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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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The wildfire reader: a century of failed forest policy

Wuerthner
From the Introduction (p.xv) ... 'White this book is about fire policy and fire ecology, it is also a discussion of a much larger philosophical debate over the ultimate role and influence humans should have on natural landscapes.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Thinning and prescribed fire and projected trends in wood product potential, financial return, and fire hazard in New Mexico

Fight, Barbour, Christensen, Pinjuv, Nagubadi
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The impact of twenty-first century climate change on wildland fire danger in the western United States: an applications perspective

Brown, Hall, Westerling
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Healthy Forests initiative and its effect on appeals

Neznek
From the text...'On December 3, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, legislation designed to expedite hazardous fuel reduction projects and improve forest health conditions in the nation's forests. Several provisions of this legislation alter…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Policy analysis and national forest appeal reform

Mortimer, Scardina, Jenkins
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

National trends in the use of Forest Service administrative appeals

Teich, Vaughn, Cortner
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lowland forest loss in protected areas of Indonesian Borneo

Curran, Trigg, McDonald, Astiani, Hardiono, Siregar, Caniago, Kasischke
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Is forest structure related to fire severity? yes, and no, and maybe: methods and insights in quantifying the answer

Jain, Graham
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Tending fire: coping with America's wildland fires

Pyne
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Effect of fire intensity and depth of bum on Lowbush Blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium, and Velvet Leaf Blueberry, Vaccinium myrtilloides, production in eastern Ontario

Duchesne, Wetzel
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire, timber salvage, and the economics of expediency

Prestemon, Wear, Stewart, Holmes
Administrative planning rules and legal challenges can have significant economic impacts on timber salvage programs on public lands. This paper examines the costs of the delay in salvage caused by planning rules and the costs associated with the volume reductions forced by legal…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Financing sustainable development: Country Undertakings and Rights for Environmental Sustainability CURES

Grafton, Jotzo, Wasson
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Contemporary wood utilization research needs in the western United States

Monserud, Lowell, Becker, Hummel, Donoghue, Barbour, Kilborn, Nicholls, Roos, Cantrell
Contemporary wood utilization research needs in the Western United States are examined in this problem analysis. Key focal areas include: A. Changes in forest management actions and policies affect forest conditions and people, which in turn affect wood quality and wood…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fire suppression: lack of clear guidance raises concerns about cost sharing between federal and nonfederal entities

Nazzaro, Bixler, Chu, Dent, Frisch, Guinane, Jackson, Johnson, Joy, Lin, Moscovitch, Sinkfield
From What GAO Recommends ... 'GAO recommends that the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior, working with relevant state entities, provide more specific guidance on when to use particular cost-sharing methods and clarify the financial responsibilities for fires that burn…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Past, current, and future fire frequencies in Quebec's commercial forests: implications for the cumulative effects of harvesting and fire on age-class structure and natural disturbance-based management

Bergeron, Cyr, Drever, Flannigan, Gauthier, Kneeshaw, Lauzon, Leduc, Le Goff, Lesieur, Logan
The past decade has seen an increasing interest in forest management based on historical or natural disturbance dynamics. The rationale is that management that favours landscape compositions and stand structures similar to those found historically should also maintain…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Common denominators in high-performance prescribed fire programs

Sexton
From the text ... 'Line officer support and active involvement was identified as the most important common denominator of the high-performance prescribed fire programs.... This personnel interchange between units not only helps accomplish agency targets, but it enhances the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Almost the same age: prescribed fire program and Forest Service

Sexton
From the text ... 'All Forest Service regions now have strategies designed to reduce wildfire hazard primarily through the application of prescribed fire.... Many forests have developed strategies that utilize a sequence of treatments to reduce risk and to better position their…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The changing face of wildland fire use

Zimmerman, Lasko
From the text ... 'Early prescribed natural fire efforts were tacitly supported, limited in extent, and carried out under close scrutiny.... Wildland fire use has moved beyond the confines of remote, inaccessible areas. It is expanding across an increasing variety of land use…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

SPOTS: maximizing fuel and vegetation management effectiveness

Stewart
From the text ... 'These 'problem fires' are the symptoms of a larger forest health issue in which ecological realities conflict with both social expectations and economic limitations.... Only through dedication and alignment of the full force and capabilities of integrated,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Pulaski Conference chronology

From the text ... 'Your identity is based on your contribution -- not your rank. 'When you get this much intelligence and passion in a room -- good things happen.' -- Faye Fentiman, management consultant-facilitator.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire is a terror . . . but also a tool

Baldwin
From the text ... 'The public needs to learn that fire is a dynamic factor of the forest environment, not necessarily good or bad but natural. ...the very efficiency of the fire brigades guarantees fuel accumulations that will one day produce a holocaust.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildland fire management: update on federal agency efforts to develop a cohesive strategy to address wildland fire threats

Nazzaro
[no description entered]
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Biomass recovery of naturally regenerated vegetation after the 1998 forest fire in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Hiratsuka, Toma, Diana, Hadriyanto, Morikawa
After the 1998 forest fire in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, biomass recovery of naturally regenerated vegetation was estimated in order to evaluate the initial secondary succession patterns of the burned land. We established research plots in naturally regenerated vegetation that…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Early history of the listing of the red-cockaded woodpecker and the roles, actions, and consequences of states in the listing, downlisting, and delisting of the species

Jackson
The first recognition of conservation needs of the red-cockaded woodpecker came from biologists casually studying the species before there were endangered species laws. Their expressed concerns resulted in initial conservation efforts. Some early efforts on behalf of the species…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sustainability of timber supply considering the risk of wildfire

Armstrong
[no description entered]
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS