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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Two More Chains: What's Up with Incident Reviews?

'What's Up with Incident Reviews?' Today it seems we have incident reviews for everything-with more incident reviews and types of reviews than ever before. In this issue, we try to peel back the layers for what 'officially' guides these reviews-including the differences in…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Two More Chains: The Lunch Spot

When the smoke is churning and we're slamming line, the physical location of the Lunch Spot often coincides with a decision point. It's commonly a spot offering a safe place to take a tactical pause. It might not always take place while the crew is eating, but the decisions made…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Two More Chains: Do You PT?

One thing we can all do to prepare for our time on the line is physical training-PT. Does your PT program prepare you for your job? Are you susceptible to injury? Do you know the risks and dangers associated with PT? Check out this issue for all kinds of good info on physical…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

USDA Forest Service strategic plan: FY 2015-2020

The Forest Service is accountable for sustaining the Nation's forest and grassland resources on behalf of the American people. To make our efforts transparent to the people we serve, we regularly develop, publish, and implement a 5-year strategic plan designed to guide our…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Two More Chains: Does any of this stuff work?

Is the Wildland Fire Service learning? In this issue we tackle the hard question: Does any of this stuff work-are lessons actually learned? What do you think?
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Two More Chains: Same as It Ever Was

Our cover story "Same as It Ever Was" explores how our traditional solution of ordering "more stuff" doesn't really work. A new approach-that confronts the hard question "Is 'safe' even possible?"-is proposed.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Getting the most from online fire resources: Fire Effects Information System

Long
When planning a prescribed fire or other fire management project, how often does this question cross your mind: How will the fire impact a particular animal or plant species? Or maybe the question is even broader: What do we know about the general biology and ecology of a…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Two More Chains: Risk, Gain, and Loss: What are We Willing to Accept?

Our cover story "Risk, Gain, and Loss: What are We Willing to Accept?" explores several key questions, including: "Do we have acceptable losses in wildfire?" In our One of Our Own feature, hotshot captain Alanna English answers the question: "Have you ever had a 'dumb' fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Two More Chains: Us and Them

Contained in this issue: Why should you be nice?, "Human Topography": A deeper look into the social environment that exists on fires, and Do you have an AEDin your rig?
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Linking research findings and decision makers: insights and recommendations from a wildfire study

Kulig, Westlund
Transformation of research findings into relevant policies and programs is a principle for ensuring the creation of usable science. One way of achieving this is to employ knowledge translation to disseminate findings between researchers and end users. In this article the process…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Voices from the field: wildland fire managers and high-reliability organizing mindfulness

Thomas, Fox, Miller
Wildland fire management agencies manage wildland fires for resource benefit while protecting firefighter and public safety. Firefighting fatalities and property damaged by wildfires prompt reviews aimed at preventing similar accidents. The principles of high-reliability…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The role of watershed characteristics, permafrost thaw, and wildfire on dissolved organic carbon biodegradability and water chemistry in Arctic headwater streams

Larouche, Abbott, Bowden, Jones
In the Alaskan Arctic, rapid climate change is increasing the frequency of disturbance including wildfire and permafrost collapse. These pulse disturbances may influence the delivery of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to aquatic ecosystems, however the magnitude of these effects…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Data set for fuels, fire behavior, smoke, and fire effects model development and evaluation - the RxCADRE project - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Ottmar, Clements, Butler, Dickinson, Potter, O'Brien
The availability of integrated, quality-assured datasets is limited, reducing our ability to evaluate fire models and tackle fundamental fire questions. To help fill this gap, the Prescribed Fire Combustion and Atmospheric Dynamics Research Experiment (RxCADRE) evolved to…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Effect of fire prevention programs on accidental and incendiary wildfires on tribal lands in the United States

Abt, Butry, Prestemon, Scranton
Humans cause more than 55% of wildfires on lands managed by the USDA Forest Service and US Department of the Interior, contributing to both suppression expenditures and damages. One means to reduce the expenditures and damages associated with these wildfires is through fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Addition of 550 fire history datasets (FHX files) to the IMPD (International Multi-Proxy Database) - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Swetnam, Bigio
The International Multi-Proxy Database (IMPD) is a public database of fire history sites around the world and is managed by the National Climatic Data Center of NOAA. In the western US, fire history information provides a context for evaluating recent increases in extreme fire…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Coupled human and natural systems in fire-prone landscapes: interconnections and research needs-a workshop held August 4-7, 2014 in Bend, Oregon - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Olsen, Spies, Shindler
This report is a deliverable to share the impact of travel funding awarded by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in support of a workshop focused on fire-prone coupled human and natural systems (CHANS). From August 4th-7th 2014, twenty-six scientists convened in Bend, Oregon…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Validating the next generation of wildland fire and smoke models for operational and research use-a national plan - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Brown, Clements, Larkin, Anderson, Butler, Goodrick, Ichoku, Lamb, Mell, Ottmar, Schranz, Tonnesen, Urbanski, Watts
Air pollution from biomass burning is an increasingly prominent issue for wildland fire management agencies. In addition to primary PM10 and PM2.5, wildfires and prescribed burning also generate other primary emitted pollutants such as CO, SO2, NOx, and contribute toward the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Measuring the optical properties and climate impacts of aerosol from wild and prescribed fires in the US - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Kreidenweis, Yokelson, Coe, McMeeking, Sullivan
This project characterized the emissions from a simulated wildfire and their evolution downwind via an airborne platform hosting state of the science online measurement techniques for speciated PM1 aerosol, black carbon, water soluble particulate organic carbon, and levoglucosan…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Impacts of mega-fire on large U.S. urban area air quality under changing climate and fuels - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Liu, Goodrick, Stanturf, Tian
Mega-fires can adversely impact air quality in the United States and the impacts are likely to become more serious in the future due to the possibility of more frequent and intense mega-fires in response to the projected climate change. This study investigated U.S. mega-fires…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Impacts of past warming episodes on fire frequency, carbon fluxes, and soil erosion in the Alaskan boreal forests: lessons from the past - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Mann, Gaglioti, Finney, Jones, Pohlman, Wooller
Wildland fire is a keystone disturbance in the boreal forest, affecting everything from public safety, to woodpecker populations, to permafrost. How settlement by European people impacted wildland fire regimes in Alaska is poorly understood because paleo-fire records near…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

A fire history of America, 1960-2013 - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Pyne, Neeley
With support from the U.S. Forest Service, Department of the Interior, and Joint Fire Science Program, I have written a fire history of America from 1960 to 2013. The project will result in two books. Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America relates the basic…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Modeling burn severity in black spruce stands in the Alaskan boreal forest

Barrett, Kasischke, McGuire, Turetsky, Kane
Biomass burning in the Alaskan interior is already a major disturbance and source of carbon emissions, and is likely to increase in response to the warming and drying predicted for the future climate. In addition to quantifying changes to the spatial and temporal patterns of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Runoff sources and flow paths in a partially burned, upland boreal catchment underlain by permafrost

Koch, Kikuchi, Wickland, Schuster
Boreal soils in permafrost regions contain vast quantities of frozen organic material that is released to terrestrial and aquatic environments via subsurface flow paths as permafrost thaws. Longer flow paths may allow chemical reduction of solutes, nutrients, and contaminants,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The footprint of Alaskan tundra fires during the past half-century: implications for surface properties and radiative forcing

Rocha, Loranty, Higuera, Mack, Hu, Jones, Breen, Rastetter, Goetz, Shaver
Recent large and frequent fires above the Alaskan arctic circle have forced a reassessment of the ecological and climatological importance of fire in arctic tundra ecosystems. Here we provide a general overview of the occurrence, distribution, and ecological and climate…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Managing multi-functional landscapes at the interface of public forests and private land: advancing understanding through a comparison of experience in U.S. and Australia - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Toman, Brenkert-Smith, Curtis, Rogers, Stidham
Natural resource management in fire-prone systems is increasingly complex. Private and public land managers may seek to achieve a range of outcomes from natural landscapes. In some cases these outcomes, as well as the management approaches used to create them, may be contested…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES