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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Guo, Brockway, Larson, Wang, Ren
Common practices for invasive species control and management include physical, chemical, and biological approaches. The first two approaches have clear limitations and may lead to unintended (negative) consequences, unless carefully planned and implemented. For example, physical…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Coyle
Some forest managers have had concerns that prescribed burning after drought will stress mature pines, and increase their susceptibility to beetle attack. However, this concern resulted in many missed opportunities for applying fire after a recent drought abated, as not burning…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Falke, Gray
Fire is the dominant ecological disturbance process in boreal forests (coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces, and larches) and fire frequency, size and severity are increasing in Alaska owing to climate warming. However, interactions among fire, climate,…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This collection of essays-divided into three key categories: Risk, Culture, and Operations-daylights qualities and practices in the wildland fire service across a broad spectrum, from outdated and unwarranted to honorable and profound. We must acknowledge our current culture and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
How to cope and navigate through changes and their associated dangers. Brit Rosso, outgoing Director of the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center, shares his firsthand insights into how to prepare yourself for moving through difficult transitions.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barrett
Some have wondered whether the 2017 Montana fre season was a rare apocalypse or whether it was simply Nature being Nature. The short answer is, some of both. Today’s forests clearly are experiencing a highly active fre period, one of many during the past several thousand years.…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Furman, Linn
Current fire spread models are inadequate for predicting the complex infuences of atmosphere, forest structure, and self-generating fire processes on wildland fire behavior. FIRETEC is a physics-based, three-dimensional computer code developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory (…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bramwell
Interagency hotshot crews (IHCs) form the backbone of the Federal Government's response to wildland fre. Their high level of physical ftness, training, self-reliance, and expertise make the IHCs the world's elite wildland frefghters; these men and women are dispatched to the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Briggs
The incidence and degree of stand disturbance (that is, from fre, insects, and disease) are driving excess tree mortality in the Western United States. Hot and dry conditions associated with drought have stressed forests over a wide geographic area, contributing directly to tree…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire control opportunities don’t know boundaries; let’s plan with that in mind. The RMRS Wildfire Risk Management Science Team has developed a series of tools (quantitative wildfire risk assessment, suppression difficulty index, potential control locations, PODS) to support…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fire season has arrived on the Ponderosa Pine National Forest, but this year is different. After working with the Wildfire Risk Management Team at RMRS, they understand risks better. They use detailed data and analysis to complement years of experience on the ground. When…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
First in a three-part video series describing the work and cutting edge risk management tools developed by the Rocky Mountain Research Station Wildfire Risk Management Science Team. The Team works with National Forests and other fire managers to plan ahead of the fire season.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Lee
A knowledge broker is an organization or individual that translates and disseminates esearch findings to working professionals (Konijnendijk 2004). Knowledge brokers participate in a variety of activities, including translating, spreading and commissioning research, and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gallego, Plana Bach, Molina-Terrén
The socio-environmental dimension in wildland fire management is critical for moving towards a baseline of firewise planning. Wildland fire risk planning is a land use planning tool that should be able to keep pace with rapid rates of social and environmental change. Changes in…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
Modern wildland fire management effectively began in the aftermath of the Great Fires of 1910. The Big Blowup traumatized the fledgling Forest Service and its Chiefs for decades. One of the aftershocks, the 1911 Weeks Act, established the basis for a national infrastructure,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Delaney
Wildland fire management involves specialization and a division of labor. When you order supplies on a wildland fire, you should keep that in mind. In your own specialty area, you need support from others who don’t necessarily have your level of knowledge. To get what you need,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riebau, Fox, Huber
The Smoke Science Plan (SSP) was built upon personal interviews and an extensive web-based needs identification with scientists, fire managers, and air quality managers using online questionnaires (Riebau and Fox 2010a, 2010b). It is structured around four themes, which are…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tidwell
Each year, the wildfire season in the Western United States brings headlines and news reports, mostly factual but sometimes misleading. This year is no different, a case in point being 'Let Forest Fires Burn? What the Black-Backed Woodpecker Knows' (Gillis 2017).
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alaska Fire & Fuels (akff.mesowest.org) is the Alaska interagency Fire Weather (FWI) and Fire Behavior (FBP) monitoring system. It provides public access to fire weather that is collected hourly, processes FWI codes and indices, and provides them in a range of tools and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johnstone
Presented by Jill Johnstone at the 2018 Alaska Fire Science Consortium Spring Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Kramer, Frederick
The Wildland Urban Interface or WUI is used throughout the fire world as a designation for where to focus pre-fire risk mitigation and active fire tactics. The WUI is composed of interface WUI, where buildings and vegetation meet, and intermix WUI, where they intermingle. WUI…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hollingsworth
Presented by Teresa Hollingsworth. From the 2018 Alaska Society of American Foresters and Alaska Northern Forest Cooperative Annual Meeting. April 12, 2018.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Johnstone
Presented by Randi Jandt and Jill Johnstone. From the 2018 Bonanza Creek LTER symposium, April 6, 2018.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Brinkman
Presented by Todd Brinkman with content from Tom Paragi. From the 2018 Bonanza Creek LTER symposium, April 6, 2018.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Strader
AICC Predictive Services meteorologist Heidi Strader provides an outlook for the 2018 fire season in Alaska and reviews the projects that Predictive Services staff have been involved in over the winter to improve their results. From the Spring 2018 Alaska Fire Operations Meeting.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES