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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Tree cores were collected during 1997-1998 as part of a spruce bark beetle study in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve (eastern Alaska). Data was collected from every tree on a 20-m x 20-m plot or the three largest trees were cored (at increment bore height on…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The assessment ranks the risk of allotments to fire damage by various threat components. Improvements are verified on the parcels and attributes are collected on the improvements with respect to the standing fuels. Each improvement is located with a global positioning system (…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
A number of fuels management and forest inventory projects are being conducted by the Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) Forestry Program. The TCC forestry program provides a wide range of forestry and fire management services to Native allotments and their owners via the trust…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Finney
FARSITE has been incorporated into FlamMap and is no longer supported separately or available for download.
FARSITE is a fire behavior and growth simulator for use on Windows computers. It is used by Fire Behavior Analysts from the U.S. FS, USDI NPS, USDI BLM,…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The Rare Event Risk Assessment Process (RERAP) helps calculate the information needed to manage prescribed fires, wildland fire use fires, and wildland fires. RERAP allows a user to dynamically calculate the risk of undesired fire movement, including how to: 1) identify high and…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rorig, Ferguson, Goodrick, Werth
Lightning causes most wildfires in the western United States, and is a major cause of fire elsewhere in the U.S. Because most lightning occurs with significant precipitation, however, simple predictions of Lightning Activity Level (LAL) do not accurately determine fire ignition…
Year: 2005
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Reinhardt, Parsons, Soedal, Tarkalson
NEXUS 2.0 is crown fire hazard analysis software that links separate models of surface and crown fire behavior to compute indices of relative crown fire potential. NEXUS can be used to compare crown fire potential for different stands, and to compare the effects of alternative…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Neilson
Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System Seasonal Fire Risk Forecasts (Wildland fire management agencies are increasingly interested in more long-term forecasts of fire business. Several short-term fire potential assessments are currently available ranging from Wildland Fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The FireFamily Plus software allows a user to review, summarize and analyze daily weather and fire occurrence observations, compute fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS), generate Season Reports (summaries of seasonal variations of fuel…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
A modeling analysis was undertaken to explore the long-term impacts of the white spruce (die-back on vegetation cover and wildfire behavior) on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. During the 1990's a significant portion of the white spruce stands were killed by infestation with the…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The 2nd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference will be held from March 26-30, 2007 in Destin, Florida. It will focus on the fire environment - the 'fire environment' consists of fire weather, fire behavior, fire danger rating, predictive services, fuels, smoke management and fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Holmberg, Irwin
Forest reserves have been established to protect resources such as red-cockaded woodpeckers in the southeastern U.S., northern spotted owls and other vertebrates in the Pacific Northwest, aquatic resources such as salmon and bull trout, and the Canada lynx throughout its range.…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
This conference was held March 8-12, 2004, in Medford, Oregon. It was focused on providing timely research and practical information to resource managers and practitioners for planning and implementing fuel and restoration treatments to improve long-term sustainability of…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black
The Fire Effects Planning Framework (FEPF) is a decision-support model. FEPF integrates ecological knowledge with articulated management goals to result in spatial maps (GIS) indicating where and under what conditions opportunities exist to use fire (natural or management-…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Applied Wildland Fire Research in Support of Project Level Hazardous Fuels Planning - Social Science
The Social Science Team is synthesizing research that answers five key questions that might be helpful when planning or implementing fuels treatment projects: 1) what information and tools are available to help land managers and communities collaborate in the development of fuel…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Peterson
The goal of the Forest Structure and Fire Hazard team is to increase and improve the understanding of available research which can aid in making informed, defensible decisions on managing forest structure and disclosing the treatment effects on fire hazard and potential fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
LANDFIRE, Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools, is a shared program between the wildland fire management programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and U.S. Department of the Interior, providing landscape scale geo-spatial products to support…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rupp
During 2002, fuel loadings were measured at 150 plots in three major fuel types across Anchorage's wildland-urban interface. A suite of Fire Danger Rating System (FDRS) fire behavior variables was sampled to parameterize custom fuel models for use in the FARSITE fire behavior…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) is a tool that enables land managers, regulators, and scientists to create and catalog fuelbeds and to classify those fuelbeds for their capacity to support fire and consume fuels. The fuelbed characteristics and fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Peterson, Carlino, Barnes, Eagle
FIREHouse provides user-friendly, web-based information about fire science and technology relevant to Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. For each project posted, the goal is to provide, as applicable, online, searchable access to: (1) project and tool descriptions, contact…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey, Graham
The Applied Wildland Fire Research in Support of Project Level Hazardous Fuels Planning Project was initiated as a pilot project by the U.S. Forest Service in response to the need for tools and information useful for planning site-specific fuel (vegetation) treatment projects.…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Gabbert, Mangan
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) will sponsor a conference to address fuels management and how to measure success. IAWF has worked with the Interagency Fule Committee on initial planning. There is general recognition of the need for such a conference. We…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
A recent spruce bark beetle outbreak killed a large number of spruce trees in the Anchorage wildland-urban interface. Wildland fire managers believe the city is exposed to a significant wildfire risk due to the large number of people that live in the Anchorage bowl and the large…
Type: Program
Source: FRAMES
Bannock
The Mission of the Spruce Bark Beetle Mitigation Program is to help protect the lives and property of the residents of the Kenai Peninsula Borough by identifying and mitigating wildfire and other hazards related to spruce bark beetle-killed spruce, and to replant forests…
Type: Program
Source: FRAMES
Haskell
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) was created by Congress in 1998 as an interagency research, development, and applications partnership between the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Funding priorities and policies are set by the JFSP…
Type: Program
Source: FRAMES