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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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An optimization model for locating fuel treatments across a landscape to reduce expected fire losses
Locating fuel treatments with scarce resources is an important consideration in landscape-level fuel management. This paper developed a mixed integer programming (MIP) model for allocating fuel treatments across a landscape based on spatial information for fire ignition risk,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Galtie
The recent evolution of the rural and urban areas has led to the progressive emergence of a complex and multiform wildland urban interface. Today this interface has turned into a fire threat which is omnipresent. The evolution in progress raises in particular the question of the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, Randerson, McGuire, Foley, Field
Ecosystems influence climate through multiple pathways, primarily by changing the energy, water, and greenhouse-gas balance of the atmosphere. Consequently, efforts to mitigate climate change through modification of one pathway, as with carbon in the Kyoto Protocol, only…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sommers
The wildland urban interface (WUI) is a common story line in many of today's wildfire events. The WUI concept was formally introduced in 1987 Forest Service Research budget documents but was not acknowledged as a major component for federal fire management until the 2000…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rehm
A simple physics-based mathematical model is developed for prediction of the propagation of a grass-fire front driven by an ambient wind and by entrainment winds generated from one or more burning structures. This model accounts for the heterogeneous nature of the burning in a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
In this wide-ranging essay, Stephen Pyne, the preeminent historian of wildfire around the world, explores the past, present, and future of the term 'wildland-urban interface' and the policies regarding fire in that setting. He argues that, while we need to remove fire from the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Enninful, Torvi
A numerical model of heat transfer in dry soil was developed to predict temperatures and depth of lethal heat penetration during cone calorimeter tests used to simulate wildland fire exposures. The model was used to compare predictions made using constant and temperature-…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Miller, Parisien, Ager, Finney
Spatially explicit information on the probability of burning is necessary for virtually all strategic fire and fuels management planning activities, including conducting wildland fire risk assessments, optimizing fuel treatments, and prevention planning. Predictive models…
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
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
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
Miller
The interagency-Fire Regime / Condition Class - assessment process (FRCC) represents a contemporary and effective means of estimating the relative degree of difference or "departure" a subject landscape condition is currently in, as compared to the historic or reference…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hurteau, Koch, Hungate
ANNOTATION: This paper looks into the carbon sequestering abilities of forests and finds that policies currently in place promote avoidable carbon releases and discourage actions that would actually increase long-term carbon storage. When stand-replacing catastrophic fires move…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
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
Bourgeau-Chavez, Riordan, Garwood
Alaska currently relies on the Canadian Fire Weather Index (FWI) System for the assessment of the potential for wildfire and although it provides invaluable information it is designed as a single system which does not account for the varied fuel types and drying conditions (day…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holmberg, Bennett
Discusses pruning as a way to reduce fire hazard in forest land. Outlines pruning guidelines. Summarizes considerations in pruning.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Paveglio, Carroll, Jakes
Remaining inside fire-safe structures or at designated safety zones to actively defend against wildland fire events is an underrepresented area of scholarship. Although research on chemical spills and tornadoes has long advocated a similar practice of shelter-in-place during…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bowker, Lim, Cordell, Green, Rideout-Hanzak, Johnson
We used a national household survey to examine knowledge, attitudes, and preferences pertaining to wildland fire. First, we present nationwide results and trends. Then, we examine opinions across region and race. Despite some regional variation, respondents are fairly consistent…
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
Andrews, Bradshaw, Jolly, Monahan
WFAS, the Wildland Fire Assessment System, is an internet-based information system. The current implementation provides a national view of weather and fire potential, including national fire danger and weather maps and satellite-derived 'Greenness' maps. WFAS was first made…
Year: 2008
Type: Tool
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
Murdiyarso, van Noordwijk, Puntodewo, Widayati, Lusiana
The promise of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to deliver its dual objectives is currently under public scrutiny. In land-use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) activities through afforestation and reforestation projects, known as A/R CDM, the deliverables that…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boerner, Huang, Hart
The Fire and Fire Surrogates (FFS) network is composed of 12 forest sites that span the continental United States, all of which historically had frequent low-severity fire. The goal of the FFS study was to assess the efficacy of three management treatments (prescribed fire,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS