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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Munson, Fisher
From the text ... 'A transfer of command should not be confused with a transition in fire behavior or in situational complexity on a fire. ...Recognizing potentially deadly changes in fire behavior should begin on the first day of fire season.'
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kearns
From the text (p. 26) ... 'Wildfire has destroyed forests across the West. Help is needed to restore the life-giving 'natural capital' they provide. ... Wildfires are changing the landscape across the country and often not for the better. A long-standing policy of putting out…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alvarez
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fettig
The Healthy Forest Restoration Act (H. R. 1904) allows for increases in hazardous fuel reduction activities throughout much of the western USA. Our laboratory is currently conducting several studies to determine the short and long‐term implications to forest health of prescribed…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The following list of research topics was generated by agencies within AWFCG during 2005. The topics were ranked originally by the AWFCG Fire Research and Development Committee (FRDAC) and finally by the AWFCG members. Ranking was as follows: 3= high, 2 = medium, 1= low (or H…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Suffling, Munoz-Marquez, Perera, Zhao
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Amacher, Malik, Haight
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Maguire, Albright
Organizations managing forest land often make fire management decisions that seem overly risk-averse in relation to their stated goals for ecosystem restoration, protection of sensitive species and habitats, and protection of water and timber resources. Research in behavioral…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schwab, Meck, Simone
Wildfires are both dangerous and costly, yet people continue to build in wildfire-prone areas. This poses challenges for governments and planners, who must decide whether to permit development in such areas and how best to design developments that are allowed. This report…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephens
Nationally, the causes and extent of fire on lands administrated by the United States Forest Service varied significantly from 1940 to 2000, with California experiencing the largest relative annual burned areas. The south-east and California experienced the largest relative area…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Taylor, Gillette
Communications during fire events are complex. Nevertheless, training fire information officers to plan fire communications before events, and to communicate during fires in a way that accurately and promptly informs residents in fire-affected areas, can increase effectiveness,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guidance for evaluating mass communication health initiatives: summary of an expert panel discussion
Topics discussed in this panel include: (1) the role of theory in the evaluation of health communication programs and campaigns, (2) recommended evaluation methods, strategies and statistical issues, (3) coping with budget constraints, (4) considerations pertaining to health…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arbogast
This report is the result of an extensive literature search to determine the knowledge regarding visual resource management, visual assessment, and aesthetics in landscape development (especially, industrial minerals mining and reclamation). There is public and governmental…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bowker, Lim, Cordell, Green, Rideout-Hanzak, Johnson, Betz
This study focuses on the broad topic of public values, attitudes, and behaviors toward wildfire. More specifically, this study is intended to contribute to development of a comprehensive understanding of public values, attitudes and behaviors and to understanding public…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shindler, Brunson, Stankey, Starkey
Interdisciplinary research is essential to developing scientifically sound and publicly acceptable solutions to wildland fuel problems on federal lands across the United States. Currently, numerous fuel reduction strategies and public outreach activities are underway on federal…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fried, Winter, Vogt
A conceptual model of how people living at the wildland-urban interface evaluate acceptability of three fuel management approaches (prescribed fire, mechanical treatment, and enforcement of defensible space ordinances) was developed from focus group interviews, and a set of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reams, Haines, Renner, Wascom, Kingre
The dramatic expansion into the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) places property, natural assets, and human life at risk from wildfire destruction. The U.S. National Fire Plan encourages communities to implement laws and outreach programs for pre-fire planning to mitigate the risk…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rapp
Over the last 15 years, spruce bark beetles have killed huge numbers of spruce trees, the dominant conifer across south-central Alaska. From 80 to 90 percent of the trees are dead in large areas on the Kenai Peninsula. The consequences of the spruce bark beetle outbreak will…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Radeloff, Hammer, Stewart, Fried, Holcomb, McKeefry
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area where houses meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland vegetation. The WUI is thus a focal area for human-environment conflicts, such as the destruction of homes by wildfires, habitat fragmentation, introduction of exotic…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reitz, Geissler
The model of homeowners and neighborhoods depending solely on government provided fire fighting resources for protection is outdated. Recent fires have demonstrated that community firefighting resources are easily outpaced when multiple structures are burning simultaneously. A…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reams, Haines, Renner
In response to the increased threat of catastrophic wildfire, states have adopted various policies and programs to reduce hazardous fuels and protect communities. Many of these programs offer public education and assistance to private property owners concerning vegetation…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Liljeblad, Watson, Borrie
In the United States, federal public land managers are tasked with serving as stewards of land, but also as stewards of the relationships that people have with the land. By assessing the public?s trust in the actions of land managers, insight can be gained into how good of a job…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sturtevant, Moote, Jakes, Cheng
A series of syntheses were commissioned by the USDA Forest Service to aid in fuels mitigation project planning. This synthesis focuses on collaboration research, and offers knowledge and tools to improve collaboration in the planning and implementation of wildland fire and fuels…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ryan
A series of syntheses were commissioned by the USDA Forest Service to aid in fuels mitigation project planning. This synthesis focuses on research addressing aesthetic considerations of fuels management. A general finding is that fuels management activities can contribute to the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES