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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McMillan
To assess the impacts of grazing by caribou (Rangifer tardus granti), permanent range transects were established by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in 1981. These transects were located in the winter range of WACH, primarily in the Buckland River valley of the Seward…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Glasspool, Scott, Waltham, Pronina, Shao
Analyses of bulk petrographic data indicate that during the Late Paleozoic wildfires were more prevalent than at present. We propose that the development of fire systems through this interval was controlled predominantly by the elevated atmospheric oxygen concentration (p(O2))…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Yashwanth
The burning of an isolated leaf-like element was computationally investigated in a series of studies, motivated by recent burning experiments performed on live leaves of manzanita (Arctostaphylos glandulosa). In this study, the relative importance of heating modes, effect of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Harbour
Active Citizenship-what does it mean and how does it apply to wildland fire management?
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Heath, Anderson, Emery, Hicke, Littell, Lucier, Masek, Peterson, Pouyat, Potter, Robertson, Sperry, Bytnerowicz, Jovan, Mockrin, Musselman, Schulz, Smith, Stewart
The Third National Climate Assessment (NCA) process for the United States focused in part on developing a system of indicators to communicate key aspects of the physical climate, climate impacts, vulnerabilities, and preparedness to inform decisionmakers and the public.…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In a period of great ecological and socioeconomic change, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service recognizes the critical importance of restoration to fulfilling its mission to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the Nation’s forests and grasslands to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reconstruction of fire regimes through integrated paleoecological proxy data and ecological modeling
Fire is a key ecological process affecting vegetation dynamics and land cover. The characteristic frequency, size, and intensity of fire are driven by interactions between top-down climate-driven and bottom-up fuel-related processes. Disentangling climatic from non-climatic…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bedía, Herrera, Gutiérrez, Benali, Brands, Mota, Moreno
Fire is an integral Earth system process, playing an important role in the distribution of terrestrial ecosystems and affecting the carbon cycle at the global scale. Fire activity is controlled by a number of biophysical factors, including climate, whose relevance varies across…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Thompson, Dunn, Calkin
In their Policy Forum "Reform forest fire management" (18 September, p. 1280), M. P. North et al. highlight public support and improved spatial planning as key leverage points to deemphasize fire exclusion and expand beneficial fire. Although these steps are necessary, we…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hand, Wibbenmeyer, Calkin, Thompson
Wildfires present a complex applied risk management environment, but relatively little attention has been paid to behavioral and cognitive responses to risk among public agency wildfire managers. This study investigates responses to risk, including probability weighting and risk…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bixby, Cooper, Gresswell, Brown, Dahm, Dwire
Fire is a prevalent feature of many landscapes and has numerous and complex effects on geological, hydrological, ecological, and economic systems. In some regions, the frequency and intensity of wildfire have increased in recent years and are projected to escalate with predicted…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Meldrum, Champ, Brenkert-Smith, Warziniack, Barth, Falk
Research across a variety of risk domains finds that the risk perceptions of professionals and the public differ. Such risk perception gaps occur if professionals and the public understand individual risk factors differently or if they aggregate risk factors into overall risk…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The fire triangle is a simple way of understanding the components of fire. Each side of the triangle represents one of three components needed to have a fire - oxygen, fuel and heat. Fire is a chemical reaction and without one of these components, fire cannot exist or be…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Melvin
Prescribed fire activity is complex and poorly understood when evaluated at a national scale. Most often fire complexity is defined by scale, frequency, season, and location in the context of local and state laws and local community acceptance. In an effort to gain better…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wonkka, Rogers, Kreuter
Resistance to the use of prescribed fire is strong among many private land managers despite the advantages it offers for maintaining fire-adapted ecosystems. Even managers who are aware of the benefits of using prescribed fire as a management tool avoid using it, citing…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Large, intense wildland fires have become more frequent across the United States in recent decades. Risks to responders and citizens, property losses, response and recovery costs, and threats to communities and landscapes have increased significantly as a result. In order to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bachelet, Ferschweiler, Sheehan, Sleeter, Zhu
The dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM) MC2 was run over the conterminous USA at 30 arc sec (~800 m) to simulate the impacts of nine climate futures generated by 3GCMs (CSIRO, MIROC and CGCM3) using 3 emission scenarios (A2, A1B and B1) in the context of the LandCarbon…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Middlemis-Brown
Recent research by Twidwell and colleagues evaluated the risks of various land management tools used in the private sector, with a focus on the relative risks of prescribed fire. The authors concluded that prescribed fire carried less fatality risk than other land management…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
This issue spotlights the key question: Do More Incident Reports Mean More Learning? The issue’s underlying theme: How do we advance from a “Reporting Culture” to a “Learning Culture”? McCall Smokejumper Ramona Beyuka provides her insights on what learning looks like.
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Landry, Matthews, Ramankutty
Changes in the current fire regime would directly affect carbon cycling, land–atmosphere exchanges, and atmospheric composition, and could therefore modulate the ongoing climate warming. We used a coupled climate–carbon model to quantify the effect of major changes in non-…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rabin, Magi, Shevliakova, Pacala
The global extent of agriculture demands a thorough understanding of the ways it impacts the Earth system through the modification of both the physical and biological characteristics of the landscape as well as through emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols. People use fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Pyne
From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as a reaction to simple suppression and…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Brown, Liu, Yan, Johnstone
Disturbance plays a key role in driving ecological responses by creating opportunities for new ecological communities to assemble and by directly influencing the outcomes of assembly. Legacy effects (such as seed banks) and environmental filters can both influence community…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Waldron, Schary, Cardinal
The aims of this research were to develop and test a scale used to measure leadership in wildland firefighting using two samples of USA wildland firefighters. The first collection of data occurred in the spring and early summer and consisted of an online survey. The second set…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
French, Jenkins, Loboda, Flannigan, Jandt, Bourgeau-Chavez, Whitley
A multidecadal analysis of fire in Alaskan Arctic tundra was completed using records from the Alaska Large Fire Database. Tundra vegetation fires are defined by the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map and divided into five tundra ecoregions of Alaska. A detailed review of fire…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS