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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Flores, Rushing, Redmore
Presentation as part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2023 Webinar Series by David Flores, Jaclyn Rushing and Lauren Redmore
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

McCaffrey, Rappold, Hano, Navarro, Phillips, Prestemon, Vaidyanathan, Abt, Reid, Sacks
At a fundamental level, smoke from wildland fire is of scientific concern because of its potential adverse effects on human health and social well-being. Although many impacts (e.g., evacuations, property loss) occur primarily in proximity to the actual fire, smoke can end up…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Park, Takahashi, Li, Takakura, Fujimori, Hasegawa, Ito, Lee, Thiery
Fires and their associated carbon and air pollutant emissions have a broad range of environmental and societal impacts, including negative effects on human health, damage to terrestrial ecosystems, and indirect effects that promote climate change. Previous studies investigated…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Granda, Leon, Vitoriano, Hearne
Wildfires are recurrent natural events that have been increasing in frequency and severity in recent decades. They threaten human lives and damage ecosystems and infrastructure, leading to high recovery costs. To address the issue of wildfires, several activities must be managed…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Nakazawa, Cain, Kenyon, Munson, Cooke
The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau hosted this public workshop to promote the use of multilingual emergency alerting. The workshop included presentations related to the multilingual capabilities of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Hattenbach
A special session by the Fuels Community of Practice.
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Nowell, Steelman
A growing body of work has been focusing on how to govern and manage across jurisdictionally fragmented landscapes in an effort to promote more effective wildfire preparedness and response. We contribute to this worthy goal in the following five ways through the research…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Charnley, Adams
Both the US Forest Service Wildfire Crisis Strategy and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that is funding the agency’s initial investments to reduce wildfire risk under the Strategy call for considering equity and environmental justice when implementing projects. During this…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

KC, Rupert, Painter, Muller
Wildfires in the United States have become more catastrophic and expensive in recent years, with the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Forest Service nearly doubling their combined spending on wildfire management in the past decade. As more frequent and severe fires drive…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Since 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has provided funding and science delivery for scientific studies associated with managing wildland fire, fuels, and fire-impacted ecosystems to respond to emerging needs of managers, practitioners, and policymakers from local to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ladino, Kobziar, Kredell, Cohn
Representations of fire in the U.S. are often tinged with nostalgia: for unburned landscapes, for less frequent fires, for more predictable fire behavior, or for a simpler, more harmonious relationship between human communities and wildfire. Our perspective piece identifies four…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fillmore, McCaffrey
To improve understanding of the managed wildfire decision-making process on federal lands (USA), we conducted a mixed methods review of the existing literature. The review was published in September, 2021 in the journal Fire. The review spanned from 1976 to 2013 and used…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Rapp, Wilson
Wildland fire incident management teams (IMTs) require sustained and coordinated decision-making across levels of authority during dynamic and high-risk events. Trust between team members is important for maintaining the efficient flow of information and allowing team members to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

[from the text] Under this strategy, the Forest Service will work with partners to engineer a paradigm shift by focusing fuels and forest health treatments more strategically and at the scale of the problem, using the best available science as the guide. At the Forest Service,…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Carroll, Reimer
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. The Deep Dive project is a centerpiece of a learning pilot program collaboratively initiated by WEPO’s, Policy, Accountability and Analysis and RMRS’s Office of Innovation and Organizational Learning (IOL) to…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Hahn, Michlig, Hansen, Manning, Augustinavicius
Previous studies have linked wildfires to a range of adverse mental health outcomes, but there has been limited research on the mental health impacts of wildfire in Alaska, an area undergoing rapid environmental change. We used a multi-level qualitative approach to identify…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Granberg, Shen, Pearson, Verble
Background: Wildland firefighters have physically and psychologically demanding jobs that can result in social, economic and health-related stress. Previous studies have examined the physiological and physical effects of a career in wildland fire, but fewer studies have…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Champ, Barth, Brenkert-Smith, Falk, Gomez, Meldrum
Wildland-urban interface residents, who occupy the areas where wildlands meet and mix with human development, are both contributors to and recipients of the disastrous effects of wildland fires. They contribute through fire starts, flammable homes, unmitigated properties,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The Fire Environment Mapping System (FEMS) is a new wildland fire IT application which will support wildland fire preparedness and decision-making with better access to fire environment datasets and online analysis tools. FEMS will support a core principle of the Cohesive…
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES

Santín, Moustakas, Doerr
Interactions between humans and wildfires have increased in many regions over the last decades driven by climate and land-use changes. A shift towards more adaptive fire management and policies is urgently needed but remains difficult to achieve. Better understanding of public…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The challenges of the 2020 Fire Year have validated the Cohesive Strategy and proven its foundational value for additional success and achievement across boundaries and landscapes in the West. The following pages offer a snapshot of 2020 activities and successes in the Western…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

[Executive Summary] The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) presents this Addendum Update, to spotlight wildland fire critical emphasis areas and challenges that were not identified or addressed in depth in the 2014 National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Harvey, Holz, Huang, Hurteau, Ilangakoon, Jennings, Jones, Klimaszewski-Patterson, Kobziar, Kominoski, Kosović, Krawchuk, Laris, Leonard, Loria-Salazar, Lucash, Mahmoud, Margolis, Maxwell, McCarty, McWethy, Meyer, Miesel, Moser, Nagy, Niyogi, Palmer, Pellegrini, Poulter, Robertson, Rocha, Sadegh, Santos, Scordo, Sexton, Sharma, Smith, Soja, Still, Swetnam, Syphard, Tingley, Tohidi, Trugman, Turetsky, Varner, Wang, Whitman, Yelenik, Zhang
Fire is an integral component of ecosystems globally and a tool that humans have harnessed for millennia. Altered fire regimes are a fundamental cause and consequence of global change, impacting people and the biophysical systems on which they depend. As part of the newly…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES