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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Smith
From the text ... 'State foresters provide leadership in building community capacity to manage forest resources, promoting accountability and efficiency, addressing threats to forests, and promoting the role of forests in the environmental and economic health of the nation.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller, Davidson-Hunt, Peters
In this paper, we present how elders of Pikangikum First Nation in northwestern Ontario have drawn upon their knowledge and values associated with fire to engage in fire management planning for 1.3 million hectares of their traditional boreal forest territory. Over a period of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Larkin, Brown, Lahm, Zimmerman
From the text ... 'The Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) is a new Web-based system designed to integrate science and technology in support of risk-informed decisionmaking for wildland fires. ... WFDSS replaces three past wildland fire decision analysis and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins
LANDFIRE is a 5-year, multipartner project producing consistent and comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, wildland fuel, fire regimes and ecological departure from historical conditions across the United States. It is a shared project between the wildland fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coats
From the text ... 'Agency planning processes are critical to determining when and where fire is used as a management tool, not only management-ignited fire, but prescribed natural fire as well. Fire use must be linked to program management objectives, not just to arbitrary…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abt, Prestemon, Gebert
The US Forest Service and other land-management agencies seek better tools for anticipating future expenditures for wildfire suppression. We developed regression models for forecasting US Forest Service suppression spending at 1-, 2-, and 3-year lead times. We compared these…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'Fire and Aviation Management is proud to release the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS), designed to streamline and improve decisionmaking processes while taking advantage of vast improvements in science and technology. The current evolution through…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Gebert, McCaffrey, Steelman, Canton-Thompson
From the text ... 'In this article, we describe our current work to assess the utility of available data to reflect on the performance of fire management.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rideout, Reich, Ziesler
Increasing recognition of the role of fire in natural ecosystems has increased the use of wildland fire as a management tool. Although wildland fire use (WFU) has been practiced for decades, it is emerging as an organized program. As such, the analytics of WFU, from a management…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palahi, Mavsar, Gracia, Birot
Mediterranean forest ecosystems provide multiple goods and services, including an exceptional richness in terms of biodiversity, which are crucial for the socio-economic development of rural areas as well as for the welfare of the urban populations of the Mediterranean region.…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drechsler, Lourival, Possingham
The systematic conservation planning literature invariably assumes that the biodiversity features being preserved in sites do not change through time. We develop a conservation planning framework for ecosystems where disturbance events and succession drive vegetation dynamics.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Truesdale
From the text ... 'The term 'wildland fire' is becoming commonly used and generally understood in the United States. . . . Common translations for forest fire include incendio forestal, waldbrand, feu de foret, incedio forestais.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rodriguez
From the text ... 'A cooperative regional strategy has been developed to mitigate the negative effects of fires in the region. The Fire Management Cooperation Strategy for the Caribbean 2006-2011, developed jointly with the representatives of the most fire-affected countries of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'The issues and challenges we face managing wildfires are not ours alone. They cross oceans and continental boundaries as well. Through the international fire program, we've had the opportunity to take a look at what we do here at home and how our international…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'The International Fire Program not only provides additional firefighting resources, but it enables us to exchange ideas with each other first hand -- on-the-job training.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldammer
From the text ... 'The incidence of fires burning under extreme conditions and affecting previously nonflammable ecosystems may serve as indicators of how the world would look like in a scenario in which climate change has gained momentum.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldammer
From the text ... 'One priority that the Working Group on Wildland Fire addressed was the establishment of the Global Wildland Fire Network (GWFN). The concept of GWFN was to identify or establish Regional Wildland Fire Networks, preferably based on existing formal or informal…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Emmett
From the text ... 'How to improve the safety of wildland firefighters has always been a concern of Saskatchewan Fire Management and Forest Protection Branch (FMFP), the provincial agency responsible for the management of wildland fires. Even though it has never suffered a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
DeGroot, Dominguez, Dague
From the text ... 'The Fire Magement Working Group (FMWG) was established in 1962 as part of the NAFC [North American Forest Commission]. Annual meetings have rotated continually among the member countries since its inception.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carle
From the text ... 'The Fire Management group supports fire organizations by financing fire-related projects in the United Nation's 163 member countries.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morgan, Ben, Lasserre
Uncertainty is a dominant feature of decision making in forestry and wildlife management. Aggravating this challenge is the irreversibility of some decisions, resulting in the loss of economic opportunities or the extirpation of wildlife populations. We adapted the real options…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan, Hamin
After wildfire, land managers are often called on to undertake complex restoration activities while also managing relations with wildfire-devastated communities. This research investigates the community-US Forest Service agency relations in the postwildfire period in three…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Weick, Sutcliffe
From the text ... 'In this article for Fire Management Today, we comment briefly on six themes that stand out in those discussions. Three themes, normalizing, complexity, and failure reaffirm properties originally associated with High Reliability Organizations (HROs). The other…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas
From the text ... 'The most important facet of any talk on High Reliability Organizing is immediately establishing the rationale for why busy wildland fire managers, who are already overloaded with firefighting safety issues and decisionmaking responsibilities, should take the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Snider
From the text ... 'This escape, which would become known as the Cerro Grande Fire, and its subsequent run through the town of Los Alamos and the Los Alamos National Laboratory precipitated some profound changes in the way that we manage fire on the American landscape.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS