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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Shanks Rodrigues
Wildland firefighting in Alaska is changing due to the impact of climate change on the boreal forest. Changes to the wildland firefighting regime could have significant impacts on community participation during fall subsistence hunting and, consequentially, food security levels…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stauber
The statement, 'Availability of fire resources can be a serious constraint to conducting prescribed natural fire activities,' illustrates some misunderstanding of prescribed fire programs. The availability of fire suppression resources should not be a 'driving force' in our…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Poncin
Decision making for managers in a fire situation can be very complicated. The information brought to the decision maker must be well though out and accurate. Before meaningful strategy can be formulated, realistic agreed-upon objectives for the incident are needed. With…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hurd
Resource management plans and objectives may be sound ecologically and within agency mandates for management, but impossible to expedite because of political considerations and obstacles. It is imperative that these be recognized in the planning processes and confronted…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Botti, Nichols
Prescribed natural fire programs in the National Park Service have changed dramatically following the 1988 Yellowstone fires. The area burned per year has declined by 94 percent even though the area within prescribed natural fire zones has increased. The program has been…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fann, Alman, Broome, Morgan, Johnston, Pouliot, Rappold
Introduction: Wildland fires degrade air quality and adversely affect human health. A growing body of epidemiology literature reports increased rates of emergency departments, hospital admissions and premature deaths from wildfire smoke exposure. Objective: Our research aimed to…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fitzgerald, Berger, Leavell, Grand
Discusses the purpose and benefits of salvage cutting. One in a part of a series of fire FAQs that are based on questions Forest & Natural Resource Extension agents and specialists have received from the people they serve.
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Toombs, Weber
Today’s extended fire seasons and large fire footprints have prompted state and federal land-management agencies to devote increasingly large portions of their budgets to wildfire management. As fire costs continue to rise, timely and comprehensive fire information becomes…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Little, Jandt, Drury, Molina, Lane
Wildland fire is the dominant disturbance agent of the boreal forest of Alaska. Currently, about 80% of the population of Alaska resides in communities potentially at risk from wildland fire. The wildland fire threat to these settlements is increasing because of increased…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In 2017, the dominant greenhouse gases released into Earth’s atmosphere—carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide— reached new record highs. The annual global average carbon dioxide concentration at Earth’s surface for 2017 was 405.0 ± 0.1 ppm, 2.2 ppm greater than for 2016 and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Little, Jandt
October 9th, 2018. Part of the Alaska Fire Science Consortium workshop, the presentation gave a final report on fuel treatments.
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Coughlan, Magi, Derr
We examined the relationships between lightning-fire-prone environments, socioeconomic metrics, and documented use of broadcast fire by small-scale hunter-gatherer societies. Our approach seeks to re-assess human-fire dynamics in biomes that are susceptible to lightning-…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Truesdale
'The rising cost of fire suppression activities prompted the Regional Fire Directors, under the leadership of the Director of Fire and Aviation Management, to review the causes of fire suppression costs and recommend appropriate actions. The 1994 fire season costs were the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bell, Cleaves, Croft, Husari, Schuster, Truesdale
[unpublished report] From the text...'Because of the soaring expenditures (nearly $1 billion in FY 1994) for fire management, the Fire Economics Assessment Team was formed in January of 1995 by USDA Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management, and chartered with the…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text and table of contents: .'This report addresses five major topic areas: 1) role of wildland fire in resource management, 2) use of wildland fire, 3) preparedness and suppression, 4) wildland/urban interface protection, and 5) coordinated program management; presents…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stanton
Prescribed fires create a wide range of exposures to liability for the individuals, groups, or agencies involved. This article examines general principles of tort law, strict liability for ultrahazardous activities, negligence per se, and volunteer and personal liablity.…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Puttock
ANNOTATION: Often the deciding factor in the economical recovery of wood fuel is its relationship with some other objective such as stand establishment, stand improvement, or forest access. The costs and benefits arising from these related management activities are discussed.…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bilbao, Del Ser, Perfecto, Salcedo-Sanz, Portilla-Figueras
Nowadays there is a global concern with the growing frequency and magnitude of natural disasters, many of them associated with climate change at a global scale. When tackled during a stringent economic era, the allocation of resources to efficiently deal with such disaster…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fann, Alman, Broome, Morgan, Johnston, Pouliot, Rappold
Introduction: Wildland fires degrade air quality and adversely affect human health. A growing body of epidemiology literature reports increased rates of emergency departments, hospital admissions and premature deaths from wildfire smoke exposure. Objective: Our research aimed to…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout, Omi
We develop a potentially generalizable cost estimation procedure for fuels treatment using the National Park Service (NPS) nationwide database. The NPS database includes records on the projected cost of fuel treatment projects. These records are kept separately for traditional…
Year: 1995
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Little, Jandt
Wildland fire is the dominant disturbance agent of the boreal forest of Alaska, which covers about 114 million ac. of the southcentral and interior regions, representing about 15% of the forested area of the U.S. Currently, about 80% of the population of Alaska resides in…
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES