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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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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Law
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shepard
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hardy, Hermann, Core
From the text...'Advanced smoke management programs evaluate individual and multiple burns; coordinate all prescribed fire activities in an area; consider cross-boundary (landscape) impacts; and weigh decisions about fires against possible health, visibility, and nuisance…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schmoldt, Peterson
Public land managers must treat multiple values coincidentally in time and space, which requires the participation of multiple resource specialists and consideration of diverse clientele interests in the decision process. This implies decision making that includes multiple…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Riebau, Fox
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will implement new regulations for the management of atmospheric particulate matter 2.5 Fm and less in diameter (PM2.5), tropospheric ozone, and regional haze in the next few years. These three air quality issues relate…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Executive Summary: On August 8, 2000, President Clinton asked Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to prepare a report that recommends how best to respond to this year*s severe fires, reduce the impacts of these wildland fires on rural…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dombeck
From the text ... 'We can postpone the inevitible blazes, but-as the 2000 fire season showed-not indefinitely...' ... 'The relative severity of the 2000 fire season mobilized public opinion behind a large-scale program to reduce the fire hazard in our western forests. On…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
From the text ... 'Every year, hundreds of aircraft and tens of thousands of firefighters are needed to suppress wildland fires in the United States, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown
From the text ... 'Since the 1980's, there has been a disturbing rise in both total suppression costs and the cost per acre burned.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text... 'The press and politicians called fire season 2000 'a natural disaster.' The fires were natural, but the 'disaster' was how much the United States spent to fight them.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Young, Clements
The decade of the 1920s was somewhat of a paradox for range science. A. W. Sampson published 3 books that were widely used as text for higher education classes in range management. The United States Department of Agriculture. Forest Service expanded their mandate to manage…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Without a significant organization change, our ability to manage large fires will be compromised. ... We need a strong local initial- and extended-attack fire program and an aggressive ecosystem restoration program.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Preve
The Forest Title of the 1990 Farm Bill created the Forest Stewardship Program, the Stewardship Incentives Program and related programs to seek to bring 25 million acres of unmanaged, nonindustrial private forest lands into multiple-use management. ACF saw early the importance of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brennan
My purpose in this paper is to outline a research and management manifesto for the northern bobwhite in the 1990's. My objectives are to (1) describe the probable causes for the northern bobwhite population decline, (2) outline the research agenda that will be required to solve…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davi
Computers are rapidly expanding into the urban fire safety area. This paper presents some social implications caused by the use of computers for fire safety databases, arson prediction programs, and fire simulation programs. In regards to the new technological advances this…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brown, Arno
Protection of resources from fire has increased the risk of severe fires and reduced resource values in some ecosystems. Constraints on use of prescribed fire have limited its effectiveness in meeting resource goals. This predicament is discussed by describing the ecological…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Clark, Tankersley
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Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
This paper draws on comments from 89 reporters who covered the fires, on comments from 146 of their news sources, and on evaluations of network television coverage by four groups of wildfire experts. The research also incorporates a content analysis of stories about the fires…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davi
Computers are rapidly expanding into the urban fire safety area. This paper presents some social implications caused by the use of computers for fire safely databases, arson prediction programs, and fire simulation programs. In regards to the new technological advances this…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ball, Guertin
FIREMAP is a model for simulating surface fire spread through heterogeneous fuels and over non-uniform terrain. The model was constructed using PROMAP, a language which allows dynamic spatial models to be constructed using raster GIS data bases. The GIS system is used to…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Kakoyannis, Shindler, Stankey
Natural resource managers are being confronted with increasing conflict and litigation with those who find their management plans unacceptable. Compatible and sustainable management decisions necessitate that natural resource agencies generate plans that are not only…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bailey
This article was part of a presentation 'Fire in Resource Management' at the National Advanced Resource Technology Training Center in Marana, AZ, in April 1990 and January 1991.
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Joyce, Aber, McNulty, Dale, Hansen, Irland, Neilson, Skog
Forests cover nearly one-third of the US,providing wildlife habitat, clean air and water, cultural and aesthetic values,carbon storage, recreational opportunities such as hiking, camping, fishing,and autumn leaf tours,and products that can be harvested such as timber, pulpwood,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Dale, Joyce, McNulty, Neilson, Ayres, Flannigan, Hanson, Irland, Lugo, Peterson, Simberloff, Swanson, Stocks, Wotton
This article examines how eight disturbances influence forest structure, composition, and function, and how climate change may influence the severity, frequency, and magnitude of disturbances to forests. We focus on examples from the United States, although these influences…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Watson, Borrie, Burchfield, Wakimoto
There is currently limited understanding of the social acceptability of the various means of treatment of forest or grassland fuels. Either through the application of prescribed fire or mechanical means, the social and economic implications of fuel treatments can be decisive in…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES