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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Long, Wade, Beall
Fire managers define the wildland-urban interface as all areas were flammable wildland fuels are adjacent to homes and communities. With this definition, the wild-land-urban interface may encompass a much broader landscape than traditionally perceived. For example, the Tunnel…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Haines, Renner, Reams
Wildfire may result from natural processes or as the result of human actions (Ffolliott 1988, Mees 1990). As a natural phenomenon, it is important in sustaining forest health in fire-dependent ecosystems. While some wildfire may be ecologically beneficial, it poses a threat to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Chapin, McGuire, Ruess, Hollingsworth, Mack, Johnstone, Kasischke, Euskirchen, Jones, Jorgenson, Kielland, Kofinas, Turetsky, Yarie, Lloyd, Taylor
This paper assesses the resilience of Alaska's boreal forest system to rapid climatic change. Recent warming is associated with reduced growth of dominant tree species, plant disease and insect outbreaks, warming and thawing of permafrost, drying of lakes, increased wildfire…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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
Goldammer
The increasing incidence, extent and severity of uncontrolled burning globally, together with its many adverse consequences, has brought fire into the international environmental policy arena, with growing calls for international action leading to greater control of burning,…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: 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
Neuenschwander, Ryan, Gollberg
From the Preface...'Three factors provided the impetus for holding this conference and workshop. First, wildland fire managers are tasked with increasing the emphasis on prescribed fire and other fuel management techniques as part of an effort to reintroduce fire as an important…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Keane, Loehman, Holsinger
Fire management faces important emergent issues in the coming years such as climate change, fire exclusion impacts, and wildland-urban development, so new, innovative means are needed to address these challenges. Field studies, while preferable and reliable, will be problematic…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dods
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
From the text... 'Fused inorganic tubes caused by lightning strokes to the ground, called fulgurites, are abundant in many portions of the earth. Ample evidence of fossil fires, called fusain, lies buried in the coal beds of all the coal-forming periods known to geology. For…
Year: 1982
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ingalsbee
Construction of fuelbreaks as a presuppression fuels treatment strategy in national forests has always been controversial (Omi 1996). Criticisms have been raised over the objectives, prescriptions, locations, methods, costs, impacts, and effectiveness of fuelbreak construction…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Hesseln
Prescribed burning has, in the past decade, become the focus of debate among policy makers, federal and private land managers, and the public. To manage fire effectively, the USDA Forest Service has formally recognized the need for economic analysis. It is stated in the Federal…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hessburg, Reynolds, Keane, James, Salter
We present a decision support application that evaluates danger of severe wildland fire and prioritizes subwatersheds for vegetation and fuels treatment. We demonstrate the use of the system with an example from the Rocky Mountain region in the State of Utah; a planning area of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Gebert, Calkin, Yoder
The extreme cost of fighting wildland fires has brought fire suppression expenditures to the forefront of budgetary and policy debate in the United States. Inasmuch as large fires are responsible for the bulk of fire suppression expenditures, understanding fire characteristics…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Flint
Forest disturbances caused by insects can lead to other disturbances, risks, and changes across landscapes. Evaluating the human dimensions of such disturbances furthers understanding of integrated changes in natural and social systems. This article examines the effects of…
Year: 2007
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Donovan, Brown
Wildfire suppression expenditures on national forest land have increased over the last 35 years, exceeding US$ 1 billion in 2000 and 2002. These increases in expenditure have been attributed, in part, to a century of aggressive wildfire suppression, resulting in a buildup of…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
DellaSala, Williams, Williams, Franklin
Fire performs many beneficial ecosystem functions in dry forests and rangelands across much of North America. In the last century, however, the role of fire has been dramatically altered by numerous anthropogenic factors acting as root causes of the current fire crisis,…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Cohen
Wildland-urban fire destruction depends on homes igniting and thus requires an examination of the ignition requirements. A physical-theoretical model, based on severe case conditions and ideal heat transfer characteristics, estimated wood wall ignition occurrence from flame…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Clark, Hardy
Alaskans in general felt that fires burned communities elsewhere but not in their backyard. That all started to change after the disastrous Miller's Reach Fire in June of 1996. Now Alaskans are thinking about and discussing the hazards and destructive power of wildfire.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cheyette, Rupp, Rodman
Fire behavior modeling systems are playing an increasingly important role in identifying areas of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) that could support intense and fast-moving wildfires. The modeling systems also can be used to prioritize areas for fuels reduction treatments. We…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Calkin, Gebert, Jones, Neilson
Extreme fire seasons in recent years and associated high suppression expenditures have brought about a chorus of calls for reform of federal firefighting structure and policy. Given the political nature of the topic, a critical review of past trends in area burned, size of fires…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Butry
This paper examines the effect wildfire mitigation has on broad-scale wildfire behavior. Each year, hundreds of million of dollars are spent on fire suppression and fuels management applications, yet little is known, quantitatively, of the returns to these programs in terms of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Eagan, O'Neill, Lahm, Menakis, Dzomba
On January 6, 2010, the EPA proposed to strengthen the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone. EPA also proposed an accelerated implementation schedule as part of this Rule. The primary standard is designed to protect public health and the proposal…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Tidwell, Brown
From the text ... 'One way to protect the WUI is to restore surrounding landscapes to a healthy, resilient condition. Healthy, resilient forest ecosystems are less likely to see uncharacteristically severe wildfires that turn into human and ecological disasters. The USDA Forest…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
From the text... 'Wildand-urban interface (W-UI) fires are a significant concern for federal, state, and local land management and fire agencies. research using modeling experiments, and W-UI case studies indicates that home ignitability during wildland fires depends on the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Source: TTRS