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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Getting burned: a taxpayer's guide to wildfire suppression costs

Ingalsbee
From the text (p. 34) ... 'Given the fact that climate change will cause many wildfires to burn larger and longer, the real issue in the near future will not be cost reduction or even cost containment, but rather, cost management. Expenditures may still remain high as the amount…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bureau of Land Management fire and aviation: unique contributions from a unique agency

Frederick
From the text ... 'Given our fuels and topography, we rely a lot on engines, helicopters, and bulldozers to fight fire in the Bureau of Land Management.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Temporal patterns in the size of conservation land transactions

Davies, Kareiva, Armsworth
The full or partial acquisition of land remains a predominant focus of terrestrial conservation strategies. Non-governmental organizations play an important role in habitat protection, yet few studies investigate their contribution to conservation investment. Here we examine…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

From another perspective - the 10s, 18s, and fire doctrine

Sutton
From the text ... 'The problem with relying too much on memorization of rules to keep us safe is that we are presupposing that a firefighter's mind will retrieve the appropriate piece of memorized information for any situation, even under stress, and make it available just when…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The 10 Standard Firefighting Orders and 18 Watch Out Situations: we don't bend them, we don't break them...we don't know them

Scholz
From the text ... 'Most of us don't know the 10 standard firefighting orders and 18 watch out situations, the '10 & 18,' by heart. Judging by our fatality reports and close calls, it shows.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Prescribed fire in our wildlands: our increasing challenge

Haddow
From the text ... 'Summary: Air quality regulations are getting more stringent. We need to be involved in writing those regulations. We must be experts on the impact of our emissions, and we must be leaders rather than followers. If a state starts to develop a prescribed burning…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Advances in threat assessment and their application to forest and rangeland management - Volume 2

Risk is a combined statement of the probability that something of value will be damaged and some measure of the damage's adverse effect. Wildfires burning in the uncharacteristic fuel conditions now typical throughout the Western United States can damage ecosystems and adversely…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Establishing a nationwide baseline of historical burn-severity data to support monitoring of trends in wildfire effects and national fire policies

Schwind, Brewer, Quayle, Eidenshink
There is a need to provide agency leaders, elected officials, and the general public with summary information regarding the effects of large wildfires. Recently, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC), which implements and coordinates National Fire Plan (NFP) and Federal…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

A foundation for initial attack simulation: the Fried and Fried fire containment model

Fried, Fried
The Fried and Fried containment algorithm, which models the effect of suppression efforts on fire growth, allows simulation of any mathematically representable fire shape, provides for 'head' and 'tail' attack tactics as well as parallel attack (building fireline parallel to but…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Living with fire: Fire ecology and policy for the twenty-first century - book review

Miller
This is a well-written polemic about the failure of fire policy and management in the United States. The book contains enough ecology and history for nonspecialists to understand the complexities of the policy and management dilemmas that we face today. The authors provide a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The US Fire Learning Network: springing a rigidity trap through multiscalar collaborative networks

Butler, Goldstein
Wildland fire management in the United States is caught in a rigidity trap, an inability to apply novelty and innovation in the midst of crisis. Despite wide recognition that public agencies should engage in ecological fire restoration, fire suppression still dominates planning…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ecological consequences of alternative fuel reduction treatments in seasonally dry forests: the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study

McIver, Fettig
This special issue of Forest Science features the national Fire and Fire Surrogate study (FFS), a niultisite, multivariate research project that evaluates the ecological consequences of prescribed fire and its mechanical surrogates in seasonally dry forests of the United States…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

2010 Alaska fire statistics: wildland fire summary and statistics annual report - AICC

The first fire of the 2010 fire season started on March 24th, in the Mat-Su Area. By the end of April there had been 48 fires. Since records of fires by month specifically started being kept in 1996 at AICC, that number has only been surpassed twice, in 1997, with 67 fires by…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ecological risk assessment to support fuels treatment project decisions

O'Laughlin
Risk is a combined statement of the probability that something of value will be damaged and some measure of the damage's adverse effect. Wildfires burning in the uncharacteristic fuel conditions now typical throughout the Western United States can damage ecosystems and adversely…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Revisions to the General Conformity Regulations; final rule

Revision to regulations relating to the Clean Air Act requirement that Federal actions conform to the appropriate state, tribal, or federal implementation plan for attaining clean air.
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

General Conformity Rule - implications to wildland fire programs

Matthews, Lahm
On April 5, 2010, EPA finalized revisions to the 1993 General Conformity Rule. This 1993 rule was established to comply with the Clean Air Act (Section 176(C)(1)) requirements that federal actions must conform to a state, tribal, or federal implementation plan (SIP, TIP, or FIP…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Nenana Ridge Research Burn: Structure and Costs

Schmoll
The 2009 Nenana Ridge Prescribed Burn proved to be a successful but complex operational and logistical accomplishment. Lessons learned from the fire management perspective include effectiveness of the treatments, specifications for future fuel treatments, operational…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

EPA proposed ozone rule impacts to wildland fire

Eagan, O'Neill, Lahm, Menakis, Dzomba
On January 6, 2010, the EPA proposed to strengthen the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone. EPA also proposed an accelerated implementation schedule as part of this Rule. The primary standard is designed to protect public health and the proposal…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES