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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Woodall, Lutes
Weight per unit area (load) estimates of Down Woody Material (DWM) are the most common requests by users of the USDA Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program's DWM inventory. Estimating of DWM loads requires the uniform compilation of DWM transect data for…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Weber
Gifford Pinchot wanted to be a forester. He was smart, hardworking, and wealthy. He could have studied law, medicine, or banking, but he chose forestry. It was an odd choice, since there were no U.S. foresters at that time. In the 1870's and 1880's, it was thought that American…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Science at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has always been large in scale. The depth and breadth of the research conducted here, however, may surprise even many who are engaged in it. Our research programs have a wide geographical and temporal scope, an…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Szaro, Boyce, Puchlerz
Planning activities over large landscapes poses a complex of challenges when trying to balance the implementation of a conservation strategy while still allowing for a variety of consumptive and nonconsumptive uses. We examine a case in southeast Alaska to illustrate the breadth…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ohmann, Gregory, Pierce, Wimberly, Fried
Poster presented at the Joint Fire Science Program Principal Investigator Workshop, November 2005.
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Theobald, Spies, Kline, Maxwell, Hobbs, Dale
How can ecologists be more effective in supporting ecologically informed rural land-use planning and policy? Improved decision making about rural lands requires careful consideration of how ecological information and analyses can inform specific planning and policy needs. We…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Troutwine, Zuuring
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Zuuring, Troutwine, Jones, Sullivan
Forest managers are challenged to fulfill conflicting social, biological, and commodity production objectives. To wisely use available, scarce resources for management activities, it is not enough to consider short term costs and effects of management (fuel reduction, planting,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Taylor, Gillette
Communications during fire events are complex. Nevertheless, training fire information officers to plan fire communications before events, and to communicate during fires in a way that accurately and promptly informs residents in fire-affected areas, can increase effectiveness,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thomas, Hansen, Brackley
Major changes in federal forest policy in Alaska have resulted in a dramatic downsizing of the state's forest industry. These changes have driven efforts for economic restructuring and improved support for Alaskan communities. The University of Alaska Sitka Forest Products…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winandy
As worldwide demand for timber and bio-fiber resources grows, sustainable resource management and industrial utilization must collaborate to develop a shared vision for both long-term sustainable management of forest and bio-resources and sustainable economic development.…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Winandy
As the problems associated with sustaining and enhancing the world's forest and agricultural resources compete with the needs of a rapidly increasing and affluent population, the management of our land becomes a much more complex and important issue. One of the most important…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hamilton, Jones, Zeiler
The Multi-scale Resource Integration Tool (MRIT) was developed as an extension of ArcMap to facilitate the integration and summarization of spatial data. Simply put, MRIT characterizes the composition of feature layers (i.e., spatial themes added to an ArcMap document) within…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Guidance for evaluating mass communication health initiatives: summary of an expert panel discussion
Topics discussed in this panel include: (1) the role of theory in the evaluation of health communication programs and campaigns, (2) recommended evaluation methods, strategies and statistical issues, (3) coping with budget constraints, (4) considerations pertaining to health…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Arbogast
This report is the result of an extensive literature search to determine the knowledge regarding visual resource management, visual assessment, and aesthetics in landscape development (especially, industrial minerals mining and reclamation). There is public and governmental…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
These two volumes contain in part papers presented at the Third International Partners in Flight Conference: A Workshop on Bird Conservation Implementation and Integration, which was held 20-24 March 2002 at the Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey, California. The conference…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Malamud, Millington, Perry
Wildfires statistics for the conterminous United States (U.S.) are examined in a spatially and temporally explicit manner. We use a high-resolution data set consisting of 88,916 U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service wildfires over the time period 1970-2000 and consider…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Consalvi, Porterie, Nicolas, Loraud, Kaiss
A fast model of radiative impact on structures exposed to a fire front in the urban interface is presented. The front is viewed as a collection of turbulent diffusion flames whose properties (composition and temperature) are taken from a database previously created from a three-…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rapp
A plant species is defined as invasive if it is non-native to the ecosystem under consideration, and if it causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health. Nonnative plant invasions are generally considered to have reached the Pacific…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), United States Department of the Interior (USDI), is proposing a program to treat vegetation on up to six million acres of public lands annually in 17 western states in the continental United States (U.S.) and Alaska. As part of this program,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mitchell
ANNOTATION: This paper provides an overview of existing literature related to the harvest, communition and transport of forest residues. Past studies have investigated the systems associated with biomass harvesting. Researchers have explored whether to incorporate the biomass…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
ANNOTATION: The authors of this synthesis have implemented several studies over the years, and this CD is an attempt to compile this data in a usable format. The Executive Summary has ten primary research topic areas related to biomass: Baling/bundling; biomass harvesting…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
van Wagtendonk
Welcome to the first issue of Fire Ecology, the Journal of the Association for Fire Ecology. Why another new journal? That is the same question we were asked when we founded the Association over four years ago, and the answer is the same. Other societies and their journals…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gronier, Foltz, Showers
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service is considering alternative methods of erosion control when constructing roads, decommissioning roads, protecting lands burned by wildland fires, and reclaiming lands disturbed by other activities. This article is the second in a…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hoekstra, Boucher, Ricketts, Roberts
Human impacts on the natural environment have reached such proportions that in addition to an 'extinction crisis', we now also face a broader 'biome crisis'. Here we identify the world's terrestrial biomes and, at a finer spatial scale, ecoregions in which biodiversity and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES