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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Brown
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Jarvis
From the Conclusions ... 'Thus, innovative partnerships, cooperative land management among agnecies, and application of ecological principles to management, all steeped in the churning cauldron of politics, and leavened with public education, are the future vision.'
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Paveglio, Carroll, Stasiewicz, Williams, Becker
Existing research suggests that adoption or development of various wildfire management strategies may differ across communities. However, there have been few attempts to design diverse strategies for local populations to better “live with fire.” This article extends an existing…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Dupéy, Smith
Social science research from a variety of disciplines has generated a collective understanding of how individuals prepare for, and respond to, the risks associated with prescribed burning and wildfire. We provide a systematic compilation, review, and quantification of dominant…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Toombs, Weber
Today’s extended fire seasons and large fire footprints have prompted state and federal land-management agencies to devote increasingly large portions of their budgets to wildfire management. As fire costs continue to rise, timely and comprehensive fire information becomes…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

In this issue, four Dispatchers and one fire manager, a former Dispatch Center Manager, answer and explore this significant question.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Urgenson, Nelson, Haugo, Halpern, Bakker, Ryan, Waltz, Belote, Alvarado
As approaches to ecological restoration become increasingly large scale and collaborative, there is a need to better understand social aspects of restoration and how they influence land management. In this article, we examine social perspectives that influence the determination…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Stotts, Lahm, Standish
Fire managers use prescribed fire and some wildfires to meet resource management objectives, like restoring and maintaining ecological processes, watershed function, and wildlife habitat, as well as to reduce fuels and mitigate the risk of severe wildfires. However, public…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

McDaniel
Absher and Vaske conducted a mail survey of rural landowners in heavily forested counties along the Front Range of Colorado. They asked questions designed to measure respondents’ trust in (1) the information that the Forest Service provided regarding forest fires, and (2) the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Gallego, Plana Bach, Molina-Terrén
The socio-environmental dimension in wildland fire management is critical for moving towards a baseline of firewise planning. Wildland fire risk planning is a land use planning tool that should be able to keep pace with rapid rates of social and environmental change. Changes in…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Jandt, Johnstone
Presented by Randi Jandt and Jill Johnstone. From the 2018 Bonanza Creek LTER symposium, April 6, 2018.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Kane
October 10th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fall Fire Review, Kelly Kane, USFS Risk Management Program Specialist, presents on human performance.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Little, Jandt
October 9th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave a final report on fuel treatments.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Coughlan, Magi, Derr
We examined the relationships between lightning-fire-prone environments, socioeconomic metrics, and documented use of broadcast fire by small-scale hunter-gatherer societies. Our approach seeks to re-assess human-fire dynamics in biomes that are susceptible to lightning-…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Bell, Cleaves, Croft, Husari, Schuster, Truesdale
[unpublished report] From the text...'Because of the soaring expenditures (nearly $1 billion in FY 1994) for fire management, the Fire Economics Assessment Team was formed in January of 1995 by USDA Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management, and chartered with the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Burroughs, Clark
Ecosystem management links human activities with the functioning of natural environments over large spatial and temporal scales. Our examination of Greater Yellowstone and Georges Bank shows similarities exist between human uses, administrative characteristics, and some…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Barrett
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Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Brown
A fire regime classification that recognizes stand-replacement, nonlethal understory, mixed and variable fire severities is discussed as a simplified approach for communicating widely about the natural role of fire. Examples of the fire regime types are provided. Five challenges…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reimer
This project utilized a feminist appreciative approach to Action Research to facilitate a conversation about gender and leadership within the British Columbia Wildfire Service (BCWS). The research question was, “How might understanding gender and leadership support excellence in…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Minor, Boyce
Wildfire prevention advertisements featuring Smokey Bear represent the longest-standing and most successful government advertising and branding campaign in U.S. history. As the public face of U.S. fire control policy, Smokey Bear uses mass media to influence the attitudes and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Stanley, Hom, Gai, Joiner
Recent research has indicated that firefighters are at elevated suicide risk. Fire service organizations have called for research to examine fire service subgroups that might be at relatively increased suicide risk. Although anecdotal reports suggest that wildland firefighters…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wilson, Paveglio, Becker
Often missing or underdeveloped in wildland fire research is a clear sense of the link between contemporaneous political possibility and the desired ecological or management outcomes. We examine the disconnect between desired outcomes and what we call the “politically possible…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Spies, Davis
It is widely recognized that forest restoration needs to be scaled up to landscapes. We describe the findings from the project 'Go big or Go Home?' in the eastern Cascades of Oregon. The goals of the project were to analyze how forest collaboratives and Forest Service managers…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

"Outcomes". The final video in the three part series about the Wildfire Research (WiRē) Team describes how a better understanding of a community can be used to develop more effective wildfire programs. The Wildfire Research (WiRē) Team’s unique approach based on community-…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

"The Process". The second video in the three-part series about the Wildfire Research (WiRē) Team delves into the details of the WiRē Team process of pairing social data from residents living in the wildland urban interface with parcel level wildfire risk data. Using the…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES