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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ottmar
The Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) is a tool that enables land managers, regulators, and scientists to create and catalog fuelbeds and to classify those fuelbeds for their capacity to support fire and consume fuels. The fuelbed characteristics and fire…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Barnes, Camp, Cronan, McKenzie
The Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plan recognizes the critical role of wildland fires in maintaining the ecological integrity of boreal forests. Identifying and maintaining natural fire regimes is an important component of fire management and is a wise undertaking from both…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Olson, Peterson, Carlino, Barnes, Eagle
FIREHouse provides user-friendly, web-based information about fire science and technology relevant to Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska. For each project posted, the goal is to provide, as applicable, online, searchable access to: (1) project and tool descriptions, contact…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey, Graham
The Applied Wildland Fire Research in Support of Project Level Hazardous Fuels Planning Project was initiated as a pilot project by the U.S. Forest Service in response to the need for tools and information useful for planning site-specific fuel (vegetation) treatment projects.…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Heilman
As part of a proposed USDA Forest Service national framework for regional atmospheric modeling, as described in companion proposals from fire/atmosphere research work units in the Southern, Pacific Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and Rocky Mountain Research Stations, this North…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Butler, Jimenez, Reardon, Ryan, Webb
Current methods for predicting fire-induced plant mortality in shrubs and trees are largely empirical. These methods do not exhibit a wide range of applicability and are not readily linked to duff burning, soil heating, and surface fire behavior models. New models of duff…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Haase, Hardy, Regelbrugge, Reinhardt, Sackett, Sandberg, Sutherland, Vihnanek, Wade, Wright
The primary objective of the fuel consumption project is: Improve existing models to better predict fuel consumption during the smoldering phase of wildland fires; develop new fuel consumption models for shrubland hardwood, and boreal forest fuel types; implement modified and…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Sandberg, Wright
Current fire danger and fire behavior prediction focuses on the flaming stage of combustion, while fire effects and resistance to control are governed by smoldering and residual combustion in heavy fuels and organic soil layers. Fuel combustion algorithms in current use are…
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brenner, Masters
In order to keep our focus and avoid unnecessary mission creep that could ultimately prevent us from achieving our objectives, we plan to invite specific personnel and agencies to this work shop. Our plan is to place three focal points at the workshop to represent the…
Year: 2003
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Gollberg, Keane, Cook, Queen, Twery
Throughout history, bold ideas would have faded and disappeared without the tools and technology transfer necessary to help advance them. Today, a variety of tools are critical to wildland fire and fuels management. They range from the Pulaski to the latest fire behavior model.…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Brenner
Objective: The purpose/objectives of the 2: Congress is an open exchange of information between fire managers, land managers, fire ecologists and the meteorological and climatological community. As stated above, the issue of wildland fire has become one of great concern. The…
Year: 2004
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Andrews, Gabbert, Mangan
The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) will sponsor a conference to address fuels management and how to measure success. IAWF has worked with the Interagency Fule Committee on initial planning. There is general recognition of the need for such a conference. We…
Year: 2006
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES