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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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White, Gaff
Tick population control technologies have been studied for several decades but no method is successful in all situations. The success of each technology depends on tick species identity and abundance, host species identity and abundance, phenology of both ticks and hosts,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fill, Crandall
Basic information on past, current and future weather conditions is critical for making decisions in prescribed fire and wildfire operations. It is not surprising that weather is one side of the fire behavior triangle. Weather patterns prior to a fire affect fuel moisture and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This webinar covers significant changes made to the 2017 Prescribed Fire Complexity Rating System Guide (PMS 424).
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Dupéy, Smith
Social science research from a variety of disciplines has generated a collective understanding of how individuals prepare for, and respond to, the risks associated with prescribed burning and wildfire. We provide a systematic compilation, review, and quantification of dominant…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Treadwell
Dr. Morgan Treadwell, with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, teaches ranchers about using prescribed burning, then uses drones to review burn footage and dissect the burn piece by piece.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Odman, Garcia Menendez
SIPFIS is the acronym for Southern Integrated Prescribed Fire Information System. SIPFIS merges prescribed fire and air quality data into a common analysis framework to create a unified prescribed fire and air quality database for the southern U.S. The information available…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Berger, Fitzgerald, Leavell
Discusses the conditions, planning, and circumstances involved in managing naturally ignited wildfire as a strategic choice to achieve forest resource management objectives. One in a series of fire FAQs that are based on questions that Forest & Natural Resource Extension…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Vermeire, Russell
Fire plays a central role in influencing ecosystem patterns and processes. However, documentation of fire seasonality and plant community response is limited in semiarid grasslands. We evaluated aboveground biomass, cover, and frequency response to summer, fall, and spring fires…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lieberman, Hahn, Landres
Landscape scale restoration is a common management intervention used around the world to combat ecological degradation. For wilderness managers in the United States, the decision to intervene is complicated by the Wilderness Act's legal mandate to preserve wilderness character…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Land managers are challenged to protect cultural resources within the context of reintroducing fire on the landscape. Positive relationships and partnerships are essential to effective management.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Managers and owners of forests across the Nation face urgent challenges, among them catastrophic wildfires, invasive species, drought, and epidemics of forest insects and disease. Of particular concern are longer fire seasons and the rising size and severity of wildfires, along…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dey, Schweitzer
The long history of fire in North America spans millennia and is recognized as an important driver in the widespread and long-term dominance of oak species and oak natural communities. Frequent wildfires from about 1850 to 1950 resulted in much forest damage, and gained fire a…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Eales, Haddaway, Bernes, Cooke, Jonsson, Kouki, Petrokofsky, Taylor
Background: While the effects of prescribed burning on tree regeneration and on pyrophilous and/or saproxylic species are relatively well known, effects on other organisms are less clear. The primary aim of this systematic review was to clarify how biodiversity is affected by…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This video is an introduction on how to manage wildland fuels. The objectives of this video are to: 1) Define wildland fuel management; 2) Explain how fuels are modified; 3) Describe some common desired outcomes; 4) Introduce fuel management in the Wildland Urban Interface; 5)…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Yedinak, Strand, Hiers, Varner
Wildland fire behavior research has largely focused on the steady-state interactions between fuels and heat fluxes. Contemporary research is revealing new questions outside the bounds of this simplified approach. Here, we explore the complex interactions taking place beyond…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Berger, Fitzgerald, Leavell, Peterson
Compares the impacts that prescribed fires and wildfires have on air quality. One in a series of fire FAQs that are based on questions Forest & Natural Resource Extension agents and specialists have received from the people they serve.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Treatment of natural fuels has been carried out in support of management objectives throughout the history of natural resource management across the United States. While research activities have been conducted for over 50 years, an urgent need still exists to provide better…
Year: 2018
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Singletary, Evans
This agreement is made and entered into by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Joint Fire Science Program (BLM), and the University of Nevada Reno for the purpose of Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Regional Consortia.
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
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
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
Little, Jandt
October 9th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave a final report on fuel treatments.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Fawcett, Clontz
'Learn and Burn' workshops are an excellent way for private landowners and others to gain hands-on burning experience and knowledge from expert mentors. This webinar will provide some lessons learned from coordinating these events, and tips to putting one on in the future.…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Melvin
The National Association of State Foresters (NASF) and the Coalition of Prescribed Fire Councils (CPFC) worked collaboratively to produce the 2018 National Prescribed Fire Use Survey Report. Since 2012, this report has been compiled every three years, and is unique among fire…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tomaz, Cui, Chen, Sexton, Roberts, Warneke, Yokelson, Surratt, Turpin
We investigated the gas-phase chemical composition of biomass burning (BB) emissions and their role in aqueous secondary organic aerosol (aqSOA) formation through photochemical cloud processing. A high-resolution time-of-flight chemical ionization mass spectrometer using iodide…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES