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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Topic
Year
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Furman
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vogl
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Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kessell
The purpose of this special Fire Management issue of ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT is to report on examples of progress toward the goal of integrating fire into land management.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text... 'This initial release of these Guidelines reflects the efforts of the Fire Management Task Force and subsequent review by park, regional and WASO staff. It represents the framework of the Service fire management program. The WASO Office of Fire Management,…
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
Cohen, Burgan
[no description entered]
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
Systems to enable land managers to locate, evaluate, and counter the fire threat of lightning storms are in the early stages of development. In the western U.S. and Alaska, the Bureau of Land Management has established networks of instruments that locate lightning strikes by…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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
Borden
A discussion on the impacts to fire management resulting from various acts of legislation including NEPA, the Clean Air Act, the Wilderness Act, and the National Forest Management Act.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Egging
Today, natural resource managers and scientists are required to evaluate and even anticipate the effects that management practices for a single resource will have on the production or use of all other natural resources. For example, a successful prescribed fire will accomplish…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Phillips
Some of you may be like I am: a thick-skinned, hard-of-hearing traditionalist. For many years we fire fighters, fire managers, and resource managers have been bombarded, lambasted and harangued about the need to integrate fire and fire management into plans for managing wildland…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Lyon
Land use planning has truly reached a high plateau in this country. Planning is firmly entrenched and here to stay. With the population increase and therefore increased resource demands, our resource producing land base is shrinking. We must strive for maximum production on the…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Cutler
[From the text] The topics to be discussed today are certainly timely and deserve your attention. I feel it is significant that your working group is trying to involve landowners, managers and planners. Fire was a front page news story this summer. The severe fire situation…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A compilation of papers presented at the Society of American Foresters, Fire Working Group technical session held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2-6, 1977. The keynote address by Dr. M. Rupert Cutler, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture established the session's perspective…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Davis
A new Forest Service policy, effective February 1978, allows some wildfires to burn under prescribed conditions, urges a multidisciplinary approach to fire control, and has applications to rural and urban situations.
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Nelson
The policy for dealing with fires on National Forest System lands was changed in 1977, in essence from control to management. The change was based on the knowledge and understanding that fire can result in a positive effect on wildland resources. Land managers were directed to…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flatman, Storey
Cost-plus-loss analysis and benefit/cost analysis are two techniques that fire managers can apply to FOCUS computer simulation output for alternate fire plans to help them choose the best plan. FOCUS (Fire Operational Characteristics Using Simulation) calculates costs and…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Latham
Systems to enable land managers to locate, evaluate, and counter the fire threat of lightning storms are in the early stages of development. In the western U.S. and Alaska, the Bureau of Land Management has established networks of instruments that locate lightning strikes by…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vogl
Sound resource management, including fire management, cannot be based on biased information and incomplete facts. A way to become critical is to understand the basic ecological principles that underlie resource management and that are inherent in the resources under…
Year: 1979
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES