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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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The Fuels Management Analyst Suite of programs facilitates: (1) the viewing of published and locally generated Photo Series and the searching of published and locally generated Photo Series for photos that meet defined criteria; (2) the reduction of fuels inventory data gathered…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This document describes the password management and new fire reports available using KCFAST.
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Ferguson, Larkin
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) is one of few landscape tools for evaluating and documenting the probability of potential smoke impacts. This project is implementing user-identified improvements to the data and web-access system, creating on-line tutorials for…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoff, Klopfenstein, Tonn, McDonald, Zambino, Rogers, Peever, Carris
Fungi are tremendously diverse and play wide-ranging roles in forest ecosystems. Interactions between fungi and woody roots are involved in important processes including wood decay, root disease, and symbiotic relationships. In addition, some fungi feed on other fungi, acting as…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shlisky
Altered fire regimes pose great threats to biodiversity. Fire managers recognize the need to reduce hazardous fuel loads, restore sustainable fire regimes and ecosystems, and decrease the threat of catastrophic wildfires to community values. The United States Department of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The following summarizes the January 2006 revision of the Wildland Fire Qualification System Guide, PMS 310-1, and identifies major changes since the January 2000 version. This revision involved field review, solicitations of comments from state, tribal, and federal agencies…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Meyers
The focus of the paper is on fire as an element affecting the conservation of biodiversity and maintaining sustainable resources and ecosystem services for people. Thusly, emphasis is placed on the management of fire at places identified for their conservation value. Effective…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Williams
Document detailing eight key steps to successfully developing CWPPs. As communities develop and implement their community wildfire protection plans (CWPP), they have successes that other communities may find useful as they begin their CWPP efforts. At a recent meeting of people…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bujak
To develop a web-based, GIS-interfaced CWPP monitoring tool to assess progress and outcomes of CWPP's. The availability of this web-based inventory and assessment tool will build capacity among key agencies, programs, and associations to link emerging CWPP's with geographic…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bujak, Burns
The primary intent of this update is to acquaint interested parties with the general framework for the upcoming case study research, and the significant areas of inquiry being pursued. The inquiry into collaboration in CWPP development is focused within three primary areas: the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Williams
The JFS Executive Summary Brochure contains general information about the project, including its history, objectives and principle investigators. HFRA encourages the development of Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) that identify and set priorities for fuels reduction…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The American people, their property, and our environment, particularly the forests and rangelands of the West, are threatened by catastrophic fires and environmental degradation. Hundreds of millions of trees and invaluable habitat are destroyed each year by these severe…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kaufmann, Shlisky, Marchand
The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts, according to forester, philosopher, and hunter Aldo Leopold. Leopold was thinking about wildfire 50 years ago when he also was questioning his own role in exterminating large predators, wondering how their removal might…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology provides a comprehensive listing of terms and definitions used by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) community. This document contains terms commonly used by NWCG in the areas of wildland fire and fire use and is not…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Esposito
Wildland fire professionals at the Federal, State, and local levels have a long tradition of collaborating across agencies and jurisdictions to achieve goals that they could not achieve independently. This fact sheet discusses the reasons and resources for collaboration.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mileti
Other fact sheets identified considerations for communicating about hazards, talked about the importance of working locally, and discussed the seven laws of effective hazard communication. This fact sheet introduces the 'Golden Rule' of hazard communication and shares some final…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mileti
Effective public education and communication campaigns about wildland fire and fuels management should have clear objectives, and use the right techniques to achieve these objectives. This fact sheet lists seven important considerations for planning or implementing a hazard…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Monroe, Pennisi
People who evaluate their actions in terms of what others think are often said to be guided by community norms. With respect to fuels management, this means that when you are 'selling' a property owner on taking steps to reduce fuels, you are not just 'selling' to one person,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mileti
The amount of science applicable to the management of wildfire hazards is increasing daily. In addition, the attitudes of landowners and policymakers about fire and fuels management are changing. This fact sheet discusses three critical keys to communicating about wildfire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Monroe, Pennisi
Other fact sheets discuss the different types of information that are useful in explaining to property owners the importance of taking personal responsibility for fuels management on their land. However, for some property owners, new information is not enough-they may need more…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Monroe, Pennisi
Fuels management responsibilities may include providing local property owners with the information for taking responsibility for reducing fuels on their land. This fact sheet discusses three different types of information that may be useful in programs to engage property owners…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Esposito
Researchers have tried to understand how information about forest management can influence a person's landscape preferences and aesthetic appreciation. These findings are relevant for fuels management projects, since these projects are often characterized by conflicts between…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Esposito
When making decisions about fuels treatments, forest managers need to assess not only the biological impacts of a treatment, but the social impacts as well. Social acceptability is based on value judgments by people-their notions of what is 'good' and what is 'better.' This fact…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Esposito
Research shows that, while prescribed burning and other fuels treatments can lower visual quality in some situations, they can also improve it in others. This fact sheet reviews the visual aspects of different levels of prescribed burning.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Esposito
Fuels management produces changes in the landscape that can impact scenic beauty. If people do not consider a forest to be scenic, they may think that the low scenic quality is a result of poor management or ecological health. This fact sheet looks at the relevancy of the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES