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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Scott
Originally designed as a short-life-span tool to explore the links between surface and crown fire behavior models, NEXUS was first released as an Excel spreadsheet in 1998. The modeling concepts developed for NEXUS have since been used in the Crown Mass program of Fuels…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fieldhouse, Dickinson
The extent of extreme fire behavior in the last several fire seasons has highlighted the susceptibility of current forested vegetation stands to crown fire, bringing it to the forefront of national attention. Though much attention has been given towards the wildland urban…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wildland urban interface hazard reduction in interior Alaska -- challenges, partnerships and success
Wildland Urban Interface Hazard reduction activities in Interior Alaska pose unique challenges for land managers. Villages requiring hazard reduction are remote. Subsistence lifestyles and traditions must be woven into the equation. Extremely cold winter temperatures and short…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Miller, Landres
Most land management agencies are locked into a reinforcing feedback cycle in which perceived risks lead to fire suppression, leading to increased risks and further fire suppression. Existing tools and approaches for planning fire and fuels management perpetuate this cycle by…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McDowell
The Academy's fourth study of the federal land management agencies' wildfire issues will be delivered to Congress and the agencies in January 2004. It is a follow-up to three recommendations of the previous study on containing wildfire suppression costs. The three elements of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cook, Zimmerman
As Federal wildland fire management agencies plan and implement management of long-duration wildland fires, the need for specialized organizational resources to address the development of strategic needs and to oversee implementation is expanding. Past actions for these kinds of…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Dale
It is now widely acknowledged that fire suppression expenses have risen sharply recently as a result of fuel buildup and the proliferation of the wildland-urban interface. Federal firefighting budgets cannot be expected to keep up with anticipated suppression costs. One of the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bartlett
Fire-blocking gel, a new weapon in the war on wildfires, is being hailed by firefighters, property owners, scientists and government officials as one of the most important developments in fire fighting history. This new technology enables professional firefighters as well as…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Haggstrom
Human settlement in the fire-prone boreal forest of interior Alaska creates an interesting paradox: wildland fires are needed to protect against fire, and fire suppression is needed to cost-effectively manage lands and resources in the urban interface. Experience has shown that…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jakes, Barro
Wildfire fuels management is a front-page issue for the President, Congress, agencies, communities, and citizens. The role of social science in wildfire fuels management is to improve the decision-making process. In meetings with fuels managers and social scientists for several…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jones
StormCenter Communications in conjunction with the National Environmental Educational and Training Foundation (NEETF) has developed a powerful tool for delivering timely wildland fire information and public safety messages to the public through a partnership with local broadcast…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abt, Prestemon, Ince, Fight, Barbour, Rummer
Current and proposed legislation and policy envisions mechanically treating wildlands to reduce wildfire risks. The economic impacts of introducing these materials into local forest product markets are not well understood. We present modeling results of a nationwide study that…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abt, Prestemon, Holmes
Recent analyses of the local economic impacts of large fires have resulted in lists of costs (Hayman fire 2002, Florida fires 1998) including suppression costs, loss of tourism, and timber market effects, among others. With the exception of the timber market effects, none of the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Griswold
This paper suggests that one way to understand the nature of press coverage of the debate over the Bush administration's 'Healthy Forests Initiative' is to see it as an example of the process by which powerful groups in society use the media as they compete among themselves to…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jardel, Ramírez-Villeda, Balcazar, Castillo-Navarro
Fire is an important and controversial issue in protected area management in México. Public opinion perceive wildfires as one of the principal causes of forest degradation and government agencies in charge of forest management and conservation invest great efforts on fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rideout
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
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Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Neznek
From the text...'On December 3, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, legislation designed to expedite hazardous fuel reduction projects and improve forest health conditions in the nation's forests. Several provisions of this legislation alter…
Year: 2004
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hubbard
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Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rains, Hubbard
From the text ... 'Our Nation faced the tremendous challenge of reducing the growing risk to lives, property, and natural resources from uncharacteristically severe wildland fires in the W-UI. No single agency is capable of rising to the challenge alone. The only feasible…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Vittoria
From the text ... ''Keeper of the Flame'--a full-length feature documentary film produced by Deep Image (a Los Angeles-based film production company) in conjunction with the National Wildfire Coordinating Group's Wildland Urban Interface Working Team--attempts to reposition fire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bosworth
From the text ... 'One thing is clear: We cannot succeed unless society works together. If there is anything that will cause this experiment to fail, it will be people's desire to have it all their own way. If people cannot work together enough to give everyone a stake in the…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Manzello, Cleary, Shields, Yang
Firebrands or embers are produced as trees and structures burn in wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. It is believed that firebrand showers created in WUI fires may ignite vegetation and mulch located near homes and structures. This, in turn, may lead to ignition of homes and…
Year: 2006
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Daniel, Meitner, Weidemann
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Year: 1996
Type: Document
Source: TTRS