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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Donovan, Noordijk
From the text ... 'Wildfires consume budgets and put the heat on fire managers to justify and control suppression costs. ...We used data from the 2002 fire season to determine how WFSA-predicted outcomes compared to actual outcomes. ...Fire managers often underestimated the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
de Groot, Goldammer, Keenan, Brady, Lynham, Justice, Csiszar, O'Loughlin
Wildland fires burn several hundred million hectares of vegetation every year, and increased fire activity has been reported in many global regions. Many of these fires have had serious negative impacts on human safety, health, regional economies, global climate change, and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller
From the text ... 'WFU [wildland fire use] is the management of naturally ignited wildland fires to protect, maintain, and enhance resources in predefined areas outlined in fire management plans.' © 2007 by the Association for Fire Ecology.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stephens, Ruth
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Christensen
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arvai, Gregory, Ohlson, Blackwell, Gray
This article presents results from three studies, which seek to develop a better understanding of some of the difficulties faced by forest managers in making wildfire risk management decisions. Study I showed that both the experts and the public tend to emphasize uncontrollable…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Noss, Beier, Covington, Grumbine, Lindenmayer, Prather, Schmiegelow, Sisk, Vosick
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Li, Barclay, Hawkes, Taylor
Because mountain pine beetle attack mature pine stands, an understanding of forest age class dynamics is important to managing forests within the distribution of the beetle. The assumed theoretical negative exponential forest age distribution provides an estimate when ecosystem…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Le Goff, Leduc, Bergeron, Flannigan
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Donahue
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Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodall, Perry, Miles
A relative stand density assessment technique, using the mean specific gravity of all trees in a stand to predict its maximum stand density index (SDI) and subsequently its relative stand density (current SDI divided by maximum SDI), was used to estimate the relative density of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
MacGregor, Haynes
The emergence of large fires of long duration (also known as siege fires) with their inherently high costs has raised numerous questions about the opportunities for cost containment. Cost reviews from the 2003 fire season have revealed how additional knowledge created through…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dether, Black
From the text ... 'Our intent is to identify potential 'weak signals' or 'early warding signs' that fire use practitioners might want to heed as they prepare for future fire use and suppression events....If we can train ourselves to notice and respond to surprises early -- while…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
From the text ... 'Where the goal is restoration of process and ecosystem health, we need to ask: Are these prescribed fires truly replicating 'natural' fire?'
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
Sexton
From the text ... 'All Forest Service regions now have strategies designed to reduce wildfire hazard primarily through the application of prescribed fire.... Many forests have developed strategies that utilize a sequence of treatments to reduce risk and to better position their…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zimmerman, Lasko
From the text ... 'Early prescribed natural fire efforts were tacitly supported, limited in extent, and carried out under close scrutiny.... Wildland fire use has moved beyond the confines of remote, inaccessible areas. It is expanding across an increasing variety of land use…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keyes, Varner
From the text ... 'The wisest fuel management strategies are those that yield enduring effects with limited requirement for follow-up treatment.... Today's fuels management interventions establish new fuel structures and transition stands into new trajectories of structural…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stewart
From the text ... 'These 'problem fires' are the symptoms of a larger forest health issue in which ecological realities conflict with both social expectations and economic limitations.... Only through dedication and alignment of the full force and capabilities of integrated,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Your identity is based on your contribution -- not your rank. 'When you get this much intelligence and passion in a room -- good things happen.' -- Faye Fentiman, management consultant-facilitator.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith, Mrowka, Maupin
From the text ... 'The burnproduced temperatures high enough to significantly reduce Ips emergence from slash in July and August.... Timber and fire management personnel are enthusiastic about the operation and have planned several additional burns.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan, Johnson
From the text ... 'For years, fire managers have used photographs of fuel complexes as decision making and training aids.... Viewing photographs of similarly treated units helps quantify objectives.... Complex management needs require burning prescriptions to be more finely…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baldwin
From the text ... 'The public needs to learn that fire is a dynamic factor of the forest environment, not necessarily good or bad but natural. ...the very efficiency of the fire brigades guarantees fuel accumulations that will one day produce a holocaust.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Buck
From the text.... 'The Apache National Forest, like many southwestern forests situated on the Colorado Plateau, has significant fuel hazard problems.... Our objective is to compile a catalog of proven prescriptions to burn any given site in the pine type.... It is important to…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alexander, Thomas
From the text ... 'The use of fire by humans has a long and storied history, as has been chronicled globally by noted fire historian Stephen Pyne.... A prescribed fire can, if properly executed, accomplish many beneficial purposes.... There are lots of things to potentially…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS