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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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McCaffrey, Toman, Stidham, Shindler
As with other aspects of natural-resource management, the approach to managing wildland fires has evolved over time as scientific understanding has advanced and the broader context surrounding management decisions has changed. Prior to 2000 the primary focus of most fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Busby, Amacher, Haight
In this article, we consider wildfire risk management decisions using a dynamic stochastic model of homeowner interaction in a setting where spatial externalities arise. Our central objective is to apply observations from the social science literature about homeowner preferences…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Toledo, Sorice, Kreuter
Fire suppression in grassland systems that are adapted to episodic fire has contributed to the recruitment of woody species in grasslands worldwide. Even though the ecology of restoring these fire prone systems back to grassland states is becoming clearer, a major hurdle to the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ferster, Coops, Harshaw, Kozak, Meitner
Wildfire management in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) protects property and life from wildland fire. One approach that has potential to provide information about the amount and location of fuels to forest managers and, at the same time, increase public knowledge and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gross
The social dynamics of wildfire management can help us understand and improve fire management strategies that provide for safety, ecological processes, and economically efficient management. A 2012 paper by McCaffrey and others summarized the results of 200 social science…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire management is dictated by community and political pressure-at least that's what conventional wisdom in the fire community tells us. However, few studies have investigated the validity of that axiom, and little is known about the relative influence of internal and external…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Toledo, Sorice, Kreuter
Fire suppression in grassland systems that are adapted to episodic fire has contributed to the recruitment of woody species in grasslands worldwide. Even though the ecology of restoring these fire prone systems back to grassland states is becoming clearer, a major hurdle to the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Gordon, Gruver, Flint, Luloff
Despite a broad literature addressing the human dimensions of wildfire, current approaches often compartmentalize results according to disciplinary boundaries. Further, relatively few studies have focused on the public's evolving perceptions of wildfire as communities change…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Goldstein, Taufen Wessells, Lejano, Butler
How can communities enhance social-ecological resilience within complex urban systems? Drawing on a new urbanist proposal in Orange County, California, it is suggested that planning that ignores diverse ways of knowing undermines the experience and shared meaning of those living…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wibbenmeyer, Hand, Calkin, Venn, Thompson
Federal policy has embraced risk management as an appropriate paradigm for wildfire management. Economic theory suggests that over repeated wildfire events, potential economic costs and risks of ecological damage are optimally balanced when management decisions are free from…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Homeowners living within a mile of forests or any fire-prone landscape - public or private, rural or urban - can take simple preventive steps to limit damage from wildfires. Here are seven ways to help your community become 'fire adapted' and contain rising fire-control costs.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Climate warming is an important factor that has contributed to increases in the frequency and severity of wildfires and epidemic spruce bark beetle outbreaks in the boreal forest. These changes are likely to alter ecosystems, as well as the way Alaskans view and use their…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Black
This report presents complete results of a 2011 stakeholder feedback effort conducted for the National Wildfire Coordination Group (NWCG) Executive Board concerning how best to organize and manage national wildland fire Incident Management Teams in the future to meet the needs…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Toman, Stidham, McCaffrey, Shindler
Over the past decade, a growing body of research has been conducted on the human dimensions of wildland fire. Building on a relatively small number of foundational studies, this research now addresses a wide range of topics including mitigation activities on private lands, fuels…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Maranghides, Mell
WUI fires offer a unique challenge to the fire fighting and fire protection engineering communities. The scale of the events can be vast, spanning in many cases over 100,000 acres (40,000 ha) and the number of structures involved can range into the thousands. The severity of the…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Blades, Hall, McCaffrey
[from the text] Land managers and officials need to understand the diverse public opinions toward smoke from wildland fires; however, a very limited amount of research has been conducted on this topic. Hence, land and fire managers are largely uncertain about society's…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Busby, Amacher, Haight
In this article, we consider wildfire risk management decisions using a dynamic stochastic model of homeowner interaction in a setting where spatial externalities arise. Our central objective is to apply observations from the social science literature about homeowner preferences…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Huffman
I examined the hypothesis that traditional social-ecological fire systems around the world include common elements of traditional fire knowledge (TFK). I defined TFK as fire-related knowledge, beliefs, and practices that have been developed and applied on specific landscapes for…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Shindler, Toman
Considerable social science research has been conducted at the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) since inception of the Joint Fire Science Program and National Fire Plan. Results have provided useful insight into factors including public acceptance of fuel treatments, communication…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Absher, Vaske
A multi-year, community-based project to look at social and cognitive barriers to wildfire risk reduction by focusing on better completion of defensible space behaviors through the use of promising social science approaches. The project seeks to identify practical steps for…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Lahm, Broyles
This is the third presentation held on the first day of the 2013 National Logistics Webinar Series. Pete Lahm, US Forest Service and George Broyles, US Forest Service discuss an emerging program and effort dealing with wildfire air quality response. This webinar originally aired…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Roger Ottmar has a long and distinguished career studying smoke and effects on firefighter and public health. He presented this talk on the public health impacts of smoke at the RX410 Smoke Management Techniques class March 25-29, 2013, Fairbanks, Alaska. This introductory (…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hansen
For his MS Thesis, Winslow explored the social and ecological implications of changing boreal forest natural disturbance regimes. He analyzed how the occurrence of spruce bark beetle outbreak has altered the probability of subsequent wildfire activity between 2001 and 2009 on…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
McCaffrey
As more people live in high fire hazard areas, the active involvement of the public will be central to many efforts to minimize fire risk and improve forest health. One barrier to effectively engaging the public may be that many of the accepted descriptions related to the public…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Holdsambeck
How an organization responds to an unintended outcome (such as a serious accident) will vector the organization either towards, or away from, a learning culture. The FLA process came about specifically to move our culture towards becoming a learning organization. The FLA process…
Year: 2013
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES