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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Wilcove, Rothstein, Dubow, Phillips, Losos
From the text (p. 247)...'Alteration of ecosystem processes is increasingly being recognized as a significant threat to biodiversity. Disruption of fire regimes, for example, affects 14% of listed species. About half of these species are threatened by fire suppression, and the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hesseln
Prescribed burning has, in the past decade, become the focus of debate among policy makers, federal and private land managers, and the public. To manage fire effectively, the USDA Forest Service has formally recognized the need for economic analysis. It is stated in the Federal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yokelson, Goode, Ward, Baker, Susott, Hao
Smoke may present the most intractable barrier of all to implementing more enlightened fire management. The benefits of a prescribed fire program can only be realized if the public and regulatory agencies agree that the air quality impacts are acceptable. Currently, land…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zimmerman, Bunnell
The federal wildland Fire Management Policy and Program Review represents the latest stage in the evolution of wildland fire management. This policy directs changes that consolidate past fire management practices into a single direction to achieve multidimensional objectives and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Siegel
From the text ... 'Under the statute [Budget Control Act which Congress passed in 2011], when unpredictable events such as Hurricane Sandy are destructive enough to be declared disasters by the president, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is authorized to exceed its annual…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barnett
From the text ... 'Forest Service manuals and handbooks are full of binding standards intended to protect and guide employees. Training, tools, and information bolster safe operational objectives. Everyone from the Chief of the Forest service to forest resource experts provide…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The Wildfire Act is supported by the Fire Suppression Funding Solutions Partner Caucus and has been deemed especially critical in the face of global climate change. The Forest Service states that as a result of a changing climate, forest conditions are more…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kreye, Adams, Escobedo
Forests protect water quality by reducing soil erosion, sedimentation, and pollution; yet there is little information about the economic value of conserving forests for water quality protection in much of the United States. To assess this value, we conducted a meta-analysis of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goeken
From the text ... 'Destruction of forest property by federal firefighters could entitle owner to just compensation.' Published by Forest Landowners Association. Abstract reproduced by permission.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Capel
Federal Farm programs have had wide range of impacts on wildlife over the years. Some programs have been extremely harmful to wildlife while others have, intentionally or accidentally, been beneficial to wildlife. Frequently, the same program that is beneficial to wildlife in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cleaves, Haines, Martinez
The results of a survey concerning National Forest System prescribed burning activity and costs from 1985-1995 are examined. Ninety-five (83%) of 114 National Forests responded. Number of hectares burned and costs for conducting burns are reported for 4 types of prescribed fire…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cole
Today's prescribed fire program manager is confronted with an increasingly complex dilemma. On the one hand, the science, knowledge, and commitment of managers regarding the role of prescribed fire across the landscape have grown appreciatively, only to be tempered by societal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Leenhouts
Wildland fire has been an integral part of the conterminous United States' ecological landscape for millennia. Today wildland fire has to compete with other socially desirable goals for a share of a limited air resource. New ozone, particulate, and visibility protection air-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Paxon
From the text ... 'The Cerro Grande Fire resulted from an escaped prescribed burn designed to minimize the risk of catastrophic wildfire to the community of Los Alamos.'
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Executive Summary: On August 8, 2000, President Clinton asked Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to prepare a report that recommends how best to respond to this year*s severe fires, reduce the impacts of these wildland fires on rural…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte
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Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Engel
Wildfire is on the rise. The United States is witnessing a spectacular increase in acres lost to catastrophic wildfires, a phenomenon fed by the generally hotter and dryer conditions associated with climate change. In addition to losses in lives, property, and natural resources…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sample, Halofsky, Peterson
Recent policy changes in the USA direct agencies managing federal forests to analyze the potential effects of climate change on forest productivity, water resource protection, wildlife habitat, biodiversity, and other values. This paper describes methods developed to (1) assess…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zimmerman, Bunnell
The Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy and Program Review represents the latest stage in the evolution of wildland fire management. This policy directs changes that consolidate past fire management practices into a single direction to achieve multidimensional objectives and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Forty-six papers are presented on the nature and management of threats to wilderness ecosystems. Five overview papers synthesize knowledge and research on wilderness fire, recreation impacts, livestock in wilderness, nonnative invasive plants, and wilderness air quality. Other…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Olsen, Spies, Shindler
This report is a deliverable to share the impact of travel funding awarded by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in support of a workshop focused on fire-prone coupled human and natural systems (CHANS). From August 4th-7th 2014, twenty-six scientists convened in Bend, Oregon…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Interagency Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation Procedures Guide (PMS 484) provides standardized procedures specifically associated with planning and implementation of prescribed fire. These procedures meet all policy requirements described in the 2009 Guidance for…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Roessler, Packee
The Tanana River basin in interior Alaska occupies approximately 11.9 million hectares. Forests of the basin consist of white or black spruce (Picea glauca, P. mariana), tamarack (Larix laricina), paper birch (Betula papyrifera), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), and balsam…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Schultz, Seesholtz
Navigating adaptive management and cumulative effects analysis to satisfy legal requirements and address stakeholder concerns.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Clark, Radke, Coen
Airborne infrared (IR) observations were made of the prescribed burns between 8-10 July 1999 at the Caribou-Poker Creek Research Watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska. The observations were made by pointing an Inframetrics PM380 IR camera out the left side of the USFS/NASA Piper…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES