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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Spark and sprawl: a world tour

Pyne
Editorial comment ... 'In this wide-ranging essay, Stephen Pyne, the preeminent historian of wildfire around the world, explores the past, present, and future of the term 'wildland-urban interface' and the policies regarding fire in that setting. He argues that, while we need to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fire, risk, and recovery: results of a national survey with regional and racial perspectives

Bowker, Lim, Cordell, Green, Rideout-Hanzak, Johnson
We used a national household survey to examine knowledge, attitudes, and preferences pertaining to wildland fire. First, we present nationwide results and trends. Then, we examine opinions across region and race. Despite some regional variation, respondents are fairly consistent…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire: preventing home ignitions

Cohen
Wildfire! Preventing Home Ignitions is a 19-minute video available from the Rocky Mountain Research Station. This program tells you how a wildfire can ignite your home. A 'home ignition zone,' the area that includes a home and its immediate surroundings, determines a home's…
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES

How can we reverse the northern bobwhite population decline?

Brennan
My purpose in this paper is to outline a research and management manifesto for the northern bobwhite in the 1990's. My objectives are to (1) describe the probable causes for the northern bobwhite population decline, (2) outline the research agenda that will be required to solve…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Solving the growing predicament in managing wildland fires

Brown, Arno
Protection of resources from fire has increased the risk of severe fires and reduced resource values in some ecosystems. Constraints on use of prescribed fire have limited its effectiveness in meeting resource goals. This predicament is discussed by describing the ecological…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Don't just burn, prescribe fire

Clark, Tankersley
[no description entered]
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The wildland-urban interface fire problem: a consequence of the fire exclusion paradigm

Cohen
The fire destruction of hundreds of homes associated with wildfires has occurred in the United States for more than a century. From 1870 to 1920, massive wildfires occurred principally in the Lake States but also elsewhere. Wildfires such as Peshtigo (Wisconsin, 1871), Michigan…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The role of nongovernmental organizations in fire education, fuels reduction, and forest restoration: a call for collaboration

Ingalsbee, Henry, Catranides, Schulke
Successfully educating homeowners and communities about wildland fire ecology and management, reducing hazardous fuels, and restoring fire-adapted forest ecosystems will place enormous demands on the budgets, resources, and staff of federal agencies for several decades to come.…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Synthesis of knowledge from woody biomass removal case studies

Evans
ANNOTATION: Woody biomass-usually logging slash, tops and limbs, or trees that cannot be sold as timber-is the lowest valued material removed from the forest and presents economic and logistical challenges. This report brings together 45 case studies of how biomass is removed…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Effects of using visualization and animation in presentations to communities about forest succession and fire behavior potential

Smith, Zimmerman, Akerelrea, O'Keefe
Natural resource managers use a variety of computer-mediated presentation methods to communicate management practices to the public. We explored the effects of using the Stand Visualization System to visualize and animate predictions from the Forest Vegetation Simulator-Fire and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Municipality of Anchorage Community Wildfire Protection Plan

Rodman, Stam
The Municipality of Anchorage Community Wildfire Protection Plan is a collaborative effort in response to the 2003 Healthy Forests Restoration Act (HFRA). The HFRA directs communities exposed to wildland fire to conduct a risk assessment and create a hazard fuel mitigation plan…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

The national park service: DOI or independent status

Soden, Freemuth
Over the course of the last two decades there has been a recurring theme among proponents of the National Park Service mission that politics has undermined the day-to-day goals of the Service. With the increased politization of the Park Service, two recent proposals have called…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland-urban fire-loss mitigation: an ongoing problem for insurance companies

Riley
[no description entered]
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The forest service and fire control

West
[no description entered]
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fire in the 1990's: problems, solutions, and priorities as seen by fire managers

Phillips, George
[no description entered]
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Economics: Costing out restoration

King
The transition of restoration from a science, craft and labor of love to a business raises questions about ecological values and economic costs. An environmental economist summarizes some problems and offers a framework for evaluating the costs and expected results of…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Barriers to effective public interaction

Magill
[no description entered]
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Cooperation or conflict? Interagency relationships and the future of biodiversity for US parks and forests

Grumbine
Cooperation between the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and the United States Department of Interior (USDI) National Park Service is most often advocated to protect biological diversity on national forests and parks, but the agencies, so far, have…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Managing beetle-killed spruce on the Kenai Peninsula

Kruse, Pelz
This report gives the results of a telephone survey of 400 Kenai Peninsula households and 100 Anchorage households regarding management of the 700,000 acres of spruce beetle-impacted lands on the Kenai Peninsula. This represents about 35% of the forested lands on the peninsula.
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Evaluation of Science Delivery of Joint Fire Science Program Research

Barbour
The focused science delivery program proposes to investigate to what extent existing JFSP research is being incorporated into current environmental analysis related to fuels management projects for Federal land management agencies.
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES

A model for assessing potential structure ignitions in the wildland/urban interface

Cohen, Chase, LeVan, Tran
Description not entered.
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Approaches to the conservation of coastal wetlands in the western hemisphere

Bildstein, Bancroft, Dugan, Gordon, Erwin, Nol, Payne, Senner
Coastal wetlands rank among the most productive and ecologically valuable natural ecosystems on Earth. Unfortunately, they are also some of the most disturbed. Because they are productive and can serve as transporation arteries, coastal wetlands have long attracted human…
Year: 1991
Type: Document
Source: TTRS