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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Williams
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Neznek
From the text...'On December 3, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, legislation designed to expedite hazardous fuel reduction projects and improve forest health conditions in the nation's forests. Several provisions of this legislation alter…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Teich, Vaughn, Cortner
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lanoville
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) provided fire research scientists an outdoor laboratory to test a theoretical, physical-based fire model and to conduct a wide variety of concurrent experiments. The crown fire experiments, located 40 km northeast of Fort…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Blackwell, Gray, Steele, Needoba, Green, MacKenzie
In 2000 the Squamish Forest District began a pilot project to study the effects of prescribed fire on forest succession, fuel dynamics, regeneration, wildlife habitat, and timber supply within two landscape units encompassing 103,000 ha north of Pemberton, British Columbia.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Hann
Fire regime and associated condition class mapping have provided key data for development of cohesive strategies for restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems and for the National Fire Plan within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and U.S. Department of Interior…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Brown
From the text ... ''It will be a long time before those woods, more relentless than the waters, give up their dead.' -- C.E.Robinson, 1872 ...The drought was mild compared to the times leading up to other historically great fires in the Midwest. ...Surface fires scorched tree…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Bosworth
From the text ... 'A policy of allowing all fires to burn would be just as flawed as the old policy of putting them all out. ...Our policy is to use fire where we can and suppress fire where we must.'
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Pyne
A consensus history of fire in the United States has emerged over the past decade. It correctly identifies fire suppression's liabilities, while probably over‐enthusing about fire‐science capabilities. What it lacks, however, is a context of the subject's larger, braided…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Roos, Bowman, Balch, Artaxo, Bond, Cochrane, D'Antonio, DeFries, Mack, Johnston, Krawchuk, Kull, Moritz, Pyne, Scott, Swetnam
In our 2011 synthesis (Bowman et al., Journal of Biogeography, 2011, 38, 2223-2236), we argued for a holistic approach to human issues in fire science that we term 'pyrogeography'. Coughlan & Petty (Journal of Biogeography, 2013, 40, 1010-1012) critiqued our paper on the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The following list of fire research topics and questions were generated by personnel from agencies and organizations within AWFCG during 2014 Fall Fire Review and through other solicitations. The topics were initially ranked by the AWFCG Fire Research, Development and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Chapin, DeWilde, Trainor, Calef, McGuire, Rupp, Lovecraft
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Shindler, Olsen, McCaffrey, McFarlane, Christianson, McGee, Curtis, Sharp
This planning guide is the outcome of an international collaboration of researchers and practitioners/field managers working in communities at risk of wildfire in three countries. Initially, the team of social scientists from Australia, Canada, and the United States utilized the…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

This volume offers a scientific assessment of the effects of climatic variability and change on forest resources in the United States. Derived from a report that provides technical input to the 2013 U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, the book serves…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Rohde
I recently completed a study providing insight into critical decisions by command officers on some of California's most notorious wildfires in the wildland/urban interface (WUI). My study focused on the first several hours of response to the fires, a period of time when…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Oja, Newbould, MacLean, See, Beebi, Peterson, Wahrenbrock, Degrenes, Wilfong, Rude, Greenberg, Fasteband, Boughton, Lehnhausen, Stockdale, Stubbs, Cooper, Sines, Heppner, Sink
This plan called the 'All Lands/All Hands Action Plan' puts forth a bold, collaborative interagency strategy of compelling on-the-ground actions that emphasizes treatments in community wildfire protection plan (CWPP) areas and wildland urban interface areas (WUI) that lie…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Oja, Newbould, MacLean, See, Beebi, Peterson, Wahrenbrock, Degrenes, Wilfong, Rude, Greenberg, Fasteband, Boughton, Lehnhausen, Stockdale, Stubbs, Cooper, Sines, Heppner, Sink
This plan called the 'All Lands/All Hands Action Plan' puts forth a bold, collaborative interagency strategy of compelling on-the-ground actions that emphasizes treatments in community wildfire protection plan (CWPP) areas and wildland urban interface areas (WUI) that lie…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ingalsbee
Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology (FUSEE) is a national nonprofit organization promoting safe, ethical, ecological wildland fire management. FUSEE members include current, former, and retired wildland firefighters; fire managers, scientists, and educators;…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Ingalsbee
Much of the language used by the wildland fire community and news media has implicit anti-fire bias that perpetuates anti-fire attitudes. In order to promote greater fire use for ecological fire management, new words need to be created; existing words should be redefined; and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Asah
Researchers exploring the challenges of public intolerance for forest fires in the US predominantly focus on non-managers. Forest fire managers have unique perspectives on public perceptions and attitudes towards forest fires because managers frequently interact directly with…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Grabner, Stambaugh, Marschall, Abadir
The Joint Fire Science Program established 14 regional fire science knowledge exchange consortia to improve the delivery of fire science information and communication among fire managers and researchers. Consortia were developed regionally to ensure that fire science information…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Godwin, Ferrarese
Student fire groups, collegiate-level groups explicitly organized around topics related to wildland fire, are widespread across the country. Student fire groups are at times participants in wildland fire-oriented experiential education but are often limited by access to training…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fischer, Toman, Olsen
Wildland fires have increased in extent and severity in recent years. At the same time, the number of people living in harm's way has increased dramatically. This has not only resulted in more people and private property potentially at risk from future fire events, but also an…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES