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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Calkin
Although fuel reduction treatments are widespread, there is great variability and uncertainty in the cost of conducting treatments. Researchers from the Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, have developed a model for estimating the per-acre cost for mechanical…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuels planning: science synthesis and integration; economic uses fact sheet 8: prescribed fire costs
Although the use of prescribed fire as a management tool is widespread, there is great variability and uncertainty in the treatment costs. Given specific site variables and management objectives, how much will it cost to use prescribed fire? This paper describes the FASTRACS…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fight, Donovan, Haynes
Markets and prices for logs vary widely across the West, fluctuating from place to place in response to regional variables and hauling costs. This fact sheet discusses those variables, locality of log markets, markets for low-value logs, and caveats to consider when using My…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan
Confidence in decisionmaking can often come from knowing if others in similar circumstances would choose the same management strategy. Researchers at the USDA FS Pacific Northwest Research Station and the University of Saskatchewan have developed a Selection Criteria Analysis…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ogden, White
TThe National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is the law that requires Federal agencies to consider the environmental impacts of their actions, involve the public in the decisionmaking process, and disclose information, starting at the initial stages of planning. This fact sheet…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alward, Niccolucci, Smith
With increased interest in reducing hazardous fuels in dry inland forests of the American West, agencies and the public will want to know the economic impacts of fuel reduction treatments. This fact sheet discusses the economic impact tool, a component of My Fuel Treatment…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fight, Barbour
Knowing the cost of fuel reduction treatments and associated activities, such as hauling cut trees, is essential for fire and fuels planning. This fact sheet explores the main factors that determine the cost of hauling cut trees and points the user to an interactive tool that…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fuel Treatment Guidebook Saved Scenarios for the first cut tree list, with the first prescription, with mechanical treatment, for each of the forests included in the Fuel Treatment Guidebook that had commercial trees cut under the heaviest thinning treatment. These saved…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hardesty, Meyers, Fulks
Is fire a major conservation issue? A growing body of anecdotal and scientific evidence suggests that it is, but the science remains uneven. The global extent of the conservation threat is still largely undocumented. The United Nations and other bodies have made various attempts…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Dixon, Crookston, Reinhardt, Johnson
The FFE-FVS has proven to be a valuable tool for forest managers. This project provides for: (1) a full range of training for field personnel where the FFE-FVS is operational; (2) full support for the computer code; (3) expanding the applicability of the FFE-FVS to portions of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Landres
We report the results of a questionnaire and workshop that sought to gain a better and deeper understanding of the contemporary information needs of wildland fire and fuels managers. Results from the questionnaire indicated that the decision to suppress a wildland fire was most…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
An introduction to The Nature Conservancy's work with fire around the world.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hann, Havlina, Shlisky
The Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) Standard Landscape Worksheet Method and Mapping Method provide tools for fire, vegetation, and fuels assessment and management at both the landscape and stand levels. These methods are used to described general landscape fire regime and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bujak, Burns
Overview of transfer the practical knowledge gathered from the JFSP-CWPP project to selected wildfire mitigation, community and professional practitioners, local government officials, and fire managers at all levels. The inquiry into collaboration in CWPP development is focused…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hann, Beighley, Teensma, Sexton, Hilbruner
Analyses were conducted of fire and fuel management options for 172 million hectares (424 million acres) of Forest Service and Interior public lands in the contiguous lower 48 states. A landscape dynamics model was calibrated based on fire regime condition class (FRCC). A…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cohen, Saveland
The wildland-urban interface (W-UI) refers to residential areas surrounded by or adjacent to wildland areas. In recent years, significant W-UI residential fire losses have occurred nationwide in the United States that have focused attention on the principal W-UI problem - losses…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler
There is no question that fire has been and will continue to be one of Mother Nature's major land management tools. What is in question, is the ability of humans to responsibly and safely develop the ability to interact with and use fire. Fundamental fire research focuses on…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Cohen
Quantitative information regarding safety zone size for wildland firefighters is limited. We present a 3-surface theoretical model that describes the net radiant energy transfer to a firefighter standing a specified distance from a fire of specified height. Model predictions…
Year: 1998
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hann, Bunnell
Ecosystem conditions on Federal public lands have changed, particularly within the last 30 years. Wildfires in the west have increased to levels close to or above those estimated for historical conditions, despite increasing efforts and expertise in fire prevention and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jones, Webb, Jimenez, Reardon, Butler
A new one-dimensional heat conduction model for predicting stem heating during fires is presented. Themodel makes use of moisture- and temperature-dependent thermal properties for layers of bark and wood. The thermal aspects of the processes of bark swelling, desiccation, and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wang, Li, Winnady
It is commonly accepted that the fire retardant mechanism of boric acid is a physical mechanism achieved by the formation of a coating or protective layer on the wood surface at high temperature. Although a char-forming catalytic mechanism has been proposed by some researchers,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wang, Song, Chen, Crow, LaCroix
Landscape visualization is a useful tool in understanding forest dynamics and in assessing various management practices. However, the application of this technology remains very challenging. We propose criteria for landscape visualization so that users can judge the quality of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryu, Chen, Crow, Saunders
Available fuel and its dynamics, both of which affect fire behavior in forest ecosystems, are direct products of ecosystem production, decomposition, and disturbances. Using published ecosystem models and equations, we developed a simulation model to evaluate the effects of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chalmers, Hartsough
The work described in this paper examines the economic costs of thinning and prescribed burning to reduce fuel loading. Thinning costing is based on measurement of productive/scheduled hours, standard machine costing, plus analysis of volumes of timber harvested, extracted, and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zipperer
The wildland-urban interface is a zone of rapid land use change. Through planning, urban effects can be minimized so that ecosystem goods and services can still be utilized for this and future generations. The conservation of ecosystem goods and services must be a guiding…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES