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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Lueck, Yoder
Wildfires are heating up once again in the American West. In 2015, wildfires burned more than 10 million acres in the United States at a cost of $2.1 billion in federal expenditures. As the fires burned, the U.S. Forest Service announced that, for the first time, more than half…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is a plan developed by a community in an area at-risk from wildfire.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) is an assessment intended to protect life, property, water quality, important archeological resources, and impacted ecosystems from further damage.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Twidwell, Allen, Detweiler, Higgins, Laney, Elbaum
During the past century, fire management has focused on techniques both to protect human communities from catastrophic wildfire and to maintain fire-dependent ecological systems. However, despite a large and increasing allocation of resources and personnel to achieve these goals…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rasker
The dangers and costs associated with wildfires are rising and predicted to escalate rapidly in decades to come, primarily because of continued home development on fire-prone lands and the effects of climate change. Those interested in reducing wildfire risk have asked whether…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Xu, Amacher, Sullivan
Previous studies investigating the impact of natural disturbances on rotation age decisions consider only one disturbance and assume immediate harvest and replanting should a disturbance occur. We extend this work by examining multiple disturbances and a continuance decision…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Aponte, de Groot, Wotton
The papers in this section focus on three main themes that emerged during the sessions. First, fire regimes are changing as a result of changes in climate conditions. Second, changes in fire regimes may have significant ecoloogical consequences because the newly emerged regimes…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wigtil, Hammer, Kline, Mockrin, Stewart, Roper, Radeloff
The hazards-of-place model posits that vulnerability to environmental hazards depends on both biophysical and social factors. Biophysical factors determine where wildfire potential is elevated, whereas social factors determine where and how people are affected by wildfire. We…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Peterson, Hardy
Much like other scientific endeavors, most fire research is conducted either within individual disciplines - fuels, physics, chemistry, ecology, modelling, and so forth - or, at best, across only two or three disciplines. This is primarily because fire scientists have particular…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kiefer, Heilman, Zhong, Charney, Bian
Much uncertainty exists regarding the possible role that gaps in forest canopies play in modulating fire–atmosphere interactions in otherwise horizontally homogeneous forests. This study examines the influence of gaps in forest canopies on atmospheric perturbations induced by a…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kulig, Botey
Resilience has become a significant concept to help understand the coping processes after adversity experienced by communities. This article reports on the perspectives of individual resilience by community stakeholders (n = 20) and parents (n = 19) who experienced a devastating…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Littell, Peterson, Riley, Liu, Luce
The historical and presettlement relationships between drought and wildfire are well documented in North America, with forest fire occurrence and area clearly increasing in response to drought. There is also evidence that drought interacts with other controls (forest…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Xiao, Liu, Stoy
The impacts of extreme climate events and disturbances (ECE&D) on the carbon cycle have received growing attention in recent years. This special issue showcases a collection of recent advances in understanding the impacts of ECE&D on carbon cycling. Notable advances…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Marlon, Kelly, Daniau, Vannière, Power, Bartlein, Higuera, Blarquez, Brewer, Brücher, Feurdean, Gil-Romera, Iglesias, Maezumi, Magi, Courtney Mustaphi, Zhihai
The location, timing, spatial extent, and frequency of wildfires are changing rapidly in many parts of the world, producing substantial impacts on ecosystems, people, and potentially climate. Paleofire records based on charcoal accumulation in sediments enable modern changes in…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hantson, Arneth, Harrison, Kelley, Prentice, Rabin, Archibald, Mouillot, Arnold, Artaxo, Bachelet, Ciais, Forrest, Friedlingstein, Hickler, Kaplan, Kloster, Knorr, Lasslop, Li, Mangeon, Melton, Meyn, Sitch, Spessa, Van der Werf, Voulgarakis, Yue
Biomass burning impacts vegetation dynamics, biogeochemical cycling, atmospheric chemistry, and climate, with sometimes deleterious socio-economic impacts. Under future climate projections it is often expected that the risk of wildfires will increase. Our ability to predict the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Campbell, Mutch
In August of 1972, the small Bad Luck Fire signaled the start of returning fire to the wilderness for the USDA Forest Service. Forty-three years later, the wisdom of allowing perhaps the most important of the 'forces of nature' to prevail has been proven time and again. While…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bixler, Bixler, Ellison, Moseley
Changes in land use and management practices throughout the past century-in addition to drought and other stressors exacerbated by climate change-have degraded the nation’s forests and led to overgrowth and accumulation of hazardous fuels (GAO 2015). Because of these fuels, some…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McGee, Curtis, McFarlane, Shindler, Christianson, Olsen, McCaffrey
The importance of knowledge transfer between researchers, policy makers and practitioners is widely recognized. However, barriers to knowledge transfer can make it difficult for practitioners to apply the results of scientific research. This paper describes a project that…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jandt, Miller, Bourgeau-Chavez, French, Loehman, Shanks Rodrigues, Miller, Loboda, Prakash, York
Polar amplification of climate warming is bringing with it an increase in wildfire (Wolken et al. 2011). More fire disturbance may provide a mechanism by which climate warming could rapidly alter the structure and function of high northern latitude ecosystems. Observational…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bolton, Romanovsky, McGuire, Lara, Hinzman
Thermokarst topography forms whenever ice-rich permafrost thaws and the ground subsides due to the volume loss when excess ground ice transitions to water. The Alaska Thermokarst Model (ATM) is a large-scale, state-and-transition model designed to simulate transitions between […
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fischer, Spies, Steelman, Moseley, Johnson, Bailey, Ager, Bourgeron, Charnley, Collins, Kline, Leahy, Littell, Millington, Nielsen-Pincus, Olsen, Paveglio, Roos, Steen-Adams, Stevens, Vukomanovic, White, Bowman
Wildfire risk in temperate forests has become a nearly intractable problem that can be characterized as a socioecological 'pathology': that is, a set of complex and problematic interactions among social and ecological systems across multiple spatial and temporal scales.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) is jointly funded by the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior, and governance is through a 12-member Governing Board with 6 members from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and 1 member each from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bureau…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This Plan (AIWFMP 2016) updates and supersedes the Alaska Interagency Wildland Fire Management Plan, as amended 2010 (AIWFMP 2010). It provides operational detail for the Alaska Master Cooperative Wildland Fire Management and Stafford Act Response Agreement (Alaska Master…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Evans, Megown
During FY15 staff from the Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) developed an online survey to assess Forest Service land cover disturbance information needs. There were 172 respondents to the survey across a wide and representative spectrum of potential Landscape Change…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brusentsev, Vroman
This report examines recent wildfires in the United States, summarizing their frequency, trends, and costs. It documents the increase in large wildfires and shows their concentration in western states. Cost and budget issues linked to wildfires are also examined. The report…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES