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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Taylor, Gillette
Communications during fire events are complex. Nevertheless, training fire information officers to plan fire communications before events, and to communicate during fires in a way that accurately and promptly informs residents in fire-affected areas, can increase effectiveness,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Akerelrea, Smith, O'Keefe
Natural-resource managers have used a variety of computer-mediated presentation methods to communicate management practices to diverse publics. We explored the effects of visualizing and animating predictions from mathematical models in computerized presentations explaining…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
After wildfire and when planning prescribed burns, those who tend the land must try to predict tree death. Managers and planners need to know the level of fire intensity required to meet tree mortality objectives, decide if and which trees to salvage, and predict future post-…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Accurate regional weather forecasts are critical to successful wildfire operations and prescribed burns. Computer forecast models produce indispensable information about atmospheric conditions, but they can also generate some significant inaccuracies, most notably in relative…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
With a history of management choices that have suppressed fire in the West, ecosystems in which fire would play a vital role have developed tremendous fuel loads. As a result, conditions are prime for fires to grow large, escape attack measures, and become catastrophic…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
That risk from wildfire continues to grow across the United States is not a new problem. Managing forest fuels in the real world-such as thinning and burning prescriptively-to reduce fuel loads have been used effectively to reduce the risk of severe wildfire. These actions have…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
White
Acceptance of calculation procedures for determining fire endurance ratings for wood beams and columns has permitted the use of large wood members in applications where firerated structural members are required. As a result, the potential market for wood products increased in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wade, Brenner
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiitala
Resource managers are frequently concerned that the area burned by wildfire over time will impede achievement of land management objectives. Methods that use the Poisson probability model to quantify that risk are described. The methods require a concise statement of an adverse…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thomas, Hansen, Brackley
Major changes in federal forest policy in Alaska have resulted in a dramatic downsizing of the state's forest industry. These changes have driven efforts for economic restructuring and improved support for Alaskan communities. The University of Alaska Sitka Forest Products…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alig
With increasing opportunity costs of keeping land in forests because of increasing values for other land uses, such as for developed uses, forest ownership may become less attractive for some landowners and the return on investment less viable for both private and public…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winandy
As worldwide demand for timber and bio-fiber resources grows, sustainable resource management and industrial utilization must collaborate to develop a shared vision for both long-term sustainable management of forest and bio-resources and sustainable economic development.…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winandy
As the problems associated with sustaining and enhancing the world's forest and agricultural resources compete with the needs of a rapidly increasing and affluent population, the management of our land becomes a much more complex and important issue. One of the most important…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zachariassen, Zeller, Nikolov, McClelland
The RAWS network and RAWS data-use systems are closely reviewed and summarized in this report. RAWS is an active program created by the many land-management agencies that share a common need for accurate and timely weather data from remote locations for vital operational and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiitala
A mathematical optimization model, based on the operations research technique of deterministic dynamic programming, is offered as a method to search quickly through available options to find the economically efficient set of initial attack resources to suppress a wildfire.…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Alexander
The danger of being entrapped or burned over and possibly killed or seriously injured by a wildfire is very real threat for people living, working or visiting rural areas subject to wildfires. Sometimes there may be no chance to easily escape an approaching wildfire. Injuries…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutes
The FFI ecological monitoring utilities are an integration of FEAT and FIREMON, two respected, science-based programs used for fire effects monitoring on public lands. Funded by the Interagency Fuels Management Committee and developed jointly by the National Park Service and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lutes, Benson, Caratti, Keifer, Streetman
A new monitoring tool called FFI (FEAT/FIREMON Integrated) has been developed to assist managers with collection, storage and analysis of ecological information. The tool was developed through the complementary integration of two fire effects monitoring systems commonly used in…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The following document is intended to provide a basic understanding of raster data. Raster data layers (commonly referred to as grids) are the essential data layers used in all tools developed by the National Interagency Fuels Technology Team (NIFTT). If you are an experienced…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hamilton, Jones, Zeiler
The Multi-scale Resource Integration Tool (MRIT) was developed as an extension of ArcMap to facilitate the integration and summarization of spatial data. Simply put, MRIT characterizes the composition of feature layers (i.e., spatial themes added to an ArcMap document) within…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman
This powerpoint discusses the Fire Regime Condition Class's role in fuel treatment and ecosystem restoration.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hann
The objectives of this power point are to 1) Review reference values and landscape FRCC, 2) Review NFPORS data fields for FRCC, 3) Review previous stand FRCC assessment tool, 4) Walk through examples of revised stand FRCC determination.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hann
Powerpoint presentation discussing integrating fire regime and condition class.
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt, Dickinson
We give an overview of the science application process at work in supporting fire management. First-order fire effects models, such as those discussed in accompanying papers, are the building blocks of software systems designed for application to landscapes over time scales from…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Engstrom
Models of first-order fire effects are designed to predict tree mortality, soil heating, fuel consumption, and smoke production. Some of these models can be used to predict first-order fire effects on animals (e.g., soil-dwelling organisms as a result of soil heating), but they…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS