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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Dale
It is now widely acknowledged that fire suppression expenses have risen sharply recently as a result of fuel buildup and the proliferation of the wildland-urban interface. Federal firefighting budgets cannot be expected to keep up with anticipated suppression costs. One of the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Zimmerman, Lasko
From its inception early in the 20th century, fire management developed as a strongly directed program with a one-dimensional focus of fire control. Following a name change to fire management in the early 1970's, it evolved into a multi-dimensional program addressing both fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LaHart, Dawson, Chapman, Owens
With a growing number of property losses casued by wildfire, and ecological problems caused by altered fire regimes, fire education has become a critical fire management strategy. The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management and Florida State University worked…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Withen
This study is concerned with 'Protection on the Fireline' especially as it relates to Human Dynamics, Personnel Protection and High Reliability Organizations. It has been understood for some time that the number of firefighting rules and regulations imposed upon the line…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartlett
Fire-blocking gel, a new weapon in the war on wildfires, is being hailed by firefighters, property owners, scientists and government officials as one of the most important developments in fire fighting history. This new technology enables professional firefighters as well as…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haggstrom
Human settlement in the fire-prone boreal forest of interior Alaska creates an interesting paradox: wildland fires are needed to protect against fire, and fire suppression is needed to cost-effectively manage lands and resources in the urban interface. Experience has shown that…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jakes, Barro
Wildfire fuels management is a front-page issue for the President, Congress, agencies, communities, and citizens. The role of social science in wildfire fuels management is to improve the decision-making process. In meetings with fuels managers and social scientists for several…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jain, Their, Michael
Wildfires of 2000 and 2001 burned thousands of hectares in the Northern Rocky Mountains. Within the fire parameters, 162 Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) plots burned in Idaho and Montana where pre-wildfire information on forest structure, vegetation composition, soil…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wang, Kemball
Four boreal mixedwood stands burned by the 1999 Black River wildfire in southeastern Manitoba were sampled to study the effect of fire severity on the early (1999 to 2003) dynamics of vegetation recovery. Three fire severity classes (scorched, lightly burned, and severely burned…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jones
StormCenter Communications in conjunction with the National Environmental Educational and Training Foundation (NEETF) has developed a powerful tool for delivering timely wildland fire information and public safety messages to the public through a partnership with local broadcast…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abt, Prestemon, Ince, Fight, Barbour, Rummer
Current and proposed legislation and policy envisions mechanically treating wildlands to reduce wildfire risks. The economic impacts of introducing these materials into local forest product markets are not well understood. We present modeling results of a nationwide study that…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abt, Prestemon, Holmes
Recent analyses of the local economic impacts of large fires have resulted in lists of costs (Hayman fire 2002, Florida fires 1998) including suppression costs, loss of tourism, and timber market effects, among others. With the exception of the timber market effects, none of the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hann
A natural fire regime is a general classification of the role fire would play across a landscape in the absence of modern human mechanical intervention. Five natural (historical) fire regime groups have been classified and defined by Hardy et al. (2001) and Schmidt et al. (2002…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sexton
Fire regimes and fire regime condition class (FRCC) have become key measures for agency fire program analysis and budget formulation and evaluation. FRCC and associated variables have become critical to fire and fuels planning and provide substantial benefits to program…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bunnell
The demand for a nationally consistent condition variable for wildland fire and fuel management developed as a result of the 1988, 1990s, and 2000 fire seasons. Coming internally from administration and agency leadership and externally from Congress and concerned publics the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rodríguez-Trejo
Pinus hartwegii is found in 17 states in Mexico, from 3 000 to more than 4 000 m above sea level. It is typical of the highest portions of mountains and above 3 500 m forms pure open stands associated with grasses and some shrubs. Among the natural disturbances that are…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jimenez, Butler, Reardon
Current methods for predicting fire-induced plant mortality in shrubs and trees are largely empirical. These methods do not exhibit a wide range of applicability and are not readily linked to duff burning, soil heating, and surface fire behavior models. A detailed model…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gray
Wildfire occurrence and burn severity have increased in recent years throughout North America creating concern for the long-term sustainability of forest ecosystems. Much of the focus has been centered on the need to reduce fuels in areas containing high human and ecological…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bobbe
Remote sensing technologies have the capability to provide accurate and timely information to fire suppression teams, land management agencies, and the public. The USDA Forest Service is currently using a combination of satellite and airborne remote sensing systems to map and…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sohlberg
Satellite data provide a unique view of wildfire, which can be updated several times per day over large areas. The MODIS Land Rapid Response System detects active fires on a global basis in formats readily usable within geographic information systems. New research utilizes these…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wegener
The surveillance of critical facilities and national infrastructure such as forests, waterways, roadways, pipelines and utilities requires advanced technological tools to provide timely, up to date information on status and threats. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are uniquely…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Griswold
This paper suggests that one way to understand the nature of press coverage of the debate over the Bush administration's 'Healthy Forests Initiative' is to see it as an example of the process by which powerful groups in society use the media as they compete among themselves to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Beighley, Zimmerman
The 1995 Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy established the first interagency and inter-departmental federal fire policy. As implementation of this policy proceeded, certain inconsistencies in implementation occurred. Following the 2000 fire season, a review of the policy…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jardel, Ramírez-Villeda, Balcazar, Castillo-Navarro
Fire is an important and controversial issue in protected area management in México. Public opinion perceive wildfires as one of the principal causes of forest degradation and government agencies in charge of forest management and conservation invest great efforts on fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Massman, Frank, Massman, Shepperd
Natural and prescribed fires play an important role in managing and maintaining most ecosystems in the western US. The high soil temperatures associated with fire influence forests and their ability to regenerate after a fire by altering soil properties and soil chemistry and by…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS