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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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This document describes the password management and new fire reports available using KCFAST.
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This KCFAST User's Guide is designed to help you access and use the Kansas City Fire Access Software (KCFAST).
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bradshaw, McCormick
This document is the Users Guide for the FireFamily Plus version 3 software system. FireFamily Plus is a software system for summarizing and analyzing historical daily fire weather observations and computing fire danger indices based on the National Fire Danger Rating System (…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This state-of-knowledge review about the effects of fire on soils and water can assist land and fire managers with information on the physical, chemical, and biological effects of fire needed to successfully conduct ecosystem management, and effectively inform others about the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reinhardt
FOFEM 5.0 (First Order Fire Effects Model) is a computer program that was developed to meet needs of resource managers, planners, and analysts in predicting and planning for fire effects. FOFEM predicts tree mortality from surface fire, based on flame length or scorch height,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (PNW) completed a total of eight 3-day regional fuels workshops and six ½-day 'mini-workshops' that demonstrated the use of the Natural Fuels Photo Series, Digital Photo Series, Fuel Characteristic Classification System, and…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoadley, Ferguson, Larkin
The Ventilation Climate Information System (VCIS) is one of few landscape tools for evaluating and documenting the probability of potential smoke impacts. This project is implementing user-identified improvements to the data and web-access system, creating on-line tutorials for…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Scott, Burgan
This report describes a new set of standard fire behavior fuel models for use with Rothermel's surface fire spread model and the relationship of the new set to the original set of 13 fire behavior fuel models. To assist with transition to using the new fuel models, a fuel model…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Omi, Martinson, Hunter, Chong, Kalkhan, Stohlgren
This project investigated spatial relationships among fuels, wildfire severity, non-native plant invasions, and post-fire fuel flammability in three mixed-conifer forests of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and New Mexico. We employed a dual approach that involved: (1) assessment…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoff, Klopfenstein, Tonn, McDonald, Zambino, Rogers, Peever, Carris
Fungi are tremendously diverse and play wide-ranging roles in forest ecosystems. Interactions between fungi and woody roots are involved in important processes including wood decay, root disease, and symbiotic relationships. In addition, some fungi feed on other fungi, acting as…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Muller
The RAMS fire prevention element is designed to determine the number of personnel and program dollars needed to accomplish a fire prevention program level. The process consists of an inventory of the fire prevention activities that are implemented to mitigate damages resulting…
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shlisky
Altered fire regimes pose great threats to biodiversity. Fire managers recognize the need to reduce hazardous fuel loads, restore sustainable fire regimes and ecosystems, and decrease the threat of catastrophic wildfires to community values. The United States Department of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Larkin, Shulski, Alden
This project will correct data availability and quality assurance problems surrounding the Alaskan Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) and other Alaska weather station data. By placing all Alaska weather station data into a single quality controlled database, and automating…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rorig, Ferguson, Werth, Goodrick
Lightning causes most wildfires in the western United States, and is a major cause of fire elsewhere in the U.S. Because most lightning occurs with significant precipitation, however, simple predictions of Lightning Activity Level (LAL) do not accurately determine fire ignition…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donaldson, Paul
This user's guide is an introductory manual for using the 1988 version (Burgan 1988) of the National Fire-Danger Rating System on an IBM PC or compatible computer. NFDRSPC is a window-oriented, interactive computer program that processes observed and forecast weather with fuels…
Year: 1990
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kovalev, Hao
The goal of the project was to fulfill a thorough investigation of (1) the potential and limitations of the remote sensing lidar technique when operating in smoky polluted atmospheres, and (2) the ability of lidar in providing the accurate real time information on smoke plume…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The following summarizes the January 2006 revision of the Wildland Fire Qualification System Guide, PMS 310-1, and identifies major changes since the January 2000 version. This revision involved field review, solicitations of comments from state, tribal, and federal agencies…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Biesecker, Fight
My Fuel Treatment Planner (MyFTP) is a tool for calculating and displaying the financial costs and potential revenues associated with forest fuel reduction treatments. It was designed for fuel treatment planners including those with little or no background in economics, forest…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar, Prichard, Vihnanek, Sandberg
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team has completed Consume version 3.0 (http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/products/consume.html). This system is the principle science delivery product for the Joint Fire Science Program-funded project entitled: 'Modification and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jolly
Live fuels are an important component of the wildland fuel complex but no method exists to describe and quantify their seasonality across large areas. Existing methods that use satellite data are only useful for monitoring current live vegetation conditions and do not provide a…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Meyers
The focus of the paper is on fire as an element affecting the conservation of biodiversity and maintaining sustainable resources and ecosystem services for people. Thusly, emphasis is placed on the management of fire at places identified for their conservation value. Effective…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Williams
Document detailing eight key steps to successfully developing CWPPs. As communities develop and implement their community wildfire protection plans (CWPP), they have successes that other communities may find useful as they begin their CWPP efforts. At a recent meeting of people…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bujak
To develop a web-based, GIS-interfaced CWPP monitoring tool to assess progress and outcomes of CWPP's. The availability of this web-based inventory and assessment tool will build capacity among key agencies, programs, and associations to link emerging CWPP's with geographic…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bujak, Burns
The primary intent of this update is to acquaint interested parties with the general framework for the upcoming case study research, and the significant areas of inquiry being pursued. The inquiry into collaboration in CWPP development is focused within three primary areas: the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jakes, Williams
The JFS Executive Summary Brochure contains general information about the project, including its history, objectives and principle investigators. HFRA encourages the development of Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) that identify and set priorities for fuels reduction…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES