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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Baccus
Estimating abundance of forest quail in Mexico offers unique challenges to wildlife managers. Unlike quail inhabiting grassland, forest quail are often cryptic, live in inaccessible mountainous areas, and unpredictably respond to playback census techniques. During 1996-1999, we…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mangan
From the text ... 'This article discusses factors that are critical to both firefighters and fire managers in ensuring a safe and productive workforce. First, it discusses such items as the work environment, the firefighter workforce, physical fitness, nutrition, work/rest…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'The following table shows how safety violations identified by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) during its investigation of the Thirtymile Fire accident correspond to action items called for under the USDA Forest Service's Thirtymile…
Year: 2002
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
Sun
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Stephens, Ruth
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
From the text ... 'Federal, state, tribal and local governments are making unprecedented efforts to reduce the buildup of fuels and restore forests and rangelands to healthy conditions. Yet, needless red tape and lawsuits delay effective implementation of forest health projects…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Hill, Janik, Belak, Cotton, Dominicci, Johnson, Jones, Joy, Vargas
From the text ... 'Our work has shown that a single focal point is critical for efforts -- such as reducing severe wildland fires and the vegetation that fuels them -- that involve many federal agencies as well as state and local governments, the private sector, and private…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kenworthy
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Jakes
In 15 communities across the U.S., the authors found seven keys to community wildland fire preparedness: (1) know your place, (2) draw on local knowledge and skills, (3) build on and build social capital, (4) develop agency and community partnerships, (5) communicate effectively…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alvarez
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bielecki, Garland
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Fettig
The Healthy Forest Restoration Act (H. R. 1904) allows for increases in hazardous fuel reduction activities throughout much of the western USA. Our laboratory is currently conducting several studies to determine the short and long‐term implications to forest health of prescribed…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ice
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Arno, Allison-Bunnell
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Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'Wildland fire is a high-risk, high-consequence business. It is influenced by high social expectations and a low political tolerance for failure. Our environment is surrounded by uncertainty and danger. It is controlled more and more by our ability to measure,…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Pilz, Molina
Widespread commercial harvesting of wild edible mushrooms from the forests of the Pacific Northwest United States (PNW-US) began 10-15 years ago. A large proportion of suitable forest habitat in this region is managed by the Forest Service (US Department of Agriculture) and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Myszewski, Kundell
Communities located within the wildland-urban interface encounter major challenges in their attempt to manage growth and development. Land use planning and zoning regulations can provide these communities with a useful tool with which to protect natural resources within…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Alavalapati
Human-induced factors are causing significant changes in the American wildland-urban interface (WUJ) thereby affecting forestlands The National Resource Inventory, for example, estimates that 11.5 million acres of non-federal forests were converted to urban uses between 1982 and…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Moffat, Greene
Economic conditions and tax policies affect land-use decisions everywhere, but their effects on the rate of change in land use are particularly large in the wildland-urban interface. Efforts to improve the southern economy as a whole have resulted in the rapid growth of urban…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Bailey
From the text ... 'Severe fire seasons and evolving insights into land and resource management have generated a series of recent initiatives for wildland firemanagement.'
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Williams
From the text ... 'At a time when wildfire potential has never been greater, social expectations for protection have never been higher and political tolerance for failure has never been lower. ...We are at a crossroads: We must look beyond our fire policies if we hope to protect…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Laughlin
Laws and policies require federal land and resource management agencies, and regulatory agencies charged with conserving imperiled species, to assess risks associated with proposed actions and to manage wildland fire risks and habitat for species-at-risk of extinction. For most…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
O'Laughlin
The needs and opportunities for assessing and managing risks posed by wildfire are identified through synthesis of natural resources agency and conservation group perspectives. Risk assessment is needed primarily to compare environmental effects of management alternatives,…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS