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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Chojnacky, Jenkins
Beginning with our earlier database and synthesis of individual-tree biomass equations for North America (Jenkins et al. 2003; Jenkins et al. 2004), we will update with current literature on new equations, add equations including tree height (which were excluded in previous work…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mason, Alvarado
This project will promote information exchange between tribes, agencies, research organizations, and institutions of higher learning to explore the feasibility, interest, and utility of developing a nation-wide program to improve information and technology transfer between…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wright
JFSP goals can be achieved only if the resulting scientific information is effectively transferred to the users. Recognizing that science delivery approaches are often developed on an ad hoc basis without an overall understanding of the research application process, AFP 2 004-4…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Jones, Chung, Seielstad, Zuuring
We propose a 3-year project, which includes 1.25 year to integrate existing fire behavior and optimization models into a system for spatially scheduling treatments to maintain effective fire and non-fire fuels treatments at landscape scales, .5 year to test the system on two…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Hu, Higuera, Rupp
Fire and fuels management goals in Alaska are hindered by a limited understanding of fire history and the controls of fire regimes. Nowhere is this statement more accurate that in tundra ecosystems that cover nearly one-third of the state. Over 60 communities and 348 native…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Sims
Escalating costs of post-fire emergency stabilization treatments and the lack of available treatment effectiveness information were recently highlighted in two Government Accounting Office reports. Research and monitoring results from the past decade are providing the needed…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Ager, Finney
This project builds on and extends the completed work from JFSP project #01-1-1-05 to compare and evaluate burn probability (BP) models, and incorporate these into a risk analysis framework. During that JFSP project, the GIS model BurnPro was developed and used to estimate…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Jimenez, Ottmar, Butler, Hudak, O'Brien, Potter, Dickinson, Clements, Seielstad
The availability of integrated, quality-assured fuels, fire, and atmospheric data for development and evaluation of fuels, fire behavior, smoke, and fire effects models is limited. The lack of co-located, multi-scale measures of pre-fire fuels, active fire processes, and post-…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Affleck
We propose to organize a special invited session on conifer crown measurement and modeling strategies at the 2010 Western Mensurationists Meeting. This invited session and a follow-up workshop focused on conifer crown measurement and modeling strategies will bring together…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brooks, Bunting, Fuhlendorf, Miller
It has been over 20 years since the last major book on the ecology and management of fire was published that contained extensive information from non-forested ecosystems across western North America (Wright and Bailey 1982). During subsequent years there have been notable books…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wright
Land managers need a tool to accurately and efficiently estimate the biomass of hand- and machine-piled fuels as pile burning becomes a more widespread and common method for treating high fire hazard areas with heavy surface fuels. This proposal is to incorporate the calculation…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
The over all objective of the Rainbow Series Project is to write, publish, and distribute a series of 'state of the art' reviews of the effects of fire on fauna, flora, air, cultural resources, and soil and water (5 volumes). The Missoula Fire Lab proposes to complete the…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Mell, Forney, Rehm
Currently there are no fire spread models evaluated for use in wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. A number of possible model approaches can be applied to WUI fires. They can range from the relatively simple rule or empirically based to the very complex physics based. Each…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Robichaud, Foltz, Showers
The increased size and severity of wildland fires require increasingly effective BAER treatments. A commonly used BAER treatment is mulching, the spreading of agricultural straw by hand or from the air using a helicopter. While widely used and fairly reasonably effective at…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Prestemon
A Fire Prevention Effectiveness Assessment for Multiple Ownerships Fire managers and policy makers have a variety of means of intervening in fire processes to reduce the long-run discounted sum of costs and losses from wildfire. These include preventing and suppressing wildfires…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olmstead, Kousky, Sedjo
This project will test the hypothesis that public fire suppression in forested areas increases the fraction of developed land in these areas, drawing people and structures into the wildland/urban interface. To test this hypothesis, we will construct statistical models that…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black, Jahn, Putnam
Wildland firefighting crews are considered High Reliability Organizations (HROs) because their members operate in hazardous environments with low rates of error. However, the level of error currently experienced is higher than desired. To improve the safety and performance…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Vavra, Cook, Wisdom
Landscape Fire Succession Models (LFSMs) are not able to account for influences that large grazing herbivores have on succession and fuel dynamics. Grazing is nevertheless a highly variable disturbance agent that does influence the development of wild land fuels, and thus by…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Keane, Loehman
Climate projections for the next 20-50 years forecast higher temperatures and variable precipitation for many landscapes in the western United States and many ecosystem and fire modelers are using gridded future climate data generated and synthesized from one or more Global…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Black, Saveland, Thomas
Prescribed fire escapes continue to occur with regularity in all federal and state fire management agencies throughout the United States. By interagency policy, after an escape official reviews must be prepared. Paradigms guiding reviews have evolved over the past decade and now…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Carroll
With this research we seek to answer the question: What are the social characteristics and conditions of human communities that promote adaptive capacity for wildfire? In human communities, vulnerability to disasters is influenced not only by exposure and biophysical…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Reeves
We propose development of a new methodology that can be used by forest and fire managers and planners to consider the potential effects of all aspects of fire management (i.e., fuels reduction to post-fire restoration) on native stream fishes and their habitats. State-of-the-art…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Raffuse, Strand, Wheeler
Fire emissions and smoke impacts from wildland fire are a growing concern due to increasing fire season severity, dwindling tolerance of smoke by the public, tightening air quality regulations, and their role in climate change issues. Unfortunately, as identified in JFSP RFA…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Raffuse, Strand
New regulations for black carbon (BC) currently under consideration by Congress and the EPA could affect management decisions on wildfires and the ability to conduct prescribed burning. Congressional testimony has suggested various mitigation strategies for Arctic BC including…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Wright, Aman
Wildfire hazard is a growing problem in many areas of the United States, especially in the wildland-urban interface, where homes and other structures border or intermingle with forests, shrubs and grasslands. Despite years of educational outreach by fire management officials…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES