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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.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
Reeves, Mitchell
Rangeland extent is an important factor for evaluating critical indicators of rangeland sustainability. Rangeland areal extent was determined for the coterminous United States in a geospatial framework by evaluating spatially explicit data from the Landscape Fire and Resource…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rissman, Butsic
Achieving conservation goals in protected areas hinges on continual monitoring, enforcement, and legal defense. In an era of devolved governance, nonprofit land trusts have become increasingly important. Yet, their approaches to legal defense of conserved areas are relatively…
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
Farmer, Knapp, Meretsky, Chancellor, Fischer
The use of conservation easements as a conservation mechanism for private land has increased greatly in the past decade; conservation easements now protect over 15 million ha across the United States from residential and commercial development. We used a mailed survey and in-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Cook, Sutton
From the text ... 'With an eye to what has been learned in the past, the wildland fire service can now meet the challenge of developing future leaders for an increasingly complex and high-tempo work environment..'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Penn
The combination of a gutted B.C. Forest Service, vast areas of not sufficiently restocked forest lands, a quirky loophole in the Kyoto Protocol and a provincial government ideologically driven to sell off public assets has created the perfect opportunity to burn down B.C.'s…
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
Cheng, Steelman, Moseley
U.S. wildfire policy and governance increasingly emphasize collaboration among levels of government and between government and non-governmental entities, expanding the roles and duties of nonfederal and nongovernmental organizations, and instituting performance-based measures to…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Miller, Abatzoglou, Brown, Syphard
Federally designated wilderness areas of the United States are to be managed so that natural ecological processes such as fire and other disturbances can function without human interference. Consistent with this intent, policy and law support the strategy of allowing lightning-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Everett, Fuller
Legislators exhort government agencies to work with the public to reduce fire hazards in the wildland-urban interface. However, working with an unorganized 'public' is a challenge for agencies. We present survey research on fire safe councils in California, community-based…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Vegetation health can be monitored using a time series of remotely sensed images by calculating the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). We assessed temporal trends throughout an NDVI time series with three sensors: Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Iwata, Ueyama, Harazono
[From the text] Wildfire is a major disturbance in boreal forests. It attracts research attention not only because it instantaneously releases a large amount of carbon into the atmosphere, but also because it significantly alters hydrology and carbon exchange at the land surface…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Benson, Garmestani
The concept of resilience is now frequently invoked by natural resource agencies in the US. This reflects growing trends within ecology, conservation biology, and other disciplines acknowledging that social-ecological systems require management approaches recognizing their…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This report highlights key findings from the most recent (2004-2008) data collected by the Forest Inventory and Analysis program across all ownerships in southeast and south-central Alaska. We present basic resource information such as forest area, ownership, volume, biomass,…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
In response to the increasing complexities of fire management the National Fire Decision Support Center (NFDSC) was created in May 2009. The Center, a group of scientists, researchers and practitioners has been operational for the past two years. Complexities of fire management…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rykhus, Lu
Twenty-five C-band Radarsat-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images acquired from the summer of 2002 to the summer of 2005 are used to map a 2003 boreal wildfire (B346) in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska under conditions of near-persistent cloud cover. Our…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Reich, Frelich, Voldseth, Bakken, Adair
Understanding the relationship between species diversity and productivity is central to linking compositional and functional aspects of terrestrial ecosystems, and little is known about such issues in boreal forests. We used structural equation modelling (SEM) to test several…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Ray
Sustainable resource management depends upon the participation of resource-dependent communities. Competing values between community members and government agencies and among groups within a community can make it difficult to find mutually acceptable management goals and can…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Raaflaub, Valeo, Johnson
Investigations were made on the influence of slope on the spatial variations in duff moisture, the decomposing organic matter of the forest floor. Relationships between duff and soil moisture along hillslopes were identified from field measurements over various moisture…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rupp, Ottmar, Butler
Concerns about wildland fuel levels and a growing wildland-urban interface (WUI) have pushed wildland fire risk mitigation strategies to the forefront of fire management activities. Mechanical (e.g., shearblading) and manual (e.g., thinning) fuel treatments have become the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Hilbruner, Peterson
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Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Stocks
Stephen Pyne is a world-renowned environmental historian and author who, over the past three decades, has produced numerous books dealing extensively with the history of fire on Earth and its strong linkage to the evolving role of humans on this planet. With his humanities and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Becker, McCaffrey, Abbas, Halvorsen, Jakes, Moseley
The appeal of biomass utilization grows as the need for wildfire risk reduction, economic development, and renewable energy generation becomes more pressing. However, uncertainty exists regarding the factors necessary to stimulate use. We draw on in-depth interviews with local…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES