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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Ingalsbee
From the text (p. 34) ... 'Given the fact that climate change will cause many wildfires to burn larger and longer, the real issue in the near future will not be cost reduction or even cost containment, but rather, cost management. Expenditures may still remain high as the amount…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Havstad, James
Prescribed burning is a commonly advocated and historical practice for control of woody species encroachment into grasslands on all continents. However, desert grasslands of the southwestern United States often lack needed herbaceous fuel loads for effective prescriptions,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fry, Stephens
Descriptions of spatial patterns are important components of forest ecosystems, providing insights into functions and processes, yet basic spatial relationships between forest structures and fuels remain largely unexplored. We used standardized omnidirectional semivariance…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
D'Amico, Halainen
From the text ... ''Fire is fire' is a familiar catch-phrase in the fire management community, recognizing that fire is both a tool and a process that shapes the landscape. Today, National Park Service managers use the goals and objectives established in their fire management…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cantu-Salazar, Gaston
A high proportion of global coverage by protected areas is composed of relatively few very large protected areas (vLPAs); it is therefore important to understand their contribution to biological conservation. Here, using fresh analyses and a review of literature, we examine five…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Butler, Goldstein
Wildland fire management in the United States is caught in a rigidity trap, an inability to apply novelty and innovation in the midst of crisis. Despite wide recognition that public agencies should engage in ecological fire restoration, fire suppression still dominates planning…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bagne, Finch
Mechanical and fire treatments are commonly used to reduce fuels where land use practices have encouraged accumulation of woody debris and high densities of trees. Treatments focus on restoration of vegetation structure, but will also affect wildlife populations. Small mammal…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service manages fire to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats, while first ensuring human safety and then protecting our facilities and neighboring communities. Prescribed fire and other means…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Goldstein, Butler, Hull
Conservation Learning Networks (UN) are an emerging conservation strategy for addressing complex resource management challenges that face the forestry profession. The US Fire Learning Network (FLN) is a successful example of a CLN that operates on a national scale. Developed in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Widenmaier, Strong
Tree encroachment into rough fescue (Festuca campestris) grassland has been identified as an ecological concern on the Cypress Hills plateau in southeastern Alberta, Canada. A combination of field sampling (109 transects), a dendrochronological assessment (1361 trees), and a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Le Page, Oom, Silva, Jönsson, Pereira
Aim In any region affected, fires exhibit a strong seasonal cycle driven by the dynamic of fuel moisture and ignition sources throughout the year. In this paper we investigate the global patterns of fire seasonality, which we relate to climatic, anthropogenic, land-cover and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sutton
From the text ... 'The problem with relying too much on memorization of rules to keep us safe is that we are presupposing that a firefighter's mind will retrieve the appropriate piece of memorized information for any situation, even under stress, and make it available just when…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Scholz
From the text ... 'Most of us don't know the 10 standard firefighting orders and 18 watch out situations, the '10 & 18,' by heart. Judging by our fatality reports and close calls, it shows.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Aplet, Wilmer
From the text ... 'Policymakers and forestry experts recognize that, after a century of fire suppression, there is a crisis in forest health: fire-dependent ecosystems starved of regular fire cycles now have unhealthy fuel loads and experience unnaturally large wildfires.'
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Schneider, Fernando
In land change science studies, a cover type is defined by land surface attributes, specifically including the types of vegetation, topography and human structures, which makes it difficult to characterize land cover as discrete classes. One of the challenges in characterizing a…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Farris, Zack, Amacher, Pierson
We examined the short-term response of the bark-foraging bird community to mechanical thinning, prescribed fire, and thinning/prescribed fire combination treatments designed to reduce fuel loads at study sites throughout the continental United States as part of the national Fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Busby, Albers
Wildfire, like many natural hazards, affects large landscapes with many landowners and the risk individual owners face depends on both individual and collective protective actions. In this study, we develop a spatially explicit game theoretic model to examine the strategic…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hood
The report synthesizes the literature and current state of knowledge pertaining to reintroducing fire in stands where it has been excluded for long periods and the impact of these introductory fires on overstory tree injury and mortality. Only forested ecosystems in the United…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Ooi
From the text ... 'Only if the seed experiences an appropriate cue that informs it of a favourable current environment while (relatively) non-dormant will germination occur. Light confirms there has been some disturbance that has brought a buried seed to the surface, smoke that…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Naficy, Sala, Keeling, Graham, DeLuca
Increased forest density resulting from decades of fire exclusion is often perceived as the leading cause of historically aberrant, severe, contemporary wildfires and insect outbreaks documented in some fire-prone forests of the western United States. Based on this notion,…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Miller, Davidson-Hunt, Peters
In this paper, we present how elders of Pikangikum First Nation in northwestern Ontario have drawn upon their knowledge and values associated with fire to engage in fire management planning for 1.3 million hectares of their traditional boreal forest territory. Over a period of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lindenmayer, Likens, Franklin
Large-scale natural disturbances are commonplace around the world. They can have profound effects on human infrastructure and populations, as well as substantially influencing key ecological processes, shaping landscapes, and affecting many species. Major natural disturbances…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kochi, Donovan, Champ, Loomis
The economic costs of adverse health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke should be given serious consideration in determining the optimal wildfire management policy. Unfortunately, the literature in this research area is thin. In an effort to better understand the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Long
From the text ... 'As we move forward and as we put more prescribed fire across the nation, there are going to be things like smoke incidents, there will be accidents, there will be loss of structures. And, yes, there will even be loss of life. The future of prescribed fire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haddow
From the text ... 'Summary: Air quality regulations are getting more stringent. We need to be involved in writing those regulations. We must be experts on the impact of our emissions, and we must be leaders rather than followers. If a state starts to develop a prescribed burning…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS