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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Using the scientific method to improve game bird management and research: time: fourth Stoddard memorial game bird lecture

Potts
Aware of the time lag that frequently exists between declines in biodiversity and effective conservation to correct and reverse the declines, I examine some reasons behind this problem. Experience with species as diverse as the shag (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) and grey partridge…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Policy issues facing prescribed burning today [abstract]

Cole
Today's prescribed fire program manager is confronted with an increasingly complex dilemma. On the one hand, the science, knowledge, and commitment of managers regarding the role of prescribed fire across the landscape have grown appreciatively, only to be tempered by societal…
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

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

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

How did Fire Control Notes become Fire Management Today? [including: Fire Management Today--whatever happened to notes?]

Brown
From the text ... 'Changing the journal's name from Control to Management signaled a programmatic shift that continues today as the wildland fire community strives to improve firefighter safety while striking the right balance among prevention, suppression, and fire use. In 1976…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Forest fire protection: CRS report for Congress

Gorte
[no description entered]
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Economic evaluation of crew carrier service life

Smith
The Region 5 Hotshots currently have a request to the Mobil Fire Equipment Sub-Committee to address the issue of shortening the service life of crew carriers in the 308 vehicle class, from the current 14 year policy. The issue is supported by the mechanic representatives of this…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Disturbance history of the Tanana River Basin in Alaska: Management implications

Roessler, Packee
The Tanana River basin in interior Alaska occupies approximately 11.9 million hectares. Forests of the basin consist of white or black spruce (Picea glauca, P. mariana), tamarack (Larix laricina), paper birch (Betula papyrifera), quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), and balsam…
Year: 2000
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

RERAP installation guide

Bahr
Installation guide to the RERAP software program.
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Crown fires are 'hot': introducing the international crown fire modeling experiment

Alexander, Stocks, Amiro, Lanoville
The International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME) constitutes a major, cooperative, global undertaking involving coordination by the Canadian Forest Service Fire Research Network (CFS-FRN) and the Government of the Northwest Territories' Forest Management Division…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Carbon metabolism of the terrestrial biosphere: a multitechnique approach for improved understanding

Canadell, Mooney, Baldocchi, Berry, Ehleringer, Field, Gower, Hollinger, Hunt, Jackson, Running, Shaver, Steffen, Trumbore, Valentini, Bond
Understanding terrestrial carbon metabolism is critical because terrestrial ecosystems play a major role in the global carbon cycle. Furthermore, humans have severely disrupted the carbon cycle in ways that will alter the climate system and directly affect terrestrial metabolism…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS