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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Yamasaki, Duchesneau, Doyon, Russell, Gooding
The cumulative impacts of human and natural activity on forest landscapes in Alberta are clear. Human activity, such as forestry and oil and gas development, and natural processes such as wildfire leave distinctive marks on the composition, age class structure and spatial…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Woodard
Provincial forest management agencies across Canada are attempting to recover suppression costs plus losses to real property due to human-caused fires when negligence is involved. These agencies are responsible for investigating these fires, and they commonly restrict all access…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Teeter
From the text ... 'Forest wildfires are a growing issue of concern in the United States, with average annual area burned escalating rapidly compared to levels in the 1980s and 1990s (approximately 1.2 million hectares/year in the 80s vs. 2.8 million ha/year from 2000-2006). Many…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Skinner, Burk, Barbour, Franco-Vizcaino, Stephens
Aim To identify the influence of interannual and interdecadal climate variation on the occurrence and extent of fires in montane conifer forests of north-western Mexico.Location This study was conducted in Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi Grev. & Balf.)dominated mixed-conifer…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prestemon, Abt, Huggett
We describe a two-stage model of global log and chip markets that evaluates the spatial and temporal economic effects of government-subsidized fire-related mechanical fuel treatment programs in the U.S. West and South. The first stage is a goal program that allocates subsidies…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mozumder, Raheem, Talberth, Berrens
With evidence of increasing wildfire risks in wildland-urban interface zones in the U.S. West and elsewhere, understanding intended evacuation behavior is a growing issue for community planners. This research investigates intended evacuation behavior due to wildfire risks, using…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drury, Veblen
Patterns of fire occurrence within the Las Bayas Forestry Reserve, Mexico are analyzed in relation to variability in climate, topography, and human land-use. Significantly more fires with shorter fire return intervals occurred from 1900 to 1950 than from 1950 to 2001. However,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barbour, Zhou, Prestemon
This study reports the results from a 5 year simulation of forest thinning intended to reduce fire hazard on publicly managed lands in the western United States. A state simulation model of interrelated timber markets was used to evaluate the timber product outputs.…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vining, Merrick
Because American national forests are managed for all citizens, it is important that researchers explore the differences and similarities between citizens living both near and far from publicly managed land. We surveyed residents living at various distances from nationally…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Whitlock, Marlon, Briles, Brunelle, Long, Bartlein
Pollen and high-resolution charcoal records from the north-western USA provide an opportunity to examine the linkages among fire, climate, and fuels on multiple temporal and spatial scales. The data suggest that general charcoal levels were low in the late-glacial period and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Swetnam, Anderson
Advances in fire climatology have derived from recent studies of modern and paleoecological records. We convened a series of workshops and a conference session to report and review regional-scale findings, and these meetings led to the 10 papers in this special issue. Two papers…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pierce, Meyer
Alluvial fan deposits are widespread and preserve millennial-length records of fire. We used these records to examine changes in fire regimes over the last 2000 years in Yellowstone National Park mixed-conifer forests and drier central Idaho ponderosa pine forests. In Idaho,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morgan, Heyerdahl, Gibson
We inferred climate drivers of 20th Century years with regionally synchronous forest fires in the U. S. Northern Rockies. We derived annual fire extent from an existing fire atlas that includes 5038 fire polygons recorded from 12 070 086 ha, or 71% of the forested land in Idaho…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sommers
Editorial comment ... 'The Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) is a common story line in many of today's wildfire events. The WUI concept was formally introduced in 1987 Forest Service Research budget documents but was not acknowledged as a major component for federal fire management…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pyne
Editorial comment ... 'In this wide-ranging essay, Stephen Pyne, the preeminent historian of wildfire around the world, explores the past, present, and future of the term 'wildland-urban interface' and the policies regarding fire in that setting. He argues that, while we need to…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Limerick
Editorial comment ... 'It will take more than mere science to deal with the wildland-urban interface issue, argues the author. In addition, what is needed are the 'skills, talents, and approaches' of historians and the long perspective that history offers. What historians bring…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
Editorial comment ... 'The trend of increasing wildfire intensity and size likely due to increasing fuel hazards is only one consequence of fire suppression. Another legacy of the fire exclusion paradigm has far reaching implications: an organizational mindset that persistently…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Reinhardt, Keane, Calkin, Cohen
Many natural resource agencies and organizations recognize the importance of fuel treatments as tools for reducing fire hazards and restoring ecosystems. However, there continues to be confusion and misconception about fuel treatments and their implementation and effects in fire…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Butry, Donovan
Climate change, increased wildland fuels, and residential development patterns in fire-prone areas all combine to make wildfire risk mitigation an important public policy issue. One approach to wildfire risk mitigation is to encourage homeowners to use fire-resistant building…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mathey, Krcmar, Innes, Vertinsky
The intensification of forest management in Canada has been advocated as a possible solution to the conundrum that increasing demand for conservation areas and increasing pressure for timber production have created. The benefits and disadvantages of intensive forest management…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Emmett
From the text ... 'How to improve the safety of wildland firefighters has always been a concern of Saskatchewan Fire Management and Forest Protection Branch (FMFP), the provincial agency responsible for the management of wildland fires. Even though it has never suffered a…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
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Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Suffling, Grant, Feick
Management around wilderness parks ideally requires thorough fire suppression in proximate settled and commercially exploited lands and natural fire within protected areas. To satisfy these requirements, we explored a potential regional firebreak (firewall) based on a series of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Laband, Hussain, González-Cabán
In this paper, we explore empirically whether the USDA Forest Service's litigation success rate in each Forest Service region helps explain the persistent regional effects noted by Laband et al. (Laband, D.N., Gonzalez-Caban, A., and Hussain, A. (2006). ''Factors That Influence…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Barn, Larson, Noullett, Kennedy, Copes, Brauer
Communities impacted by fine-particle air pollution (particles with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 mm; PM2.5) from forest fires and residential wood burning require effective, evidence-based exposure-reduction strategies. Public health recommendations during smoke…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS