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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Teeter
From the text ... 'Forest wildfires are a growing issue of concern in the United States, with average annual area burned escalating rapidly compared to levels in the 1980s and 1990s (approximately 1.2 million hectares/year in the 80s vs. 2.8 million ha/year from 2000-2006). Many…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prestemon, Abt, Huggett
We describe a two-stage model of global log and chip markets that evaluates the spatial and temporal economic effects of government-subsidized fire-related mechanical fuel treatment programs in the U.S. West and South. The first stage is a goal program that allocates subsidies…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nitschke, Innes
The achievement of sustainable forest management requires the incorporation of risk and uncertainty into long-term planning. Climatic change will have significant impacts on natural disturbances, species and ecosystems, particularly on landscapes influenced by forest management…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mozumder, Raheem, Talberth, Berrens
With evidence of increasing wildfire risks in wildland-urban interface zones in the U.S. West and elsewhere, understanding intended evacuation behavior is a growing issue for community planners. This research investigates intended evacuation behavior due to wildfire risks, using…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartsough, Abrams, Barbour, Drews, McIver, Moghaddas, Schwilk, Stephens
We collected data at seven sites in the western US, on the costs of fuel reduction operations (prescribed fire, mechanical treatment, mechanical plus fire), and measured the effects of these treatments on surface fuel and stand parameters. We also modeled the potential behavior…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Doyon, Yamasaki, Duchesneau
The Natural Range of Variability is a concept used under the ecosystem management paradigm that means understanding the disturbance-driven spatial and temporal variability of the ecological systems and mimicking them in management strategies. With this project, we developed a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barbour, Zhou, Prestemon
This study reports the results from a 5 year simulation of forest thinning intended to reduce fire hazard on publicly managed lands in the western United States. A state simulation model of interrelated timber markets was used to evaluate the timber product outputs.…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whicker, Pinder, Breshears
Semiarid forests across the western USA and elsewhere are being thinned to reduce risk from fire, restore previous ecological conditions, and/or salvage trees from recently burned areas. Prescriptions and monitoring for thinning generally focus on biotic characteristics of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pierce, Meyer
Alluvial fan deposits are widespread and preserve millennial-length records of fire. We used these records to examine changes in fire regimes over the last 2000 years in Yellowstone National Park mixed-conifer forests and drier central Idaho ponderosa pine forests. In Idaho,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Williamson, Doane
From the text ... 'The Forest Service authorizes broadscale wildland fire use (WFU) both inside and outside wilderness areas in many western forests; but, will agency authoriaztion alone lead to implementation?Understanding barriers and facilitators to WFU implementation is…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martinson, Hunter, Freeman, Omi
From the Summary (p.267) ... 'Nonnative species that establish after disturbances on low frequency crown fire regimes may become persistent members of the vegetation community. While opportunities for establishment of nonnative species may be currently rare in the coldest and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
Editorial comment ... 'The trend of increasing wildfire intensity and size likely due to increasing fuel hazards is only one consequence of fire suppression. Another legacy of the fire exclusion paradigm has far reaching implications: an organizational mindset that persistently…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Santiago-Garcia, Colon, Sollins, Van Bloem
The threat of fire is always a consideration when establishing a forest restoration program. Two wildfires occurred in 2006 and 2007 in an established dry forest restoration project in Puerto Rico. The original goal of the project was to determine differential growth responses…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt, Keane, Calkin, Cohen
Many natural resource agencies and organizations recognize the importance of fuel treatments as tools for reducing fire hazards and restoring ecosystems. However, there continues to be confusion and misconception about fuel treatments and their implementation and effects in fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Palahi, Mavsar, Gracia, Birot
Mediterranean forest ecosystems provide multiple goods and services, including an exceptional richness in terms of biodiversity, which are crucial for the socio-economic development of rural areas as well as for the welfare of the urban populations of the Mediterranean region.…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Butry, Donovan
Climate change, increased wildland fuels, and residential development patterns in fire-prone areas all combine to make wildfire risk mitigation an important public policy issue. One approach to wildfire risk mitigation is to encourage homeowners to use fire-resistant building…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Laband, Hussain, González-Cabán
In this paper, we explore empirically whether the USDA Forest Service's litigation success rate in each Forest Service region helps explain the persistent regional effects noted by Laband et al. (Laband, D.N., Gonzalez-Caban, A., and Hussain, A. (2006). ''Factors That Influence…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Sutcliffe, Barton, Dether
From the text ... 'Simplistically, a High Reliability Organization (HRO) is one that consistently produces the results in a dynamic, often unpredictable environment in which the consequences of errors are catastrophic. Accordingly, the error rate of an HRO is substantially lower…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gude, Rasker, van den Noort
Most studies of wildland fire and residential development have focused on the cost of firefighting and solutions such as fuel reduction and fire-safe home building. Although some studies quantify the number of homes being built near forests, little research has indicated the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Kintisch
Scientists and firefighters ponder new ways to predict the spread of wildfire as the U.S. West faces ever more potent blazes.
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hyde, Dickinson, Bohrer, Calkin, Evers, Gilbertson-Day, Nicolet, Ryan, Tague
Wildland fire management has moved beyond a singular focus on suppression, calling for wildfire management for ecological benefit where no critical human assets are at risk. Processes causing direct effects and indirect, long-term ecosystem changes are complex and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Holmes, González-Cabán, Loomis, Sanchez
In this paper, we investigate homeowner preferences and willingness to pay for wildfire protection programs using a choice experiment with three attributes: risk, loss and cost. Preference heterogeneity among survey respondents was examined using three econometric models and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hawbaker, Radeloff, Stewart, Hammer, Keuler, Clayton
National-scale analyses of fire occurrence are needed to prioritize fire policy and management activities across the United States. However, the drivers of national-scale patterns of fire occurrence are not well understood, and how the relative importance of human or biophysical…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte
From the Introduction ... 'Wildfires generally are getting larger and causing more damage. The past decade has seen the six worst fire seasons of the past half-century....Wildfire protection is also getting more costly. Bigger fires cost more to control, but an additional factor…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Source: TTRS