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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Olson, Dinerstein, Wikramanayake, Burgess, Powell, Underwood, D'amico, Itoua, Strand, Morrison, Loucks, Allnutt, Ricketts, Kura, Lamoreux, Wettengel, Hedao, Kassem
The tapestry of life on Earth is unraveling as humans increasingly dominate and transform natural ecosystems. Scarce resources and dwindling time force conservationists to target their actions to stem the loss of biodiversity-a pragmatic approach, given the highly uneven…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Jenkins
From the text ... 'The United States and Mexico agreed to identify and protect special radio frequencies for wildland firefighters in border areas.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beven
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Estill, Cruzan
A database of the county distribution of rare vascular plant species endemic to the southeastern United States was compiled in order to review geographic trends. A total of 482 species representing 246 genera in 95 families were identified as rare southeastern endemics. The…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nickles
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Shepard
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
Here, in one concise book, is the essential story of fire. Noted environmental historian Stephen J. Pyne describes the evolution of fire through prehistoric and historic times down to the present, examining contemporary attitudes from a long-range, informed perspective. Fire: A…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Sorbel
The Kenai Lake Fire burned north of Kenai Lake on the Seward Ranger District of the Chugach National Forest from June 25 through July 8, 2001. The fire’s size was approximately 3260 acres. This assessment uses the FireFamily+ and RERAP (Rare Event Risk Assessment Process)…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Matthews
From the text... 'This year's catastrophic wilfires have finally ended. A new tree-planting initiative helps communities heal the landscape.' 'In 2001, Global ReLeaf will plant at least 300,000 trees in seven fire restoration projects.' A list of these seven projects follows.…
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
McLin, Springer, Lane
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beeson, Martens, Breshears
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hesseln
Changes in fire-dependent ecosystems, fuel accumulations, and ever-increasing population in the wildland-urban interface have increased fire management complexity and expenditures. To manage wildland fire more efficently, this article suggests developing a national fire…
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
Gollberg, Neuenschwander, Ryan
From the text: 'A 3-day conference and worshop was held, entitled 'Crossing the Millennium: Integratin Spatial Technologies and Ecological Principles for a New Age in Fire Management'. The organizers hoped to improve the international wildland fire community's collective…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schulte, Mladenoff
Studies of pre-European-settlement vegetation frequently use the original Public Land Survey (PLS) records from the US General Land Office. Like all other sources of data, this historical source poses both advantages and limitations. We review spatial and temporal issues…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cannon, Bigio, Mine
In this study we examine factors that pertain to the generation of debris flows from a basin recently burned by wildfire.. Throughout the summer 2000 thunderstorm season, we monitored rain gauges, channel cross-sections, hillslope transects, and nine sediment-runoff traps…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wilson, Carey, Beeson, Gard, Lane
A profile-based, analytical hillslope erosion model (HEM) is integrated into a geographical information system (GIS) framework to provide a tool to assess the impact of the Cerro Grande fire on erosion and sediment delivery to the many streams draining the burn area. The model,…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Snow
From the text... 'The U.S. Forest Service, surveying the wake of the fire, began making plans to re-seed the scorched areas, and to use a relatively new technique known as hydromulching as the best way to rehabilitate problem locations such as steep slopes and other erosion-…
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 ... 'At the beginning of the 20th century, equipment development for wildland firefighting was an informal, backyard affair. Farmers, ranchers, and loggers developed equipment for their specific needs, often sharing their best ideas with neighbors. After 1905, when…
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
Brown, Echelle, Propst, Brooks, Fisher
We used the computer program RAMAS to explore the sensitivity of an extinction-risk model for the Gila trout (Oncorhynchus gibe) to management of wildfires and number of populations of the species. The Gila trout is an endangered salmonid presently restricted to very few…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS