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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Faivre, Amoako, Bird, Conedera
Sparking FireSmart Policies in the EU: The Importance of an Integrated Fire Management Approach - Nicolas Faivre, Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation (RTD), European Commission, Belgium
The presentation will introduce the recent EU policy developments…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Tymstra, Stocks, Cai, Flannigan
Wildfire management agencies in Canada are at a tipping point. Presuppression and suppression costs are increasing but program budgets are not. Climate change impacts and increasing interface values-at-risk are challenging suppression effectiveness and resulting in more wildfire…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
An answer to a burning question: what will the Forest Service spend on Fire suppression this summer?
From the text ... 'Our models show that suppression costs can be statistically estimated largely from previous years' suppression costs, climate, drought conditions, and a time trend.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pollini
Launched in 1994, the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme is a multidisciplinary collaborative research effort aimed at addressing the issue of deforestation. This article analyzes the genesis and the history of this research effort and the causes of its successes and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Akema, Nurhiftisni, Suciatmih, Simbolon
The impact of forest fire in 1997 and 1998 on the mycorrhzae was studied at the dipterocarp forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. In unaffected forest more than half of total ectomycorrhizae distributed in the organic layer but in the fire-affected forest one and a half years…
Year: 2009
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
McCaffrey, Rhodes
In the United States, the increasing costs and negative impacts of wildfires are causing fire managers and policymakers to reexamine traditional approaches to fire management including whether mass evacuation of populations threatened by wildfire is always the most appropriate…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zhuang, Rose
Prescribed fires are often used as part of a strategy for protecting forests from catastrophic wildfires. Based on agency reports, from 2003-2017 prescribed burns have been used on more than 40 million acres across the US. In this study, the researchers developed a data driven…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Rossi, Kuusela
Research has suggested that excessive risk aversion is a key driver of rising federal suppression costs. To formally understand how alternative risk attitudes of contracted incident managers can affect a public fire management organization's demand for fire management effort, a…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Continuum Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Fire Ecology and the International Association of Wildland Fire, was designed to cover both the biophysical and human dimensions aspects of fire along the fire continuum. This proceedings includes many of topics…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gaudet, Simeoni, Gwynne, Kuligowski, Bénichou
Post-incident studies provide direct and valuable information to further the scientific understanding of Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires. Most post-incident studies involve data collection in the field (i.e. a 'research field deployment'). In this review, technical reports…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lauer, Montgomery, Dietterich
Fire spread on forested landscapes depends on vegetation conditions across the landscape that affect the fire arrival probability and forest stand value. Landowners can control some forest characteristics that facilitate fire spread, and when a single landowner controls the…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rodríguez y Silva, Molina Martínez, Thompson, O'Connor
In 2015, researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Human Dimensions Program (hereafter U.S. Forest Service), and the University of Córdoba, Forest Engineering Department, Forest Fire Laboratory, Spain (hereafter…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bruins, Munns, Botti, Brink, Cleland, Kapustka, Lee, Luzadis, McCarthy, Rana, Rideout, Rollins, Woodbury, Zupko
Ecological risk assessments typically are organized using the processes of planning (a discussion among managers, stakeholders, and analysts to clarify ecosystem management goals and assessment scope) and problem formulation (evaluation of existing information to generate…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In 2005 the USDA and DOE jointly published a report concluding that it would be technically feasible to supply a billion dry tons of biomass annually from farms and forests throughout the United States in support of an emerging bioenergy and bioproducts industry. The report was…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Becker, Larson, Lowell
The Harvest Cost-Revenue Estimator, a financial model, was used to examine the cost sensitivity of forest biomass harvesting scenarios to targeted policies designed to stimulate wildfire hazardous fuel reduction projects. The policies selected represent actual policies enacted…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Crowley, Malik, Amacher, Haight
This paper models landowner behavior on timberland subject to damage by fire. We examine how management decisions by adjacent landowners yield outcomes that diverge from the social optimum, and consider how this divergence depends on landowner preferences and information. We…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
González-Cabán
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: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Morgan, Skog, Jones, Chung, Spelter, Baldridge, Brandt, Loeffler, Songster
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) sponsored this study to enhance the ability of federal land managers to understand and deal with the economic and financial aspects of woody biomass removal as a component of fire hazard reduction treatments. The study objectives were to…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loomis, González-Cabán
This paper traces the origin and evolution of the application of nonmarket valuation techniques to fire management within the USDA Forest Service. The motivation for contingent valuation (CVM) studies that quantify existence value is traced to the need for monetary benefits of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Kochi, Loomis, Champ, Donovan
This review study synthesizes available literature in epidemiology, economics and wildfire-related studies to provide essential information for the valuation of health costs associated with wildfire events. We review three areas within these literatures: key health outcomes to…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout, Wei, Kirsch
Traditional fire programs are composed of several major components including: suppression and initial attack, prevention, fuel treatments. There are three key reasons that these components should be managed under a single program and they each are related to other components in…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fresco, Chapin
ANNOTATION: In this study, the feasibility of switching from fossil fuels to wood energy in rural Alaskan villages in forested regions of interior Alaska are assessed. This analysis demonstrated that conversion to biomass fuels is economically viable and socially beneficial for…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Removing hazardous fuels to reduce the risk of wildfire has become a priority for land managers across the United States. Utilizing biomass taken from forests to cover the cost of fuel reduction is an attractive ideal. Effective utilization could also address important national…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Becker, Abbas, Halvorsen, Jakes, McCaffrey, Moseley
ANNOTATION: The purpose of this study is to identify and assess utilization challenges in different parts of the United States. The information collected through case studies is used to address persistent conventional wisdoms to biomass utilization that may help land managers…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES