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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Justice, Giglio, Korontzi, Owens, Morisette, Roy, Descloitres, Alleaume, Petitcolin, Kaufman
Fire products are now available from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) including the only current global daily active fire product. This paper describes the algorithm, the products and the associated validation activities. High-resolution ASTER data,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kay
From the text (p.250) ... 'In addition to the materials reviewed by Williams in chapter 7, there are several ecological data sets that suggest aboriginal burning once accounted for most fires in the West, as well as in eastern forests. Brown et al. (1944), for instance, compared…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Federal, state, tribal and local governments are making unprecedented efforts to reduce the buildup of fuels and restore forests and rangelands to healthy conditions. Yet, needless red tape and lawsuits delay effective implementation of forest health projects…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Driessen
Describes the role played by crew cohesion in the deaths of firefighters in three firefighting tragedies: the Mann Gulch Fire, the South Canyon Fire, and the Thirtymile Fire. Two types of cohesion are involved, the cohesion within a crew (intracrew cohesion) and the cohesion…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hill, Janik, Belak, Cotton, Dominicci, Johnson, Jones, Joy, Vargas
From the text ... 'Our work has shown that a single focal point is critical for efforts -- such as reducing severe wildland fires and the vegetation that fuels them -- that involve many federal agencies as well as state and local governments, the private sector, and private…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fortin, Payette
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delong
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kalabokidis, Gatzojannis, Galatsidas
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pilz, Molina
Widespread commercial harvesting of wild edible mushrooms from the forests of the Pacific Northwest United States (PNW-US) began 10-15 years ago. A large proportion of suitable forest habitat in this region is managed by the Forest Service (US Department of Agriculture) and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wierzchowski, Heathcott, Flannigan
This study examines the influences of fuel, weather and topography on lightning-caused forest fires in portions of southern British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. The results show a significant difference in lightning and ligntning-caused fires east and west of the Continental…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Boutin, Hebert
Landscape ecologists have been eager to make their research applicable to forest management. We examine how landscape ecology has contributed to shaping the way forest management is currently practiced. Landscape ecology research in forested ecosystems can be divided into two…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Monroe
Wildland-urban interface issues, by proximity and definition, always involve people. The people may be nearby rural residents, activists in a wise-use or environmental organization, planners and developers, townspeople, or urban visitors. Whether these people are knowledgeable,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAvoy
Wildland managers across the United States are currently returning fire to the landscape in an effort to restore an ecosystem process and to reduce the escalating costs and impacts of wildfires. The American public however, has a poor understanding of the policy of fire use, and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kramer
People are having an ever-increasing impact on their local, regional, and global environments, the impact is particularly significant on urban areas, where concentrated human development fragments and transforms natural resources, thereby resulting in large-scale environmental…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Blakeslee
Forests of the W-UI exist in a people-dominated landscape. As such, their existence and character are highly sculpted by the values, perceptions, and motivations of people. They exist in spatial and temporal dimensions similar in part but often dissimilar from those experienced…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartlett
A standardized approach for characterizing floral and faunal communities on National Forests in the US has been developed through the USDA Forest Service*s (USDA FS) Natural Resources Information System (NRJS). We developed a method for extrapolation of floral and faunal…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Monroe
Perhaps more than any other wildland-urban interface challenge, the interface makes wildland fire an issue. Some lightning-started wildland fires might be left to burn and maintain natural ecosystems if human lives and structures were not threatened, but they are. Second homes…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hull, Stewart
Forest fragmentation is redefining natural resource management. The social consequences of these changes are at least as profound as its environmental effects. This chapter of the Assessment reviews three major social changes: (1) economic reevaluation of the forest, (2)…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zabinski
From the text ... 'On May 29, 2000, just 3 weeks after the Cerro Grande Fire was ignited in northern New Mexico's Bandelier National Monument, the Viveash Fire erupted some 30 miles (48 km) to the east, on the Santa Fe National Forest. A human-caused blaze, Viveash grew to 2,000…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fastabend
From the text ... 'The Kenai Peninsula Borough and cooperating agencies developed and implemented an integrated Spruce Bark Beetle Mitigation Program.'
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weatherford
From the text ... 'State agencies are cooperating more due to the increasing number of large, damaging wildland fires.'
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS