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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish fire, when needed; use fire where…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hibbert
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Anonymous
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hann, Bare
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cripe
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Prante, Little, Jones, McKee, Berrens
Increasing private wildfire risk mitigation is an important part of the larger forest restoration policy challenge. Data from an economic experiment are used to evaluate the effectiveness of providing fuel reductions on public land adjacent to private land to induce private…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Milder, Clark
Conservation development projects combine real-estate development with conservation of land and other natural resources. Thousands of such projects have been conducted in the United States and other countries through the involvement of private developers, landowners, land trusts…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neugarten, Wolf, Stedman, Tear
Large-scale sell-offs of industrial timberlands in the United States have prompted public and private investments in a new class of ''working forest'' land deals, notable for their large size and complex divisions of property rights. These transactions have been pitched as ''win…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McRae
An increase in the use of prescribed fire as a forest management tool is anticipated in Ontario where its use is viewed as a viable method of site preparation for regeneration purposes. Literature available on prescribed burning in the jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) logging…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
A method is presented whereby the economic impact of a forest fire can be calculated, not just on the burned stand alone, but on the entire area under management. The main question is whether, when the burned area would have been ready for harvesting. another area will be…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Brady
'In improving a system, one has to design the improvements, experiment and redesign, implement the new system, and evaluate it. I am going to discuss the concepts and constraints we encounter in designing improvements to our systems of appraising fire impact on resource values.'
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard
This report provides a comprehensive set of statistics describing the use of air tankers for wildland fire control in Canada from 1957 to 1977. It considers the number and type of aircraft used, the amount and type of retardant dropped, system costs, and trends in the data.…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Simard, Graham, Young, Redmond
This report provides a set of Canadian forest fire statistics for the period 1961 to 1966. Data for 43,796 fires from every fire Control agency in Canada were processed and stored on magnetic tape. This report contains statistics on fire occurrence and fire suppression. Under…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gorte, Gorte
The USDA Forest Service policy adopted in 1935 calls for fast, aggressive fire suppresssion action. Economic considerations, first voiced in 1916, quieted after 1935, until the 1960's and 1970's. The most common technique proposed is least-cost-plus-loss; the objective is to…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Manthy
In summary, I am sympathetic with the concerns of fire management over the need for additional training of fire management practitioners, but I reject the suggested solution. The options to a new curriculum have not been adequately considered, and the costs of the employment,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martini
College curriculums in fire management are not producing people who are qualified to do a total fire management job for hiring fire agencies. Most schools are offering only 2-3 credits in fire that are poorly taught and often downgraded in value by the faculty. This creates an…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gemmer
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Johnson
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davis
Federal, state, and local agencies, working through the National Wildfire Coordinating Group, have developed a National Interagency Fire Qualification System (NIFQS). NIFQS sets uniform standards for fire suppression work, specifying prerequisite jobs, currency of experience,…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bowman
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Morgan, Brandt, Baldridge, Loeffler
This study was sponsored by the Joint Fire Science Program to understand and enhance the ability of federal land managers to address financial and economic (F&E) aspects of woody biomass removal as a component of fire hazard reduction. Focus groups were conducted with nearly…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Venn, Calkin
Forests in the United States generate many non-market benefits for society that can be enhanced and diminished by wildfire and wildfire management. The Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (1995, updated 2001), and subsequent Guidance to the Implementation of that policy…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Even before firefighters have left a burn site, a second wave of specialists is deployed. Their task: to assess the burn site; determine the level of risk to life, property, and ecological resources; and determine quickly the most effective postfire treatments for emergency…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Barney
This report discusses fire-related research needs in the western regions of the Forest Service. These needs were expressed by personnel at all management levels. Responses were one part of a more general study designed to establish information requirements for integrating fire…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Masarie
Resource allocation for wildland fire suppression problems, referred to here as Fire-S problems, have been studied for over a century. Not only have the many variants of the base Fire-S problem made it such a durable one to study, but advances in suppression technology and our…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES