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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Smith
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jones, Berrens
Recent growth in the frequency and severity of US wildfires has led to more wildfire smoke and increased public exposure to harmful air pollutants. Populations exposed to wildfire smoke experience a variety of negative health impacts, imposing economic costs on society. However…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Little
From AFSC's Spring 2017 Workshop.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Riley
Can we save money on wildfire suppression by investing in fuel treatments and prescribed fire?
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
Blumberg
From the text...'Arson, 'the willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property or another, etc., ' has been a topic of study of law enforcement and fire prevention…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Potter, Newstead, Quintilio, Lee
From the text: 'As an aid to improved presuppression and initial-attack planning, a simple fire containment model programmed for the Texas Instruments Model 59 (TI-59) hand-held calculator has been developed at the Northern Forest Research Centre. The model was derived in part…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lawson
From the text ... 'It is now recognized that indiscriminate slash burning has no place in current forest management. We must improve prescribed burning practice to accomplish at reasonable cost what no other treatment can provide on many sites. The job is to rationally develop…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Garmon
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis, Lyon
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Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moore
This guide, based on a literature review and personal contacts, offers recommendations and standards for procedures in reducing losses of residences from wildfires. Possible solutions to the problem of fire protection are discussed in the broad areas of land-use planning and…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Bratten, Davis, Flatman, Keith, Rapp, Storey
FOCUS (Fire Operational Characteristics Using Simulation) is a computer simulation model for evaluating alternative fire management plans. This final report provides a broad overview of the FOCUS system, describes two major modules-fire suppression and cost, explains the role in…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Marty, Barney
A guidebook has been developed to assist the fire managers and planners in estimating actual economic costs, losses, and benefits resulting from fire management activities. This guidebook was developed and tested on 12 National Forests during the 1977-79 period. The procedures…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Bradshaw, Fischer
This manual provides program writeups for two separate but related computer programs: RXWTHR and RXBURN. These programs are components of a system designed to aid fire managers in predicting the probable occurrence of desired prescribed fire weather conditions. The programs are…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Robatcek
ANNOTATION: The purpose of the paper is to discuss some of the implications of improved residue utilization on timber sales activities. Improved residue utilization on timber sales requires new and innovative economic and practical approaches on timber sales. Varying uses,…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Schweitzer
ANNOTATION: As the values of wood products increase, there are more economic opportunities to utilize residues. This is true both for dead-and-down materials and for previously unharvested stands which, together, make up the potential economic residues resource. A variety of…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith
ANNOTATION: The framework for harvesting and utilization opportunities for forest residues includes a number of long standing as well as recently enacted statutes. Air and water quality standards as set forth in legislation also have an effect on utilization opportunities. A…
Year: 1981
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Little
This presentation covers part of the findings of the JFSP-funded study "Duration and cost effectiveness of fuel treatments in the Alaska boreal region", Little, et al. 2014, namely how Alaskan homeowners contacted in surveys viewed personal and government responsibility for…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This publication contains tabular data used to evaluate the effects of fuel treatments and previously burned areas on daily wildland fire management costs. The data represent daily Forest Service fire management costs for a sample of 56 fires that burned between 2008 and 2012…
Year: 2017
Type: Data
Source: FRAMES
Rideout, Wei, Kirsch, Brooks, Kernohan, Magbual
The importance of cost effective fuel treatment programs has appeared consistently in federal directives (FLAME ACT, National Cohesive Strategy, U.S Department of Interior Office of Policy Analysis) as a priority. Implementing cost effective fuel treatment programs requires a…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rideout
Doug Rideout discusses STARfire - a spatial planning and budgeting system integrating fuels, preparedness, and risk assessment guided by ROI. Scaleable from planning unit to regional to national levels.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
West, Legarza, Jolly, Emanuel, Knight
Join us in a discussion on how climatic changes can influence wildland fire activity across the globe and how these critical fire weather variables have changed over the last 40 years. These changes in key weather variables have combined to both lengthen the fire season and…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Stonesifer
A frequent prerequisite for meeting fire management objectives is the availability of key suppression resources, prepositioned for timely response. In the United States, multi-jurisdictional fire suppression demand is met by a national-scale pool of suppression resources that…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES