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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Christensen
Eugene Odum's 1969 paper, The Strategy of Ecosystem Development, marks a watershed moment in approaches to the study of succession, ecosystem change caused by discrete disturbances. He argued that succession is unique from other kinds of change with regard to mechanisms (…
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
Zimmerman, Lasko, Kaufmann
Significant changes occurring in the wildland fire environment of the United States are generatinguncharacteristic shifts in the complexity, behavior, extent, and effects of wildfires. Increases in wildfire numbers, temporal and spatial scales, and ecological, social, and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Saperstein
The Funny River Fire (AK-KKS-403140) was ignited by humans on May 19, 2014, and burned almost 200,000 acres on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, by early June. Most of the fire was within the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, but it threatened adjacent communities. Four recreational…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
The Alaska Fire Modeling and Analysis Committee developed this 2 page guide with resources and recommendations for those new to the wildland fire decision-making process.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Littell
Presentation made at 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Littell, McKenzie
Climate and fire are strongly linked, although the relationship between them is contingent on fuels and thus fire responses to climate variability and change vary considerably across ecosystems, fuels management, and land use. By comparing relationships between climate and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout, Reich, Ziesler
We developed a set of generalized value categories and average relative marginal values using resource and valuation information collected at seven federal land management planning units in the USA. The categories and average values are intended to be used for rapid strategic…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lewis, Ebbeck
Decisionmaking in wildland firefighting is an evolving, dynamic reflection of a complex array of social and environmental factors that managers are expected to handle with fewer resources than in past eras. The need for new and effective ways of developing the capabilities to…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Long, Weiss, Princevac, Bartolome
Superfog is a very dense fog with visibility less than 10 feet and often less than 3 feet. It is the extreme condition of increased fog density associated with specific atmospheric and weather conditions. In the Southeast, superfog events have resulted in multiple tragic motor…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Olsen, McCaffrey, McFarlane, Christianson, McGee, Curtis, Sharp
This planning guide is the outcome of an international collaboration of researchers and practitioners/field managers working in communities at risk of wildfire in three countries. Initially, the team of social scientists from Australia, Canada, and the United States utilized the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Godwin, Long, Lahm
Smoke management has become one of the leading challenges facing prescribed fire practitioners in the Southeast and the continued use of prescribed fire in the region may depend on effective smoke and emission mitigation practices. While not a comprehensive list of smoke…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Calkin, Cohen, Finney, Thompson
Recent fire seasons in the western United States are some of the most damaging and costly on record. Wildfires in the wildland-urban interface on the Colorado Front Range, resulting in thousands of homes burned and civilian fatalities, although devastating, are not without…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sample, Halofsky, Peterson
Recent policy changes in the USA direct agencies managing federal forests to analyze the potential effects of climate change on forest productivity, water resource protection, wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and other values. This paper describes methods developed to (1) assess…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard
Consume v 4.2 reflects an improved understanding of fuel consumption and emissions in wildland fire throughout major fuel types in the United States. Consume is a decision-making tool, designed to assist resource managers in planning for prescribed fire, wildland fire for use,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lammers, Horel
Software has been developed to evaluate National Weather Service spot forecasts. Fire management officials request spot forecasts from National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices to provide detailed guidance as to atmospheric conditions in the vicinity of planned…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Long
The Joint Fire Science Program's Knowledge Exchange Consortia Network is actively working to accelerate the awareness, understanding, and adoption of wildland fire science information by Federal, tribal, State, local and private stakeholders within ecologically similar regions.…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A key problem reported by the fuels treatment planning community is the difficulty and inefficiency of evaluating and then applying many planning tools and applications. Fuels specialists have struggled to find, load, and learn all the different fuels and fire planning models,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
[from the text] For years, the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge has been creating fuelbreaks by managing vegetation along its boundaries. Planning by the Refuge, the State, and private landowners led to construction of fuelbreaks designed to protect homes from the next wildfire,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Carroll, Paveglio, Ellison, Abrams, Moseley
The wildfire dilemma in the United States (and particularly in the U.S. West) has been well documented and its broad parameters are well understood. A very small fraction of wildfire igniting in wildland settings each year turn into major conflagrations that burn homes and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The effects of wildland fire on communities have become more intense, frequent, and far-reaching. Increased development in the wildland urban interface means higher wildfire risk and more suppression needs, costing billions every year. A comprehensive approach to preparedness…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forest conservation and management in the Anthropocene: adaptation of science, policy, and practices
Climate change is but one aspect of the Anthropocene, a new epoch in which the effects of human activities have become the predominant force in the global biosphere. More than just an overlay on the traditional concerns of sustainable natural resource management, the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gitas, SanMiguel-Ayanz, Chuvieco, Camia
This foreword describes advances and challenges for the use of remote sensing and geographic information systems in the operational monitoring and management of wildland fires at local, regional and global scales since the 1970s. Selected articles using remote sensing in…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS