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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Yazzie
Anyone who has not lived in 'Indian country' cannot understand just how extensively the United States government and its laws affect Native Americans and their natural resource management. These effects are sobering, and touch upon sensitive issues that all Native Americans hold…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDonald, Yuan-Farrell, Fievet, Moeller, Kareiva, Foster, Gragson, Kinzig, Kuby, Redman
The fate of private lands is widely seen as key to the fate of biodiversity in much of the world. Organizations that work to protect biodiversity on private lands often hope that conservation actions on one piece of land will leverage the actions of surrounding landowners. Few…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Peterson, Johnson
From the text ... 'The focus of fuel treatment is typically on reducing hazardous surface fuel and drown-fire hazard. The effects of fuel treatment on vegetation, wildlife, aquatic resources, and economic values also need to be considered. ...The expert knowledge of local fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fege, Absher
From the text ... 'Preventing structure loss has become a major focal point of wildland firefighting. Most days, it feels like wildland fire professionals and land managers are becoming more and more responsible for reducing property losses in the wildland/urban interface (WUI…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rissman, Lozier, Comendant, Kareiva, Kiesecker, Shaw, Merenlender
Conservation easements are one of the primary tools for conserving biodiversity on private land. Despite their increasing use, little quantitative data are available on what species and habitats conservation easements aim to protect, how much structural development they allow,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thomas
From the text ... 'A new age of forestry is needed in the United States. Recent dramatic declines in forest management have brought some undesirable consequences for forest health and wildlife.... A total preservationist approach to management has become increasingly prevalent.…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dale, Gerlak
Increasingly, performance measurement is being used to hold federal agencies accountable, represent environmental progress, and evaluate the effectiveness of environmental programs. The need to track measurable outputs has created a tendency to present programmatic progress…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hill, Fowler, Bollea, Koralab, Lacey, Shulman, Murphy
From the text ... 'In recent years it has become clear that past fire suppression policies have not worked as effectively as was once thought. In fact, they have had major unintended consequences, particularly on federally owned lands. For decades the federal wildland fire…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Nazzaro
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Year: 2007
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
Murphy, Abrams, Daniel, Yazzie
Ecological and social factors shaped old-growth forests of the western United States before Euro-American settlement, and will, in large part, determine their future. In this article, we focus on the social factors that affected the forest's ecological structure and function,…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The International Association of Wildland Fire sponsored the second Fire Behavior and Fuels conference in Destin, Florida. The conference theme was 'Fire Environment--Innovations, Management, and Policy.' Over 450 attendees participated in presentations on the latest innovations…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Absher, Vaske
Theoretically grounded explanations of wildland fire policy can be improved by empirically documenting the causal influences of support for (or opposition to) management alternatives. This chapter proposes a model based on the specificity principle (i.e. correspondence between…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Steelman, Burke
Beginning in 2000, wildfire policy in the United States shifted from focusing almost exclusively on suppression to embracing multiple goals, including hazardous fuels reduction, ecosystem restoration and community assistance. Mutually reinforcing, these policy goals have the…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiedinmyer, Neff
Fires emit significant amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere. These emissions, however, are highly variable in both space and time. Additionally, CO2 emissions estimates from fires are very uncertain. The combination of high spatial and temporal variability and substantial…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
The Western Governors’ Association hosted the webinar, Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges on Dec. 19, 2017 as part of the series for the National Forest and Rangeland Management Initiative. Prescribed fire is a tool for land managers to address wildfire…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mockrin
Becoming a fire-adapted community that can live with wildfire is envisioned as a continuous, iterative process of adaptation. We combined national and case study research to examine how experience with wildfire alters the built environment and community- and government-level…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mockrin
Becoming a fire-adapted community that can live with wildfire is envisioned as a continuous, iterative process of adaptation. In eight case study sites across the United States we examined how destructive wildfire affected altered progress towards becoming fire-adapted, focusing…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Hyde, Yedinak, Talhelm, Smith, Bowman, Johnston, Lahm, Fitch, Tinkham
Wildland fire emissions degrade air quality and visibility, having adverse economic, health and visibility impacts at large spatial scales globally. Air quality regulations can constrain the goals of landscape resilience and management of fire-dependent ecosystems. Here, we…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ottmar
Roger Ottmar, Research Forester with the USFS Pacific Northwest Fire & Environmental Research Applications Team, gave a talk on air quality, wildfire smoke components and smoke impacts on human health with an eye to how air quality regulations may impact prescribed burn…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Miller
This talk will focus on a four-step approach to integrating wildfire planning for the wildland-urban interface (WUI) through a variety of planning and implementation processes that work across departments within local governments. Attendees may wish to review the guide on which…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Carroll, Blatner, Cohn, Morgan
In their classic article Allen and Gould (Allen, G.M., and E.M. Gould. 1986. Complexity, wickedness, and public forests. J. For. 84(4):20 -24) stated that the most daunting problems associated with public forest management had a ''wicked'' element: ''Wicked problems share…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Perin
To facilitate delivery and use of the Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration Project's (Project) products, the Project team engaged in a series of technology transfer activities throughout the life of the project. These included bringing land managers into the design…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS