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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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This state-of-knowledge review provides a synthesis of the effects of fire on cultural resources, which can be used by fire managers, cultural resource (CR) specialists, and archaeologists to more effectively manage wildland vegetation, fuels, and fire. The goal of the volume is…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cochrane, Moran, Wimberly, Baer, Finney, Beckendorf, Eidenshink, Zhu
Human land use practices, altered climates, and shifting forest and fire management policies have increased the frequency of large wildfires several-fold. Mitigation of potential fire behaviour and fire severity have increasingly been attempted through pre-fire alteration of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Crowder, Northfield, Gomulkiewicz, Snyder
Healthy ecosystems include many species (high richness) with similar abundances (high evenness). Thus, both aspects of biodiversity are worthy of conservation. Simultaneously conserving richness and evenness might be difficult, however, if, for example, the restoration of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jakes, McCaffrey
Wildland fires burn millions of acres annually, damaging human and animal communities, endangering the lives of firefighters, and costing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and suppression expenses. However, wildland fires are also important to maintaining and restoring…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fontaine, Kennedy
Management in fire-prone ecosystems relies widely upon application of prescribed fire and/or fire surrogate (e.g., forest thinning) treatments to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem function. Recently, published literature examining wildlife response to fire and fire management…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Robertson
The purpose of the workshop was for research scientists, air quality specialists, policy administrators, and others to present and discuss recent advances in research relating to estimation of emission factors for particulate matter (PM) and its constituents (organic carbon,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melvin
Science demonstrates that low-intensity surface fires were historically a critical ecological process in as much as 60% of North American landscapes. When applied appropriately in fire-dependent ecosystems, prescribed fire maintains forest health and function, provides habitat…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephens, McIver, Boerner, Fettig, Fontaine, Hartsough, Kennedy, Schwilk
The current conditions of many seasonally dry forests in the western and southern United States, especially those that once experienced low- to moderate-intensity fire regimes, leave them uncharacteristically susceptible to high-severity wildfire. Both prescribed fire and its…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ray, Kolden, Chapin
Sustainability science promotes place-based resource management because natural processes vary among ecosystems. When local science is limited, land managers may be forced to generalize from other ecosystems that function differently. One proposed solution is to draw upon the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Randerson, Chen, Van der Werf, Rogers, Morton
In several biomes, including croplands, wooded savannas, and tropical forests, many small fires occur each year that are well below the detection limit of the current generation of global burned area products derived from moderate resolution surface reflectance imagery. Although…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
"Prescribed Fire Escapes: Are We Learning Anything?" this issue's cover story, explores whether or not we're actually learning from our escapes-and how we can help to ensure that we are. Also in this issue: two burn bosses share their key lessons and hard-earned insights; plus…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, DeWinter, Strand, Brown, Raffuse, Callahan, Craig, Solomon, Hafner
The deposition of black carbon (BC), a dark absorbing aerosol, is a significant contributor to observed warming trends in the Arctic (Hansen and Nazarenko, 2004; Jacobson et al., 2007). Biomass burning outside of the Arctic, including wildland prescribed fires, is a major…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Brewer
Forest managers are currently tasked to consider carbon retention as part of their management objectives at the stand level, including hazardous fuels reduction, which temporarily removes live-tree biomass carbon from a stand when prescribed fire follows the thinning treatment.…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Saveland, Thomas, Ziegler
The US wildland fire community has been interested in cultivating organizational learning to improve safety and overall performance for a number of years. A key focus has been on understanding the difference between culpability (to be guilty) and accountability (to explain) and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black, Saveland, Thomas
Prescribed fire escapes continue to occur with regularity in all federal and state fire management agencies throughout the United States. By interagency policy, after an escape official reviews must be prepared. Paradigms guiding reviews have evolved over the past decade and now…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Raffuse, Strand
New regulations for black carbon (BC) currently under consideration by Congress and the EPA could affect management decisions on wildfires and the ability to conduct prescribed burning. Congressional testimony has suggested various mitigation strategies for Arctic BC including…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Garvin
Learning in Action author David Garvin shares effective decision-making skills for fire managers in this 53-minute video.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCoy, Elenz, Vergari, Floyd, Dykehouse, Soper, Fay
Listen to the experiences and lessons learned from veteran fire management officers regarding prescribed fire and fire use.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Schaefers, Tremblatt
Julie Schaefers, Social Scientist, and Carrie Tremblatt, US Forest Service, Region 2, discuss the social science components of prescribed fire and other management activities at the Hayman Fire Science Symposium: Lessons Learned after Ten Years of Recovery, Rehabilitation, and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kabrick
A resource for fire practitioners and foresters alike. A clear presentation of technical information regarding forest structure and site productivity presented by John Kabrick.
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Cochrane
Large wildfire frequency has increased several-fold in recent decades throughout the western United States. These changes have resulted from a combination of human land use practices, altered climates and shifting forest and fire management policies. These fires have had…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Achtemeier
Gary L. Achtemeier presented a webinar on predicting the occurrence and transport of smoke-induced dense fog (superfog) which has been implicated in roadway accidents around the nation. The webinar summarizes 20 years of collaboration between land managers in the southeastern U.…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Melvin
Annual wildfire activity has been tracked for decades. These data are necessary for securing resources, instituting fire-fighter training standards, monitoring trends, providing public safety measures, and guiding national policy needed to manage wildfire across the U.S. Much…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Fuels are often defined based on the physical characteristics of live and dead biomass that contribute to wildland fire. Because these characteristics affect the character, size, intensity, and duration of fires, fuels are important to the understanding of fire behavior and…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
This webinar will provide an introduction to the new edition of the Rainbow series that provides fire and land management professionals and policy makers with a greater understanding of the value of cultural resource protection and the methods available to evaluate and mitigate…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES