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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Woodard
Provincial forest management agencies across Canada are attempting to recover suppression costs plus losses to real property due to human-caused fires when negligence is involved. These agencies are responsible for investigating these fires, and they commonly restrict all access…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sommers
Editorial comment ... 'The Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) is a common story line in many of today's wildfire events. The WUI concept was formally introduced in 1987 Forest Service Research budget documents but was not acknowledged as a major component for federal fire management…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wuerthner
From the Introduction (p.xv) ... 'White this book is about fire policy and fire ecology, it is also a discussion of a much larger philosophical debate over the ultimate role and influence humans should have on natural landscapes.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Laband, Hussain, González-Cabán
In this paper, we explore empirically whether the USDA Forest Service's litigation success rate in each Forest Service region helps explain the persistent regional effects noted by Laband et al. (Laband, D.N., Gonzalez-Caban, A., and Hussain, A. (2006). ''Factors That Influence…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Snow
Since before recorded history mankind has used timber for construction and, in 'tree rich' rural societies, timber has remained a primary construction material ever since. This reflects the ease with which it can be sourced, its excellent mechanical properties, light weight and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prestemon, Wear, Stewart, Holmes
Administrative planning rules and legal challenges can have significant economic impacts on timber salvage programs on public lands. This paper examines the costs of the delay in salvage caused by planning rules and the costs associated with the volume reductions forced by legal…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sexton
From the text ... 'Line officer support and active involvement was identified as the most important common denominator of the high-performance prescribed fire programs.... This personnel interchange between units not only helps accomplish agency targets, but it enhances the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Trent, Cisneros
From the text ... 'Before lighting a prescribed fire on the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests, fire managers rely on Tom Robison to check air quality in several of the nearby small towns. Using data from a network of real-time smoke monitors, Robison helps fire managers…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'Fire suppression duties today are performed in a political, cultural, and physical environment that is more challenging than ever before.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hollenshead
From the text ... 'Without clearly articulated doctrinal principles in wildland fire suppression, the agency has no consistent basis for its actions or responses.... The current risk to the agency is that improper behaviors, poor judgment, or the lack of critical decisionmaking…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nazzaro
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Talberth, Berrens, McKee, Jones
When confronted by catastrophic wildfire risk, homeowners simultaneously allocate resources between insurance and averting activities. Expected utility theory suggests that complete insurance coverage precludes investment in averting activities. However, when potential losses…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Laband, González-Cabán, Hussain
Using the database developed by the General Accounting Office on proposed fuels reduction actions on federal lands in 2001 and 2002, we conduct probit regression analysis to identify factors that significantly affect the likelihood of administrative appeal. The likelihood of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Yoder
In past the fifteen years, many state laws regarding prescribed fire use in the United States have been adopted and revised, and many new statutes now explicitly recognize the benefits of prescribed fire for wildfire risk mitigation. From an economic perspective, the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jensen
Researchers, politicians, and land managers have described a "fire crisis" in the United States during the late 20th and early 21st centuries: Fuels have built up over decades of fire suppression and combined with an ever-expanding urban-wildland interface to result in…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jurvélius
This presentation focuses on some legal aspects of forest fire management, namely international agreements and national legislation dealing with forest fires and is based on the updating work of Frédéric St-Martin, Legal Consultant; carried out in March 2004. The main objectives…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Interagency Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation Procedures Guide provides standardized procedures, specifically associated with the planning and implementation of prescribed fire. These procedures meet all policy requirements described in the 2003 Interagency…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rapp
Over the last several decades, the overall air quality goal in the United States has been to protect public health and clear skies by reducing emissions. At the same time, however, the risk of catastrophic fire has been rising in forests around the country as overly dense trees…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joyce, Blate, Littell, McNulty, Millar, Moser, Neilson, O'Halloran, Peterson
The National Forest System (NFS) is composed of 155 national forests (NFs) and 20 national grasslands (NGs), which encompass a wide range of ecosystems, harbor much of the nation?s biodiversity, and provide myriad goods and services. The mission of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Baron, Allen, Fleishman, Gunderson, McKenzie, Meyerson, Oropeza, Stephenson
Covering about 4% of the United States, the 338,000 km2 of protected areas in the National Park System contain representative landscapes of all of the nation's biomes and ecosystems. The U.S. National Park Service Organic Act established the National Park System in 1916 to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A roll call analysis of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act and constituent interests in fire policy
This study examined national wildland fire policy by focusing on the political process. The evolution of federal wildland fire policies was reviewed first. Wildland fire suppression in the long term has resulted in a high accumulation of fuels on federal forestlands. The…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Sun
Escalating wildfires on U.S. forest lands in recent years have resulted in statutory reforms in redefining the liability for landowners using prescribed fires. This study summarized these reforms in recent years. While in some states there is still strict tort liability for…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Renner, Reams, Haines
The growth of residential communities within forest areas throughout the country, and particularly in the West, has increased the danger to life and property from uncontrolled wildfire. The conflict of permanent residential settlements built next to a fire-adapted ecosystem has…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lee, Waide, Bevers
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Conard, Hilbruner, Riebau, Langner, Burch, Beighley, Weise, Sandberg, Edminster, Heilman, Jewell, Saveland, Miller, Parsons, Hoover, Ottmar, Potter, Brett
This document presents the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Wildland Fire and Fuels Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan for the next 10 years (through 2015). The plan provides a framework to implement a national program of research and science…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES