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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Schaitberger
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neznek
From the text...'On December 3, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, legislation designed to expedite hazardous fuel reduction projects and improve forest health conditions in the nation's forests. Several provisions of this legislation alter…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mortimer, Scardina, Jenkins
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Teich, Vaughn, Cortner
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jain, Graham
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jackson
The first recognition of conservation needs of the red-cockaded woodpecker came from biologists casually studying the species before there were endangered species laws. Their expressed concerns resulted in initial conservation efforts. Some early efforts on behalf of the species…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Noble
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Valerio
On 4 May 2000, the Bandelier National Monument initiated a prescribed fire south and west of the town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to reduce accumulated forest fuels near Cerro Grande Peak. On 5 May, the fire was declared a wildfire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hann
Fire regime and associated condition class mapping have provided key data for development of cohesive strategies for restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems and for the National Fire Plan within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and U.S. Department of Interior…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wheeler
From the text ... 'Most deck material is tested for flame spread rates but not necessarily for ignition potential or energy production. ...If decks ignite during a wildland fire, the fire could reach proportions that would break windows and doors, igniting structures with…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'We can improve preparedness and suppression, but until we better manage fuel buildups and growth in the wildland/urban interface, the gains will be marginal. ...We need fire protection programs that are ecologically appropriate, socially acceptable, and…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bosworth
From the text ... 'A policy of allowing all fires to burn would be just as flawed as the old policy of putting them all out. ...Our policy is to use fire where we can and suppress fire where we must.'
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... 'The evidence that American Indians used fire to shape their environments is too strong to simply dismiss or ignore. ...The whole country had 'the appearance of a beautiful park. A deer could be seen at a distance of a quarter mile, and a carriage could be…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Tikkala
More specifically, I believe there are key publics that can have a major impact on our using fire by prescription. I identify four of these as: persons inside our fire profession. persons In regulatory agencies, public officials and image makers. Who are those again? -Those…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bethea
From the text: 'In my opinion, professional foresters should be working much harder to get the facts across on prescribed burning because if we don't I feel forest management could suffer from restrictive rules or laws, both at the State and Federal level. There are still some…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chandler
No abstract
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McCleese
From the text: 'After working in both air quality management and fuel management for the past two years, I am convinced that the two programs are compatible. We, as fire managers, should look upon air quality objectives and standards in the same light that we work with water…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Winkworth
From the text: 'My prediction is that it will be necessary, for smoke management purposes, to go to complete regulation by State Forestry Agencies of all prescribed burning in order to save this critical forestry practice in the near future. I can assure you that none of the…
Year: 1977
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sidle
Before examining the impacts of forest management practices on surface erosion, it is appropriate to ask the question 'Why should we be concerned with surface erosion?' One of the most important impacts of surface erosion on forest lands is the decrease in site productivity…
Year: 1954
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Joy
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chapin, DeWilde, Trainor, Calef, McGuire, Rupp, Lovecraft
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bowersox, Arabas
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yoder, Blatner
Prescribed fire use for wildfire fuel reduction entails trading one risk for another. Because these risks change over time as vegetation matures, prescribed fire use for wildfire risk mitigation can be viewed as a timing problem. We examine economic incentives for prescribed…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES