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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Forestry-based biomass economic and financial information and tools: An annotated bibliography

Loeffler, Brandt, Morgan, Jones
This annotated bibliography is a synthesis of information products available to land managers in the western United States regarding economic and financial aspects of forestry-based woody biomass removal, a component of fire hazard and/or fuel reduction treatments. This…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Getting burned: a taxpayer's guide to wildfire suppression costs

Ingalsbee
From the text (p. 34) ... 'Given the fact that climate change will cause many wildfires to burn larger and longer, the real issue in the near future will not be cost reduction or even cost containment, but rather, cost management. Expenditures may still remain high as the amount…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Economic and energy efficiency of salvaging biomass from wildfire burnt areas for bioenergy production in northwestern Ontario: a case study

Gautam, Pulkki, Shahi, Leitch
Wildfire burnt forest biomass can be salvaged as feedstock for bioenergy power generating stations. Despite availability of such forest biomass in northwestern Ontario, its procurement has generally been considered uneconomic and no studies have looked into the cost of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Temporal patterns in the size of conservation land transactions

Davies, Kareiva, Armsworth
The full or partial acquisition of land remains a predominant focus of terrestrial conservation strategies. Non-governmental organizations play an important role in habitat protection, yet few studies investigate their contribution to conservation investment. Here we examine…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

On conducting a multisite, multidisciplinary forestry research project: lessons from the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study

McIver, Weatherspoon
The National Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) study is described, from its conceptual stage in early 1996 to the completion of its short-term phase in May 2006. Comprising 12 sites, the FFS study is a comprehensive multidisciplinary experiment designed to evaluate the economics and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Comparing different forest zoning options for landscape-scale management of the boreal forest: possible benefits of the TRIAD

Côté, Tittler, Messier, Kneeshaw, Fall, Fortin
Forest management has been criticised in the last 20 years for its negative impact on the native species, structures and functions of the forest. Of many possible alternatives proposed to minimize these effects, the functional zoning (or TRIAD) approach is gaining popularity in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire risk management on a landscape with public and private ownership: who pays for protection?

Busby, Albers
Wildfire, like many natural hazards, affects large landscapes with many landowners and the risk individual owners face depends on both individual and collective protective actions. In this study, we develop a spatially explicit game theoretic model to examine the strategic…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Developing and comparing silvicultural alternatives: goals, objectives, and evaluation criteria

Long, Smith, Roberts
We outline an approach for developing and comparing silvicultural alternatives. The approach has multiple advantages, including explicit links between goals, management approaches, and outcomes; efficient development of alternative means of accomplishing the goals; and effective…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rapid responses to facilitate ecological discoveries from major disturbances

Lindenmayer, Likens, Franklin
Large-scale natural disturbances are commonplace around the world. They can have profound effects on human infrastructure and populations, as well as substantially influencing key ecological processes, shaping landscapes, and affecting many species. Major natural disturbances…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The economic cost of adverse health effects from wildfire-smoke exposure: a review

Kochi, Donovan, Champ, Loomis
The economic costs of adverse health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke should be given serious consideration in determining the optimal wildfire management policy. Unfortunately, the literature in this research area is thin. In an effort to better understand the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Thinning and prescribed fire and projected trends in wood product potential, financial return, and fire hazard in New Mexico

Fight, Barbour, Christensen, Pinjuv, Nagubadi
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The impact of twenty-first century climate change on wildland fire danger in the western United States: an applications perspective

Brown, Hall, Westerling
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Healthy Forests initiative and its effect on appeals

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

Policy analysis and national forest appeal reform

Mortimer, Scardina, Jenkins
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

National trends in the use of Forest Service administrative appeals

Teich, Vaughn, Cortner
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lowland forest loss in protected areas of Indonesian Borneo

Curran, Trigg, McDonald, Astiani, Hardiono, Siregar, Caniago, Kasischke
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Is forest structure related to fire severity? yes, and no, and maybe: methods and insights in quantifying the answer

Jain, Graham
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tending fire: coping with America's wildland fires

Pyne
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effect of fire intensity and depth of bum on Lowbush Blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium, and Velvet Leaf Blueberry, Vaccinium myrtilloides, production in eastern Ontario

Duchesne, Wetzel
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Financing sustainable development: Country Undertakings and Rights for Environmental Sustainability CURES

Grafton, Jotzo, Wasson
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Contemporary wood utilization research needs in the western United States

Monserud, Lowell, Becker, Hummel, Donoghue, Barbour, Kilborn, Nicholls, Roos, Cantrell
Contemporary wood utilization research needs in the Western United States are examined in this problem analysis. Key focal areas include: A. Changes in forest management actions and policies affect forest conditions and people, which in turn affect wood quality and wood…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Early history of the listing of the red-cockaded woodpecker and the roles, actions, and consequences of states in the listing, downlisting, and delisting of the species

Jackson
The first recognition of conservation needs of the red-cockaded woodpecker came from biologists casually studying the species before there were endangered species laws. Their expressed concerns resulted in initial conservation efforts. Some early efforts on behalf of the species…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sustainability of timber supply considering the risk of wildfire

Armstrong
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The effects of humans and topography on wildland fire, forests, and species abundance

Guyette, Dey
Ignitions, fuels, topography, and climate interact through time to create temporal and spatial differences in the frequency of fire, which, in turn, affects ecosystem structure and function. In many ecosystems non-human ignitions are overwhelmed by anthropogenic ignitions. Human…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Healthy Forest Restortion Act of 2004 - unforeseen circumstances

Thomas, Noble
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS