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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Schichtel, Fox, Patterson, Holden
Air quality regulations have the goal of reducing haze in national parks and wilderness areas to natural conditions and require that fine particulate matter (PM2.5) be reduced below a threshold that adversely impacts health. The federally funded and managed Interagency…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Smith, Hoover
The carbon reports in the Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) provide two alternate approaches to carbon estimates for live trees (Rebain 2010). These are (1) the FFE biomass algorithms, which are volume- based biomass equations, and (2) the…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Parsons, Wells, Pimont, Jolly, Cohn, Linn, Mell, Hoffman
With rapid changes in forest health and an increasing presence of fire affecting many landscapes, fuel treatments are considered essential in efforts to potentially mitigate catastrophic fires, restore ecosystems and increase ecosystem resilience. Understanding fuel treatment…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Black, Tesfaigzi, Bassein, Miller
Understanding the effect of wildfire smoke exposure on human health represents a unique interdisciplinary challenge to the scientific community. Population health studies indicate that wildfire smoke is a risk to human health and increases the healthcare burden of smoke-impacted…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Matsypura, Prokopyev, Zahar
Wildfires are a common phenomenon on most continents. They have occurred for an estimated 60 million years and are part of a regular climatic cycle. Nevertheless, wildfires represent a real and continuing problem that can have a major impact on people, wildlife and the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The National Incident Management System: Wildland Fire Qualification System Guide standardizes the minimum NWCG requirements for federal state, and local agencies in providing resources to fill a national interagency request for all types of wildland fire incidents.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The Oregon Department of Forestry works aggressively to contain and stop wildfires. After a fire ODF helps landowners with reforesting expertise and connecting them with the right people.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) is the area where human development and the natural world meet or intermingle.
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is a forest dynamics modeling system with geographic variants covering forested areas of the contiguous United States. As a direct descendant of the Prognosis model of the 1970/80s, FVS has seen continuous development and use for over 40…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Chojnacky, Jenkins
Over three thousand published equations purport to estimate biomass of individual trees and/or branch, bole, bark, or foliage components for North American tree species. These equations are often based on small samples and often provide different estimates for trees of the same…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Malm, Fox, Moosmüller, Kreidenweis, Collett, Hao
Carbonaceous aerosols, which include contributions from industrial and mobile source emissions and biomass combustion, exert a significant impact on regional air quality. Some preliminary semi-quantitative analyses suggest that smoke from fire-related activity may contribute…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wright
The 2001 Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy Review and Update (Guiding Principle #6) states, ‘Fire management plans and activities are based upon the best available science.’ To date, the Joint Fire Science Program and National Fire Plan have invested approximately $300…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Robichaud, Sims, Ashmun
This synthesis of post-fire treatment effectiveness describes our current knowledge of the factors that impact hillslope treatment effectiveness and reviews post-fire hillslope emergency stabilization treatment research and monitoring with an emphasis on the past decade. Since…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Miller, Parisien, Ager, Finney, Parks
This final report summarizes a collaboration that brought together experts in burn probability (BP) modeling and wildland fire risk analysis to compare and evaluate BP models, and ultimately incorporate these into a risk analysis framework. The project built on and extended the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Affleck, Goodburn, Keyes, Bush
The 2010 Western Mensurationists’ Conference in Missoula, MT, drew together forest scientists and land managers with primary expertise in the measurement and modeling of forest resources. The meeting provided an opportunity to focus the collective technical expertise of this…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Duff, Keane, Penman, Tolhurst
Wildland fires are a function of properties of the fuels that sustain them. These fuels are themselves a function of vegetation, and share the complexity and dynamics of natural systems. Worldwide, the requirement for solutions to the threat of fire to human values has resulted…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wright, Eagle
A web-programming project was undertaken to allow users of the online Hand-piled Fuels Biomass Calculator to also estimate the volume, biomass and potential emissions of mechanically piled fuels. Machine pile calculations encoded in the decision support software CONSUME 3.0 were…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Smith, Zouhar, Fryer
Managers have been coming to the Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) for reviews of scientific knowledge about fire effects since 1986. Prior to this project, FEIS provided relatively little coverage of invasive plant species in the eastern United States: In 2008, the system…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Mell, Bova, Forney, Rehm, McDermott
The last 15 years have seen the development of wildland and wildland-urban interface (WUI) fire behavior models that make use of modern numerical methods in atmospheric and combustion physics. Currently, these approaches are too computationally expensive for operational use and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Olmstead, Kousky, Sedjo
This project has explored the hypothesis that public fire suppression in fire‐prone areas acts as a subsidy to landowners, incentivizing conversion of land to residential and commercial development. Landowners do not bear the full cost of their choice to build on land in fire‐…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Smith, Brewer
Forest managers are currently tasked to consider carbon retention as part of their management objectives at the stand level, including hazardous fuels reduction, which temporarily removes live-tree biomass carbon from a stand when prescribed fire follows the thinning treatment.…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Jahn, Putnam, Black
This document is a summary of a mixed methods dissertation that examined the communicative construction of safety in wildland firefighting. For the dissertation, I used a two-study mixed methods approach, examining the communicative accomplishment of safety from two perspectives…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Black, Saveland, Thomas, Ziegler
The US wildland fire community has been interested in cultivating organizational learning to improve safety and overall performance for a number of years. A key focus has been on understanding the difference between culpability (to be guilty) and accountability (to explain) and…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Smith
What constitutes a high-quality synthesis for wildland managers? Syntheses are often requested by managers and many have been produced by scientists, but they may not always hit the mark. This project integrated guidelines from the literature with reflections from interviews…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Princevac, Weise, Venkatram, Achtemeier, Mahalingam, Goodrick, Bartolome
Several major car pileups with fatalities have resulted as a consequence of the formation of a dense smoke cloud which reduces visibility to less than 3 meters. These conditions of low visibility are known as Superfog. Continuing from work done by Dr. Gary Achtemeier,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES