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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Mutch, Briggs
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Page
From the text ... 'To foster these programs at a local scale, fire management organizations must work with local organizations in addition to fire management agencies.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'Fire and Aviation Management developed the Fire Suppression Doctrine to promote an informed, shared-learning culture in which firefighters avoid unnecessary risk. Doctrine is the body of foundational principles that guide how firefighters think and act when…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Klenner, Walton
We used the TELSA forest landscape model to examine the long-term consequences of applying different forest management scenarios on indicators of wildlife habitat, understory productivity, crown fuel hazard, timber yield and treatment costs. The study area was a dry forest…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rollins
LANDFIRE is a 5-year, multipartner project producing consistent and comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, wildland fuel, fire regimes and ecological departure from historical conditions across the United States. It is a shared project between the wildland fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Abt, Prestemon, Gebert
The US Forest Service and other land-management agencies seek better tools for anticipating future expenditures for wildfire suppression. We developed regression models for forecasting US Forest Service suppression spending at 1-, 2-, and 3-year lead times. We compared these…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Harbour
From the text ... 'Fire and Aviation Management is proud to release the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS), designed to streamline and improve decisionmaking processes while taking advantage of vast improvements in science and technology. The current evolution through…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Black, Gebert, McCaffrey, Steelman, Canton-Thompson
From the text ... 'In this article, we describe our current work to assess the utility of available data to reflect on the performance of fire management.'
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Rideout, Reich, Ziesler
Increasing recognition of the role of fire in natural ecosystems has increased the use of wildland fire as a management tool. Although wildland fire use (WFU) has been practiced for decades, it is emerging as an organized program. As such, the analytics of WFU, from a management…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Drechsler, Lourival, Possingham
The systematic conservation planning literature invariably assumes that the biodiversity features being preserved in sites do not change through time. We develop a conservation planning framework for ecosystems where disturbance events and succession drive vegetation dynamics.…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
A pair of three-day workshops were held in 2008 and 2009, designed for fire managers responsible for communicating and negotiating with state and local air quality regulators. The workshops were organized by the NWCG Smoke Committee, coordinated by the University of Idaho, and…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
Rauscher, Cissel, Swedberg, Funk, Raffuse, Drury, Chinkin
This is a power point presentation describing the Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System. It gives an introduction and background for the project, describes what it does for users and how it is related to other systems, describes the stakeholder operational…
Year: 2009
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Johnson, Smathers
From the text ... 'The primary objective of this study is to develop fire policy recommendations for the management of Lava Beds National Monument which will aid in the restoration and preservation of 'pristine' conditions by natural means.Before this objective can be met,…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Wicker, Leaphart
From the text ... 'The pioneer and seral tree species within the many forest ecosystems of the northern Rocky Mountains definitely reflect the longtime inclusion of fire as a factor of environmental selection....Dwarf mistletoes (Arceuthobium spp.) are one of the most serious…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sellers, Despain
From the text ... 'Over 1,900,000 acres (770,000 ha) of Yellowstone Park are managed as wilderness. The administrative policy for the management of natural areas of the National Park system such as Yellowstone clearly stated in 1970 The presence or absence of natural fire within…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Sanderson
From the Summary ... 'As fire management is integrated into land management, the decisions made will determine how, when, and where fire will be used or suppressed.The most pronounced changes in the direction in which fire management is moving are the reduction of accumulations…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McLeod
From the Conclusions ... 'The results of the research to date have demonstrated the feasibility and usefulness of microwave moisture sensing as a valuable tool in watershed management. Specifically, the protable moisture meter allows rapid, on site measurement of fuel moisture…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McGuire
From the text ... 'Fire is not an independent force in Nature. When fire rages through the forest, it affects every aspect of the ecosystem -- the soil, air, wildlife, trees, and all other plant life. Fire is one component of the total forest ecology, as you have reemphasized…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kickert, Taylor, Firmage, Behan
From the Introduction ... 'In 1970, within the International Biological Program (IBP), the National Science Foundation established the Coniferous Forest Biome research organization. The overall goal of the Biome program was the analysis of the structure and function of western…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Howe
From the Purpose ... 'Fire is a natural part of Northern Rocky Mountain terrestrial ecosystems. These, like any ecosystems, operate, in part, through interactions of living organisms. The biological interrelationships have developed from the processes of organic evolution, which…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Habeck
From the Conclusions and Summary ... 'The vegetation within the SBW represents a generally typical array of forest communities of the sort found in much of northern Idaho and western Montana. For tens of thousands of years the flora in this region has evolved in the presence of…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Mutch
In summary, there are some individuals who see prescribed fire, especially wilderness fires, as a threat to the fire prevention program. Others are equally frustrated because they feel the simplistic message of Smokey is in opposition to, or makes it more difficult to achieve,…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kilgore
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Baughman, Fuquay, Mielke
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Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Deeming
Extensive use of the 1972 version of the National Fire-Danger Rating System has pointed up deficiencies that the 1978 update is expected to correct. Eighteen fuel models will be provided as well as a completely overhauled fire occurrence module. The system will respond to longer…
Year: 1976
Type: Document
Source: TTRS