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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wear, Huggett, Li, Perryman, Liu
The 626 million acres of forests in the conterminous United States represent significant reserves of biodiversity and terrestrial carbon and provide substantial flows of highly valued ecosystem services, including timber products, watershed protection benefits, and recreation.…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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The Wildland Fire Incident Management Field Guide is a revision of what used to be called the Fireline Handbook, PMS 410-1. This guide has been renamed because, over time, the original purpose of the Fireline Handbook had been…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vaillant, Ager, Anderson
Fire behavior modeling and geospatial analyses can provide tremendous insight for land managers as they grapple with the complex problems frequently encountered in wildfire risk assessments and fire and fuels management planning. Fuel management often is a particularly…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan, Opperman
LANDFIRE is the working name given to the Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project (http://www.landfire.gov). The project was initiated in response to mega-fires and the need for managers to have consistent, wall-to-wall (i.e., all wildlands regardless of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Calkin, Finney, Gebert, Hand
The financial impact of wildfire management within the USDA Forest Service challenges the ability of the agency to meet societal demands and maintain forest health. The extent of this financial crisis has been attributed to historical and continuing fire management practices,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Peterson, Vose
Forest ecosystems in the United States in the year 2100 will differ from those of today as a result of a changing climate. Those differences will be superimposed on the human imprint of forest management and the legacies of other land use activities, stressors, and disturbances…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Millar, Skog, McKinley, Birdsey, Swanston, Hines, Woodall, Reinhardt, Peterson, Vose
Forest ecosystems respond to natural climatic variability and human-caused climate change in ways that are adverse as well as beneficial to the biophysical environment and to society. Adaptation refers to responses or adjustments made-whether passive, reactive, or anticipatory-…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wear, Joyce
Human concerns about the effects of climate change on forests are related to the values that forests provide to human populations, that is, to the effects on ecosystem services derived from forests. Service values include the consumption of timber products, the regulation of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Maranghides, Mell
WUI fires offer a unique challenge to the fire fighting and fire protection engineering communities. The scale of the events can be vast, spanning in many cases over 100,000 acres (40,000 ha) and the number of structures involved can range into the thousands. The severity of the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Calkin, Herynk, McHugh, Short
Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft is a crucial component of strategic wildfire management and planning. In this manuscript, we focus on the economics of fire and aviation management within the US Forest Service. Substantial…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bailey
Jeremy Bailey, a career firefighter and prescribed fire burn boss, will discuss the Fire Learning Network’s Training Exchange program and how it is being used to train numerous local workforces to advance burning across all lands. In the past seven years, these training…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
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). Fireoccurrence…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cawrse, Van Dyck, Crookston, Robinson, Beukema
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) and its associated Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) have been used to provide information required by larger software systems like the Interagency Fuels Treatment-Decision Support System (IFT-DSS). Interacting with FVS in an automated fashion…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alden
Presented at the 2013 Spring Fire Management Officer/Agency Administrator Meeting, Alaska Fire Service Training Rooms, Fairbanks
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Duffy
Presented at the 2013 Spring Fire Management Officer/Agency Administrator Meeting, Alaska Fire Service Training Rooms, Fairbanks
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Passek
Presented at the 2013 Spring Fire Management Officer/Agency Administrator Meeting, Alaska Fire Service Training Rooms, Fairbanks
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Seaton
Presented at the 2013 Spring Fire Management Officer/Agency Administrator Meeting, Alaska Fire Service Training Rooms, Fairbanks
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Thompson
Wildfire management in the United States and elsewhere is challenged by substantial uncertainty regarding the location and timing of fire events, the socioeconomic and ecological consequences of these events, and the costs of suppression. Escalating U.S. Forest Service…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Knowlton
Even if you don’t live in an area prone to wildfires, your health may be threatened by smoke from fires raging in other parts of the country. New NRDC analysis shows that about two-thirds of the United States—nearly 212 million people—lived in counties affected by smoke…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moore
The DEASCO3 project will produce analytical results and a dynamic and accessible technical tool which enables Federal Land Managers (FLM) to participate more fully in ozone air quality planning efforts. We will turn complex technical analyses of a series of well-chosen historic…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
González-Cabán
In the spring of 2008, the Third International Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning, and Policy: A World View was held in Carolina, Puerto Rico to address the issues related to the economics, policy and planning of wildland fire management problems and concerns. Since then,…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Cawrse, VanDyck
This is a proposal to improve performance of the Forest Vegetation Simulator related to processing speed and linkages to other software. These improvements will better meet the needs of landscape analyses for fire planning for the Interagency Fuels Treatment - Decision Support…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Toman
Considerable social science research has been conducted at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) since inception of the Joint Fire Science Program and National Fire Plan. Results have provided useful insight into factors including public acceptance of fuel treatments, communication…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Dillon, Karau, Morgan, Sikkink
Fire severity mapping technologies are critical tools for 1) identifying severely burned areas, 2) facilitating enlightened wildfire management, and 3) implementing costly rehabilitation and restoration efforts. We propose to create a Fire Severity Mapping System (FSMS) for the…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Worden
This is the sixth presentation held on the first day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Steven Worden, USFS, discusses cache management. This webinar originally aired on March 26, 2013.
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES