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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Powell
Private lands are critical to conservation planning for wildlife, worldwide. Agriculture subsidies, tax incentives, and conservation easements have been successfully used as tools to convert cropland to native vegetation. However, uncertain economies threaten the sustainability…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Huntington, Goodstein, Euskirchen
Climate change incurs costs, but government adaptation budgets are limited. Beyond a certain point, individuals must bear the costs or adapt to new circumstances, creating political-economic tipping points that we explore in three examples. First, many Alaska Native villages are…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program: a history and overview of the first projects
In 2009, Congress passed the Forest Landscape Restoration Act, a significant new piece of legislation guiding restoration activities on competitively selected National Forest System lands. The Act established the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP), which…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
North, Collins, Stephens
The USDA Forest Service is implementing a new planning rule and starting to revise forest plans for many of the 155 National Forests. In forests that historically had frequent fire regimes, the scale of current fuels reduction treatments has often been too limited to affect fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yoder, Gebert
This paper develops an econometric model that can provide predictions of fire suppression costs (per acre and in total) for a given large fire before final fire acreage is known. The model jointly estimates cost per acre and acreage equations via Maximum Likelihood, accounting…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Butry
Each year, wildland fires threaten structures and occupants of the wildland urban interface (WUI). Currently, wildfire ignition estimates largely exclude ignitions originating within municipal jurisdictions, which contain the majority of the US population. The objective of this…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kuuluvainen, Grenfell
Natural disturbance emulation (NDE) has been proposed as a general approach to ecologically sustainable forest management. We reviewed the concepts, theories, and strategies related to NDE in boreal forest management. We also reviewed publications that discussed NDE in the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartway, Mills
Management strategies for the recovery of declining bird populations often must be made without sufficient data to predict the outcome of proposed actions or sufficient time and resources necessary to collect these data. We quantitatively reviewed studies of bird management in…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mercer, Prestemon
The economics of wildfire is complicated because wildfire behavior depends on the spatial and temporal scale at which management decisions made, and because of uncertainties surrounding the results of management actions. Like the wildfire processes they seek to manage,…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Daniel, Frid
This paper outlines how state-and-transition simulation models (STSMs) can be used to project changes in vegetation over time across a landscape. STSMs are stochastic, empirical simulation models that use an adapted Markov chain approach to predict how vegetation will transition…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Williams, Jakes, Burns, Cheng, Nelson, Sturtevant, Brummel, Staychock, Souter
Community wildfire protection planning has become an important tool for engaging wildland-urban interface residents and other stakeholders in efforts to address their mutual concerns about wildland fire management, prioritize hazardous fuel reduction projects, and improve forest…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
González-Cabán, Rodríguez-Trejo, Nolasco Morales, Rodríguez y Silva, Frausto Leyva, Gallegos Mora
This symposium brings together a broad community of wildland fire managers, practitioners, researchers, academics, policy makers, and students from around the world to provide the opportunity to share research and ideas on the economics, planning, and policies of wildland fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Malcolm
Evaluating the risks of wildfire relative to the valuable resources found in any managed landscape requires an interdisciplinary approach. Researchers at the Rocky Mountain Research Station and Western Wildland Threat Assessment Center developed such a process, using a…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gebert, Black
Policymakers and decision makers alike have suggested that the use of less aggressive suppression strategies for wildland fires might help stem the tide of rising emergency wildland fire expenditures. However, the interplay of wildland fire management decisions and expenditures…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This state-of-knowledge review provides a synthesis of the effects of fire on cultural resources, which can be used by fire managers, cultural resource (CR) specialists, and archaeologists to more effectively manage wildland vegetation, fuels, and fire. The goal of the volume is…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Liang, Calkin, Gebert, Venn, Silverstein
The authors wish to alert readers of the following technical errors found in the original publication.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Crowder, Northfield, Gomulkiewicz, Snyder
Healthy ecosystems include many species (high richness) with similar abundances (high evenness). Thus, both aspects of biodiversity are worthy of conservation. Simultaneously conserving richness and evenness might be difficult, however, if, for example, the restoration of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jakes, McCaffrey
Wildland fires burn millions of acres annually, damaging human and animal communities, endangering the lives of firefighters, and costing hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and suppression expenses. However, wildland fires are also important to maintaining and restoring…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Snyder, Stockmann, Morris
The US Forest Service used contracted helicopter services as part of its wildfire suppression strategy. An optimization decision-modeling system was developed to assist in the contract selection process. Three contract award selection criteria were considered: cost per pound of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Ager, Vaillant, Owens, Brittain, Hamann
The Landscape Treatment Designer (LTD) is a multicriteria spatial prioritization and optimization system to help design and explore landscape fuel treatment scenarios. The program fills a gap between fire model programs such as FlamMap, and planning systems such as ArcFuels, in…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy) is a collaborative effort to identify, define, and address wildland fire management problems and opportunities for successful wildland fire management in the three regions of the United States: the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Medley-Daniel, Davis
Forest Service policies and programs promote the integration of forest and watershed restoration with local economic development. For example, the Collaborative Landscape Restoration Program, stewardship contracting, and the Watershed Condition Framework all explicitly link…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Medley-Daniel, Davis
The Watershed Condition Framework (WCF) asks Forest Service program managers and line officers to plan and implement integrated watershed restoration. Collaborating to restore watershed can help you, as a national forest or grassland staff member, achieve diverse benefits. In…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Moseley, Davis
Across multiple presidential administrations, forest and watershed restoration has become an increasingly important focus of the USDA Forest Service. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, for example, has made restoring watershed and forest health the primary objective of the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Martin
The Economic Extension (ECON) to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) computes economic measures during FVS simulations to aid evaluation of silvicultural alternatives. These measures include undiscounted and discounted costs and revenues, benefit-cost ratio, internal rate of…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES