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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Finney, Cohen
The success of fuel management in helping achieve wildland fire management goals is dependent first upon having realistic expectations. Second, the benefits of fuel management can be realized only when treatments are applied at the appropriate scale to the appropriate source of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Rideout
Fuels management is conducted in the context of the social sciences, which bring the science of the human element into the analysis. Of the social sciences, economics addresses the enhancement or improvement in the human condition by improving our ability to allocate scarce…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Rideout
Determining the specific mix of fire-fighting resources for a given fire is a necessary condition for identifying the minimum of the Cost Plus Net Value Change (C+NVC) function. Current wildland fire management models may not reliably do so. The problem of identifying the most…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
This document contains the technical description of the Fire Effects Tradeoff Model, Version 4 (hereafter referred to as FETM 4). This technical documentation includes a description of the architecture, equations, assumptions, and principal components and processes used in FETM…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This FIRESTAT User's Guide shows you how to enter Individual Fire Report information using form FS-5100-29 and other sources. It is organized to help you locate and perform specific FIRESTAT functions quickly and easily.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The Fire Effects Tradeoff Model Version 4 (FETM 4) is a landscape-scale, strategic planning model designed to simulate the long-term tradeoffs between wildland fire and various fuel treatment alternatives over large areas of the landscape encompassing diverse environmental…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires burn millions of acres annually. Most burnt land can recover naturally, but a small percentage needs short-term emergency treatment to stabilize burnt land that threatens public safety, property, or ecosystems or longer-term treatments to rehabilitate land unlikely to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
de Groot, Flannigan, Amiro, Stocks
Forest fires in Canada currently burn 2-3 M ha annually (~0.5% of forest land), causing an estimated $2 B in timber losses. Total annual fire suppression expenditures in Canada are about $500 M. Fire statistics for the last 40 years show an increasing trend in the average annual…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Riebau, Fox
Fires can be catastrophic, but only when the weather permits. Predicting the weather more than a few hours into the future with accuracy, precision and reliability is an on-going challenge to researchers. Accurate and precise forecasting for more than a few hours into the future…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hermansen-Baez
This paper explores common definitions and characteristics of the wildland-urban interface, particularly from a natural resource planning and policy perspective. Factors that are driving the rapid change and expansion of the wildland-urban interface are also examined.
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Groisman, Knight, Heim, Razuvaev, Sherstyukov, Speranskaya
Significant climatic changes over the high latitudes in the 20th century have been reflected in many atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial variables. Changes in surface air temperature, precipitation, growing season duration, and snow cover cause changes in numerous derived…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Stocks, Kasischke, McRae, Conard, McGuire, Goldammer, Flannigan, Amiro, Sukhinin, Ivanova
Fire has been a natural and essential stand-renewing agent in boreal forests for millennia, and development of the boreal zone for industrial and recreational purposes has required the concurrent development of forest fire management programs that balance the protection of life…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gebert, Schuster, Hesseln
Our study tested the hypothesis that a 24-hour pay system would help control the rising cost of fire suppression and improve firefighter safety. Under this system, emergency firefighting employees would receive their regular base pay 24 hours a day, regardless of the length of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES