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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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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
Bowker, Lim, Cordell, Green, Rideout-Hanzak, Johnson
We used a national household survey to examine knowledge, attitudes, and preferences pertaining to wildland fire. First, we present nationwide results and trends. Then, we examine opinions across region and race. Despite some regional variation, respondents are fairly consistent…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
Wildfire! Preventing Home Ignitions is a 19-minute video available from the Rocky Mountain Research Station. This program tells you how a wildfire can ignite your home. A 'home ignition zone,' the area that includes a home and its immediate surroundings, determines a home's…
Year: 2008
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Mejer
Building on insights provided by Beck (1988), Pyne (1982) and others, the paper views wildland fire as an event revealing a social and scientific field in which basic dilemmas that separate nature and culture, environmental autonomy and human intervention, and the certainty of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Martin
Prescribed fire as a social issue becomes automatically an ecological, political, and economic issue. Any issue that affects us socially we take to the political arena, and its final resolution will involve the costs of different avenues to resolving the issue. Unfortunately,…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
LaFayette
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1251 et. seq.) as amended, also called the Clean Water Act (CWA), provides the basis for the management and improvement of water quality in the United States. As amended in 1987, it addresses both point and nonpoint sources of…
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cohen
The fire destruction of hundreds of homes associated with wildfires has occurred in the United States for more than a century. From 1870 to 1920, massive wildfires occurred principally in the Lake States but also elsewhere. Wildfires such as Peshtigo (Wisconsin, 1871), Michigan…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ingalsbee, Henry, Catranides, Schulke
Successfully educating homeowners and communities about wildland fire ecology and management, reducing hazardous fuels, and restoring fire-adapted forest ecosystems will place enormous demands on the budgets, resources, and staff of federal agencies for several decades to come.…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Evans
ANNOTATION: Woody biomass-usually logging slash, tops and limbs, or trees that cannot be sold as timber-is the lowest valued material removed from the forest and presents economic and logistical challenges. This report brings together 45 case studies of how biomass is removed…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Smith, Zimmerman, Akerelrea, O'Keefe
Natural resource managers use a variety of computer-mediated presentation methods to communicate management practices to the public. We explored the effects of using the Stand Visualization System to visualize and animate predictions from the Forest Vegetation Simulator-Fire and…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rodman, Stam
The Municipality of Anchorage Community Wildfire Protection Plan is a collaborative effort in response to the 2003 Healthy Forests Restoration Act (HFRA). The HFRA directs communities exposed to wildland fire to conduct a risk assessment and create a hazard fuel mitigation plan…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Barbour
The focused science delivery program proposes to investigate to what extent existing JFSP research is being incorporated into current environmental analysis related to fuels management projects for Federal land management agencies.
Year: 2008
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Clark, Hardy
Alaskans in general felt that fires burned communities elsewhere but not in their backyard. That all started to change after the disastrous Miller's Reach Fire in June of 1996. Now Alaskans are thinking about and discussing the hazards and destructive power of wildfire.
Year: 1997
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES