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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Brooks, Lusk
This manual targets fire management staff and is designed to summarize the links between fire management and invasive plant invasions and management. It also provides practical guidelines that fire managers should consider with respect to invasive plants. Minimum recommendations…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shlisky, Myers, Waugh, Blankenship
Fire is a global phenomenon. Worldwide, fire can play a role in maintaining or threatening natural habitats and human societies. In any case, we must consider the global context for our actions and the best possible role each nation can play in managing fire for humans and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Smith, Zouhar, Sutherland, Brooks
This volume synthesizes scientific information about interactions between fire and nonnative invasive plants in wildlands of the United States. If the subject were clear and simple, this volume would be short; obviously, it is not. Relationships between fire and nonnative…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
He, Keane, Iverson
Forest landscape models have become important tools for understanding large-scale and long-term landscape (spatial) processes such as climate change, fire, windthrow, seed dispersal, insect outbreak, disease propagation, forest harvest, and fuel treatment, because controlled…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This two page report highlights the differences/upgrades between BehavePlus version 3 and BehavePlus version 4.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a PC-based program that is a collection of models that describe fire and the fire environment. It is a flexible system that produces tables, graphs, and diagrams and can be used for a multitude of fire management applications. BehavePlus is…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
FireFamilyPlus (FFP) is a PC-based software system for summarizing and analyzing historical daily fire weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) or the Canadian Fire Danger Rating System (CFDRS). Fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a suite of computer modeling tools for predicting the long-term effects of alternative forest management actions. FVS was developed in the early 1980s and is used throughout the United Sates and British Columbia. The Third FVS conference…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lawson, Armitage
The Weather Guide for the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System is intended primarily for operational wildland fire management personnel and forest fire weather practitioners responsible for gathering, processing, and forecasting fire weather information in support of safe…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
An updated edition (with corrections) of Marty Alexander's 1994 report on the criteria used to define the fire danger classes in New Zealand. A fire danger class scheme based on Byram's concept of fire intensity as a yardstick of suppression difficulty was devised for forests…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rodman, Stam
The Municipality of Anchorage Community Wildfire Protection Plan is a collaborative effort in response to the 2003 Healthy Forests Restoration Act (HFRA). The HFRA directs communities exposed to wildland fire to conduct a risk assessment and create a hazard fuel mitigation plan…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardy, Heilman, Weise, Goodrick, Ottmar, Hilbruner, Sandberg
This document presents a problem analysis and science advancement plan for fundamental fire behavior research activities under the Physical Fire Processes Element (A1), Core Fire Science Portfolio (A), Fire Strategic Program Area (SPA), as defined by the Forest Service Wildland…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seesholtz
Since its inception in 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has funded over 400 projects. The Joint Fire Science Program has long recognized that the investments made in wildland fire science need to be accompanied by an emphasis on science interpretation and delivery.…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Canton-Thompson, Gebert, Thompson, Jones, Calkin, Donovan
Large wildland fires are complex, costly events influenced by a vast array of physical, climatic, and social factors. Changing climate, fuel buildup due to past suppression, and increasing populations in the wildland-urban interface have all been blamed for the extreme fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cui, Perera
Forest fire size distribution (FSD) is one of the suite of indicators of forest fire regimes. It is applied in forest fire management, particularly for planning and evaluating suppression efforts. It is also used in forest management in the context of emulating natural fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Bevins, Seli
This publication has been revised to reflect updates made to version 3 of the BehavePlus software, it was originally published as the BehavePlus fire modeling system, version 2.0 User's Guide in June, 2003. The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a program for personal computers…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
ANNOTATION: This is an Excel spreadsheet that converts wood moisture contents from either dry basis to wet basis or wet basis to dry basis. The moisture content of biomass affects the gross weight of the material that is being handled. Green material will have a higher density…
Year: 2008
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Third International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning and Policy: Common Problems and Approaches
Wildland fire management programs and fire suppression is multi-faceted, spanning intellectual disciplines and administrative boundaries. Planning and implementing fire management programs requires knowledge and experience in fire science, ecosystem ecology, fuel dynamics,…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Woodard
This conference will bring wildland fire managers, policy makers, community planners, and social scientist together to share information, foster the development of new research collaborations between and among fire managers and researchers across geographic and national borders…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hardy
1. Initial focus will likely be on energy transfer within heterogeneous and spatially non-uniform fuel beds; 2. As stated in the Framework, moisture dynamics in the combustion environment is a critical element demanding attention, and we expect the plan to phase in work directed…
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Haines, Renner, Reams
Wildfire may result from natural processes or as the result of human actions (Ffolliott 1988, Mees 1990). As a natural phenomenon, it is important in sustaining forest health in fire-dependent ecosystems. While some wildfire may be ecologically beneficial, it poses a threat to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Drury, Grissom
We conducted this investigation in response to criticisms that the current Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plans are allowing too much of the landscape in interior Alaska to burn annually. To address this issue, we analyzed fire history patterns within the Yukon Flats…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Beverly, Uto, Wilkes, Bothwell
We designed and developed an internet mapping application to collect data on the locations of forest landscape values across a 2.4 million hectare study area in the province of Alberta, Canada. Four communities in the study area were surveyed and 8053 point locations were mapped…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS