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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 The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.

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Prediction errors in wildland fire situation analyses

Donovan, Noordijk
From the text ... 'Wildfires consume budgets and put the heat on fire managers to justify and control suppression costs. ...We used data from the 2002 fire season to determine how WFSA-predicted outcomes compared to actual outcomes. ...Fire managers often underestimated the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Federal forest fire policy in the United States

Stephens, Ruth
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire, forest health, and biodiversity: a summary of the Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium of the National Commission on Science and Sustainable Forestry

Christensen
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Incorporating human and natural adaptations in assessing climate change impacts on wildfire occurrence

Gan
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Impacts of climate change on diversity in forested ecosystems: some examples

Gray
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Is an unprecedented dothistroma needle blight epidemic related to climate change?

Woods, Coates, Hamann
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Lodgepole pine forest age class dynamics and susceptibility to mountain pine beetle attack

Li, Barclay, Hawkes, Taylor
Because mountain pine beetle attack mature pine stands, an understanding of forest age class dynamics is important to managing forests within the distribution of the beetle. The assumed theoretical negative exponential forest age distribution provides an estimate when ecosystem…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Soil catena sequences and fire ecology in the boreal forest of Alaska

Ping, Michaelson, Packee, Stiles, Swanson, Yoshikawa
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The adaptive capacity of forest management to changing fire regimes in the boreal forest of Quebec

Le Goff, Leduc, Bergeron, Flannigan
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Habitat distribution of birds wintering in Central Andros, the Bahamas: implications for management

Currie, Wunderle, Ewert, Anderson, Davis, Turner
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Integrated research to improve fire management decisionmaking

MacGregor, Haynes
The emergence of large fires of long duration (also known as siege fires) with their inherently high costs has raised numerous questions about the opportunities for cost containment. Cost reviews from the 2003 fire season have revealed how additional knowledge created through…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Team assists community groups in monitoring forest restoration projects (New Mexico)

Moote
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

On parallel tracks: the wildland fire and emergency management communities: The professional development series – an emergency management primer

Keller
From the text ... 'The use of wildland fire incident management teams for nonfire emergency management is rapidly spreading.'
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

'Transition': what does the word mean?

Munson, Fisher
From the text ... 'A transfer of command should not be confused with a transition in fire behavior or in situational complexity on a fire. ...Recognizing potentially deadly changes in fire behavior should begin on the first day of fire season.'
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Afterburn

Kearns
From the text (p. 26) ... 'Wildfire has destroyed forests across the West. Help is needed to restore the life-giving 'natural capital' they provide. ... Wildfires are changing the landscape across the country and often not for the better. A long-standing policy of putting out…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Rekindling native fires

Levy
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The role of released moisture in the atmospheric dynamics associated with wildland fires

Potter
Combustion of woody material produces and releases water, but the effects of this water on the atmospheric circulation created by a wildfire are rarely recognized, let alone understood. This paper presents observational data and basic physical arguments to support the hypothesis…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Seasonal fire danger forecasts for the USA

Roads, Fujioka, Chen, Burgan
The Scripps Experimental Climate Prediction Center has been making experimental, near-real-time, weekly to seasonal fire danger forecasts for the past 5 years. US fire danger forecasts and validations are based on standard indices from the National Fire Danger Rating System (…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Fire and forest meteorology -- Preface

Brown, Ferguson, Flannigan
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Sensitivity of tree growth to the atmospheric vertical profile in the Boreal Plains of Manitoba, Canada

Girardin, Tardif
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Preparing for wildfire: keys to success in 15 communities in the U.S

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

The Healthy Forest Restoration Act: new provisions affecting our communities

Alvarez
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

Wildfire in Alaska – Migrating risk & hazard in the boreal forest

Reitz, Standish, Blackwell, Duda, Lightfoot, Ray, Shumante, Peacock, Disert, Geissler, Leraas-Cook
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS

The effects of hazardous fuel reduction treatment on the amount of bark beetle-caused tree mortality in Sierra Nevada, USA

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

Forest landscape dynamics under fire and mountain pine beetle regimes [poster abstract]

Li, Barclay
[no description entered]
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Source: TTRS