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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Harwood
Alternative solutions to the loss of production potential and to the increasing rural poverty engendered by many slash-and-burn systems require major shifts in the evolution toward greater sustainability. Slash-and-burn practices are the starting point for several evolutionary…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daniel, Meitner, Weidemann
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McAlpine
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cameron, Morrison, Baldwin, Kreutzweiser
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Catling, Brownell
From the text...”Unlike the flat-rock areas in the southern Appalachians, where the foundation for research on rock barrens was established many decades ago (e.g., Harper 1939; Oosting and Anderson 1939; McVaugh 1943) and has been followed by more recent cornprehensive…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'Bark beetles are decimating Alaska's spruce and and bringing together the mostly unlikely of partners...The spruce bark beetle has unwittingly produced collaboration among the humans who share their woods--people who have been at odds for decades...Firefighter…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Babbitt
From the text...'We are in a national fire crisis. Wildfires are on a sharp increase, burning bigger, threatening communities and taking more and more property and lives. In the last decade, the number of acres burned has doubled; the number of lives lost has tripled. Our…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text...'The Federal Wildland Fire Policy Review (Policy Review) directly affects only Department of Agriculture and Interior agencies. However, it significantly, although indirectly, affects local, State, and Tribal governments as well as other Federal partners. Every…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stock, Williams, Cleaves
Prescribed burning expenditures are based on the fire manager's judgment about the 'risk' of the fire escaping and his/her anticipation of the consequences of such an escape. In a high-risk site, more resources are needed to prepare the site for a safe burn. Ifa fire escapes, or…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Delong, Tanner
Managing forests for sustainable use requires that both the biological diversity of the forests and a viable forest industry be maintained. A current approach towards maintaining biological diversity is to pattern forest management practices after those of natural disturbance…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vega-García, Lee, Woodard, Titus
Human-caused forest fires are a serious problem throughout the world. Believing that there are predictable characteristics common to all fires, we analyzed the historical human-caused fire occurrence data for the Whitecourt Provincial Forest of Alberta using artificial neural…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Thompson, Zollner, Bukenhofer, Hensley, Houf
From the text...'Obviously, there are many ways to categorize plants and animals that people are concerned about. For this chapter, the Terrestrial Team focused on the categories public land managers typically must address as part of their planning, habitat management, and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Savory, Butterfield
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Coles, Conlon, Cotton, Eisenstadt, Goldfarb, Hutchison, Joy, Wolter
From the Executive Summary... 'Purpose: National forests of the dry, interior portion of the western United States that are managed by the Department of Agriculture*s Forest Service have undergone significant changes over the last century and a half, becoming much denser, with…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rodríguez-Trejo
From the text...'The worst fire season in Mexican history was in 1998. Drought conditions precipitated by a strong El Niño led to unusual fire activity, including crown fires, fire whirls, and rapid spread rates. A total of 14,302 fires burned 2,099,412 acres (849,632 ha) - 3.6…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the Summary by Dennis Knight (p.233-235) ... 'During and after the 1988 fires, there were many predictions on how greater Yellowstone area (GYA) ecosystems would be affected. Some were based on research that had been done previously; others stemmed more from anecdotal…
Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rorig, Ferguson
Lightning is the primary cause of fire in the forested regions of the Pacific Northwest, especially when it occurs without significant precipitation at the surface. Using thunderstorm occurrence and precipitation observations for the period 1948–77, along with automated…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gobster
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Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the Federal and State levels. The topics discussed at the symposium include fire economics, planning, and policy on wildfire and…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Wiitala
Resource managers are frequently concerned that the area burned by wildfire over time will impede achievement of land management objectives. Methods that use the Poisson probability model to quantify that risk are described. The methods require a concise statement of an adverse…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Wiitala
A mathematical optimization model, based on the operations research technique of deterministic dynamic programming, is offered as a method to search quickly through available options to find the economically efficient set of initial attack resources to suppress a wildfire.…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Slaughter
Flexibility in the Alaska Interagency Fire Management Plan allowed for varied responses to three Modified fires, all located within 15 miles of Bettles, Alaska. Discussions with land managers about values at risk, potential cost, probability of success, fuels, and fire behavior…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mangan
Standardizing equipment and clothing can reduce the costs of fighting wildfires by allowing items to be purchased in large quantities. In the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, equipment is developed at two Technology and Development Centers, one in Missoula,…
Year: 1999
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES