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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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

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

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

Thirty-thousand firefighters entrusting you to this enormous task

Harbour
From the text ... 'Fire suppression duties today are performed in a political, cultural, and physical environment that is more challenging than ever before.'
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Why we need doctrine now

Hollenshead
From the text ... 'Without clearly articulated doctrinal principles in wildland fire suppression, the agency has no consistent basis for its actions or responses.... The current risk to the agency is that improper behaviors, poor judgment, or the lack of critical decisionmaking…
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
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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

2006 Alaska wildland fire statistics

The 2006 Alaska fire season started out quietly, with the first human-caused fire of the season on April 11th in the Fairbanks area. A total of 250 human-caused fires resulted in 144,811.8 acres burned. On May 15, the Little Delta fire became the first lightning fire of the…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Averting and insurance decisions in the wildland-urban interface: implications of survey and experimental data for wildfire risk reduction policy

Talberth, Berrens, McKee, Jones
When confronted by catastrophic wildfire risk, homeowners simultaneously allocate resources between insurance and averting activities. Expected utility theory suggests that complete insurance coverage precludes investment in averting activities. However, when potential losses…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Factors that influence administrative appeals of proposed USDA Forest Service fuels reduction actions

Laband, González-Cabán, Hussain
Using the database developed by the General Accounting Office on proposed fuels reduction actions on federal lands in 2001 and 2002, we conduct probit regression analysis to identify factors that significantly affect the likelihood of administrative appeal. The likelihood of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

Emergency housing systems from three-dimensional engineered fiberboard : temporary building systems for lightweight, portable, easy-to-assemble, reusable, recyclable, and biodegradable structures

Winandy, Hunt, Turk, Anderson
Following natural disasters (such as hurricanes, tornados, or tsunamis), when civilians become displaced, or when military troops are deployed overseas, temporary housing is often a critical need. The USDA Forest Products Laboratory recently developed a lightweight,…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Effect of small changes in sawpattern on lumber value in pruned Douglas-fir logs: steps towards greater value from pruned logs

Todoroki, Lowell
The silvicultural practice of pruning juvenile stems is a value-adding operation due to the formation of knot-free wood after the pruned branch stubs have healed. However it is not until after the log has been processed that the added value is realized. The motivation for this…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

High resolution wind direction and speed information for support of fire operations

Butler, Forthofer, Finney, Bradshaw, Stratton
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technology has been used to model wind speed and direction in mountainous terrain at a relatively high resolution compared to other readily available technologies. The process termed "gridded wind"; is not a forecast, but rather represents a…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Be a change agent and change the strategy

Williams
Over time, events that would not have been disasters, or even emergencies, are now major catastrophes. The increase in world population, the movement of this population to vulnerable areas, has created a situation where 100's of thousands of people die, and 100's of billions of…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

A roll call analysis of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act and constituent interests in fire policy

Sun
This study examined national wildland fire policy by focusing on the political process. The evolution of federal wildland fire policies was reviewed first. Wildland fire suppression in the long term has resulted in a high accumulation of fuels on federal forestlands. The…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS

An econometric model of wildfire suppression productivity

Lankoande, Yoder
We estimate a model of suppression productivity for individual fires, where suppression productivity is measured in terms of the reduction in the estimated market value of wildfire losses. Estimation results show that at the margin, every dollar increase in suppression costs…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

Wilderness fire stewardship on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska

Morton, Berg, Newbould, MacLean, O'Brien
In this article, we review the 2005 fire season on the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, especially the five lightning starts in wilderness. The decision process for suppressing these fires, or not, clarifies some of the major obstacles to allowing wildland fires in wilderness.
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES

A national study of the economic impacts of biomass removals to mitigate wildfire damages on federal, state, and private lands - economics of biomass removals study - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Prestemon, Abt, Huggett, Barbour, Ince, Cubbage, Rummer, Fight
Large-scale biomass removal programs done to lower wildfire risks and associated damages on public and private lands may have short-term and long-term economic impacts on local, regional, and national forest product markets. These kinds of market, timber growing, and land use…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES