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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wiedinmyer, Quayle, Geron, Belote, McKenzie, Zhang, O'Neill, Wynne
Fires contribute substantial emissions of trace gases and particles to the atmosphere. These emissions can impact air quality and even climate. We have developed a modeling framework to estimate the emissions from fires in North and parts of Central America (10-71 degrees N and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cooper, Wilfong, Peterson
The 10.25 million acres of the Kenai Peninsula Borough in Southcentral Alaska is at risk for catastrophic wildfire due to hazardous fuel accumulations created by the spruce bark beetle epidemic. The All Lands/All Hands Action Plan for FY 2005-2009 was developed for: (1) fire…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hill
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A roll call analysis of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act and constituent interests in fire policy
This study examined national wildland fire policy by focusing on the political process. The evolution of federal wildland fire policies was reviewed first. Wildland fire suppression in the long term has resulted in a high accumulation of fuels on federal forestlands. The…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sun
Escalating wildfires on U.S. forest lands in recent years have resulted in statutory reforms in redefining the liability for landowners using prescribed fires. This study summarized these reforms in recent years. While in some states there is still strict tort liability for…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Squires, Kennedy
The contentious and litigious history associated with managing Northern Goshawks (Accipiter gentilis) has focused much research attention toward understanding this species’ life history. Results from these studies address many key information needs that are useful to managers…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Absher, Vaske, Bright, Donnelly
Understanding public attitudes toward wildland fire management policies is important for effectively managing natural resources and communicating with the pubic. Ipsative crystallization is a measure of individual attitude consensus. This article examines the utility of ipsative…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Key, Benson
Landscape Assessment primarily addresses the need to identify and quantify fire effects over large areas, at times involving many burns. In contrast to individual case studies, the ability to compare results is emphasized along with the capacity to aggregate information across…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brenkert-Smith
As the wildland-urban interface (WUI) grows in size and density and increasing levels of funding are being directed toward education and outreach programs targeting residents in these communities, it is becoming increasingly important to investigate residents’ responses to…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weise, Arbaugh, Jones, Chew, Merzenich, van Wagtendonk, Wiitala, Schaaf, Kimberlin
This project was funded in Mar. 1999 with an additional $100,000 added in 2000 to include the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. The objectives of the project were: 1. To perform a comprehensive sensitivity analysis of SIMPPLLE/MAGIS, VDDT/TELSA and FETM to determine the reliability of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications team has completed a set of online tutorials, instructor’s guides and student workbooks to help land managers use the Natural Fuels Photo Series, Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS), Consume 3.0, and Fire Emissions…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rauscher
The purpose of this study is to assist fire resource managers to characterize and reduce uncertainty, identify fire risk, and improve decision-making processes in the wildland/urban interface as well as the broader forested wildlands. We propose expanding the existing NED…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crabtree, Halligan, Saatchi, Aspinall, Despain
The current fire situation with numerous very large fires that regularly cross agency boundaries has shown a major need for improved fuels maps. Small fires require only simple maps that can be hand drawn on large scale base maps during a reconnaissance flight but large fires…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Hoadley, Ferguson, O'Neill, Wilson
BlueSkyRAINS is a smoke modeling system that allows users to view smoke forecasts from fire. These smoke predictions have a large number of potential uses, from informing go/no-go decisions on prescribed fires to wildland fire use/wildfire categorization decisions to information…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A rational approach to monitoring and assessment is prerequisite for sustainable management of ecosystem resources. This features innovative ways to advance the concept of monitoring ecosystem sustainability across spheres of environmental concern, natural and anthropogenic…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Kasischke
Over the past 4 decades, there has been a doubling of the annual area burned across the North American boreal region [1], resulting in new challenges for fire management and intensified concerns about the effect that an increase in large wildfires may have on ecosystems and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rogers
Illustrated short history of the BLM ALaska Fire Service by public affairs specialist for 25th Anniversary.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Westhaver
Preventing the occurrence of wildfires that threaten homes and communities is a growing priority in Canada. To reduce risk, a consistent set of standards for managing forest fuel has been adopted. However, these largely disregard concerns for wildlife and wildlife habitat.…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morris, Hersey, Thompson, Pawson, Nielsen, Colarco, McMillan, Stohl, Turquety, Warner, Johnson, Kucsera, Larko, Oltmans, Witte
On Monday, 19 July, and Tuesday, 20 July 2004, the air over Houston, Texas, appeared abnormally hazy. Transport model results and data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS), the Measurement of Ozone by Airbus In-…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Detweiler, Fitzgerald
As homeowners continue to build in the wild and urban interface, they must take special precautions to protect their homes. One way to do this is to create a defensible space around the home, and one important factor can be using fire-resistant plants in landscaping. While…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lankoande, Yoder
We estimate a model of suppression productivity for individual fires, where suppression productivity is measured in terms of the reduction in the estimated market value of wildfire losses. Estimation results show that at the margin, every dollar increase in suppression costs…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kou, Baker
Reconstructing fire regimes from fire scars is widely used in fire ecology to understand the role of fire and to determine prescriptions for restoring fire, but systematic analyses of the accuracy of fire-regime reconstruction have never been done. Errors in reconstruction may…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Val Martin, Honrath, Owen, Pfister, Fialho, Barata
Extensive wildfires burned in northern North America during summer 2004, releasing large amounts of trace gases and aerosols into the atmosphere. Emissions from these wildfires frequently impacted the PICO-NARE station, a mountaintop site situated 6-15 days downwind from the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arvai, Gregory, Ohlson, Blackwell, Gray
This article presents results from three studies, which seek to develop a better understanding of some of the difficulties faced by forest managers in making wildfire risk management decisions. Study 1 showed that both the experts and the public tend to emphasize uncontrollable…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrews
The First Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, 'Fuels Management: How to Measure Success,' was held in Portland, Ore., March 27-30. The International Association of Wildland Fire initiated a conference on this timely topic primarily in response to the needs of the U.S. National…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES