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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Fischer, Spies, Steelman, Moseley, Johnson, Bailey, Ager, Bourgeron, Charnley, Collins, Kline, Leahy, Littell, Millington, Nielsen-Pincus, Olsen, Paveglio, Roos, Steen-Adams, Stevens, Vukomanovic, White, Bowman
Wildfire risk in temperate forests has become a nearly intractable problem that can be characterized as a socioecological 'pathology': that is, a set of complex and problematic interactions among social and ecological systems across multiple spatial and temporal scales.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Steelman
There are fundamental spatial and temporal disconnects between the specific policies that have been crafted to address our wildfire challenges. The biophysical changes in fuels, wildfire behavior, and climate have created a new set of conditions for which our wildfire governance…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wigtil, Hammer, Kline, Mockrin, Stewart, Roper, Radeloff
The hazards-of-place model posits that vulnerability to environmental hazards depends on both biophysical and social factors. Biophysical factors determine where wildfire potential is elevated, whereas social factors determine where and how people are affected by wildfire. We…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Smithwick
From the text...'...calls for the fire-science community to draw up maps of wildfire risk based on contributory factors...' © 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved.
Year: 2016
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

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

Graham, Middlemis-Brown
On nearly every continent, prior and current cultures have practiced land management using fire. Huffman calls the knowledge acquired by people “Traditional Fire Knowledge” (TFK), which consists of “fire‐related knowledge, beliefs and practices that have been developed and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Smith, Kolden, Paveglio, Cochrane, Bowman, Moritz, Kliskey, Alessa, Hudak, Hoffman, Lutz, Queen, Goetz, Higuera, Boschetti, Flannigan, Yedinak, Watts, Strand, van Wagtendonk, Anderson, Stocks, Abatzoglou
Wildland fire management has reached a crossroads. Current perspectives are not capable of answering interdisciplinary adaptation and mitigation challenges posed by increases in wildfire risk to human populations and the need to reintegrate fire as a vital landscape process.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Shanks Rodrigues
An overview of a project supported by the Bureau of Land Management, which is seeking input from community residents about what they know now and what they want to know about how wildfires may affect them. Presented at the Alaska Fire Science Consortium session at the Alaska…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation covers systematic social network analysis and how people and institutions function in disasters, after disasters, and the ways they adapt to hazard settings. As hazards become disasters, the opportunities and…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Paveglio, Carroll
A growing body of wildfire research indicates that populations will support or enact different programs, policies and planning approaches to better 'live with wildfire.' This presentation builds on one existing conceptual approach for characterizing local socio-ecological…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Molina
Allen Molina outlines the plans for getting homeowner input and economic data for the Alaska Fuel Treatment Effectiveness project.
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

[Executive Summary] The Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement Act of 2009 (FLAME Act) called for the development of a National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy). The Cohesive Strategy was created to serve as guidance to assist…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Sexual harassment and gender discrimination occur in workplaces around the world. While they affect both women and men, they appear to affect significantly larger portions of the female than the male workforce. Our survey confirmed that they are found in the wildland fire…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Steelman
There are fundamental spatial and temporal disconnects between the specific policies that have been crafted to address our wildfire challenges. The biophysical changes in fuels, wildfire behavior, and climate have created a new set of conditions for which our wildfire governance…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Coleman
This webinar will describe qualitative, case study research that investigated four projects in the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) to understand how varying organizational structures impacted collaboration. Kimberly Coleman selected the four case…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

In this issue we explore the intent of—and response to—Mark Smith’s essay “The Big Lie.” Smith shares why he wrote this provocative piece and what he believes our next steps should be. Veteran wildland firefighter and current AFMO Dave Williams continues “The Big Lie” discussion…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

In this paper, researchers examine the problem of growing wildfire risk through a coupled natural and human systems (CNHS) perspective. They characterized the primary social and ecological dimensions of what they termed a socioecological pathology of wildfire risk in temperate…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES