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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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An answer to a burning question: what will the Forest Service spend on Fire suppression this summer?

Abt, Prestemon, Gebert
From the text ... 'Our models show that suppression costs can be statistically estimated largely from previous years' suppression costs, climate, drought conditions, and a time trend.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Agroforestry and the search for alternatives to slash-and-burn cultivation: from technological optimism to a political economy of deforestation

Pollini
Launched in 1994, the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn Programme is a multidisciplinary collaborative research effort aimed at addressing the issue of deforestation. This article analyzes the genesis and the history of this research effort and the causes of its successes and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The impact of the 1998 forest fire on ectomycorrhizae of dipterocarp trees and their recovery in tropical rain forests of East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Akema, Nurhiftisni, Suciatmih, Simbolon
The impact of forest fire in 1997 and 1998 on the mycorrhzae was studied at the dipterocarp forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. In unaffected forest more than half of total ectomycorrhizae distributed in the organic layer but in the fire-affected forest one and a half years…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire suppression cost forecasts for the US Forest Service

Abt, Prestemon, Gebert
The US Forest Service and other land-management agencies seek better tools for anticipating future expenditures for wildfire suppression. We developed regression models for forecasting US Forest Service suppression spending at 1-, 2-, and 3-year lead times. We compared these…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Public response to wildfire: is the Australian ''stay and defend or leave early'' approach an option for wildfire management in the United States?

McCaffrey, Rhodes
In the United States, the increasing costs and negative impacts of wildfires are causing fire managers and policymakers to reexamine traditional approaches to fire management including whether mass evacuation of populations threatened by wildfire is always the most appropriate…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: 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

Using forest management techniques to alter forest fuels and reduce wildfire size: an exploratory analysis

Hirsch, Kafka, Todd
During the next few decades, a considerable portion of the productive boreal forest in Canada will be harvested and there is an excellent opportunity to use forest management activities (e.g., harvesting, regeneration, stand tending) to alter the forest fuels for fire management…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A Wildfire Threat Rating System for the Birkenhead and Gates landscape units, British Columbia

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

An infrared approach to forest fire behavior quantification

McRae, Jin
Quantitative documentation of fire behavior is important in understanding aspects of physical fire behavior. We describe the use of infrared technology to document on-the-ground fire behavior observed during the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) in the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Cerro Grande Fire bombshell [abstract]

Valerio
On 4 May 2000, the Bandelier National Monument initiated a prescribed fire south and west of the town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to reduce accumulated forest fuels near Cerro Grande Peak. On 5 May, the fire was declared a wildfire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Mapping fire regime condition class: a method for watershed and project scale analysis

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