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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rissman, Butsic
Achieving conservation goals in protected areas hinges on continual monitoring, enforcement, and legal defense. In an era of devolved governance, nonprofit land trusts have become increasingly important. Yet, their approaches to legal defense of conserved areas are relatively…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neugarten, Wolf, Stedman, Tear
Large-scale sell-offs of industrial timberlands in the United States have prompted public and private investments in a new class of ''working forest'' land deals, notable for their large size and complex divisions of property rights. These transactions have been pitched as ''win…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mejer
Building on insights provided by Beck (1988), Pyne (1982) and others, the paper views wildland fire as an event revealing a social and scientific field in which basic dilemmas that separate nature and culture, environmental autonomy and human intervention, and the certainty of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lord
A probabilistic model is offered for tracing the fate of vegetation communities in fire-prone lands that are subjected to regular fuel reduction burning. The model is based on the semi-Markov process (an extension of Markov chain modelling). The inputs necessary for the semi-…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
Prescribed fire as a social issue becomes automatically an ecological, political, and economic issue. Any issue that affects us socially we take to the political arena, and its final resolution will involve the costs of different avenues to resolving the issue. Unfortunately,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LaFayette
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et. seq.) as amended, also called the Clean Water Act (CWA), provides the basis for the management and improvement of water quality in the United States. As amended in 1987, it addresses both point and nonpoint sources of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wood
Every conservation strategy derived in our democratic and capitalistic system is both driven and restrained by the forces of science, economics, sociology, politics, and law. When properly aligned, these forces can stimulate and guide the owners and managers of the working…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bergeron, Harvey
We present a method in which fundamental knowledge of natural ecosystem dynamics of the southern boreal forest may be used as a basis for a new silvicultural approach aimed at maintaining biodiversity and long-term ecosystem productivity under management. The natural disturbance…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Additional presentation abstracts in the proceedings of the second conference on the human dimensions of wildland fire.
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stidham, Toman, McCaffrey, Shindler
Wildfire evacuations are inherently stressful and homeowners have reported in previous studies that uncertainty over what is happening is perhaps one of the most stressful aspects. Although many difficult elements of evacuation cannot be mitigated and lives will certainly be…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steinberg
Firewise Communities/USA is a national program designed to encourage residents of wildfire-prone areas to take action to reduce wildfire risks to their homes and neighborhoods. Residents of homeowner associations and small communities who are interested in improving their…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Palmer, Gaskill, Domitrovich, McNamara, Knutson, Spear
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common disorders of childhood, affecting 3 to 7 percent of the population (American Psychiatric Association 2000). Research has indicated that the prevalence rate of ADHD in adult populations is approximately 4.4…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This proceedings contains articles, posters, and abstracts of presentations from the second Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference held 27-29 April 2010 in San Antonio, Texas. The conference covered the social issues at the root of wildland fire management's most serious…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Seijo, Gray, Rideout-Hanzak
The 4th International Fire Congress, held in Savannah, Georgia, between 30 November and 5 December 2009, had as its conference theme: 'Fire as a Global Process.' The intent of the organizers was to weave this theme throughout the conference, primarily through the contributions…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Venn, Calkin
Forests in the United States generate many non-market benefits for society that can be enhanced and diminished by wildfire and wildfire management. The Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (1995, updated 2001), and subsequent Guidance to the Implementation of that policy…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Lewis, Hall, Black
Avoidance of injury and death on the fireline may depend on firefighters voicing their concerns, but often this does not occur. Reasons for employee reticence identified in the literature include a perception of various personal costs or a belief that raising concerns is futile…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Everett, Fuller
Legislators exhort government agencies to work with the public to reduce fire hazards in the wildland-urban interface. However, working with an unorganized 'public' is a challenge for agencies. We present survey research on fire safe councils in California, community-based…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wilson, Winter, Maguire, Ascher
Managing wildfire events to achieve multiple management objectives involves a high degree of decision complexity and uncertainty, increasing the likelihood that decisions will be informed by experience-based heuristics triggered by available cues at the time of the decision. The…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bowman, Balch, Artaxo, Bond, Cochrane, D'Antonio, DeFries, Johnston, Keeley, Krawchuk, Kull, Mack, Moritz, Pyne, Roos, Scott, Sodhi, Swetnam
Humans and their ancestors are unique in being a fire-making species, but 'natural' (i.e. independent of humans) fires have an ancient, geological history on Earth. Natural fires have influenced biological evolution and global biogeochemical cycles, making fire integral to the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Benson, Garmestani
The concept of resilience is now frequently invoked by natural resource agencies in the US. This reflects growing trends within ecology, conservation biology, and other disciplines acknowledging that social-ecological systems require management approaches recognizing their…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Communication and community development for health information: constructs and models for evaluation
The perspective of this review is taken from a deceptively simple vantage: community development and communication. In turn, these derivative fields draw from a wide assortment of more established literature encompassing traditional fields such as sociology, telecommunications,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ray
Sustainable resource management depends upon the participation of resource-dependent communities. Competing values between community members and government agencies and among groups within a community can make it difficult to find mutually acceptable management goals and can…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks
Stephen Pyne is a world-renowned environmental historian and author who, over the past three decades, has produced numerous books dealing extensively with the history of fire on Earth and its strong linkage to the evolving role of humans on this planet. With his humanities and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steelman, McCaffrey
Conventional wisdom within American federal fire management agencies suggests that external influence such as community or political pressure for aggressive suppression are key factors circumscribing the ability to execute less aggressive fire management strategies. Thus, a…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES