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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Wildland fire communications: the Mexican connection: what is infrared fire mapping: radio equipment used on a fire: some basics: interagency teams go south

Jenkins
From the text ... 'The United States and Mexico agreed to identify and protect special radio frequencies for wildland firefighters in border areas.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Efficient group decision making in workshop settings

Schmoldt, Peterson
Public land managers must treat multiple values coincidentally in time and space, which requires the participation of multiple resource specialists and consideration of diverse clientele interests in the decision process. This implies decision making that includes multiple…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fire use in roadless areas: restoring ecosystems and rewilding landscapes

Ingalsbee
From the text ... 'In May 2000, the Forest Service released a proposal to protect roadless areas on the national forests and grasslands from degradation through future roadbuilding. The Roadless Area Conservation Draft Environmental Impact Statement, coupled with an unusually…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Managing the impact of wildfires on communities and the environment: a report to the President in response to the wildfires of 2000 [Executive summary]

Executive Summary: On August 8, 2000, President Clinton asked Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to prepare a report that recommends how best to respond to this year*s severe fires, reduce the impacts of these wildland fires on rural…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

A National Fire Plan for future land health (including, Forest service principles for implementing the National Fire Plan)

Dombeck
From the text ... 'We can postpone the inevitible blazes, but-as the 2000 fire season showed-not indefinitely...' ... 'The relative severity of the 2000 fire season mobilized public opinion behind a large-scale program to reduce the fire hazard in our western forests. On…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Issues in reducing costs on large wildland fires

Mangan
From the text ... 'Every year, hundreds of aircraft and tens of thousands of firefighters are needed to suppress wildland fires in the United States, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reducing fire suppression costs: a national priority

Brown
From the text ... 'Since the 1980's, there has been a disturbing rise in both total suppression costs and the cost per acre burned.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Incite: burning money

Williams
From the text... 'The press and politicians called fire season 2000 'a natural disaster.' The fires were natural, but the 'disaster' was how much the United States spent to fight them.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fires 2000: fact vs. fiction

Barrett
From the text ... 'For some forests burned in 2000, still on a natural fire cycle, forest health was not an issue.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

An agency strategy for fire management (executive summary)

From the text ... 'Without a significant organization change, our ability to manage large fires will be compromised. ... We need a strong local initial- and extended-attack fire program and an aggressive ecosystem restoration program.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Interactions of wildfire components: modeling the Cerro Grande Fire [abstract]

Koch, Balice
[no description entered]
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Changing fuel management strategies - The challenge of meeting new information and analysis needs

Conard, Hartzell, Hilbruner, Zimmerman
Attitudes and policies concerning wildland fire, fire use, and fire management have changed greatly since early European settlers arrived in North America. Active suppression of wildfires accelerated early in the 20th Century, and areas burned dropped dramatically. In recent…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Facilitating knowledge exchange about wildland fire science

Long
The Joint Fire Science Program's Knowledge Exchange Consortia Network is actively working to accelerate the awareness, understanding, and adoption of wildland fire science information by Federal, tribal, State, local and private stakeholders within ecologically similar regions.…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Human cognition for wildfire decision making

Miller
Though better land and forest stewardship seem crucial to the prevention of wildfires, the fighting of such fires also matters. How wildfire managers, who are assigned the duty of responding to wildfires once they break out, react to and engage in the wildfire fighting task,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

AWFCG Fire Research Development and Application Committee: 2014 Research Needs List Update

Saperstein
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop      
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Joint Fire Science Program 2015 Funding Call

York
Presented at 2014 Fall Alaska Fire Science Workshop
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Interagency Management of Weather Data

Strader
Presented at the 2014 CFFDRS in Alaska Summit  Workshop on October 28, 2014.
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

Forest Service response to nonfire emergencies

Sachs
Wildland fire agencies respond to more types of emergencies than only wildland fire, and structural fire departments respond to more than structure fires. In addition to day-to-day emergencies of all types within their areas of protection, these emergency responders also deal…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

The National Strategy: the Final Phase in the Development of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy

In the past two decades, a rapid escalation of extreme wildfire behavior, accompanied by significant increases in risk to responders and citizens, home and property losses, costs, and threats to communities and landscapes have been observed. In the Federal Land Assistance,…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

'That all seems more like common sense': an examination of firefighter cognitive maps

McWhorter
Understanding how firefighters navigate their protection areas is a topic few researchers have focused on. Building on a foundation of cognitive mapping, wayfinding and the standard operating procedures of the fire service, this study examines how firefighters form, access and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

KCFAST*TechNote-2001-01

This document describes the password management and new fire reports available using KCFAST.
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Fire and land management planning and implementation across multiple scales

Hann, Bunnell
Ecosystem conditions on Federal public lands have changed, particularly within the last 30 years. Wildfires in the west have increased to levels close to or above those estimated for historical conditions, despite increasing efforts and expertise in fire prevention and…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Fire use planning

Leuschen, Wade, Seamon
The success of a fire use program is in large part dependent on a solid foundation set in clear and concise planning. The planning process results in specific goals and measurable objectives for fire application, provides a means of setting priorities, and establishes a…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS