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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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

Naturalness and wildness: the dilemma and irony of managing wilderness

Landres, Brunson, Merigliano, Sydoriak, Morton
This paper summarizes a dialogue session that focused on two concepts that strongly influence nearly all wilderness management: wildness and naturalness. The origin and value of these concepts are discussed, as well as the dilemma and irony that arises when wilderness managers…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Modeling and mapping wildfire potential in Mexico based on vegetation and drought conditions using remote sensing and GIS technology

Mora, Hernandez-Cardenas
An increasing severity in the occurrence of wildfires in Mexico has been recently associated with the activity of 'El Nino' Southern Oscillation (ENSO). A spatio-temporal analysis of fire potential indicated that indeed, catastrophic fires could occur due to unusual droughts and…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Idaho Panhandle National Forests wildfire hazard-risk assessment

Harkins, Morgan, Neuenschwander, Chrisman, Zack, Jacobson, Grant, Sampson
The Idaho Panhandle National Forests (IPNF), in partnership with the University of Idaho, the Fire Sciences Laboratory, and The Sampson Group, developed a Geographic Information System (GIS) based wildfire hazard-risk assessment. The assessment was completed for the North Zone…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The challenge of restoring natural fire to wilderness

Parsons
Despite clear legislative and policy direction to preserve natural conditions in wilderness, the maintenance of fire as a natural process has proven to be a significant challenge to federal land managers. As of 1998, only 88 of the 596 designated wilderness areas in the United…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Management and research implications [Chapter 8]

Lyon, Smith
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Reconstruction of natural fire regimes through ecological modeling

Li
To reconstruct a natural fire regime it is necessary to estimate the historical fire cycle when human influence was less evident. This can be accomplished through the construction of a fire-origin map. The dynamic fire regime is a result of interactions among forest ecosystem…
Year: 2000
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

Area burned reconstruction and measurement: a comparison of methods

Larsen
Knowledge of temporal changes in the area burned by wildfires is required to understand their influence on global climate change. This paper reviews the primary methods of reconstructing and measuring area burned. The area burned by wildfires is typically reconstructed using…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Protecting the wildland-urban interface from wildfire—who is responsible? [abstract]

Hesseln, Rideout
The fire season of 2000 is one of the most severe on record, burning approximately seven million acres by the end of September—over 2.5 times the 10-year average of 2.6 million acres. Fires burning in the wildland-urban interface have resulted in millions of dollars of private…
Year: 2000
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

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

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: 2000
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

Fire management leadership in the 21st century [including: Gifford Pinchot on the role of wildland fire; Common characteristics of good leaders; and What is expected of you as a fire management leader?]

Thompson
From the text ... 'We are only now relearning the need to have a sound land management policy based on a thorough understanding of fire's ecological role.'
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The Ten Standard Firefighting Orders

From the text ... 'The Ten Standard Firefighting Orders: 1. Fight fire agressively, but provide for safety first. 2. Initiate all action based on current and expected fire conditions. 3. Recognize current weather conditions and obtain forecasts. 4. Ensure that instructions are…
Year: 2000
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

Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on fauna

Fires affect animals mainly through effects on their habitat. Fires often cause short-term increases in wildlife foods that contribute to increases in populations of some animals. These increases are moderated by the animals' ability to thrive in the altered, often simplified,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

KCFAST*TechNote-2001-01

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