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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Nowell, Steelman
A growing body of work has been focusing on how to govern and manage across jurisdictionally fragmented landscapes in an effort to promote more effective wildfire preparedness and response. We contribute to this worthy goal in the following five ways through the research…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Carroll, Reimer
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. The Deep Dive project is a centerpiece of a learning pilot program collaboratively initiated by WEPO’s, Policy, Accountability and Analysis and RMRS’s Office of Innovation and Organizational Learning (IOL) to…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Champ, Barth, Brenkert-Smith, Falk, Gomez, Meldrum
Wildland-urban interface residents, who occupy the areas where wildlands meet and mix with human development, are both contributors to and recipients of the disastrous effects of wildland fires. They contribute through fire starts, flammable homes, unmitigated properties,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The challenges of the 2020 Fire Year have validated the Cohesive Strategy and proven its foundational value for additional success and achievement across boundaries and landscapes in the West. The following pages offer a snapshot of 2020 activities and successes in the Western…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

This 15-minute video provides an overview of the FireWorks program and describes several of the activities.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Molina, Little, Drury, Jandt
Wildfire has become a larger threat to human life and property with the proliferation of homes into the wildland urban interface and warming climate. In this study we explored Alaskan homeowner preferences for wildfire risk mitigation in the wildland urban interface using…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Armatas
Wildland fire is a phenomenon that impacts people and communities from the local to the national scale. These impacts are generally entwined with the human and ecological meanings and services that people derive from public lands. Fire planning requires an understanding of…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Wright
This seminar is part of the University of Idaho's Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences 2021 Spring Semester Seminar Series.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Schmidt, Grabinski
The 2019 McKinley wildfire burned north of Wasilla during the driest summer on record. Lessons learned from the McKinley wildfire are shared in this infographic with the goal of helping other Alaskans better prepare for future wildfire.
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Tedim, McCaffrey, Leone, Vazquez-Varela, Depietri, Buergelt, Lovreglio
Despite the increasing challenges wildfires are posing around the globe, and the flourishing production of high-quality wildfire scientific knowledge, the ability of fire science to impact knowledge on the ground, for people, society, economy, and the environment, in a way that…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Dillon
Greg Dillon of the USDA Forest Service's Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) gives an overview of the work FMI does in wildland fire. Webinar hosted by National Weather Service IMET.
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Barrett
Decision makers are desperately seeking solutions to the wildfire crisis in the West. Driven by several concurrently rising trends—including home development, climate change, accumulated fuels, and human ignitions—increasing risks require us to fundamentally rethink our…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Qiu, Hansard, Kumar, Thakur, Judi, Corbiani, Armijo, Myers
The National Laboratories showcase their wildfire mitigation capabilities and technologies in this Wildfire Mitigation Webinar Series. Whether it’s a fire created by utility equipment or an oncoming fire that is threatening a utility company’s equipment, the National…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Schultz
This webinar is part of the Colorado Wildfires 2020 Webinar Series hosted by the Colorado State University, the Southern Rockies Fire Science Network and the Forest Stewards Guild. For the final installment of the Colorado Wildfires 2020 webinar series we are joined by Courtney…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Reugebrink
Considering the intensity of the past year, from historic wildfires to social and economic tensions to a global pandemic, it is no wonder that many of us are experiencing burnout, stress, and anxiety. This includes first responders who regularly experience critical incidents and…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Baker
As our societies grow and change, the wildland fire community has to continue to evolve in its workforce and practices to better meet the expectations place upon it. Although the thought of and having diversity, equity, and inclusion conversations can be challenging, they…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Butler, McCaffrey, Jones
Part of the Co-Management of Fire Risk Transmission (CoMFRT) webinar series
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Takai
From the text ... 'The role and tools of public information officers are in a major transition in response to the worldwide changes in communication technologies and the rise of social media networks.'
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rideout, Ziesler, Kernohan
Assessing the value of fire planning alternatives is challenging because fire affects a wide array of ecosystem, market, and social values. Wildland fire management is increasingly used to address forest restoration while pragmatic approaches to assessing the value of fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Kreye, Adams, Escobedo
Forests protect water quality by reducing soil erosion, sedimentation, and pollution; yet there is little information about the economic value of conserving forests for water quality protection in much of the United States. To assess this value, we conducted a meta-analysis of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Godwin, Ferrarese
Student fire groups, collegiate-level groups explicitly organized around topics related to wildland fire, are widespread across the country. Student fire groups are at times participants in wildland fire-oriented experiential education but are often limited by access to training…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Asah
Researchers exploring the challenges of public intolerance for forest fires in the US predominantly focus on non-managers. Forest fire managers have unique perspectives on public perceptions and attitudes towards forest fires because managers frequently interact directly with…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sutphen
From the text ... 'More than 80 percent of all wildfires in Florida occur within 1 mile of wildland-urban inferface (WUI) areas. Fires in WUI areas often present challenges for fire response, suppression, and public safety, in part because wildfire suppression may involve…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Stein, Menakis, Carr, Comas, Stewart, Cleveland, Bramwell, Radeloff
From the text ... 'Fire historically has played a fundamental ecological role in many of America's wildland areas. However, the increasing number of homes in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), associated impacts on lives and property from wildfire, and escalating costs of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mowery, Prudhomme
From the text ... 'A fire adapted community accepts wildfire as part of the natural landscape and takes responsibility for its risk. Community members understand the risk and have proactively implemented collaborative mitigation actions to successfully survive fire. Those…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS