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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mavsar, González-Cabán, Varela
Forest fires affect millions of people worldwide, and cause major ecosystem and economic impacts at different scales. The management policies implemented to minimize the negative impacts of forest fires require substantial investment of financial, human and organizational…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Holmes, González-Cabán, Loomis, Sanchez
In this paper, we investigate homeowner preferences and willingness to pay for wildfire protection programs using a choice experiment with three attributes: risk, loss and cost. Preference heterogeneity among survey respondents was examined using three econometric models and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hawbaker, Radeloff, Stewart, Hammer, Keuler, Clayton
National-scale analyses of fire occurrence are needed to prioritize fire policy and management activities across the United States. However, the drivers of national-scale patterns of fire occurrence are not well understood, and how the relative importance of human or biophysical…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte
From the Introduction ... 'Wildfires generally are getting larger and causing more damage. The past decade has seen the six worst fire seasons of the past half-century....Wildfire protection is also getting more costly. Bigger fires cost more to control, but an additional factor…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Busby, Amacher, Haight
In this article, we consider wildfire risk management decisions using a dynamic stochastic model of homeowner interaction in a setting where spatial externalities arise. Our central objective is to apply observations from the social science literature about homeowner preferences…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schilling, Sullivan, Duke
Previous research has reached inconsistent, if not paradoxical, conclusions regarding the impact of conservation easements on farmland prices. Expectations of price reductions, strongly grounded in economic theory, are not always observed. We develop a hedonic model to examine…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Crohn, Chaganti, Reddy
Erosion from fire-damaged wildlands poses a significant water quality concern. Deprived of vegetation, runoff intensifies, which escalates exports of sediments and other pollutants. Used as mulches, composts shield the soil surface and reduce runoff by absorbing water and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wang, Ma, Li
The evaluation of area-specific risks for large fires is of great policy relevance to fire management and prevention. When analyzing data for the burned areas of large fires in Canada, we found that there are dramatic patterns that cannot be adequately modelled by traditional…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stephens, Agee, Fulé, North, Romme, Swetnam, Turner
From the text ... 'With projected climate change, we expect to face much more forest fire in the coming decades. Policy-makers are challenged not to categorize all fires as destructive to ecosystems simple because they have long flame lengths and kill most of the trees within…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Blake, Owens
Wildfire can cause substantial changes to runoff, erosion and downstream sediment delivery processes. In response to these disturbance effects, the main sources of sediment transported within burned catchments may also change. Sediment tracing offers an approach to determine the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fire management is dictated by community and political pressure-at least that's what conventional wisdom in the fire community tells us. However, few studies have investigated the validity of that axiom, and little is known about the relative influence of internal and external…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Post-wildfire science is generally not recognized as a discipline in its own right, so the intention of this Chapman Conference is to bring together experts from the field of post-wildfire research, the meteorological and hydrological modeling field, other fields of related…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hansen, Naughton
Climate warming is causing the frequency, extent, and severity of natural disturbances to increase. To develop innovative approaches for mitigating the potential negative social consequences of such increases, research is needed investigating how people perceive and respond to…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gorte
Headwaters Economics produced this report to better understand and address why wildfires are becoming more severe and expensive. The report also describes how the protection of homes in the Wildland-Urban Interface has added to these costs and concludes with a brief discussion…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davis, Baxter, Rosi-Marshall, Pierce, Crosby
Climate change (CC) is projected to increase the frequency and severity of natural disturbances (wildfires, insect outbreaks, and debris flows) and shift distributions of terrestrial ecosystems on a global basis. Although such terrestrial changes may affect stream ecosystems,…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blodau, Olefeldt, Turetsky
Production, transport, and degradation of terrestrial dissolved organic matter (DOM) influence carbon (C) and nutrient cycling in both soils and downstream aquatic ecosystems. Here, we assessed the impacts of wildfire on DOM production, composition, and reactivity (…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
O'Laughlin
Large areas of federal lands in the western states are currently at high risk of severe wildfire and have many insect and disease problems, indicating a significant decline in forest health and resilience. Although research studies have not been done that would measure whether…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the federal and state levels in the United States as well as agencies in the international community. The topics discussed at the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wibbenmeyer, Hand, Calkin, Venn, Thompson
Federal policy has embraced risk management as an appropriate paradigm for wildfire management. Economic theory suggests that over repeated wildfire events, potential economic costs and risks of ecological damage are optimally balanced when management decisions are free from…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mavsar, González-Cabán, Varela
Forest fires affect millions of people worldwide, and cause major ecosystem and economic impacts at different scales. The management policies implemented to minimize the negative impacts of forest fires require substantial investment of financial, human and organizational…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Climate warming is an important factor that has contributed to increases in the frequency and severity of wildfires and epidemic spruce bark beetle outbreaks in the boreal forest. These changes are likely to alter ecosystems, as well as the way Alaskans view and use their…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the United States Congress have repeatedly asked the Office of Wildland Fire in the Department of Interior (DOI) and the United States Forest Service (USFS) to critically examine and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Osborne, Kobziar, Inglett
This special issue of Fire Ecology is dedicated to furthering scientific understanding of the role fire plays in the development and functioning of wetland ecosystems. While not initially intuitive, the concept of fire exerting significant influence on how wetland environments…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Holmes, Calkin
In this paper, we use operational data collected for large wildland fires to estimate the parameters of economic production functions that relate the rate of fireline construction with the level of fire suppression inputs (handcrews, dozers, engines and helicopters). These…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Williams
In the modern era, high-impact mega-fires are unprecedented for the suppression costs, property losses, natural resource damages, and loss of life often involved. For a number of years, these extraordinary wildfires have been increasing in number and in severity. They affect…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS