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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stauber
The statement, 'Availability of fire resources can be a serious constraint to conducting prescribed natural fire activities,' illustrates some misunderstanding of prescribed fire programs. The availability of fire suppression resources should not be a 'driving force' in our…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Poncin
Decision making for managers in a fire situation can be very complicated. The information brought to the decision maker must be well though out and accurate. Before meaningful strategy can be formulated, realistic agreed-upon objectives for the incident are needed. With…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hurd
Resource management plans and objectives may be sound ecologically and within agency mandates for management, but impossible to expedite because of political considerations and obstacles. It is imperative that these be recognized in the planning processes and confronted…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Botti, Nichols
Prescribed natural fire programs in the National Park Service have changed dramatically following the 1988 Yellowstone fires. The area burned per year has declined by 94 percent even though the area within prescribed natural fire zones has increased. The program has been…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rains, Hubbard
From the text ... 'Our Nation faced the tremendous challenge of reducing the growing risk to lives, property, and natural resources from uncharacteristically severe wildland fires in the W-UI. No single agency is capable of rising to the challenge alone. The only feasible…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Federal, state, tribal and local governments are making unprecedented efforts to reduce the buildup of fuels and restore forests and rangelands to healthy conditions. Yet, needless red tape and lawsuits delay effective implementation of forest health projects…
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
Kenworthy
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Carle
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rains
This is a key note presentation by Michael Rains, presented at the Fire and Aquatic Ecosystem Workshop, held April 22-24, 2002 in Boise, Idaho. This presentation outlines the fundamental premise, long-term goals, key points, current and proposed funding, progress, and challenges…
Year: 2002
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Truesdale
'The rising cost of fire suppression activities prompted the Regional Fire Directors, under the leadership of the Director of Fire and Aviation Management, to review the causes of fire suppression costs and recommend appropriate actions. The 1994 fire season costs were the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bell, Cleaves, Croft, Husari, Schuster, Truesdale
[unpublished report] From the text...'Because of the soaring expenditures (nearly $1 billion in FY 1994) for fire management, the Fire Economics Assessment Team was formed in January of 1995 by USDA Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management, and chartered with the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text and table of contents: .'This report addresses five major topic areas: 1) role of wildland fire in resource management, 2) use of wildland fire, 3) preparedness and suppression, 4) wildland/urban interface protection, and 5) coordinated program management; presents…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rideout, Botti
[no description entered]
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pilz, Molina
Widespread commercial harvesting of wild edible mushrooms from the forests of the Pacific Northwest United States (PNW-US) began 10-15 years ago. A large proportion of suitable forest habitat in this region is managed by the Forest Service (US Department of Agriculture) and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reichard
Non-native invasive species (NIS) are introduced species which are able to spread into native or managed systems, develop self-sustaining populations, and become dominant or disruptive to those systems. These species may be very harmful to the systems they invade, competing with…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nilon
Wildlife management at the urban-wildland interface requires an understanding of the two broad goals of wildlife conservation in cities: management to retain biodiversity at a regional scale; and management to provide all residents with contacts with wildlife as part of their…
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
Alavalapati
Human-induced factors are causing significant changes in the American wildland-urban interface (WUJ) thereby affecting forestlands The National Resource Inventory, for example, estimates that 11.5 million acres of non-federal forests were converted to urban uses between 1982 and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS