforest’s capacity as a carbon sink and cause significant…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This 15-minute video provides an overview of the FireWorks program and describes several of the activities.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fire is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal about the science, policy, and technology of fires and how they interact with communities and the environment, broadly defined, published quarterly online by MDPI. Fire serves as an international forum for diverse…
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
An interesting collection of reports of large fires in the Tanana Flats in 1941-1942. Parts of the 1941 fires over-wintered and reappeared in spring 1942—an early record of this phenomenon which sparked a Research Brief in 2020: https://akfireconsortium.files.wordpress.com/2020…
Year: 1941
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robinson
A fascinating compilation of materials on the 421,000-acre Kenai wildfire of the summer of 1947 by Roger Robinson, who at that time led the fledgling territorial Alaskan Fire Control Service as Regional Forester. His collected materials (in response to a request from the Corps…
Year: 1948
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Simpson, Shields
This report, prepared for land management agencies, details observations on burn severity, animal utilization, and early plant succession on a fire which burned 250,000 acres in the Tanana Flats in 1980.
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Grabinski
An intensified pattern of wildfire is emerging in Alaska as rapidly increasing temperatures and longer growing seasons alter the state's environment. Both tundra and Boreal forest regions are seeing larger and more frequent fires. The impacts of these fires are felt across the…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To do so, this review presents a…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This report assesses recent forest disturbance in the Western United States and discusses implications for sustainability. Individual chapters focus on fire, drought, insects, disease, invasive plants, and socioeconomic impacts. Disturbance data came from a variety of sources,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bowman, Kolden, Abatzoglou, Johnston, Van der Werf, Flannigan
Vegetation fires are an essential component of the Earth system but can also cause substantial economic losses, severe air pollution, human mortality and environmental damage. Contemporary fire regimes are increasingly impacted by human activities and climate change, but, owing…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lu, Ikejiri, Lu
The Devonian is known for the earliest dispersal of extensive wildfires, but the spatiotemporal diversification pattern and process have not been studied in detail. We synthesize a total of 65 global wildfire occurrences based on fossil charcoals and geochemical (biomarker)…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Varner, Hiers
“Coproduction” as a transformative model for fire science application is receiving increasing attention as wildland fire managers face increasingly complex contexts for prescribed fire applications and wildfire suppression (Hiers 2017). Among natural resource disciplines, fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Varner, Hiers
Fire science is an inherently applied amalgamation of disciplines which is increasingly developing exceptional disciplinary depth. There is a definitive need for managers and 2 researchers to leverage experiential and theoretical knowledge to address the complex problems facing…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Miller
Excerpt: The fire history and fuels data certainly have implications for resource management and park planning in the Kananaskis Park. In the long run, we would like to let ecosystems run themselves, and that can mean allowing wildfires to burn in areas where they will be…
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ballard
Lowell Ballard, Director of Geospatial Solutions with Timmons Group presents the latest developments in the Shared Wildfire Risk Mitigation (SWRM) Dashboard Tool that uses GIS data to provide mapped communities at risk, a consistent approach across 13 states (so far), completed…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Stoof, Chalton, Withington, Belval, Foderi
Wildland Fire Management under COVID-19: Results of a Global Survey - Cathelijne Stoof, Assistant Professor, Soil Geography and Landscape Group, Coordinator Wageningen Fire Centre, Wageningen University, Netherlands"
This talk summarizes the results of a…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Dr. Stephen Pyne, the world's foremost fire historian, discusses how we are living in a Fire Age of comparable scale to the Ice Ages of the Pleistocene, and whether our relationship with fire is a mutual assistance pact or a Faustian bargain. To read his responses to the…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Fire offers a special perspective by which to understand the Earth being remade by humans. Fire is integrative, so intrinsically interdisciplinary. Fire use is unique to humans, so a tracer of humanity's ecological impacts. Anthropogenic fire history shows the long influence of…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Healey, Yang, Cohen
he Landscape Change Monitoring System (LCMS) is a remote sensing-based system for mapping and monitoring landscape change across the United States. LCMS produces annual maps depicting change (vegetation loss and vegetation gain), land cover, and land use from 1985 to present…
Year: 2020
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Russell
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Year: 1984
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stewart
From the text ... 'The historic records from around the world leave no room to doubt that primitive hunting and gathering peoples, as well as ancient farmers and herders, for a number of reasons, frequently and intentionally set fire to almost all the vegetation around them…
Year: 1963
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christy
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Year: 1987
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hawkes, Lawson
Fuel complexes resulting from power-saw spacing in young coastal Douglas-fir and interior lodgepole pine stands were quantitatively assessed for loading and duration of hazard. Fuel appraisal data were combined with fire weather regimes to derive fire behavior predictions for…
Year: 1980
Type: Document
Source: TTRS