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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Southard
Most people familiar with the Weeks Act of 1911 associate it with the establishment of national forests in the Eastern United States. However, the Weeks Act did more for eastern forest conservation than fund the purchase of private forest lands by the Federal Government. The…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hecker
One year after Smokey Bear celebrates his 75th birthday will mark the 70th anniversary of the living symbol of Smokey Bear. In 1950, an injured black bear cub was rescued from the Capitan Gap Fire on the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico. The cub was rehabilitated and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McAllister
When you walk into the offices of the Forest Service's Conservation Education Program in Washington, DC, one of the first things you see is a big banner of Smokey Bear offering bear hugs. Conservation Education has supported Smokey and his wildfire prevention message for a long…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Beavans, Brooks
In 2019, Smokey Bear will celebrate 75 years as the national symbol for wildfire prevention. Smokey's official 75th birthday will be on August 9, 2019, but educational programs and materials, a variety of products, and numerous events are planned for the entire 2019 calendar…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Legarza
I am excited to celebrate Smokey Bear's 75th birthday. Since 1944, Smokey Bear has protected America's forests from unwanted human-caused wildfires. As one of the most beloved issue ambassadors of our time, Smokey and his signature phrase, 'Only You Can Prevent Wildfires,' have…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Christiansen
Like many of us at the Forest Service, I started my career in fire, and I have always relied on Smokey Bear. Fire prevention is part of our cultural DNA.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The guide provides public health officials with the information they need to prepare for smoke events, communicate health risks and take measures to protect public health. It is also a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning more about what to do when smoke travels…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morton, Magness
The western Kenai has warmed and dried in last 50 years. Large ecological changes which have been documented include: – decreasing available water (60% loss since 1968); drying wetlands (6 – 11% per decade); receding glaciers (-11% surface area, -21m elevation, +55% thinning…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hammond, Strand, Hudak, Newingham
Background: Fire has historically been a primary control on succession and vegetation dynamics in boreal systems, although modern changing climate is potentially increasing fire size and frequency. Large, often remote fires necessitate large-scale estimates of fire effects and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White
A review of weather factors important to predicting tundra fire spread from a study by NOAA Hollings Scholar James White of Ohio State University.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Meldrum, Brenkert-Smith, Champ, Gomez, Falk, Barth
Fire science emphasizes that mitigation actions on residential property, including structural hardening and maintaining defensible space, can reduce the risk of wildfire at a home. Accordingly, a rich body of social science literature investigates the determinants of wildfire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Michaelides, Schaefer, Zebker, Parsekian, Liu, Chen, Natali, Ludwig, Schaefer
The Yukon–Kuskokwim (YK) Delta is a region of discontinuous permafrost in the subarctic of southwestern Alaska. Many wildfires have occurred in the YK Delta between 1971–2015, impacting vegetation cover, surface soil moisture, and the active layer. Herein, we demonstrate that…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lin, Sun, Huang
Smouldering wildfire in peatlands is one of the largest and longest-lasting fire phenomena on Earth, but whether peat can support a flaming fire like other surface fuels is still unclear. Our experiments demonstrate the successful piloted flaming ignition of peat soil with…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liu, Kochanski, Baker, Mell, Linn, Paugam, Mandel, Fournier, Jenkins, Goodrick, Achtemeier, Zhao, Ottmar, French, Larkin, Brown, Hudak, Dickinson, Potter, Clements, Urbanski, Prichard, Watts, McNamara
There is an urgent need for next-generation smoke research and forecasting (SRF) systems to meet the challenges of the growing air quality, health and safety concerns associated with wildland fire emissions. This review paper presents simulations and experiments of hypothetical…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Page, Freeborn, Butler, Jolly
Wildland firefighters in the United States are exposed to a variety of hazards while performing their jobs. Although vehicle accidents and aircraft mishaps claim the most lives, situations where firefighters are caught in a life-threatening, fire behaviour-related event (i.e. an…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hall, Zhang, Schroeder, Huang, Giglio
The recent deployment of the next generation of geostationary weather satellites provides an opportunity for the establishment of a robust global network of geostationary fire data that can greatly complement existing polar-orbiting satellite fire products. Among other benefits…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Christensen, Amin, Smith, Rein
Peat fires are a global-scale source of carbon emissions and a leading cause of regional air quality deterioration, especially in Southeast Asia. The ignition and spread of peat fires are strongly affected by moisture, which acts as an energy sink. However, moisture effects on…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McEvoy
Presented by Dan McEvoy, Desert Research Institute and Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV
Despite a clear link between drought and wildfire, there is currently a lack of information for stakeholders at the regional and local levels for improved wildfire risk management…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Howe, St. Clair, Bachelet, Stevenson-Molnar
The Seedlot Selection Tool (SST) is a GIS mapping program designed to help forest managers match seedlots with planting sites based on climatic information. The climates of the planting sites can be chosen to represent current climates, or future climates based on selected…
Year: 2019
Type: Tool
Source: FRAMES
Distinguishing disturbance from perturbations in fire regimes - research brief for resource managers
If the fire has characteristics that do not fit the historical fire regime with which the fire-adapted ecosystem has developed, then it may impact resilience and cause a shift in ecosystem characteristics.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pearl
Presented by Sarah Pearl as part of the REU Workshop on August 8th, 2019
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Bastian
The Landscape Burn Probability Model quantifies the likelihood and intensity of a fire occurring under a fixed set of weather and fuel moisture conditions. It is one of the key pieces to conducting an Exposure Analysis which contributes to a comprehensive Quantitative Wildfire…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hohner, Rhoades, Wilkerson, Rosario-Ortiz
Wildfires are a natural part of most forest ecosystems, but due to changing climatic and environmental conditions, they have become larger, more severe, and potentially more damaging. Forested watersheds vulnerable to wildfire serve as drinking water supplies for many urban and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rossiello, Szema
Global warming is a phenomenon that is affecting society in sundry ways. As of 2017, Earth’s global surface temperature increased 0.9°C compared to the average temperature in the mid-1900s. Beyond this change in temperature lies significant threats to human health in the form of…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
For many fire-adapted ecosystems, prescribed fires and managed wildfires are valuable tools for mimicking and maintaining natural fire’s full assortment of invaluable Ecosystem Services.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES