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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Truesdale
From the text ... 'The term 'wildland fire' is becoming commonly used and generally understood in the United States. . . . Common translations for forest fire include incendio forestal, waldbrand, feu de foret, incedio forestais.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rodriguez
From the text ... 'A cooperative regional strategy has been developed to mitigate the negative effects of fires in the region. The Fire Management Cooperation Strategy for the Caribbean 2006-2011, developed jointly with the representatives of the most fire-affected countries of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'The issues and challenges we face managing wildfires are not ours alone. They cross oceans and continental boundaries as well. Through the international fire program, we've had the opportunity to take a look at what we do here at home and how our international…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldammer
From the text ... 'One priority that the Working Group on Wildland Fire addressed was the establishment of the Global Wildland Fire Network (GWFN). The concept of GWFN was to identify or establish Regional Wildland Fire Networks, preferably based on existing formal or informal…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carle
From the text ... 'The Fire Management group supports fire organizations by financing fire-related projects in the United Nation's 163 member countries.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fay
From the text ... 'What works for me is to first provide different examples of effective HRO principles that people might already be doing (without the HRO labels) and then connect these practices into a mindful organizing process with the principles appropriately identified.'
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
From the text ... 'This article discusses factors that are critical to both firefighters and fire managers in ensuring a safe and productive workforce. First, it discusses such items as the work environment, the firefighter workforce, physical fitness, nutrition, work/rest…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The following table shows how safety violations identified by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) during its investigation of the Thirtymile Fire accident correspond to action items called for under the USDA Forest Service's Thirtymile…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Driessen
Describes the role played by crew cohesion in the deaths of firefighters in three firefighting tragedies: the Mann Gulch Fire, the South Canyon Fire, and the Thirtymile Fire. Two types of cohesion are involved, the cohesion within a crew (intracrew cohesion) and the cohesion…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hill, Janik, Belak, Cotton, Dominicci, Johnson, Jones, Joy, Vargas
From the text ... 'Our work has shown that a single focal point is critical for efforts -- such as reducing severe wildland fires and the vegetation that fuels them -- that involve many federal agencies as well as state and local governments, the private sector, and private…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'Wildland fire is a high-risk, high-consequence business. It is influenced by high social expectations and a low political tolerance for failure. Our environment is surrounded by uncertainty and danger. It is controlled more and more by our ability to measure,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zipperer
The urban-wildland intermix is a zone of urbanization that significatnly affects the biophysical components of ecosystmes in rural landscapes. To sustain ecosystem goods and services, ecosystem based-management of natural resources recognizes the importance of maintaining…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Munson, Haines
The expansion of urban zones into surrounding rural lands continues to increase as a result of growing populations and the desire among some urban workers to live in a more rural setting. This trend manifests itself at the interface in two primary ways: restrictions on forest…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Marcouiller
Economic growth, development of efficient transportation networks, and increasing disposable incomes have led to a dramatic change in demands for open space, forest resources, and the amenities associated with forested land. This is particularly acute in the areas directly…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartlett
A standardized approach for characterizing floral and faunal communities on National Forests in the US has been developed through the USDA Forest Service*s (USDA FS) Natural Resources Information System (NRJS). We developed a method for extrapolation of floral and faunal…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kundell, Myszewski, DeMeo
Natural resources management and conservation in the wildland-urban interface ate complicated by current land-related public policies. These challenges are related to both the amount of land being developed in the interface and the speed with which this development is taking…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moffat, Greene
Economic conditions and tax policies affect land-use decisions everywhere, but their effects on the rate of change in land use are particularly large in the wildland-urban interface. Efforts to improve the southern economy as a whole have resulted in the rapid growth of urban…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zabinski
From the text ... 'On May 29, 2000, just 3 weeks after the Cerro Grande Fire was ignited in northern New Mexico's Bandelier National Monument, the Viveash Fire erupted some 30 miles (48 km) to the east, on the Santa Fe National Forest. A human-caused blaze, Viveash grew to 2,000…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins, Morgan, Swetnam
Topography, vegetation, and climate act together to determine thespatial patterns of fires at landscape scales. Knowledge oflandscape-fire-climate relations at these broad scales (1,000s hato 100,000s ha) is limited and is largely based on inferences andextrapolations from fire…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kennedy, Ford, Singleton, Finney, Agee
Effective decision making in environmental management requires the consideration of multiple objectives that may conflict. Common optimization methods use weights on the multiple objectives to aggregate them into a single value, neglecting valuable insight into the relationships…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rains, Hubbard
In August 2000, the Administration directed the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to prepare a report that would recommend how best to respond to the year's severe wildland fires, reduce the impacts of fires on rural communities, and ensure sufficient firefighting…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Shlisky, Myers, Waugh, Blankenship
Fire is a global phenomenon. Worldwide, fire can play a role in maintaining or threatening natural habitats and human societies. In any case, we must consider the global context for our actions and the best possible role each nation can play in managing fire for humans and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gebert, Schuster
This study estimates the overall percentage difference in total personnel compensation between the current pay system for forest fire suppression and a system of 24-hour pay, where employees are paid their regular rate of pay for 24 hours per day while on fire duty. Using a…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Beverly, Uto, Wilkes, Bothwell
We designed and developed an internet mapping application to collect data on the locations of forest landscape values across a 2.4 million hectare study area in the province of Alberta, Canada. Four communities in the study area were surveyed and 8053 point locations were mapped…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS