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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Hessburg
We have all seen the news - hotter summers, and bigger, badder wildfires. What's going on? How did we get here? Paul tells a fast-paced story of western US forests - unintentionally yet massively changed by a century of management. He relates how these changes, coupled with a…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Urgenson, Ryan, Halpern, Bakker, Belote, Franklin, Haugo, Nelson, Waltz
Collaborative approaches to natural resource management are becoming increasingly common on public lands. Negotiating a shared vision for desired conditions is a fundamental task of collaboration and serves as a foundation for developing management objectives and monitoring…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bastian, Keske, Mcleod, Hoag
Conservation easements offer sustainable land use and environmental conservation through land use restrictions. Opportunities exist to improve the efficiency by which parties interested in conservation easement transactions are matched, which may contribute to the overall…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
North, Collins, Stephens
The USDA Forest Service is implementing a new planning rule and starting to revise forest plans for many of the 155 National Forests. In forests that historically had frequent fire regimes, the scale of current fuels reduction treatments has often been too limited to affect fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'After the enactment of the Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement (FLAME) Act of 2009, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) directed the development of a national cohesive strategy to address the Nation's wildland fire management issues.…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Yoder, Gebert
This paper develops an econometric model that can provide predictions of fire suppression costs (per acre and in total) for a given large fire before final fire acreage is known. The model jointly estimates cost per acre and acreage equations via Maximum Likelihood, accounting…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas, Butry
Each year, wildland fires threaten structures and occupants of the wildland urban interface (WUI). Currently, wildfire ignition estimates largely exclude ignitions originating within municipal jurisdictions, which contain the majority of the US population. The objective of this…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hartway, Mills
Management strategies for the recovery of declining bird populations often must be made without sufficient data to predict the outcome of proposed actions or sufficient time and resources necessary to collect these data. We quantitatively reviewed studies of bird management in…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Timmons, DeBano, Ryan
From Wildland Fire Management Recommendations ... 'The protection of cultural resources during wildland fire is more challenging than for a prescribed burn. Treatment options available to mitigate the direct impacts from wildland fire include use of water, retardant, and fire…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan, Koerner
From the Conclusions ... 'Fires have impacted cultures for millennia and fire will continue to impact contemporary cultures as well as the remnants of past cultures. The challenge is to manage vagetation/fuels to minimize damage to contemporary cultures as well as the cultural…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ryan, Koerner, Lee, Siefkin
From the text ... 'This volume is intended to be used as a reference for both cultural resource specialists and fire managers during their planning processes. The intended audience includes resource and fire managers employed by public, tribal, and private land management…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sakellariou, Tampekis, Samara, Sfougaris, Christopoulou
Forest ecosystems are our priceless natural resource and are a key component of the global carbon budget. Forest fires can be a hazard to the viability and sustainable management of forests with consequences for natural and cultural environments, economies, and the life quality…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Delaney
Contracting helps Federal fire managers get things done. The Federal fire organizations contract for supplies, services, and-in some cases-construction and specialized services such as architecture and engineering. From buying Nomex, fusees, driptorch fuel, and meals-ready-to-…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
McFayden
WeatherSHIELD (Short & Intermediate Ensemble & Long-term Dynamic Scenarios - Prototype) presented by Colin McFayden.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Little
From AFSC's Spring 2017 Workshop.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
A diversity of partners and interests, federal to private, came together to identify current challenges and research in the wildland fire and air quality impacts realm. Meeting management needs and the opportunity to learn from one another’s expert perspectives were primary…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Riley, Loeffler, Haas
Research Objectives: 1) Generate efficient frontiers and explore tradeoffs across risk reduction, volume production, and cost minimization objectives. 2) Explore the impact of variable spatial extent and dispersed versus clustered treatment strategies. 3) Quantify frequency-…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Riley
A special session at the 6th International Fire Ecology Congress of the Association for Fire Ecology.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Thompson, Riley, Hand, Scott
The increasing cost of fighting wildland fire has had a negative and lasting impact on the Forest Service’s non-fire, mission critical activities. How do we evaluate the potential impacts of mitigation investments on future wildfire management costs?
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Nguyen
Forest harvest scheduling has been modeled using deterministic and stochastic programming models. Past models seldom address explicit spatial forest management concerns under the influence of natural disturbances. In this research study, we employ multistage full recourse…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Oliver
National forest managers are charged with tackling the effects of climate change on the natural resources under their care. The Forest Service National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change and the Climate Change Performance Scorecard require managers to make significant…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Randall, Underberg
Burn plans are a critical component of any prescribed burn. The purpose of a burn plan is to provide a description of the burn area, target weather conditions, hazards that may be encountered, personnel needs and safety, and contacts to make prior to burning. This publication…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stephenson, Millar
Anthropogenic climatic change can no longer be considered an abstract possibility. It is here, its effects are already evident, and changes are expected to accelerate in coming decades, profoundly altering wilderness ecosystems. At the most fundamental level, wilderness stewards…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The annual national technical report of the Forest Health Monitoring Program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources, introduces new techniques…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Holtzhausen
International cooperation and strengthening of wildland fire science and management skills are key to stemming the escalation of wildland fires, according to an accord drawn up by the 5th International Wildfire Conference.
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES