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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Campbell-Lochrie, Gallagher, Skowronski, Hadden
Background: Fifty years after its initial publication, Rothermel’s model continues to underpin many operational fire modelling tools. Past authors have, however, suggested a possible oversensitivity of the Rothermel model to fuel depth in certain fuel types.
Aims: To evaluate…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rossa, Davim, Sil, Fernandes
Background: Fireline intensity (If) quantifies the power of the fireline and is used for various purposes. If and flame length (Lf) are relatable to each other using an empirical power function, which has been considered fuel-specific.
Aims: The aim of this study was to develop…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Badola
Wildfires are a natural and essential part of Alaska ecosystems, but excessive wildfires pose a risk to the ecosystem's health and diversity, as well as to human life and property. To manage wildfires effectively, vegetation/fuel maps play a critical role in identifying high-…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zhu, Xu, Jia
Wildfire is recognized as an increasing threat to the southern boreal forests and the permafrost beneath them, with less occurring over the cold continuous permafrost than before. However, we show that continuous permafrost was a major contribution to wildfire expansion in the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schmidt, See
Advancing Wildfire Preparedness and Planning takes an in-depth look at the dynamic factors that are impacting wildfire occurrence for the most populated geographic area in the 49th State of Alaska, the Municipality of Anchorage (MOA). The length and severity of recent fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Andrada, Russell, Arevalo-Ramirez, Kuang, Kantor, Yandun
This paper presents a comprehensive forest mapping system using a customized drone payload equipped with Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), cameras, a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors. The goal is to develop an efficient…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loeffler, Brandt, Morgan, Jones
This annotated bibliography is a synthesis of information products available to land managers in the western United States regarding economic and financial aspects of forestry-based woody biomass removal, a component of fire hazard and/or fuel reduction treatments. This…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alizadeha, Adamowski, Entekhabi
Land surface-atmosphere coupling and soil moisture memory are shown to combine into a distinct temporal pattern for wildfire incidents across the western United States. We investigate the dynamic interplay of observed soil moisture, vegetation water content, and atmospheric…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crawford, Feldpausch, Marimon-Junior, de Oliveira, Belcher
Background: Charcoal increases in reflectance with increased intensity and/or duration of heating, and this has been proposed as a potential quantitative metric for fire severity. Because fuel properties also influence reflectance, relationships between heat exposure and…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smail, Martin
A practitioner-oriented overview of LANDFIRE with a focus on fuels and how they react to modeling techniques. The subject area of discussion is the 2022 Cooks Peak fire located in northern New Mexico. This webinar is technical in its application and may offer insights for both…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Calef, Schmidt, Varvak, Ziel
The boreal forest of northwestern North America covers an extensive area, contains vast amounts of carbon in its vegetation and soil, and is characterized by extensive wildfires. Catastrophic crown fires in these forests are fueled predominantly by only two evergreen needle-leaf…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hanes
The Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System (CFFDRS) is the cornerstone of contemporary fire management in Canada. Although the System is conceptually robust there are known issues, primarily based on limitations that existed over the last 75 years of its development. One area…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saxena, Dubey, Yaghoobian
Fuel ignition potential is one of the primary drivers influencing the extent of damage in wildland and wildland-urban interface fires and it is a decisive factor in planning prescribed fires. Determining the susceptibility of fuels, which vary spatially and temporally, to fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barnes, McMillan
This report summarizes the National Park Service Interior Region 11 (Alaska) Fire Ecology Program activities, monitoring and research results, and provides a list of outreach/publications completed in 2022. It features studies in Denali National Park and Preserve, Wrangell-St…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Boyd, Walker, Barnes, Celis, Goetz, Johnstone, Link, Melvin, Saperstein, Schuur, Mack
Wildfire activity is increasing in boreal forests as climate warms and dries, increasing risks to rural and urban communities. In black spruce forests of Interior Alaska, fuel reduction treatments are used to create a defensible space for fire suppression and slow fire spread.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cornwall
For decades, eastern Oregon’s scablands - rocky patches of open terrain - were a refuge for people fighting wildfires in the surrounding forests. The thin soil and sparse vegetation offered little fuel for the flames, creating an oasis from which firefighters could operate and a…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dale, Barrett
[Executive Summary] Wildfire risk has many dimensions – for example, fires can impact ecosystems and wildlife, and smoke increases greenhouse gas emissions. However, this research report is narrowly focused on the effectiveness of specific governmental policies to reduce risk to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Iwata, Ueyama, Harazono, Kobayashi, Ikawa, Busey, Iwahana, Euskirchen
Background: The Drought Code (DC) of the Canadian Fire Weather Index System (CFWIS) has been intuitively regarded by fire managers in Alaska, USA, as poorly representing the moisture content in the forest floor in lowland taiga forests on permafrost soils.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The NWCG Standards for Mitigation in the Wildland Urban Interface establishes the standards for understanding and implementation of concepts, issues, and best practices to increase community fire adaptation. This publication is designed to:
Support common understanding.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ewane, Mohan, Bajaj, Galgamuwa, Watt, Arachchige, Hudak, Richardson, Ajithkumar, Srinivasan, Corte, Johnson, Broadbent, de-Miguel, Bruscolini, Young, Shafai, Abdullah, Jaafar, Doaemo, Silva, Cardil
Protecting and enhancing forest carbon sinks is considered a natural solution for mitigating climate change. However, the increasing frequency, intensity, and duration of droughts due to climate change can threaten the stability and growth of existing forest carbon sinks.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Page-Dumroese, Rodriguez-Franco, Archuleta, Taylor, Kidwell, High, Adam
Using woody biomass from public lands could attract private investments, increase carbon dioxide emission reductions from sustainably harvested low-grade wood to mitigate climate change, provide benefits for the environment, and support rural community economies. Available for…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Creasy, Tinkham, Hoffman, Vogeler
Characterization of forest structure is important for management-related decision making, monitoring, and adaptive management. Increasingly, observations of forest structure are needed at both finer resolutions and across greater extents to support spatially explicit management…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Runyon, Gray, Jenkins
High-elevation five-needle pine trees are a group of Pinus species in the subgenus Strobus that occur at the edges of plant growth near the alpine tree line. These species are ecologically very important and are also threatened by climate-driven insect outbreaks and an exotic…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuels Data is designed for wildland management practitioners tasked with collecting surface fuels measurements in the field It automatically performs calculations and table lookups. Photos and data are linked together, which eliminates the need to diligently sequence reference…
Year: 2023
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
The LANDFIRE (LF) 2022 Update represents another step in moving towards an annual update. This update is the first time in LANDFIRE history in which disturbances from the year before are represented in current year products.
LF 2022 includes adjustments to vegetation and fuels…
Year: 2023
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES